Well you can judge for yourself: http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2017-01-25/reports-norwich-city-agree-zeegelaar-fee/ It is today's date, but does anybody happen to speak Portuguese?
Now we appear to have a new LB then I can see Brady moving on unless the Board have decided that he doesn't need to be sold to finance further deals. We all feel that we need a reliable CB and another striker so we may need another say £3 - 5m.
I don't think we need another striker. I think Jerome and Aloe Vera will get us over the line with goals. It's the CB slots that concern me. With a new LB (if we've got him), I don't think Brady is surplus with Jarvis only maybe ready plus Murphy as alternatives in current situation.
I hope we have a new LB, but as I said, A BOLA ran the same story last Saturday and nothing came of it. I suspect that Brady going would be the key 'domino' to get other transfers going.
Unfortunitely you get Jack **** for £3-5m these days. To upgrade either our CB's or strikers I would suggest that £5m may not do it for either, leave alone both! Bah!
I agree, if we try and penny pinch a CB we may end up with a pile of rubbish worse than what we've got in Bassong and to a lesser extent Martin. I would like to see Ryan Bennett played more. He is still quite young and Whilst he has mistakes in him he could turn out to be very, very good. Him and Klose seem the best bet if you ask me.
If the McDonald for £2.5m rumour is true (and I'm not at all sure it is), then he and the Bristol Rovers striker could come in under £5m. As for CBs, Klose and Martin have only conceded 3 goals in the last 4 games (1 after a red card and another a penalty conceded by Pinto), and kept 2 clean sheets as well.
The Google translation of the A BOLA story on Zeegelaar is as follows: "Sporting have already reached an agreement with Norwich to transfer Marvin Zeegelaar, 26, for € 3.5m in the immediate future, which could add up to € 1.5m by earning certain goals from the player. The player is expected to travel to Britain on Wednesday to perform the necessary medical examinations and sign a contract with the Canaries. The Dutchman will earn about one million euros net of salary per season." So about £18k a week if that is true, probably less than Olsson was on.
I reckon he will be holding up a City shirt at Colney by Friday Brady will be a last minute sale and the bullshit about not getting a replacement over the line in time will get trotted out .
Nah he'll be on the phone to Ricky Van W soon enough. That should put the anchors on this particular glimmer of hope sadly.
That maybe so, but will they improve the starting XI? I don't know enough about either player to entirely discount it, but at those prices I'm not expecting players who can usurp Jerome or Oliviera or even Bassong, Martin or Bennett. So what would be the point? Is it simply an illustration of where we as a club are heading? Bargain basement and to championship middling obscurity? Bah!
Brady to Palace for $9m up front plus add-ons in the Guardian. Edit: Thanks @General Melchett . Sorry that should read pounds. I don't have one on my keyboard and lost the will to find the symbol. You get the idea.
If he is this close to signing, I reckon no one else is offering him a chance in English football and the associated inflated wages. For every Ricki there is a Pinto who may well extoll the virtues of the fine city and NCFC. Its all about the money! And if not just the money, about impressing in the championship so the really big buck PL move might be a step closer. Bah!
If he has reputedly knocked back Sunderland for fear of relegation, I can't see him being wholey more enthused by Palace with 1 more point and 3rd from bottom! I just can't see us letting him go for less than £10m (Let alone $!) Although at some point I guess we have to realise that no one seems to be keen to pay that much for him and is it more important to spend elsewhere or keep hold of him? Bah!
Pinto's a happy chap much like Klose, but I'm thinking the two Dutchmen both playing for Sporting link here. I'm sure you're right tho.
So Burnley have won the race for Snoddy. At £10m in the current climate I don't think thats too bad for either club. Bah!
We should benefit from Snoddy's move I would have thought - wasn't there a sell-on clause in his contract when we sold him to Hull ? Brady to Palace ? Obviously Big Sam has said to him that he'll get Palace out of the bother they are in - he probably will actually. Be ironic though if Palace did go down meaning poor old Robbie suffering three successive relegations from the Prem
