According to the Gossip on the BBC

Jol has made a £1.4m bid to Porto for defender Miguel Lopes and West ham have offered us Carlton Cole. Any thoughts on these two?

 

Only from wikipedia I would say yes to Miguel Lopes due to age and teams he has played for.

Carlton Cole may be if the price is right.

 

Lopes sounds interesting.
But Cole would frustrate us - No thanks Irons.

 

i have never liked Cole, i dont think he is much better then AJ like gerascores he frustrates me aswell,

Lopes sounds an interesting player, i just think at the moment we are getting connected to everybody, is this lazy journilism or actually something they know lol,

 

I'd take Cole as a backup to Bobby, but only if he slashes his wage demands and is happy to sit on the bench.

 

Quite right, Bidley, but I don't see it happening.

As for the latest in our conveyor belt of potential right backs, add him to the list - it's hard to evaluate which option we should go for when they are mostly players I've never seen or even heard of until we were linked with them. I like the sound of the French lad, but most of all I just want us to sign a new right back!

 

Cole is barely good enough for the bench - we should be looking higher than this.

 

Nein, danke!

 

Don't we keep getting linked with Carlton Cole? Seems like lazy journalism to me, but then I thought that about Riise!

This looks more interesting:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-bid-Fulham-Bryan-Ruiz.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

 

Wow £13.75m buy-out-clause! I think this would be a positive move if we signed him.

 

The Mail says that he's a winger. When I first read that I wondered if it could mean Dempsey's on his way. Apparently he usually plays as a striker for Twente, though, so presumably he'd play off Bobby and we'd keep Clint on the left. Looks like there's plenty of competition for him, and I'm a bit skeptical that MAF would stump up £13m for one player.