Saint Charlie

MP now saying its hard to find players who fit our profile. Based on his comments it doesnt sound like much will happen.

Funny how he was so open the other night about ins & outs and now has clammed up.

From what Poch is saying now I'm not expecting any additions. The usual watching the market stuff.

Would be interesting to know if our in is directly linked to Osvaldo going, or whether it would occur either way. If Vucinic has turned down Arsenal he probably won't move anywhere.

Agree. Most likely a loan striker to replace Osvaldo, with Lambert (when fit) and Gallagher also able to play. No real need to replace Fox, he hasnt played for ages and only appeared 6 times anyway.

We wouldn't sneak Astori out of Italy without the Italian press getting wind of it. You know what they are like.

Certainly rare for names not to come out. The only striker we have really been linked with is Eder from Sampdoria.

And we obviously won't spend anywhere near 15m + on one player today or tomorrow.

Made some vital assists in the promotion season and always gave 100%. No shame in not being good enough for PL football. Hope he does well. Always remember that Shaw said Fox has given him the most support of any player in our squad. Deserves respect for that.

Spurs were also linked and the quote doesn't really fit us. Can't see who our "President" is, surely not the interim accountant lad. And it wouldnt be KL of course.

He absolutely bossed England. Excellent dribbler and if we are at all linked he would be class. But can't see it.

Di Marzio says Osvaldo to Juve is close and he will msot likely go out there tomorrow.

I'm sure we will.

Whats Dany N'Guessan up to at the moment? He never got a fair crack with us but his pace and power would have been useful off the bench in the last 10 vs Arsenal.

Apart from we will never sign him. More like the new Javi de Pedro.

Of course not. They have had barely anything good to watch all season.

We don't know behind the scenes how much we value Cork though. He barely got a minute on the pitch until December in the league.

Perez said no plans to replace them. And if we get a striker we won't have. Re Cork, imagine the story has been leaked by his Agent to get us to firm up plans for his future. Out of contract end of next season so if we arent going to offer him a new one then we may well sell for the right price. Or we will offer one soon.

Surely will be a loan though otherwise we could end up stuck with the new vuy and Osvaldo in the summer. Also thought MP was pretty genuine re no business in his pressers, obviously the Osvaldo thing has forced our hands so until that we probably had no plans. Unless his Exit was on the cards prior to the Fonte incident.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/swansea-transfer-news-jack-cork-3090263 Mirror says we have turned down Swansea's 3m offer for Cork. Easily worth 5m.

What does your Scunny oppo think? Word from Kharkiv is that Liverpool set to sign Konoplyanka. Very good player and top lad by all accounts.

Assuming we have someone lined up it is interesting theres no real leak as to who. Most likely not a high profile player I would assume, especially as Poch bigged up the scouting network in his interview the other day.

He has been hawked around everywhere.

Fair enough. Fits in with the earlier reports that a Vucinic/Osvaldo swap wasn't on the cards. Good sign that the Osvaldo to Juve deal is on though so hopefully we also have a replacement lined up.