This i the first I've heard of it, I'd better get me an agent http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-n...130624/newcastle-table-£12m-bid-bony-200276?
Dutch Newspaper AD reports this morning that Swansea have made an official bid for Bony at Vitesse yesterday. The paper says that it is likely that by today(Tuesday) the Arnhem club announce if they accept the bid or not. AD claims it has sources in the club that state it is a very serious bid. Bony himself is still on holiday in Paris and has to report back to the club next week. However, Bony has already made very much clear in the media that he is leaving the club this summer and want to move to a bigger league.
With news in the English press today that Newcastle are interested in signing Ivorian striker Wilfried Bony, Dutch website Ad.nl claim Swansea have already bid for the Vitesse forward. Whilst the size of Swansea’s offer is unknown, Ad.nl describe it as a “very, very serious bid.” After a fine spell at Vitesse in the Eredivisie, where he has scored 46 goals in 63 games, Bony is eager to test himself in the Premier League and is already planning to leave Holland. Reports in Holland today suggest Vitesse may accept the Swansea bid for Bony which means Newcastle and Everton, who have also been linked, would have to move quickly. Bony, currently on holiday in Paris has also been rumoured to have interested Guus Hiddink at Anzhi Makhachkala but the striker labelled the “new Didier Drogba” has his heart set on the Premier League. At just 24, Bony seems like one of the obvious signings for a Premier League side this summer and at Swansea could bring an alternative goal threat to Michu, who was so superb in his first season at the club.
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This is what I wrote on Bony in January for the Spurs board when they were linked with him: Here are two vids on Bony: Crap music, best to mute... [video=youtube;jkxIRCLrawU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkxIRCLrawU[/video] His nickname btw is Daddy Cool, cause of his hair... [video=youtube;pnGGjb6JtoM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnGGjb6JtoM[/video] Bony is the Drogba kind of player. Good technique, great vision and he can rip through a defense in a second. He is lethal in the box, he is extremely inventive and can score a goal when it looks like it's impossible to do. The only two problems he has is his speed, he just can't run effectively. He is unfit for counter football, one of the slowest strikers I've seen in a while. His second problem is his mentality. He can get carried away on the pitch at times and get himself into trouble, he has a bit of that African temper. But he is a very creative player, very consistent and he has a type of hunger for a goal that he still wants to score so badly, even when the team is 4 or 5 goals up he is still giving everything to score at least one goal a game. But his greatest asset is his strength. The guy is insanely strong, I once saw three defenders trying to push him to the ground and they failed, he stayed up and managed to score. His stamina and endurance are incredible, he just never quits and chases the ball till the 95th minute if that is needed. In my January Transfer blog I rated him between 10 and 15 million pounds. http://www.not606.com/showthread.php/180373-The-January-Transfer-Window?p=4021712&highlight=bony#post4021712 Hope this gives you an idea who Bony is.
Swansea City have turned to Ivory Coast ace Wilfried Bony as their big-money search for a striker continues. And there is growing confidence at the Liberty Stadium that a record-breaking bid for the Vitesse Arnhem man will bring an end to their hunt for a goalscorer – as part of a week of new faces at the club. The move for attacking midfielder Alejandro Pozuelo is ready to be tied up in the next few days, while Espanyol defender Jordi Amat looks set to complete a £2m switch from Espanyol on a four-year deal. But it is up front where Swansea want success quickly, recently linked with a raft of forwards as part of their attempts to land frontline recruits. And 24-year-old Bony is looking increasingly like the striker that Michael Laudrup wants to take the goal-scoring burden of Spanish star Michu’s shoulders ahead of a third season of Premier League football and a first in the Europa League. Swansea have made an offer for Bony – described as a “very, very serious” by Arnhem sources in Dutch media reports yesterday –- which they hope can spark formal talks over a move to South Wales. There is conflicting information on the size of that offer, although it is thought to somewhere between £8m and £10m rather than the Euros 15m (£12.75m) some reports had claimed the Dutch outfit were holding out for. Regardless, a successful deal would certainly smash the £5.55m record set last summer in the deal to take Pablo Hernandez from Valencia. Swansea will hope the green-light for talks will lead to swift progress on a deal for the 6ft frontman, the leading scorer in the Dutch Eredivisie last year after an incredible 31 goals from 30 games. But they would still have to fend off from any counter bid from fellow suitors Newcastle, although there was suggestions in the North East yesterday the crisis-hit Toon were loathe to enter a bidding war for the 20-cap international. And so the club will be forced to wait on the outcome of their initial move, the latest in a growing line of attempts to bring in the powerful No.9 centre-forward that was felt was missing from the side’s options last year.
Cove, videos didn't play but thanks for the input on Bony. He looks a player so let's hope we get him. If he can maintain that sort of scoring form and Michu continues to chip in, we could push towards sixth position next season.
Post is half a year old, let me dig up some new stuff for ya... Goals: [video=youtube;GRdXt-l4c2A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRdXt-l4c2A[/video] Random clip of Bony in the game against Heracles Almelo: [video=youtube;g9x-xrSVwpk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9x-xrSVwpk[/video]
Let's hope it happens. Surely a signing of this caliber would go a long way to heal recent tensions between Laudrup and the board. Also encouraging to see that a few other deals are possibly on the verge of being completed.
Swans will need to up their bid in order to sign Ivorian. Swansea City want to bring prolific Vitesse Arnhem front man Wilfried Bony to South Wales this summer, although the Swans are said to be unwilling to meet the Eredivisie club’s £10 million valuation of the player, reports the South Wales Evening Post. The in-demand Ivory Coast international has just enjoyed an eye-catching campaign in front of goal in the Netherlands, finding the back of the net on 36 occasions in just 37 matches in all competitions for Vitesse. Meanwhile, the 24-year-old has been firing in the goals ever since he moved to Vitesse from Sparta Prague in Jan 2011, netting an impressive 52 strikes in only 71 games for his club in that time. However, Bony’s employers are insisting that any potential suitor pays £10m for the Ivorian and with the likes of fellow Premier League outfits Everton and Newcastle United, as well as mega-rich Russian giants Anzhi Makhachkala, all also said to be keen on landing the forward this summer, Swansea look like missing out on their number one striking target unless their find the cash to do a deal.
Surely if they were considering 7million for JDG they can go that extra mile for this lad. Quality costs Huw and that is what we need this season, not quantity.
Even more pertinent, Valley, is that we were prepared to pay circa £8 million for Siggy when we had less money and no European football to prepare for. What galls me is when I read us pleading poverty despite the fact that we've got a like-for-like £5 million in hand plus some wages from the sale of Danny Graham. We didn't replace him, so any transfer fee we pay for a striker will be discounted by at least that amount. ie effectively, if Bony's transfer fee is £10 million, we are really only paying a little less than £5 million. Crazy to miss out on desperately needed quality for that sort of money. If Huw has decided just to swallow Danny's fee into the club then Michael Laudrup has every reason to feel aggrieved. I certainly would.
Spot on ivor. Also have to take into account the 15million for Joe, 7million for Sinclair plus the 6-7 million for Rodgers and his staff. If you combine that with the 5million for DG that makes 33million from previous transfers alone so we have got the money to spend without harming the clubs finances. Hope we manage to pull this deal off.
