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Would be gutted if he left, but certain he will. The plus with this transfer (as opposed to Shaw/Lallana) is their will hopefully be a bidding war for him. (Liverpool/Arsenal/Spurs + euro interest). Disappointed if it's £15m.

Ings was the 1st person I thought of when Les Reed said in that recent interview "players we've spoken to are keen to join". He's young, scores goals & will want to be here. Bring him in.

Yeah, I agree - 3-5-2 is quite a specialist formation. I hope we stick with 4-5-1 / 4-3-3. Suits the current personnel - Wit that said, we can check back here again in a couple of weeks and we might have a totally different set of players to talk about.

Was just thinking we haven't heard from the Krueger-meister.

I think a lot depends if we are going to with a '1' or '2' up top. Not convinced either are ideal as a lone striker... But both would be decent partner to Pelle as a partnership.

Agreed, but if we were ever going to get them in, it would've been as part of the Shaw/Lallana deals

Lovren to will definitely go.

I'd trust John Percy. Disappointed with £25m though if I'm honest.

LOL. Has he done one of his "As I said...." tweets yet?

Ryan Gauld?

Decent scouting report on the Dundee Utd left back Andrew Robertson. http://www.soccerkickz.com/scout-report/andrew-robertson/

Nicolai Boilesen has been linked with us before. Can remember the name.

Spot on.

No offence taken mate. It's entirely dependant on where the info comes from (and mine came from a pretty damn good source )

I heard that Dodd & Williams didn't see eye to eye with Martin Hunter (Who's very much a Les Reed man) - so they got the boot.

This thread is going to get busy soon!

SSN may well be right at £30m, but don't forget they had Lambert gone for £9m originally.

Yup, 3 to 4 players we needed, IMO. (GK, DC, AMLRC, SC) Plus 1 for every player we lose.

No worries Guan. But you KNOW we are going to badger you to find out how much we actually got for him

This is very true. Never ceased to amaze me just how quickly Chambers settled in.

Everton are certainly the example to try and emulate. (Villa being the polar opposite). It's going to be interesting...

Guess we'll find out if Hernandez is part of the deal soon enough.

Yup, and as much as I love him and want him to stay, 27-30m really is crazy money.

Nigel leaving?

Just to add to the point Bailey made... See the Herrera deal (Who has now past a medical & agreed terms, but they haven't agreed a fee) http://www1.skysports.com/transfer/news/12691/9362433/transfer-news-ander-herrera-passes-manchester-united-medcal-but-fee-yet-to-be-agreed