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Same as most other players then, AS Rome is the Italian Arsenal for agents. L'Equipe says Van der Wiel is going to Man U, mind you they sometimes get it wrong.

Because it's so selective. I mean if they made a compilation of Shelvey long shots to the top corner you'd think great, then if they made another one with the 15 or 16 that end up in Row Z for each one that doesn't you'd think what a pile of shîte. I mean Steve De ridder looked good on YouTube right? And Tadanari Lee, probably even Mayuka as well..

In his case about 6 kg of muscle. I'm sure we can remedy that though, if he has the will to stick it out until then, think he likes us and wants to stay though so it may come about.

Then again Arsenal and Barcelona are usually linked to everyone..before the players concerned usually end up at Inter, Villareal and West Ham.

Van der Wiel to Utd...no idea where Clyne may end up, probably at Saints. Think you can get quite good odds on that actually.

No idea, read it somewhere that's all, plays for Besiktas at the moment I believe.

Train for me, 86 euros, not bad at all.

Nope, Gokun Tore...something like that, winger/AM apparently....

Who's this Turkish bloke that we're supposed to be keen on then.

In fact failing to get 126 in a day and a half would be a bit of a let down really.

That was 2 years or so ago, since then he's got splinters in his bum from the rustic bench at PSG. Screamers? the odd one yes, but he still only scored 17 goals in total at Newcastle in 3 seasons at Newcastle. Since then he's scored 1 in 36 at PSG. Take away the penalties and the free kicks and you get a completely different player. Vastly overated and getting slower by the minute, should have been sent off on Sunday because his lack of pace forced him to hack down Hazard (I think) in the crudest of manners.

I like Djuricic for his obvious ability but he gets knocked off of the ball so very easily that I fear that he won't come to much. Perhaps as the article says playing against U21s where there still might be less muscle and power might boost his confidence..to be seen though.

Especially as we're starting to get knocked about a bit, 3 consecutive 4s off Bird in this over. Still plenty of leeway but I doubt we'll be wanting to have to get much more than 200 or so.

Not when your team is built to reach the latter stages of the CL and you get knocked out because of a shameful performance at home to one of the weakest sides in the competition.

It's all about, pace and physicality and many players coming from Italy don't have either and very few both. Being a technical genius gets you nowhere when Wes Brown kicks you up in the air. It's not just Italians either, many Spanish,Portuguese and South Americans don't make the grade either. You need special talents to play well in the PL.

Anyone who had seen him on Sunday evening would tell you that it's a not to be touched with a barge-pole situation, rank awful, he was subbed at HT. Let Palace have him, or better still Pompey.

I'll tell you what will smooth the path, 25 million straight out, no adds-on and no haggling. It's nothing to do with any malarky between LvG and Koeman, why oh why do they make this crap up, does it sell papers,advertsing space?

Being first choice for Sporting is not comparable to the PL, no doubt a decent player in those leagues but as we have seen with say Djuricic you need to be a bit more solid in the PL,

Small and lightweight, will get eaten alive in the PL. All sounds too bargain basement to me, still it's probably only just an agent propagated rumour.

Don't think that that one has made the headlines as of yet.

Not really, he won't cost them a great deal in the end and he's a proven goalscorer in the PL. We've all see what happens to some Calcio and Liga goleadores in the PL...thay cost around 30 million and then don't perform. Balotelli scored a lot of goals in Italy I think, Osvaldo a fair few not to mention Soldado. The PL is so completely different that proven PL quality counts for a great deal.

Chelsea,Arsenal and Citeh have all the cash they could possibly need, didn't get any too far last season though. It's not about cash per se, it's about priorities. If you want to win the CL and you're an English club you have to sacrifice the PL title and hope you make 4th. PL football is too robust, no easy games, no walkovers against teams of factory hands like there are in Italy,Germany and Spain. In fact because there's so much cash in the PL it just makes it harder in the CL.

Transfer window speculation just gets a bit wilder each season. I blame fantasy football myself, would be journalists just make stuff up according to the disposition of their latest ff selection.

Or just someone who couldn't be assed and said he/she was the cleaner...been there, done that, one of the oldest ruses in the can't be assed with idiots on the phone guide book. Used to buy you at least a few hours, then of course some knob invented the mobile telphone.

Oh drat...they made 251, still an excellent day for our bowlers, now we need to make 400 or so.