Here's what you could have won...........

[rog of the rovers]

A quick look at where some of our summer targets are now, and how they are getting on.

Pablo Piati - Valencia CF - 14 games 0 goals 1 assist

Dame N'Doye - FC Cogenhagen - Danish League on winter break

Keisuke Honda - CSKA Moscow - 21 games 7 goals 3 assists

Pablo Miranda - Club Deportivo (Argentina) - 4 games 0 goals/assists

Ciprian Marica - Schalke 04 - 13 games 0 goals 1 assist

Mirko Vucinic - Juventus - 9 games 2 goals 5 assists

Mariano Pavone - Athletico Lanus (Argentina) - 9 games 3 goals 0 assists

Cedric Mongongu - FC Evian - 3 games 1 goal 0 assists

Sol Bamba - Leicester City - 16 games 0 goals/assists

Vierinha - PAOK - 18 games 7 goals 4 assists

Papiss Demba Cisse - Freiburg - 13 games 8 goals 3 assists

Axel Witsel - Benfica - 20 games 2 goals 3 assists

Mounir El-Hamadoui - Ajax - 0 games/goals/assists - fallen out with Ajax manager Frank de Boer

Jermaine Jones - Schalke 04 - 11 games 0 goals 1 assist

Raul - Schalke 04 - 20 games 8 goals 8 assists

Aleksandr Anyukov - Zenit St Petersburg - 3 games in the Champions League - Season closed for winter

Vedad Ibisevic - Hoffenheim - Returned from injury - 5 games 3 goals 0 assists

[DE.]

A quick look at where some of our summer targets are now, and how they are getting on.

Pablo Piati - Valencia CF - 14 games 0 goals 1 assist

Dame N'Doye - FC Cogenhagen - Danish League on winter break

Keisuke Honda - CSKA Moscow - 21 games 7 goals 3 assists

Pablo Miranda - Club Deportivo (Argentina) - 4 games 0 goals/assists

Ciprian Marica - Schalke 04 - 13 games 0 goals 1 assist

Mirko Vucinic - Juventus - 9 games 2 goals 5 assists

Mariano Pavone - Athletico Lanus (Argentina) - 9 games 3 goals 0 assists

Cedric Mongongu - FC Evian - 3 games 1 goal 0 assists

Sol Bamba - Leicester City - 16 games 0 goals/assists

Vierinha - PAOK - 18 games 7 goals 4 assists

Papiss Demba Cisse - Freiburg - 13 games 8 goals 3 assists

Axel Witsel - Benfica - 20 games 2 goals 3 assists

Mounir El-Hamadoui - Ajax - 0 games/goals/assists - fallen out with Ajax manager Frank de Boer

Jermaine Jones - Schalke 04 - 11 games 0 goals 1 assist

Raul - Schalke 04 - 20 games 8 goals 8 assists

Aleksandr Anyukov - Zenit St Petersburg - 3 games in the Champions League - Season closed for winter

Vedad Ibisevic - Hoffenheim - Returned from injury - 5 games 3 goals 0 assists

Piatti hasn't done as well as I thought he would, was watching the la liga show on sky sports the other day and they commented how he hadn't really done much yet.

Vierinha looking good but difficult to judge in a league of that standard. Would have liked him here. Witsel is the one on that list I most regret missing out on, think he would have made a huge difference this year. Cisse doing well, also

[AJW]

Nice review , tbh honest the 3 players that excited me the most over the summer window was cisse , veirinha and witsel whether they were genuine transfer targets or pie in the sky we'll never know - looks like we dodge a bullet with piatti tho

[Amo]

Should have been all over the Witsel deal. Venky's can't do anything right.

[oreilly]

A quick look at where some of our summer targets are now, and how they are getting on.

Pablo Piati - Valencia CF - 14 games 0 goals 1 assist

Dame N'Doye - FC Cogenhagen - Danish League on winter break

Keisuke Honda - CSKA Moscow - 21 games 7 goals 3 assists

Pablo Miranda - Club Deportivo (Argentina) - 4 games 0 goals/assists

Ciprian Marica - Schalke 04 - 13 games 0 goals 1 assist

Mirko Vucinic - Juventus - 9 games 2 goals 5 assists

Mariano Pavone - Athletico Lanus (Argentina) - 9 games 3 goals 0 assists

Cedric Mongongu - FC Evian - 3 games 1 goal 0 assists

Sol Bamba - Leicester City - 16 games 0 goals/assists

Vierinha - PAOK - 18 games 7 goals 4 assists

Papiss Demba Cisse - Freiburg - 13 games 8 goals 3 assists

Axel Witsel - Benfica - 20 games 2 goals 3 assists

Mounir El-Hamadoui - Ajax - 0 games/goals/assists - fallen out with Ajax manager Frank de Boer

Jermaine Jones - Schalke 04 - 11 games 0 goals 1 assist

Raul - Schalke 04 - 20 games 8 goals 8 assists

Aleksandr Anyukov - Zenit St Petersburg - 3 games in the Champions League - Season closed for winter

Vedad Ibisevic - Hoffenheim - Returned from injury - 5 games 3 goals 0 assists

we have missed on some seriously good players there. Witsel has been playing brilliantly and is at a higher standard to anything that we currently have.

