[Archived] Venky's Summer Transfer List

[alexanders]

What happened to Pablo Daniel Osvaldo?

Have been scoring for fun at Espanyol and apparently we were interested.

Has Bellamy set the Championship on fire at Cardiff? What have Bentley done the last 2 years? Time to let go guys. We need youth full of energy instead of old carthorses to develop the club.

Oops. Just found out that Bentley is born in 84. Just called myself an old carthorse

[davulsukur]

Palacios aparantly on the transfer list at SPurs, would be an incredible signing for us.

If true, we should be all over that one. J. Jones, Palacios and N'zonzi would give us 3 really good options in midfield for the first time in god knows how many years

[alexanders]

If true, we should be all over that one. J. Jones, Palacios and N'zonzi would give us 3 really good options in midfield for the first time in god knows how many years

Agree.

[budha]

What happened to Pablo Daniel Osvaldo?

Have been scoring for fun at Espanyol and apparently we were interested.

He's been linked with bigger clubs recently, Spurs etc for £10M+.

[alexanders]

He's been linked with bigger clubs recently, Spurs etc for £10M+.

I see that and also Atletico Madrid and Sevilla.

[rovgers]

Sorry for the length.

That's what I say to all the girls I've been with!

[Bobby G]

Personally Id look at some of the relegated clubs for some of these players: Gardner, Roger Johnson, Scott Dann, Larsson (Brum), Vaughan (Blackpool), Upson, Noble, Hitzlesberger, Ba (West Ham).

One or two of those could be useful.

[Hughesy]

I would rather sign Demba Ba than Crouch….Crouch is so over-rated because of his height, yes he always scores against us but just look at his total goal tally for the season….

Premier league 10-11

Crouch – 34 apps, 4 goals, 6 assists (30 year old)

Ba – 12 apps, 7 goals, 0 assists (26 year old)

Id argue he’s better in the air too!

Chelsea willing to let Anelka go….he knows where the goal is!! Worth a look or not? Out of our range or not?

[Bobby G]

Anelka is too old, and too moody, and it could be an uphill struggle motivating him. I wouldnt go near him at the price Chelsea would arguably ask.

[Oklahoma]

What happened to Pablo Daniel Osvaldo?

Have been scoring for fun at Espanyol and apparently we were interested.

Has Bellamy set the Championship on fire at Cardiff? What have Bentley done the last 2 years? Time to let go guys. We need youth full of energy instead of old carthorses to develop the club.

Oops. Just found out that Bentley is born in 84. Just called myself an old carthorse

Osvaldo record this year:

26 games, 14 goals, 3 assists

Bellamy this year:

36 games, 11 goals, 14 assists

Both have good records this year. Bellamy could come on loan. For Osvaldo, there are more teams interested.

[Oklahoma]

The talk of players like:

Hulk, Falcao, Llorente etc. need to stop. They are targets for the likes of Real Madrid and at least double our total transfer budget. Oklahoma usually have a good knowledge about what happens in Portugal, so I was kind of hoping he could say - enough of the silly stuff and suggest more realistic targets....

Hulk is completely impossible for two reasons: FC Porto don't want to sell and his release clause is €100 million (irrealistic, I know).

Falcão is slightly possible because he has a lower release clause. If I had the financial support to buy him, I would. But it would have to be Venky's marquee signing.

Lorente I have no idea.

Cardozo is transfer listed and, although Benfica are trying to sell him for €25 million, he will leave for less than that.

I understand why people talk of some expensive players, if we want to upgrade the quality of our players, we will have to spend or we will have to get better scouts...

[Kenwoo]

Niko Kranjcar was crying out to be signed in January and would be an unbelievable addition to the side, especially if we're going to be playing one up top. If we can't get J Jones for the right price, I think a swap deal for Samba (who wants to go) for Kranjcar and Palacios would be perfect, adding some real quality to the starting XI. The key to next season is obviously trying to maintain what we have but with more goals. I think we should do our upmost to sign Sturridge who I believe could be a 20 goal a season man. He seems to have sorted his attitude out at Bolton and if we got rid of RSC, we could easily offer higher wages than Bolton.

I think Samba will go and we'd need someone with his aerial presence to fill the gap, which will be nigh on impossible. Outside the top 4 there aren't many centre backs who can do what he does, save Brede Hangeland. Scott Dann at Birmingham would be an excellent alternative were Samba to go, although I believe Liverpool and Arsenal might be after him.

I doubt any of us on here will get our wishes as to who will be signed. I'd imagine Anderson and SEM will still play a role in the transfers and will be skimming a hefty cream off the top. Hopefully Venkys have got this idea of a 'marquee signing' out of their heads.

