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News Now has a report linking us with the man i've been raving about on these forums for a while, Sully Muntari, i don't know how true the link is but it's an article from a Ghana website so there might be something in it, i certainly hope there is because he's a top four midfielder in my opinion,

And again we are linked in the independent with the West Brom trio Kamara, Davies and Koumas, i think it's a genuwine link to be honest, Mon has been watching them for ages it seems.

Would like this to be true.

No surprise to me that the Baggies season has been up and mostly down since Davies got injured. Koumas and Kamara would act as strong squad players. I think Koumas is still vying for a move to Everton though. (He still lives in the Merseyside area). Kamara, for me, is a good player, full of pace, and could do us a good job down the left wing or upfront.

Muntari is class act, nothing needs to be said about him. He would be a 100% improvement on McCann.

^ I've heard that Madrid & Barca are both interested & i've heard figures from £10million to £20 million :shock:

Is this the same 'Zigic' Harry Redknapp took on trial at Pompy for a few days and decided he was 'too slow' for the premiership?!

We've seen some ridiculous suggestions for strikers on this thread, but I think we have a new winner.

WHY???

Because you have suggested one of the most ineffective strikers to ever play Premier League football?

Was just talking to a Man City fan about this fella yesterday, I actually felt quite sorry for Samaras as I felt Pearce played him on the wing. This is actually incorrect. Vassell plays on the wing alot more than Samaras.

It would be fair to say that Samaras is absolutely HATED by Cit-eh fans!

We can do SO much better. Ridiculous suggestion.

On a different issue though, looking at the OS latest headline, looks like MON will definitely be in the hunt for a striker!

Villa linked with Celtic player "SHOCKER" :roll:

Doesn't matter where there from when they have the abillity this guy has! So happy to see us linked with genuinely good players.

I can see your thinking on the matter, fair enough.

He spent 10 mill on Young though, and we were also in for SWP.

One things for sure, we have a seriously AMBITIOUS Chairman!

Our MOST MAJOR target, our NUMBER ONE has to be Darren Bent in my opinion. He and Carew would be the most formiddable strikeforce we have had in years, I honestly believe it would TRANSFORM our team!

Well, don't think Bent is gonna happen, looks more likely to be Bellamy...

Why won't Bent happen? 13million, he's ours!

With Carew being here, he could have a word with the likes of Kallstrom etc, tell them to come and talk to MON and Randy!

Our MOST MAJOR target, our NUMBER ONE has to be Darren Bent in my opinion. He and Carew would be the most formiddable strikeforce we have had in years, I honestly believe it would TRANSFORM our team!

In my opinion, we need two centre halves, a defensive midfielder and a top class striker.

Infact I'd say our whole defense is pants bar Laursen, Bouma and Bardsley. Laursen is always injured though. To be fair Bardsley has done well since he's come in and I'd like to see him sign permanently.

Martin O'Neill in my opinion has realised our defence is pants, thus why our midfielders have to play so deep to compensate them, E.g. Liverpool game, among many others. Against Blackburn he didn't play McCann and we had the arrival of Laursen, we looked so much better for it.

McCann is NOT good enough and we need a class defensive midfielder next to Petrov and for the rest of our midfield so they can go express themselves. Gareth Barry could be one to fall into this position?

A top class striker in the mold of Robbie Keane is needed to play next to John Carew. Bellamy would go down a treat as I don't think Keane will be available anymore after the last few months he's had at spurs. He's firmly first choice along with Berbatov.

I'd much rather Darren Bent.

I won't disagree with you there, the only questions are the price and if Mon actully wants him.

Who wouldn't want him?! Class!

Defense is our problem, I truly believe that.

The amount our midfield has to help out our defense is SHOCKING!!

Mellberg ain't good enough, 2 TOP centre half's is a MUST in the summer.

Javier Saviola!

Didn't we try for him in the summer? There was something in the paper yesterday about him considering moving to England at the end of the season.

I read it on the bbc gossip page.

Corradi?!

I would actually NEVER go to a game if he signed for us!

Anyone see us being interested in Bale?

I doubt it, he'll end up at Spurs or Manyoo. I watched him play against Preston the other night and was distinctly unimpressed anyway.

He has man u plastered all over him!

Spurs dont stand a chance!

Yeah, fergie was watching him the other day at Preston. Either him or Nugent ;-) lol.

Heinze's gonna be off and Evra is seen more as a left winger imo, so Bale would be a good signing for them. Shame really. Get Bale, Barton and Bent and we'd have a seriously shit hot looking side.

Anyone see us being interested in Bale?

Bellamy was class at the barcodes. Running off shearer's flick on's. I could see Carew and Bellamy causing all kinds of problems for defenses across the land!

Having said all that though, I'd prefer Darren Bent

Barton and Bellamy, get em' both in. They'd teach our 'quiet' boys a thing or two.

Those two players alone would strike a bit of fear into opposition sides, because they know they'll be in for a battle once they play us.

Pearce wants to keep him happy because he wants to sign him for his failing Manchester City side, haha!

Gotta be gravy! Us Northern boys love gravy.

lol.

I remember when talksport said on the last day of the summer window that 'according to their sources, jermaine defoe will be signing for villa by the end of the day'

they must be confident of signing soemone or they wouldnt post this repeatly on ths ite as it will get fans expectation level up and if no-one comes in then fans get annoyed as they feel they were misled

Maloney?

The fact that MON is hanging around doesn't indicate that he is waiting to finalise i deal to me.

It means its just an extra day of working things out, he cannot really do that on a coach to Scotland.

Working things out for what though?

That's the point.

He wouldn't stay unless he was quietly confident of something happening.

That's what I think anyway.

I think he'll be refering to the fact that Lee Hendrie has gone.

Some people are really touchy.

If that's not the case though, what are you talking about, and what's your source? lol

If we do great. But would rather wait for MON to get his prime targets in the summer rather than Plan C's now.

Yeah.

The summer is where all the REAL action is going to take place. I think our team is going to be pretty transformed by this time next year.

I'd go as far as saying that this time next year, we won't be looking at signings to bring in, such is the success of our summer signings, and they'll be plenty of them!

No chance.

The fact that MON is going up late to Newcastle tomorrow suggests to me that something is trying to be done.

You don't have to be a genius to figure that out.

It's whether the deal comes off or not, but MON hasn't given up.

They've probably just caught him for the first time today, and are going to publish what he says.

Standard stuff really.

We're still in for a 'few', that's for sure. It's whether they come to any success or not.

It'll just be stuff MON has said on the OS, 'a few' etc.