Transfer targets in January

[Cripps_orig]

CHRIS SAMBA has put Arsenal and Tottenham on red alert after handing in a transfer request at Blackburn.
The 27-year-old centre-back, who is also wanted by QPR and Paris St Germain, missed Saturday's win over Fulham after calling in sick the previous day.

He said: "I have officially requested a transfer from Blackburn Rovers Football Club.

"I have personally informed the owners, manager and executives at the club that I want to leave in this transfer window.

"In my five years at Blackburn Rovers Football Club I have always given 100 per cent in every game I have played. I have had several opportunities to leave but I have always stayed.

"I have decided now is the right time for me to pursue a new challenge and I have asked the club to respect my decision and allow me to leave.

"I thank the fans for their support and I hope they feel I have served them and their club well."

Rovers boss Steve Kean has previously insisted that Samba is not for sale.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...Blackburn.html

Must Get

[Ollie the Optimist]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...Blackburn.html

Must Get

if we get smaba i will be really pissed off. waste of money he would be. we dont need another CB, we need full backs.

[bignev]

Before we got Merts he would have been a must get but now we don't need him

[AKBapologist]

Before we got Merts he would have been a must get but now we don't need him

Not even to replace the squid? Or to play as CF now and again? Pifff, fans too short sighted these days.

[Cripps_orig]

Al Habsi

We're in need of a keeper and he wont be at Wigan for long. Hes been brilliant this season

[Master Splinter]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...?newsfeed=true

Linked with RVP's son.

RVP putting off contract talks.

RVP talking about Barcelona.

GW:

[Cripps_orig]

RVP

[Master Splinter]

If I started a thread based on that article, it could be a record-breaker.

[Niall_Quinn]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...?newsfeed=true

Linked with RVP's son.

RVP putting off contract talks.

RVP talking about Barcelona.

GW:

We've kidnapped his kid? How tight are we? Now he'll have to pay us to stay.

Our board

[Cripps_orig]

Lokomotiv Moscow are plotting to scupper Arsenal's attempts to land Cologne striker Lukas Podolski, 26, by blowing them out of the water with a £20m summer bid.
Full story: Metro

We have £20m dont we?