BBC gossip has a sun link suggesting: "Middlesbrough are planning a £14m bid for Blackburn striker Jordan Rhodes, 25, which would be the biggest deal for a Championship player" I know that he has a rather good goal scoring record in the championship, but £14M! I actually hadn't realized that he was still only 25. Seems to have been around longer than that! But still £14M, really? Believe it when I see it! Bah!
The very fact that no PL team, however desperate, have made any real attempt to sign him would be testement to the fact that he is not worth anything like that. The fact is, Blackburn paid Huddersfield £8m, which was well over the odds for then.
here's a new rumour .............. http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2015/07/2...and-derby-county-keen-on-signing-barry-banna/
Positionally versatile, and still fairly young. However, I'd say he's a good Championship-standard player, and definitely not an improvement on anything we already have.
Superb, another central midfielder?! Unless we plan on playing a 2-7-1 formation next year, I'd suggest there are already enough bodies, depth and versatility in our midfield. Links to a Striker, CB and back up LB would be far more likely to get me salivating
As said before, I think we should move on to Alonso now and I wonder if McNally might be doing just that. Fiorentina isn't far from where the squad is now. I also read the MFW article earlier and agreed with the emphasis on maintaining team spirit and am sure that AN will be aiming for just that. Paying over the odds for a player can put pressure on the player and unsettle others in the squad. Also, CB and striker/AM are far more important positions for spending big .
Not sure if we've had this particular installment of this particular saga? Transfer Centre Live @TransferCentreL 17m17 minutes ago Norwich City have made a £2.3m bid for Fiorentina left-back Marcos Alonso.
N'Doye has a £3.5m release clause, for a striker who's scored 5 in his first 15 Premier League games, it's peanuts. Hernandez cost us £10m and so far, all the interest has just been for a loan and we really want him gone permanently. And N'Doye is rated as £4.9m-£7.1m on Transfermarkt.
DM is with the squad in Germany. I know nothing about Alonso but as cover for Olssen what does he give us that Garrido didn't?
More flexible than Garrido - he can play CB (he's tall) and even left-midfield. Garrido was basically exclusively a LB other than his crossing ability - I think he was put at LM once but just simply wasn't mobile enough?
I meant that he might have popped over to Italy from Germany, 1950. Not far to go. Alonso is also taller at 6'2", which makes him viable as a left-sided CB and his height gives him a better chance of blocking crosses when at LB. That he can also play at LM is a further bonus.