Cisse is banging the goals in in germany but his team are second last in the table i think.

Vierinha, i watched him play a coup,e of games this season and he looks a class apart from everything else and would walk in to our team.

Anyukov, was never going to leave zenit for us, he is skipper there and en route to a league title and last 16 in europe

Piata must be something right he is playing in a team in 3rd spot of La Liga ffs!!

basically any of them players on that list would improve out team.

ie bad transfer from us last summer

[LeChuck]

If Spurs give us £9 million for Hoilett then I hope we go back for Vierinha, it sounds like he could bring goals and creativity from the very position Hoilett occupies right now.

[bob fleming]

A quick look at where some of our summer targets are now, and how they are getting on.

Pablo Piati - Valencia CF - 14 games 0 goals 1 assist

Dame N'Doye - FC Cogenhagen - Danish League on winter break

Keisuke Honda - CSKA Moscow - 21 games 7 goals 3 assists

Pablo Miranda - Club Deportivo (Argentina) - 4 games 0 goals/assists

Ciprian Marica - Schalke 04 - 13 games 0 goals 1 assist

Mirko Vucinic - Juventus - 9 games 2 goals 5 assists

Mariano Pavone - Athletico Lanus (Argentina) - 9 games 3 goals 0 assists

Cedric Mongongu - FC Evian - 3 games 1 goal 0 assists

Sol Bamba - Leicester City - 16 games 0 goals/assists

Vierinha - PAOK - 18 games 7 goals 4 assists

Papiss Demba Cisse - Freiburg - 13 games 8 goals 3 assists

Axel Witsel - Benfica - 20 games 2 goals 3 assists

Mounir El-Hamadoui - Ajax - 0 games/goals/assists - fallen out with Ajax manager Frank de Boer

Jermaine Jones - Schalke 04 - 11 games 0 goals 1 assist

Raul - Schalke 04 - 20 games 8 goals 8 assists

Aleksandr Anyukov - Zenit St Petersburg - 3 games in the Champions League - Season closed for winter

Vedad Ibisevic - Hoffenheim - Returned from injury - 5 games 3 goals 0 assists

Good work Rog...

There were some others (and duplicated) in the list below.

Vedad Ibisevic (Hoffenheim)

George John (FC Dallas)

Mounir El Hamdaoui (Ajax)

Luca Toni (Juventus)

Danny Wilson (Liverpool)

Zach Loyd (FC Dallas)

Ki Sung-Yong (Celtic)

Liam Ridgewell (Birmingham)

Omri Kende (Hapoel Tel Aviv)

Steven Davis (Rangers)

Georgios Samaras (Celtic)

Vincenzo Iaquinta (Juventus)

Mateus (Nacional)

Luke Wilkshire (Dynamo Moscow)

Andy Wilkinson (Stoke)

Sol Bamba (Leicester)

James McFadden (free agent)

Darron Gibson (Manchester United)

Raul (Schalke)

Damian Petcoff (Real Betis)

Keisuke Honda (CSKA Moscow)

Vieirinha (PAOK)

Inaki Aguirre (Atletico Madrid)

Thomas Kahlenberg (Wolfsburg)

Sebastien Bassong (Tottenham)

Jermain Defoe (Tottenham)

James McCarthy (Wigan)

Dame N'Doye (FC Copenhagen)

Bostjan Cesar (Chievo)

Wayne Bridge (Manchester City)

Fernando Marques (Parma)

Luis Fabiano (Sao Paulo)

Joleon Lescott (Manchester City)

Hernan Perez (Villarreal)

Jonny Evans (Manchester United)

Nedum Onuoha (Manchester City)

Cedric Mongongu (Monaco)

Javi Marquez (Espanyol)

Salomon Rondon (Malaga)

Maurice Edu (Rangers)

Fraser Fyvie (Aberdeen)

Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus)

Scott Sinclair (Swansea)

Roman Shishkin (Lokomotiv Moscow)

Aleksandr Anyukov (Zenit St Petersburg)

Diego Novaretti (Toluca)

Papiss Cisse (Freiburg)

James Collins (Aston Villa)

Miguel Torres (Getafe)

Adam Barton (Preston)

Amauri (Juventus)