Sturridge, Kranjcar and Palacios/J Jones would make for a very exciting 11/12, however I doubt we'd go for any of them.

[RibbleValleyRover]

On the right back situation we do have Emerton who is a solid enough right back (a bit susceptible in the air) plus there is the young lad Ramm who I believe is highly rated by those that do follow the youth setup more closely. Not sure this is a priority area right now.

The priority areas for me are:

Strikers- The only one I can definitely see staying another season is Roberts because nobody else wants a 5 goal a season striker on his wages and at his age. Benjani might not get a new contract, Roque might go back to City (Kean by all accounts does want to sign him which is quite frankly bizarre) Kalinic I think will be off after being dropped after scoring goals and will want to play more at another club. I suspect the relationship has completely broken down between him and Kean.

Central Midfield- The only current central midfielders I would like us to keep are N'Zonzi and Lowe. Pedersen, Dunny, Grella and Andrews should be sold if the opportunity is there to do so. Signing Jones will depend on the price, Kean foolishly said that he was a £10m player when he joined here and he has performed well which will drive up his price. If we can get him for less than £4m then I hope we can do a deal any higher and I wouldn't sign him.

We may have to look at other areas depending on player outgoings but these are the two areas which for me deserve the most attention and ones which the budget needs to be spent on.

[Majiball]

If true, we should be all over that one. J. Jones, Palacios and N'zonzi would give us 3 really good options in midfield for the first time in god knows how many years

We don't need both J Jones and Palacios, one or the other and preferably Jones as his pace in the middle has made a big big difference. Signing a spuds player just helps them out, something I'd rather not do.

Other than that as J jones is more of a sitter, we need a ball player. I don't see Adam being linked with 'big club' anymore, he'd be a great shout. There's a young croatian Bedjale??? or some such he's looking very good - Milan Badelj he might even help Kalinic out as I can't see us shifting him for decent money. United were linked to the young midfielder for about 9M, realistic and looks a real player.

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[Fraserkirky]

We don't need both J Jones and Palacios, one or the other and preferably Jones as his pace in the middle has made a big big difference. Signing a spuds player just helps them out, something I'd rather not do.

Other than that as J jones is more of a sitter, we need a ball player. I don't see Adam being linked with 'big club' anymore, he'd be a great shout. There's a young croatian Bedjale??? or some such he's looking very good - Milan Badelj he might even help Kalinic out as I can't see us shifting him for decent money. United were linked to the young midfielder for about 9M, realistic and looks a real player.

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If we play a 4-5-1 we need two solid tough tackling centre midfielders. I rate Palacios very highly, an excellent passer and one of the best tacklers in the league in my opinion. Another victim of Spuds and their mass transfer influxes over years, however still managed 21 games last year. Not sure I would class signing a player of his quality helping spurs out.

By the way that Badelji guy is amazing, wouldnt mind him either.

[davulsukur]

I have never seen JJ as a holding or sitting midfielder as people make him out to be, he is a high energy, box to box, ball winning midfielder. When partnered with a more defensive player such as the fonz he worked really well alongside.

We need 2 centre mids in the summer, JJ will hopefully be one. We cannot go into next season with:

Starters: JJ, Fonz

Injury prone: Grella, Dunn

Un natural: Emerton, Peds (its not either of their natural positions)

Young/Unproven: Lowe

Total Gash: Goulan, Andrews, Linganzi

As soon as injuries and suspensions kick in for either JJ or Fonzi we are sticking either rubbish players or makeshift players into centre mid.

[Rovermatt]

I don't see Adam being linked with 'big club' anymore, he'd be a great shout.

After the season he's had (relegation aside) Adam will most certainly be off to a big club. Spurs, Liverpool, even United will all be having a look. We haven't a chance of signing the guy.

[Majiball]

If we play a 4-5-1 we need two solid tough tackling centre midfielders. I rate Palacios very highly, an excellent passer and one of the best tacklers in the league in my opinion. Another victim of Spuds and their mass transfer influxes over years, however still managed 21 games last year. Not sure I would class signing a player of his quality helping spurs out.

By the way that Badelji guy is amazing, wouldnt mind him either.

Kean has really been playing 4-4-1-1, so for me if that's to work we need a sitter and a box to box player as Hoillet has the hole role. Palacios is a cracking player but signing him helps spurs and they as always will want stupid money for him, so I think we should look elsewhere..

Prob the same with the likes of Crouch etc.

