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don't worry about that agent itk twitter, he's clueless and is yet to be right about a thing. I think it's driven from what people post on the good old football-rumours.

I'm a fan of the good old solid away performance, so it'll be 2-0 for me. Love an away clean sheet, don't know why, it just looks better...

Burnley value the forward at around £3.5m More like 6-7m! We were knocked back at 4m....

All this talk about us bidding for Hooper to hurry up Burnley into selling Rodriquez'' doesn't quit emake sense to me. How would us bidding for Hooper make them look and say ''Oh no, they're not going to buy rodrquez as they've got another target. Quick, let's sell him to Southampton'' At the end of the day it's not like Rodriquez's price is going to drop, he'll gain value as he gets older. Makes no sense.

Great thread title and a great video. Brilliant memories.

It's a huge deal for someone to move to the otherside of the world. Once the workpermit is sorted out there is so much red-tape to go through. i've known someone who's done the opposite before and moved to Australia, and it took weeks. I find it amazing that once again, Alpine is trying to form his opinion from thin air.....we've not organised this well enough. Have you yourself ever moved to the otherside of the world, do you know what hurdles you have to go through? In that case you cannot really say that. He will sign and he'll be worth the wait.

I'd love it if we signed Rodriquez. I've seen him life a couple of times (once live) and he is class, trust me. Touch and tecnique wise he's premiership bound.

£ 5 milion. would cost more than that.

Totally agree with you on this..

Thanks for your decent views - always nice to see good balanced oppo coming on here. FWIW I've always felt it would be an ask to get him in January, but all I can say is that we seem pretty keen and are putting alot of time and effort into it! Regarding Stokes...I think alot of us look down on him because of how poor he was at this level with Sunderland. He was tipped as a massive player for them when they got him for £2m or so, but he was pretty poor at this level to say the least. Sounds like he's greatly improved as a player now though.

I don't think any deal is going to be £8m straight up, or £10m straight up. It will come in installments and based upon certain clauses I'm sure. So celtic get so much for his first England cap, so much after he's scored so many goals etc. The sort of clauses that would coincide with us doing well and recouping the transfer fee anyway. Anyway I don't think we'd bid up to 10m either, around up to 7 is probably as far as I can see NC going on one player.

There doesn't seem to be any structure to West Hams activity what so ever. Incredibly similar to Leicester in the summer, try to sign anyone with 2 feet who can kick a ball. At least we actually have targets.

He's being earmarked for a short-term loan when he's recovered, in a bid to regain his fitness. He's already back in light training, so I don't think it'll be too long before he's fit to play.

Rodriquez, absolute class player IMO.

We'll give you Punch as part of a deal for Clyne, thank you...

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Looks like something is a foot.

I think Rodriquez is a really classy centre forward, I'm a massive fan of his. Touch and technique is outstanding and he will be a premiership player before long, no doubts about that. He's got more about him than Sharp and is younger. Shame we didn't get him in the summer, he'd have been class for us.

Don't agree with any of that. You seem to be forgetting that he was also very prolific at this level before he went to Celtic.

Teddy Mazague? CB playing in france at the mo. Just saw his name popup on twitter as a possible link.

I wouldn't trust a thing that comes out of a Celtic fan's mouth, their player judgement sucks as we saw with Jos.

Pretty sure he scored a couple against udinese

Yep - that seems to be the case, and I'm bloody delighted! Let's hope something comes off though.

Lambert has been pretty much an ever present for the last 3 years. Having him out of the team is a massive blow and we're all of a sudden much weaker. Chappers is still injured and let's not forget that he's been out for a couple of months almost, so will take some time to get back into the groove.....not sure W-P is quite ready for top championship football yet. We need more fire power up top if we're serious, and it looks like we're pulling all the stops out to ensure that. As dune said - this is a great opportunity for us. No season is ever the same, so even if we fail this year and spend lots of money in the summer....we may not be at this stage with 50 points. It's a great tally at this stage and I think we need to throw everything at it to ensure we finish the job. I'd be gutted if we don't make it now.

I don't think either are quick, they can come across as quick to the eye because they're clever and have good movement - so can open up space quicker than the defenders can react. They both seem clinical penalty box scores, right foot, left foot, head - all pretty standard. But they're incredibly prolific, especially Hooper who seems prolific at any level. And once a goal scorer, always a goal scorer IMO - no matter what level.