@tancredipalmeri: Hull City have contacted Bologna for Acquafresca, for whom also Sunderland made a contact in the last days. He's an Italian reporter for CNN Sports and Gazzetta dello Sport.
WE SIMPLY MUST SIGN THIS GUY! HE WOULD BE BRILLIANT!! Just think of the Hydrating Sports Drink sponsorship opportunities!!!!
I hear the club want to give David Burns (Hons) a bit of competition for the #1 spot. He only cost Bologna €2.5m, so he wouldn't break our financial structure. I've always rated him from his days at Cagliari, but I don't think he's done much since. He's only 25, so he has room for improvement. I'm more impressed with this than Bendtner.
I hope there's some actual truth in any of these stories leaking through.... We've been linked to loads of strikers now..... Hooper Austin Deeney Odemwingie Bianchi Elmander Bendtner Sammon Rhodes DJ Campbell Mphela Barnes Bent Cole Etc etc A name pops up and then it's nothing else after this I wonder how much is just made up
I know what you mean, it is a bit frustrating. But foreign reporters aren't usually wide of the mark. Not sure why Sunderland are after him (aside from the manager's nationality) when they have Fletcher, Altidore, Ji, Graham and Wickham. Is it the age old case of "Hull City are interested, let's just get him so they can't"?
Hmmm, on the contrary I've always thought he was a bit rubbish. He's just a plank and I'd be udnerwhelmed if this was true. Now if we were linked with Ciro Immobile on loan - who I would bet my mortgage on becoming a world star in the Paolo Rossi mould - then I would be excited. He shot to prominance in the national Italian youth cup that every year attracts all the world's best scouts and has since done well at Genoa.
He should try Matri or Quagliarella from Juventus. Both not in their plans for next season and maybe fancy playing in the PL.
I started a thread on Quagliarella the other day as he's been linked with Naaaarwich for a ridiculous just £2.5m more than we agreed for Austin. He'd be an exceptional signing at that price. Matri will stay in Italy and is beyond us, he's an £11m, 50k a week player.
We should get him a plaque to put on the KC Concourse wall. Immobile might be out of our price range now that he's had a great tournament this Summer. What's Mattia Destro doing these days? Is he still at Inter?
Nah Roma. He's not well liked there though, but then again nobody but Totti is, managing Roma is the most impossible job in football. On the first day of pre-season training just gone 200 ultras turned up to abuse the players and pelt their cars. This is BEFORE anything has gone wrong!! And every single training session is shown live on 2 tv stations and covered on a dedicated radio station. Not even Real Madrid have that kind of media intrusion.
You've got to be making these names up? An 'Immobile' striker and a triple fresh fresh protection 'Acquafresca' brilliant. Bring back Chris Mussampa.