Jermaine Jones maybe all action but he doesn't have the technical ability to play the box to box role. He has 0 goals, 0 assists here and about 17 goals in his whole career and he's 30, it's not enough to have drive and energy to be a box to box man you must be good at both attacking and defending and Jones can't attack.

We need creativity, Jones cannot provide that.

After the season he's had (relegation aside) Adam will most certainly be off to a big club. Spurs, Liverpool, even United will all be having a look. We haven't a chance of signing the guy.

Get in early and see what he says, he's talking about leaving and yet he's still there. Even Vaughan has gone already to Sunderland, no harm in asking and surely we can sign a blackpool player and can you seriously see him displacing some of United, spurs & pool's midfield?? He'd be a main stay here, not sure he'll get that at 'big club'.

[Kelbo]

For a box to box I liked Commons who went to Celtic from Derby, scores lots of goals too, O'hara would be a good call, really like him as a player, both those would cost peanuts in terms of central midfield players nowadays.

Theres a young lad at Leeds I like also, Johnny Howson but not sure how he would fair in the prem or if he would leave Leeds where he is skipper.

[davulsukur]

Jermaine Jones maybe all action but he doesn't have the technical ability to play the box to box role. He has 0 goals, 0 assists here and about 17 goals in his whole career and he's 30, it's not enough to have drive and energy to be a box to box man you must be good at both attacking and defending and Jones can't attack.

While i agree his attacking ability isn't up to much,if he had added goals and assists to his game on a regular basis throughout his career, he wouldn't be anywhere near Blackburn Rovers. I would expect more than 0 goals and 0 assists tho to be fair.

[joey_big_nose]

For a box to box I liked Commons who went to Celtic from Derby, scores lots of goals too, O'hara would be a good call, really like him as a player, both those would cost peanuts in terms of central midfield players nowadays.

Theres a young lad at Leeds I like also, Johnny Howson but not sure how he would fair in the prem or if he would leave Leeds where he is skipper.

O'hara is a good shout, but to be honest we do need experience at the moment. It's great having so many young players but having an old head in midfield would make sense.

I would sign Jones for anything under 4m. 30 but looks the Savage type who could keep on going till he is 33.

[John]

Was going to say the same, people seem to get extra turned on if they are a young player - however we appear to have plenty promising players but not enough established ones. Obviously a good mix of the two is preferable.

[rovgers]

Even Vaughan has gone already to Sunderland,

I'm not questioning you but I've not heard or read anything about this, I know he's said his future was uncertain but I didn't think it would happen so soon.

[Majiball]

While i agree his attacking ability isn't up to much,if he had added goals and assists to his game on a regular basis throughout his career, he wouldn't be anywhere near Blackburn Rovers. I would expect more than 0 goals and 0 assists tho to be fair.

I've watched Jones closely mainly because I described him as breath of fresh air when he arrived (they were a mates words who lives in Germany). Trouble is his passing is poor especially when he tries to be ambitious, but even then I see him hit plenty of passes, short ones that don't go where they need to. Against Wolves there were a couple of occasions when he tried to play the ball out wide for the runner. But the ball was always to feet or behind them, if your looking to really make use of the pace we have wide IE Junior and Olsson, we need better passers. A ball behind means the attack breaks down, the runner must check his run to collect the ball and those couple of seconds allow the opposition time to get back in position and then we have to start again.

I really want him to sign but make him sit in the main, play it short and simple and just keep things ticking over. His pace in that role would really allow us to use our full backs much more as an attacking force as well, especially if we can get a new Left back. Pace for me is key here for us as Salgado is not as quick as he used to be. Trouble is where does it leave N'zonzi - back-up to those two really and I think N'zonzi has some real potential as a sitter/ball winning midfielder.

I'm not questioning you but I've not heard or read anything about this, I know he's said his future was uncertain but I didn't think it would happen so soon.

When I wrote that it was based on this:

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But yet now newsnow has this:

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[B.R.F.C]

In my opinion a player we should be targetting is Lewis McGugan. The guy has carried Nottingham Forest this season with his performances and he is only 22. He has scored 13 goals from midfield and set up a good few more with his set piece delivery.

As for other prospective targets I'd quite like us to go for Palacios if he's available at a reasonable price and try and sign Jermaine Jones for under 3.5 million (given he's 30)

A random one to throw into the mix would be Lewis Holtby from Schalke. As is obvious from his name he has an English background (Liverpool specifically) and has been performing very well for Mainz on loan this year.

If Spurs came in for Samba by the way I'd be asking for cash plus Kyle Walker.

As for left back and up front there is plenty of talent out there to improve upon the lack of options we already have!

Wouldn't mind Warnock back and he'd be available on the cheap and Demba Ba.