Nothing reported so far can be substantiated as truth in any way. No report can be traced or tracked back to a single, identifiable source. No source equals no truth as the report can not be verified or substantiated even at the most basic of levels. The reports haven't even bothered with the usual band aid for bullsh1t "someone in the organisation stated...or.... a source close to the player said....." All the press has done so far imo, is re-cycled last years stories by doing little more than editing the date of the report and occasionally its subject editing the name Bony from reports and inserting the name Gomis. Last summers regurgitations are now this years stories, hot off lasts years cold press where the truth isn't even a byline. This is how I see what's happening: no crystal balls, ooo errrr Mum, just what I think. 1. Bony: doesn't want to go anywhere, he's happy to be top predator in our food chain. He wants us to know this hence his "I'm going no where" celebrations, which we've seen before, the last time he stayed. 2. Gomis: This is complicated. At this stage in his career finds himself having to perform as a bit part player. This is why he's unhappy as he knows he is so much more. Yes, he does have a patronising chance to shine now, but whether he views this as a chance to cement his future here or simply to put himself in the shop window only he knows. At this late stage in his career it must be very difficult for him to realise that his whole career may be defined by how he performs over the next short month. It may come down to that, a good career that continues if he's effective a good that fizzles out to nothing if he flops. The pressure on him to perform must be more than at any time in his past and must be crushing. Time will tell but shout loud if he scores, he'll need every little help he can get. 3. The board do have a tipping point, if the price is very right for the club then they will sell both Bony and Gomis. Their decision will have nothing to do with players views, ours or agents desires but it will be based on a simple Mathematical equation they've already defined. Bony + Gomis = £?m. The board know what the ? is, if its met and Bony goes, Gomis not so much, then I can see huge changes to the squad with players pouring out the gates. Siggy, Shelvey, Ki, Montero maybe even Fabianski.
Bony wants to go to the ""RIGHT" team , like he wanted to go last window .Just because he didnt go last window doesnt mean he didnt want to .Monk is desperate to keep Gomis just in case , even offering to change our system ,now that were in good position , to accomadate Bony and Gomis together in the line up to ease Gomis's uneasiness if Bony should remain .
and just because you constantly chant the mantra, same one since Bony's arrival that he's too good for little old Swansea City so we must cash in because we'll need the money in the championship, doesn't make you right. The probability game your playing of 'I only have to be right once to be right' will inevitably succeed as one day in the future we will sell Bony and cash in but one bulls-eye doesn't make darts player, especially when you've had hundreds of throws. I don't agree with you Roof when you say that Monk is desperate to keep Gomis especially as he's desperate to keep Bony. A problem will only arise for Monk if Gomis starts banging them in for fun. If that happens then Gomis wont want to revert back to being a support player and we, the mercenaries we are, wouldn't want that either. If Gomis kicks off, Bony wont like his top dog status being challenged. Then and only then would Monk have to make a difficult decision, it would mean, imo, one or the other as neither would want to be second fiddle. I hope this happens nd Monk is faced with this impossible choice.
Am I missing an in joke Aswan Dam? I'm pretty good at spelling as I'm an English teacher. Is that a bad thing? Anyway, I agree with Mr Stumpy who seems to have judged things right. Paper talk can end up being true but often it's not.
I wonder which one of the teams quoted will be happy to pay a sizeable transfer fee and then match the £75,000 we are paying him. He is going nowhere. If he does so be it.
Please tell me this is a piss take. I wouldnt want any of those near our club. I may take Kone but has just come back from nearly 2 seasons out injured plus he is 31.
Its always easy to say " Wheres the proof" in these situations , when a person cant have any.All we have is between the lines .And thats where my "Thoughts" come from .After the last transfer window Bony came out and said he had his camp pushing for a transfer to a big club but it didnt come to be.Its like the realise clause , nobody knew he had one till it was almost used . Its reported many times that the old release clause was taken out when Bony signed his new contract...How do we know he didnt have a new one put in., Huw likes us to know very little these days
Now that would be a great position to be in .One point you make in that Gomis is "unhappy " .again is he or is that an embellishment by the press again to further their cause or rather the "journalist " who makes a living from non stories.
Have a look at this. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/swansea-clinch-bafetimbi-gomis-transfer-3758653
Not what I said before stumpy , only that "if" we got relegated, the money from selling at the right time would be a nice consolation .
If boney has to go(and I hope not),the most attractive rumour is Chelsea's interest...Remey plus cash?
Not with the amount of points we have now with the games remaining Matt .Whose to say we spend half the money and get just as good .If were half way through a season fighting relegation Id say hang on for dear life to keep Bony . Do you think it was a coincedence that Handshake Huw waited for the window to close , our hard shedule to be over and all our players back to full health before sacking Laudrup ....and we still went out of both cups quickly and still in a relegation battle with 4 Games remaining .If Handshake sacked Laudrup any sooner , transfer requests would have went in quickly imo.
