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Claise being linked to Man U across a few sources now. http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/man-utd/transfer-talk/news/jordy-clasie-on-man-utd-radar_231377.html

Thats still 480k

They are on the way to becoming Sunderland and Newcastle, history is all they now have left.

There is only one fact we can only be sure of

Dani's just heard the news from Les Reed

According to reports in Holland Wijnaldum is allowed to leave for 15mil (price from Gazzetta) but at present no major clubs are interested in him. Could be a good thing for us ? http://www.voetbalprimeur.nl/nieuws/443208/vertrek-wijnaldum-staat-buiten-kijf-hij-wil-graag-cashen-en-heeft-toestemming-.html

Have to say the L'equipe and Calciomercato articles I have just read don't mention us at all, smokescreen ? http://www.calciomercato.com/news/il-marsiglia-avvisa-l-inter-cinque-offerte-per-imbula-decisiva-l-222859

BOOOOOOOOMMMMMM Gianelli Imbula 'prefers Southampton switch' http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/arsenal/transfer-talk/news/imbula-prefers-southampton-switch_230876.html Knew my avatar switch would make the difference.

This thread is surely a bait thread for Dubai Phil?

"Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, the veteran coach said, "Pogba is still the superior player at this stage. He is already a Ferrari, just like Arturo Vidal, although he wouldn't know how to drive one ... but both Kondogbia and Imbula have the potential to reach his level, though." Fark that is a recommendation and a half. http://www.90min.com/posts/2299165-inter-s-kondogbia-can-soon-be-as-good-as-pogba-says-former-france-boss Also everything you needed to know about his stats: http://www.squawka.com/players/giannelli--imbula/stats#performance-score#marseille-(current)#french-ligue-1#24#season-2014/2015#118#all-matches#1-38#by-match

Just watched the video and I like what i see. He is like a faster version of vic with more tricks than morgan and is robust as f*ck with an eye for goal, looks tailor made for the premier league. To be fair I'd love any of the blokes we are being linked with, we have come a long way in such a short space of time its hard to maintain perspective on the sort of transfers we used to do. To help with his decision making I will now change my avatar to him from Georgie.

Just install Hula on chrome and keeping changing your country IP to get around that.

Would also be a good negotiating tactic to make out there are others.

Saw him 15 times in total last season, he is mustard. Don't judge others by your own standards

Its like the lottery, I like to dream what I would spend it on before reality of not winning hits home. Let me dream :-)

Jesus you sounds like Arsene Wenger, I thought the days of 6ft 2 athletes (shout out to Danny Welbeck) attempting to play football based on physical attributes were over. Jordy Clasie would of course never played against any rough opposing midfielders in the Eredevise or for the Dutch national team, Xavi/Iniesta and Messi should sh*t their pants when they play Chelsea cos Matic is 6ft 3 or the Chilean bum finger pokers. We are now a ball playing team with Vic/Gardos/Toby as the rough options in DM positions as needed (Florin has played there for his previous club).

The reason I am promoting him so hard is that last season I went out of my way to watch more feyanoord/ajax and PSV games thinking that is where I expected us to do a lot of shopping and whilst there are a lot of players out there who would not look out of place here (like the Feyanoord CBs of Kongbia and Van Beek) GW always stood out and in my eyes but was pushed very hard by Clasie for the influence he has on the team with both players having ethical standards that aren't driven by money which is prevalent among the current english players. GW stood out in the PSV team with Depay et al and won player of the year in the Eredevisie, if we could get him as AM, Clasie to replace Morgan and Tonny V as an option from the bench for the price of 1 Morgan then we still have the 15mil to lump Tobys way and potentially would have a net spend of around 10mil after Cedric and Juanmi for the summer with some wicked replacements.

For those who want to know what a Ward-Prowse and Steve Davis are meant to be aspiring to do here are more of his stats.

I've got a bone on finally if this is true for Georgie watch: "Courted by the biggest names from the championship of France (Marseille, Monaco and Paris SG), Georginio Wijnaldum (24 years) in England also interested. Newcastle and Southampton would enlist the Dutch international, and the Saints would even gone on the offensive. Indeed, as reported by the Guardian , Southampton PSV have offered more than € 15 million to secure the services of their midfield, author of 14 goals in this season Eredevisie. Stay tuned." http://www.footmercato.net/breves/southampton-une-offre-pour-wijnaldum_156345 Edit - I'm so convinced I've changed my avatar. Him Claise and Vilhena are awesome options.

His 2 goals is more than both our Attacking Midfielders managed between them all season. I think he is a player who can play with tactical discipline but also has tricks.

Purely for my own hope I have finally found a link to us and Wijnaldum as I think he is quality, unfortunately its just the Mail but I'll take it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3135798/Transfer-News-LIVE-Manchester-United-Arsenal-Chelsea-Liverpool-latest-plus-Premier-League-Europe.html Dutch article basically saying he hate's Advocaat cos he plays him out of position, Newcastle are too crap for him and he should wait for a good club like Swansea/Everton or Stoke to come in for him http://www.dichtbij.nl/eindhoven/sport/artikel/4048865/newcastle-united-is-niet-goed-genoeg-voor-wijnaldum-column.aspx Maybe I've set my sights too low for an AM who scores goals.

just out of interest what does a scholar who signs professionally earn as a guesstimate ? presume for someone like Slats it would be 1-2k a week ? or am I completely misaligned?

Your a tool

I like it think it looks good, Barry would do his nut though, not enough stripes.

Tenuous link alert The Bilderberg conference is being held in Austria at a Liebherr owned hotel. Make up whatever rumours you will