Hopefully the "it can become permanent" is an option, rather than the current vogue for loan deals with a compulsory price already agreed. I think those deals have tended to involve champion's league clubs trying to cook the books for FFP (although Kiev are of course a CL side). What's nice though is that we'll have agreed a price for a player with 1 year left on his contract, at today's market rates. Next summer TV money goes up by 70% so teams will want even more ludicrous fees from Premier League clubs. If Mbokani is a hit, it'll be a relatively small outlay next summer to turn it permanent and allow him to continue seamlessly up front, it'll certainly save money for other areas. And of course if he's a flop, or we go down, we can get rid. Edit: I see KIO has beaten me to making much the same comment, in far fewer words!
Perfect! Potentially a great bit of business. Sell Grabban, and use the money to make sure we get a quality CB, and I'll be chuffed.
So according to flighttracker24/twitter, a private jet landed at 10am this morning at Norwich, flying in from Ostend airport (Bruges). Make of that what you will.
Surely not? Pretty sure the world revolves around football. It might well not be of interest. Sky Sports are now reporting that Mbokani has flown in for his medical today, but that could be completely unrelated.
This makes abso-bloody-lutely no sense to me at all?? Sky Sports News HQ @SSNHQOfficial 14m14 minutes agoBirmingham, England BREAKING: Sky Sources: #CPFC please log in to view this image goalkeeper Wayne Hennessy is also due at #NCFC please log in to view this image for a medical today. Fee believed to be £3m.
If Ruddy left, it would be to a top 5 / 6 side, with respect to Swansea. Load of bullocks please log in to view this image
jon walters left in england instead of joining Ireland squad so he can sort next move out, please don't be us
I'd rather have him at the club than Murray or Gayle. Plus if Grabban is sold or ostracised, we're perilously short of striking options.
Why not ? He's always a menace and can score with his head and either foot. I reckon he'd be great for us.
I bet it's purely a heart vs head thing - i.e. the fact that he's an ex-binner. Apologies if I'm wrong, snowy.
If Walters is available for £2-3m, him plus Mbokani with Grabban to Bournemouth, Lafferty to Wednesday and Hooper to Fulham, would do me nicely on the striking front. Might be nice to keep Hooper, but RvW seems to be harder to shift. Doing that business would probably leave us with more money and a smaller wage bill than we started with, and would hopefully allow us to get one of these decent CBs we've been supposedly chasing. That's three in and at least one out in 26hrs though, so McNally better have his choice of stimulant in!
