Summer 2013 Transfer Rumour Thread

Perhaps our resident Croatian could give us his thoughts? Where you at SFCroatia?

 

Halilovic will be good. Never heard of the other guy. Seems like way too much money.

 

Indeed, hadn't heard of Jedvaj either, but to be fair it's €20m and the article I saw suggested that was heavily installment based and at least half of it was dependent on appearances and the usual hoo-hah, certainly pricey but not a terrible deal in my book.

 

Speaking of Croatia, they're in the EU as of one hour ago.

No work permits needed.

 

And when you consider Arsenal essentially spent £27m on our two 17 year olds, it doesn't even look that pricey. Reminds me of the Tosic/Ljajic deal from a few years back.

 

And that went well didn't it...

 

Morning all. Out yesterday and don't seem to have missed a thing!

 

Are you kidding?!

Mystery player talks almost completed this weekend, finalizing deal end of this week

 

Now where have I heard that before. Still fingers crossed then.

 

...and a new shirt!! :-/

 

Yeah. In a shocking display of disrespect to our identity, the club groundsman has put diagonal lines on the pitch. It's a disgrace.

 

If the rumours of having a deal close to completion for a box to box player not yet linked with us are true, am I the only one who is a little bit concerned?

Admittedly, we don't know too much about what goes on but MP seems to have identified a central midfielder as a priority this season and seemingly had Wanyama and Banega at the top of his wish list. Whilst we seem to have now turned his attention elsewhere, these two have still not yet moved clubs and are still "available" in that sense.

Just find it a bit odd that if this is all true we havn't played a bit more of a waiting game. It's only July after all (I know he siad he wanted transfers done early but still).

I hope it's someone of similar quaity otherwise I won't help but feel we missed out.

Alternatively, the twitter info is nonsense!

 

Only rumour at the moment, but apparently Victor Wanyama has sacked his agents..

 

Yeah, right.

 

We mustn't fall into the trap of feeling that not getting our first choice is a disaster. There are a lot of good players out there and our second or even third choice may turn out be the best fit for us.

 

Fantastic news if true! I wonder where the rumour originated from though?!

 

Probably a rumour emanating from Nicola to explain their sudden disappearance.

 

Well I'm all for the silent treatment if we sign Victor!

 

Chris Baird's been released by Fulham.

 

Think he's probably past his best now. Good player at his peak but I don't think he can cut it at the top level now. Would do a goiod job for Nigel though.