It's very risky to gamble promotion on it. This guy from Fulham even on loan sounds quite good. I would go for something like that if we can't pull these other deals off.
Of course they shouldn't. I just question our transfer policy on the basis that we appear to be going for a few players that we had no chance of getting. Most people realised we wouldn't be getting Hooper as there was no chance that Celtic would sell their best player to an NPC club. J-Rod seems very unlikely also. Sordell we could get perhaps. I hope that we don't end up with no more strengthening up front. Clearly we want more reinforcements up there so if we don't get any that will be disappointing.
This was obvious ages ago. Not sure how we are going to get the top class striker we clearly want though if we only go for players that clubs want to sell.
This is getting a bit silly now. Celtic want unrealistically silly money for him and don't want to be seen to lose face. Hooper already says he wants to stay so they won't be able to use the line that he wanted to go. They aren't going to sell unless its 10M IMO and there is no way we are going to pay that.
Exactly. Because his statement was so conclusive, if he leaves now he will look like an idiot. He won't be coming here, at least not in this window. We move on.