SuperSAINT

We need a "Les Reed See-Saw thread" with a scale that tilts to the left when people are happy with him and tilts to the right when the majority are unhappy.

Rafa Silva on the bench for Portugal this evening.

Yippee! Very good news. (Imagine if it was Alan Irvine)

Get Caulker in as well and I'd be pretty happy... Unless Stefan de Vrij is remotely realistic/possible of course.

He's a striker/Midfielder, yeah? Couldn't we take Clasie & Pelle off them instead?

^ I just saw that video after I posted. Love a bit of Youtube scouting. Looks like he could play the classic sweeper role.

I know Celtic fans rate him very highly - One of their prized assets along with Forster. I'd like to know if he's more more of a ball player or more of an aggressive centre back.

I'd want more if I'm honest - Didn't Adam Blackmore say we'd turned down a £15m bid from Liverpool? Sakho cost them similar. I'd want at least £20m for Lovren.

I would put my money on Lovren leaving, unfortunately. re: Virgil van Dijk - It's nice to be linked with some up & coming players at last after seemingly weeks of outgoings. I wonder if Koeman is going to change us into a 5-3-2 / 3-5-2 formation?

Morning Paper Talk features a few bits & pieces about players we've been linked with in the past... - Everton are considering signing Rafa Silva for £8m - Drogba rumoured to be heading to Juventus (Does this end their interest in Dani?) - Liverpool to wait unti next month to try and sign Caulker - Spurs eyeing moves for Lukaku & Lovren - Utd have failed to agree a fee with Luke Shaw (Not sure that's new news!)

Things like that are a recurring problem - Remember that skate reporter who tweeted something about Poch staying? The blew up so much it even got in the papers that he would sign a new contract & stay.

Cheers Bats. "What a joke." "Pathetic." "Utter disgrace" "Gutted" "I could f*cking cry"

I would imagine WBA forums are in meltdown.

Glad we beat Huddersfield to Lambert.

He looks bloody good... ....and we have no strikers.

Massive boost IMO.

Word came from a very good "ITK" poster. Post #736

Obviously want him to stay, but if he's going to go I'll be delighted if he goes to Barcelona instead of Liverpool.

Yeah, we are absolutely going to need 2 strikers. Will be interesting to see what formation Koeman will favour. With Rickie gone, Osvaldo certain to leave, Lallana likely to go & J-rod missing through injury we need to re-build our whole attack.

Everton sniffing around him apparently

There we go!!!

1) Club announce friendly against good European team. 2) People complain on here about it. Good game IMO.

If Barca throw in Pedro or Tello we can talk.

I imagine Ajax would've blabbed if we approached them for FdB.

Jeremy Wilson reporting that Arsenal are ready to take up their option and re-sign Carlos Vela for £3.25M and then might sell him to another club (or then sell him back to Sociedad) Pretty slick move. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/10895818/Arsenal-in-talks-to-re-sign-Carlos-Vela-from-Real-Sociedad.html