Summer 2014 Transfers Mega-thread

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SuffolkCanary said:
According to the Scottish press we are looking at Mark Wotte for the technical directors job. Anyone hears or know anything about him?

He's the SFA performance director as far as I know.

Not sure if anyone else had mentioned this, but I couldn't be bothered to trawl through all the threads.
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Just based on wikipedia, he appears to have been just about everywhere (Holland, Egypt, Romania, Qatar, Scotland, Southampton...) and has usually been involved with the development of young players. Makes sense if the club are serious about having an academy that can supply the club to bring in someone with experience of that I guess. Never stayed anywhere too long though, and held a variety of roles, so perhaps a bit of a jack of all trades?
 
The article mentions that Wotte's competition is Celtic Chief scout, John Park. I wonder if they've got there wires crossed and Park is actually a candidate for our director of recruitment position which have just become open. This would be a very good appointment as I believe he is extremely well thought of and has brought some excellent young players to Celtic
 
Bath-Canary said:
The article mentions that Wotte's competition is Celtic Chief scout, John Park. I wonder if they've got there wires crossed and Park is actually a candidate for our director of recruitment position which have just become open. This would be a very good appointment as I believe he is extremely well thought of and has brought some excellent young players to Celtic
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Any chance he already knows McNally too, which might help somewhat?

I can't shake the feeling that McNally is trying desperately to build something good with us, but Delia and co keep trying to tear it all back down.

I trust the DM about as far as I could throw the hack behind the article, so not convinced there's anything in the Hooper rumours. QPR wanted him last season so that's not a surprising link.
 
Drunky said:
Hearing on twitter we're putting a bid in for Rhodes. Shame about Hooper, really hope he stays.
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Ambitious if true but he'd cost a fortune. Presumably they'll want to make a profit on the £8 Million they paid for him. Do we have that kind of money?
 
I think it'd be difficult to prise Jordan Rhodes away from Blackburn unless he's frustrated by their failure to make the play-offs the last two years. He's just the sort of proven goal-scorer City need though.
 
so jordan rhodes' name crops up just as ewan chester is about to leave. i know for sure that he and his network didn't rate rhodes at all. interesting shift if true but i'd be very surprised if he came here. relegation makes him a more sensible signing for our level but equally makes him less likely to join.
 
I'd say that Hooper and Rhodes both bring similar things to the table, so I doubt if we'd be interested in Rhodes unless Hooper is on his way out, and then even if we are interested I doubt whether we'll be signing him anyway as others have said.

Bit of an interesting one, but does anyone know if Elmander is out of contract with Galatasary? If he is, then I personally think we could do a lot worse and reckon he we might be able to tempt him at this stage of his career even though we have dropped down a division - the Championship is something like the 4/5th best supported league in Europe.
 
I'd be happy to see Elmander come back again and Adams obviously rates him. No questioning his commitment to the cause and he'd be a handful in the Championship.

What is Becchio's contract situation now? He could also make an impact next season.
 
Tony_Munky_Canary said:
I'd say that Hooper and Rhodes both bring similar things to the table, so I doubt if we'd be interested in Rhodes unless Hooper is on his way out, and then even if we are interested I doubt whether we'll be signing him anyway as others have said.

Bit of an interesting one, but does anyone know if Elmander is out of contract with Galatasary? If he is, then I personally think we could do a lot worse and reckon he we might be able to tempt him at this stage of his career even though we have dropped down a division - the Championship is something like the 4/5th best supported league in Europe.
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I'd be against that. We desperately need to shake things up, not keep everything the same as last year.
 
http://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/..._next_season_according_to_joe_royle_1_3626439

Norwich City have their wish lists for next season, according to Joe Royle

“I’ve had talks with Neil and (chief executive) David McNally last week and we were going through names,”

“We’ve been right through the whole playing staff, have realistically drawn up a list of who might be with Norwich next year, who hopefully will be with Norwich next year and who won’t be with Norwich next year.”
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Off the back of that statement from Royle, here's what I'd say:

Will be at NCFC (hopefully)
Martin
Whittaker
Johnson
Howson
Bunn
Hoolahan
E.Bennett
Becchio
Redmond
R.Bennett
Loza
Jo.Murphy
Ja.Murphy
Rudd
Surman

Might be at NCFC
Ruddy
Turner
Snodgrass
RvW
Hooper
Pilkington
Garrido
Olsson
Tettey

Won't be at NCFC
Bassong
Fer
 
Becchio is a proven scorer in this league although where his head is at right now is anyone's guess. I'd rather keep him than invite Elmander back although Neeyul did seem to prefer Elmander to our other striking options for whatever reason that was.
 
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