Oscar Cardozo (Benfica)

Leandro Damiao (Internacional)

Nacho Novo (Sporting Gijon)

Daniele Portanova (Bologna)

Danny Welbeck (Manchester United)

Federico Macheda (Manchester United)

Jermaine Jones (Schalke)

Mame Biram Diouf (Manchester United)

Stephen Warnock (Aston Villa)

Serge Aurier (Lens)

Andre-Pierre Gignac (Marseille)

Ciprian Marica (Schalke)

Seb Larsson (Sunderland)

Nicolas N'Koulou (Marseille)

Pablo Piatti (Valencia)

Joao Miranda (Atletico Madrid)

Roger Johnson (Wolves)

Matt Mills (Leicester)

Wes Brown (Sunderland)

Axel Witsel (Benfica)

Ronald Vargas (Anderlecht)

Srdjan Lakic (Wolfsburg)

Carlos Bocanegra (Rangers)

Dedryck Boyata (Bolton, loan)

Vicente Rodriguez (Brighton)

Emmanuel Adebayor (Tottenham, loan)

Steed Malbranque (St Etienne)

Roque Santa Cruz (Real Betis, loan)

Joe Cole (Lille, loan)

Ireneusz Jelen (Lille)

Nicklas Bendtner (Sunderland, loan)

Robbie Keane (LA Galaxy)

Emmanuel Eboue (Galatasaray)

Craig Bellamy (Liverpool)

Tony Warner (Wellington Phoenix)

Nelson Haedo Valdez (Rubin Kazan)

Alexander Gerndt (Utrecht)

Thomas Hitzlsperger (Wolfsburg)

Mariano Pavone (Lanus)

Mirko Vucinic (Juventus)

Jorge Ribeiro (Granada)

Pablo Osvaldo (Roma)

Jimmy Bullard (Ipswich)

David Bentley (West Ham, loan)

Pedro Leon (Getafe, loan)

Mohamed Bangura (Celtic)

David Ngog (Bolton)

Henri Lansbury (West Ham, loan)

James Beattie (released by Rangers)

Taken from the LT

Almost like we didn't know what we were doing...

[booth]

Should have signed Witsel, Cisse and Raul

[davulsukur]

Good post. Witsel i think is the one i think most of us would have wanted. Cisse certainly seems to have continued his good form.

Honda was a dream signing, would have never come off.

[Mafioso]

Almost like we didn't know what we were doing...

When you see names like Beattie, Diouf and Nacho Novo on the same list of targets as Raul, Joe Cole, Gignac, Cisse and Witsel, I think its pretty certain we didnt know what we were doing!

[joey_big_nose]

If Spurs give us £9 million for Hoilett then I hope we go back for Vierinha, it sounds like he could bring goals and creativity from the very position Hoilett occupies right now.

I second this. We should go back in once he goes. Although I suppose the other side of the coin is we have Vukcevic who hasn't got a proper game yet. I imagine he will walk straight into the Hoilett role. He is a decent player.

Witsel and Ba were clearly the two singings who could have transformed our side. However you do have to wonder if Witsel would really have fancied us compared to an established CL side.

[Brfcrule1]

I think the players that would have transformed our side from that list

Veirinha,Witsel,Jermaine Jones,Defoe,Raul & Cisse

I would also not mind Ibisevic providing he is over his injury the one I am particularly mad about is Cisse his record in Germany is phenomenal and his goals alone would ensure we would be nowhere near where we are I only wish Venkys would have paid the 8M for him as it would surely have paid off.

[Drover]

Gutted looking at this list, most of all because Witsel is on it. Would have been an incredible signing. Not that we'll ever know but the people itk on here seemed to think the deal was there to be done for him, Venkys just made a hash of it.

I agree with the above that Vierinha would still be a great signing however I think it should only be if Hoillet leaves in Jan as an attacking midfielder isn't what we need right now, way too many of those floating around

[bluebruce]

I think the players that would have transformed our side from that list

Veirinha,Witsel,Jermaine Jones,Defoe,Raul & Cisse

I would also not mind Ibisevic providing he is over his injury the one I am particularly mad about is Cisse his record in Germany is phenomenal and his goals alone would ensure we would be nowhere near where we are I only wish Venkys would have paid the 8M for him as it would surely have paid off.

Didn't they want 12 million?

Gutted, as I was at the time, to miss out on Witsel.

[malk]

One little point on the Cisse/Ibisevic front...

Yakubu Aiyegbeni - Blackburn Rovers - 9 (league) games 0 goals 0 assists.

Witsel would have been great and Jones would have been bloody good as well. Vierinha I haven't seen but the numbers look nice. Hindsight is 20-20 though.

[bluebruce]

Umm, I think you want to double check those stats.