Gary Hooper?
Steve Bruce was collared on the street by a Sky reporter yesterday in London and gave a brief chat on SSN, perhaps he was down there negotiating with Longs replacement?
This is the key. £12m for Long is very good business if we have a suitable replacement. If we don't, we are weakening ourselves for funds that probably won't be able to improve the rest of our team.£12m is a very good return to get on him but not with an adequate replacement lined up.
He will be hard to replace will Long, Sagbo is similar but not as threatening to the goal, not many about like long with the speed, strength and tenacity he offers as well as a bit of goal threat.
I was hoping he'd team up with Sagbo a bit this season it looked like it could make a fantastic partnership on Thursday.
This is the key. £12m for Long is very good business if we have a suitable replacement. If we don't, we are weakening ourselves for funds that probably won't be able to improve the rest of our team.
Perhaps the replacement is the signing that OLM was referring to.

That's what I was thinking. The signing has to be a decent standard though!
That it does. I still dont like the idea of selling him when the season starts on Saturday against a QPR team we probably need to get 3 points from.