Similar to the one I made in January, only this time for Summer! The window's open again now so have a chat about who you want in/out and I'll update it the list below with what we actually do! Here's hoping for a bit of a clear out and some new talent in - now that we're confirmed for Europa League (unfortunately) - it's going to be a lot harder to keep our top talent and bring in decent players. Here's hoping Levy can pull another 'van der vaart'-esque signing! Permanent: IN Gylfi Sigurdsson - bought from Hoffenheim (fee roughly £8m) Jan Vertonghen - bought from Ajax (roughly £9mill) Emmanuel Adebayor - bought from Man City (£5mill) Moussa Dembélé - bought from Fulham (fee roughly £15m) Hugo Lloris - bought from Lyon (fee starting at £8m rising to £12m) Grant Hall - bought from Brighton (fee about £1.5m) Clint Dempsey - bought from Fulham (£6m) OUT Louis Saha - released Ryan Nelsen - released Oscar Jansson - Released Kudus Oyenuga - Released Mirko Ranieri - Released Jesse Waller Lassen - Released Niko Kranjcar - sold to Dynamo Kiev (fee in the region of about £6m) Vedran Corluka - sold to Lokomotiv Moscow (fee in the region of about £5m) Ben Alnwick - gone to Barnsley on a free transfer Ledley King - retired Steven Pienaar - sold to Everton (fee = £4.5m) Sebastien Bassong - sold to Norwich (fee = £5.5m) Luka Modric - sold to Real Madrid (fee in the region of about £30m) David Button - sold to Charlton (unknown fee) Lee Angol - gone to Wycombe on a free transfer Paul McBride - released Ronnie Hawkins - released Ramil Sheriff - released James Yeboah - released Giovani Dos Santos - sold to Real Mallorca (fee unknown) Rafael Van der Vaart - sold to Hamburg (fee = £10.5m) Loans: IN - Returns Andros Townsend - Birmingham City Harry Kane - Millwall Ryan Mason - Millwall Yago Falqué - Southampton Tom Caroll - Derby County John Bostock - Swindon Town Kudus Oyenuga - St Johnstone Vedran Corluka - Bayer Leverkusen Sebastien Bassong - Wolverhampton Wanderers Steven Pienaar - Everton Dean Parrett - Yeovil Town David Button - Barnsley IN - New Out - New Bongani Khumalo - season loan to PAOK FC Massimo Luongo - season loan to Ipswich Town Ryan Fredericks - season loan to Brentord John Bostock - loaned to Swindon Town till January Danny Rose - season loan to Sunderland Harry Kane - season loan to Norwich
The papers are reporting that, because Robin van Persie's wife says they are settled in London, he won't be moving to Man City. I can think of one or two potential suitors for his services in London...
Out - (in of squad number) Gomes, Gallas, Saha, Dos Santos, Defoe, Bassong, Kranjcar, Corluka, King, Nelsen, Khumalo, Bentley, Pienaar, Dawkins, Jenas. A number of decent players there, but they're either unworkable in our current system or unfancied by the manager, so there's no point in them being there. In - A goalkeeper, several defenders, a couple of midfielders and a pair of strikers. If we can keep Adebayor, then our first XI doesn't really need much work. We need to strengthen the squad though and Redknapp needs to use our depth far better than he has.
A lot will depend on the Chelsea result - not just financially, but in terms of players who will come.
Villareal have been relegated. A certain Giuseppe Rossi plays there. He'll be on the cheap you'd have thought. Great buy?
He's spent a lot of the season injured too, which you'd expect to also reflect in his price, but may also add a note of caution. They finished bottom of the league, somehow. EDIT: Just checked and Rossi's injured for another 9 months or so.
Yes they finished bottom, but could that have something to do with the fact their star player wasn't playing a lot? Either way, he'll be available for far less than the ridiculous fees we were reported bidding for him in January
Hate to use them as an example, but Aaron Ramsey's leg break was long term, and he's not played badly since coming back.
When are they ever right about anything though? We'll have to see, saying someone is going to be out that long is usually hard to predict, he may well be back sooner (not suggesting before September)
Whatever it is its doing my head in. Would be really jealous if he went to spurs as hes one of my favourite plyers. Couple of months back it was arsenal then spurs now.barca thoug apparentlu you guus.have struck a deal with.him at the end of the week it.will be announcec though that source is goal.com...lets see