Dibden Purlieu Saint

Woohoo, I've been mentioned on the F365 Transfer Blog. I rule.

Due to them being under the age of 23, our target market.

I won't. From what I can see I think it may be true that we are meeting with his agent. Convincing him to join us, wages and ambition wise, is going to be the issue.

Apparently he is very reliable, and has been the main man covering the Ramirez transfer looking online.

Haha, yeah I suppose. But it is a shame.

Also, has anyone looked at who else Oscar Betancourt is the agent for. Perhaps he is the agent of the Tunisian rapist, or another target.

Gaston Ramirez? Seriously? One of the best prospects in Europe. Not going to complain though, I wanted some quality being linked with us...shame he doesn't play CB.

£7m may be a bit cheap, but certainly wouldn't go for more than £10-12m. And I think that's cos I overrate him cos he plays for us.

Worth a shot. Was excellent at Blackburn.

No, but he doesn't play in the same position.

Sigh, what about David Bentley on loan. Doesn't have pace but his delivery would suit Lambert massively. Was great at Blackburn a few years ago.

I don' think he's disinterested, I think that's doing him a massive disservice. He's finally getting to play in the Premiership. I would say it's a mix between playing in a new position and playing against better players. Plus he was our best player againts Ajax.

Arouna.

I may well be actually...

"Wigan are being linked with a move for Levante striker Arouna Kone, who notched 17 goals in 34 games last season." From what I can remember, he can also play as a RW. Surely worth a try.

Why can't we just sign a half decent, pacey centre back? There must be some around that are within our price range, surely. I'm getting so desperate that I'm thinking Scott Dann may not even be that bad an idea.

Brilliant, so that's what we've been reduced to, the rapist 2nd CB of a team relegated by 10 points from a league inferior to the Premiership.

Gossip columns from this morning, Times I think.

Apparently Phillips likely destination now is Everton. This is what happens when you wait to secure your targets.

So then, an embarrassing performance against Udinese (who I know are good but we showed the lack of quality we currently have), and we have 7 days to go until we start our season against City. Lets hope for 3 quality signings this week, although I'm not holding my breath.

Danny Rose is meant to be on loan though, so even if he did have potential (which he doesn't imho) we wouldn't get it. He'd only be back up.

A bit of both. Excited that we are back to pit ourselves against the best. Fearful that this Summer has been a bit of a shambles so far, and that we have such a difficult start to the season.

Considering Stoke have just brought in Cameron, perhaps one of their CB's is off and there is some truth in the Shawcross rumours. Could also be what Adkins was saying about other teams targets being in place.

Dunne would be good. Can be a bit error prone, but very good in the air. Would definitely take him, but would need pace next to him.

It's amazing that you seem to get it, but a lot of others don't. You just seem to be able to articulate it better than I can.