Of course he counts mate. He's been our best CB the last couple of league games. The other CB is Beadling.
Sure, he can do a job when needed but he can't be relied on to play on a regular basis imo. We've got to longer term than the next half season. By this time next season our CBs could be Kaboul, Coates, Jan, Beadling and ?
It's not as simple as sending him back mate, you can't just **** around with other club's assets. What if United did that to you, with Defoe for two games and you'd lined up a replacement based on the fee, only for us to say, 'Nah **** it, you have him back' and meanwhile you'd just lost a game.
With the CB's we have and their fitness/form history we need about 12 to cover the emergencies we seem to generateon a weekly basis. In truth we need at least three more defenders in to be anywhere confident of a happy end to this mishap of a season, I am less confident with every days passing that we will succeed.
Echo reporting that Leeds are interested in a loan for Larsson. I'd sooner we ship out the likes of Gomez etc before him.
The only way we will get rid of this bunch is to put them on the Creathauser and tow the s***e out into the North Sea.
Sky Sports reporting that we've enquired about Andre Ayew at Swansea. Be very surprised if they allowed him to come to us considering we're both in a relegation battle. Be a great signing mind you if it were to come off.
Villa are approaching Obafemi Martins apparently he was about 40 when he signed for Newcastle about 10 years ago! Oh and LA Galaxy are in for Lescott... it's looking bleaker by the second for poor Villa.
Will Buckley has been loaned out to Birmingham for one month initially, I suppose that's a start with a few more to follow.
Money talks doesn't it. £12m for Shelvey, x amount for Ayew & x amount for Gomis (who's rumoured to be leaving as well). Maybe they're looking at bringing Bony back or a canny war chest to use towards the end of the month. Will deffo be surprised if they sell him, especially to us mind.
I doubt Bony would go back. I'm trying to see a link here for Ayew and wondering why he's being linked away with a move, Sam's well connected with agents that's all I can think of right now. Be a decent addition if you can get him I'd say.
Think the idea is to have a look at him and extend till end of season, hope he plays well and gets the extension and moves on with his career.
