Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit

[Japan Shaking All Over]

If Sagna goes.....I can see us going for the cheapest/most decent option, can see a trolley dash down to Southampton-burys

Need to splash our dough on a striker and CM, wouldn't mind Bender and Benzema but are Real really going to let that guy go? I would say we would be wise to bring in Remy too! For the money that makes sense and can we finally get shod of Bendtner please

[Özim]

That's certainly what most recent precedent would suggest. The Özil deal gives me a bit of hope though? Not just because of the fee, but because it was done in about a day, with no pissing around. Not sure how much Wenger actually had to do with the talks, but someone high up at the club certainly made the call on it and got it done...

We've done this before, but only on deadline day, all other transfers/non transfers drag on for months.

[Munchies]

The board should not use the world cup as an excuse if they bring in no one.

It ends on July 12th or so

Majority of July and August to bring in some players. And June to have the list of targets done up.

[Niall_Quinn]

The board should not use the world cup as an excuse if they bring in no one.

It ends on July 12th or so

Majority of July and August to bring in some players. And June to have the list of targets done up.

I think that's fair provided the mercenary players and their stinky agents don't use the WC as an excuse to delay deals and jack up prices.

But wait - that's exactly what they'll do. It's going to be hard to get anything done this summer. Even so, it has to get done.

[Özim]

I think that's fair provided the mercenary players and their stinky agents don't use the WC as an excuse to delay deals and jack up prices.

But wait - that's exactly what they'll do. It's going to be hard to get anything done this summer. Even so, it has to get done.

You could work on deals now and complete them at the start of the summer of course.

[Niall_Quinn]

You could work on deals now and complete them at the start of the summer of course.

Well that's what I hope we are doing, but the big names won't be negotiating that way. WC is their big stage to bump up their pay to truly obscene levels. Or fall flat on their face.

[I am invisible]

We've done this before, but only on deadline day, all other transfers/non transfers drag on for months.

Not for a major signing we haven't. We've done deadline day trolley-dashes for the scraps and whatever's left, but never anything like that. We haven't even done anything like that when we've had 3 months to work on it!

[Özim]

Not for a major signing we haven't. We've done deadline day trolley-dashes for the scraps and whatever's left, but never anything like that. We haven't even done anything like that when we've had 3 months to work on it!

As much as that's true, Real needed to bring in some cash and you only have one day on deadline day so everything is speeded up and you either pay up or don't sign a player.

This won't happen at other times, we can play our sit and wait game then.

[Blink 1nce Quince 2wice]

We mos def won't sign all the players needed. I just hope we sign enough to make the difference.

The list of targets should be drawn up shortly after the season ends if it has not already been done by the season end. No reason for it to take an age when we have a team of people who's job it is to keep tabs on potential targets.

I'm sure Real will let Benzema go...... just as long as we pay up the 50 million for him they'll want, so they can add that to the 20 million they will pay for Suarez who was actually guy we were supposed to sign a year ago for the same price as we will pay for Benzema.

[sibreen]

Coleman, Remy, and Benzema is about 70m.
Then buy a Prem defender and gk with the money we get for the outgoing players.

Little optimistic but doable. Don't think we'll get more than five in, though, no matter how many go out.