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TBF he was just replying to someone who had asked " Hi Alan how Ayew?" No he wasn't, someone asked him about Ayew...so he twisted the tweet. @pontuslarsson81: @reluctantnicko what about ayew Alan ? @reluctantnicko: @pontuslarsson81 I'm very well. How ayew? The conversation is still going on. Talks about us passing on Chery because we knew we'd have the Benteke money to get better/he tweeted about a mystery striker a day or two ago we were in for. Sorry misread.Anyway Hopefully we can do better than Ayew and Ade.

TBF he was just replying to someone who had asked " Hi Alan how Ayew?"

From the videos on youtube a lot of his goals were A) penalties and B ) scored on a plastic pitch. Its a lot different playing on an AstroTurf surface. Suits some players doesn't others.

His Scoring record is poor enough.

Yes but at the same time over 10% of our league fixtures will have been played in that time frame so surely the £2m extra would be worth the expense if it helped keep us up? Unfortunately we are not in a position to be gambling like this. Bums on seats now, no matter the extra cost! The fans want everything yesterday and the club wants value for money . Somebody is going to be unhappy... Nothing to do with what the fans want for me, each position in the league is worth now nearl £2m. Going in understrength to 4 games to save a few million would be a very poor idea financially.

Yes but at the same time over 10% of our league fixtures will have been played in that time frame so surely the £2m extra would be worth the expense if it helped keep us up? Our first game is still some time away too. Just over 2 weeks, ideally any player to be playing in the opening fixture would want to be signed in the next 7-8 days.

Yes but at the same time over 10% of our league fixtures will have been played in that time frame so surely the £2m extra would be worth the expense if it helped keep us up?

Richard said this on Tuesday (the day before yesterday) so I cant believe we have so many people already writing it off saying he was way off the mark. Since he said it our best player has left and hopefully provided us with £30m+ in the kitty. With 5 days left on his prediction I would expect some signings in. Whichever way you look at it, its already a huge week for the club. I may have missed this but where and on what thread has this happened?

Only 3 days left in this week so the club better get the finger out.

Adebayor Oulare and one other (£6m-£7m player) and our team will not be improved from last season which wouldbbe disappointing. Not saying Nixon knows all our targets BTW . I'm sure he doesn't.

Sounds like nothing is too close at the moment .

Imo, we've probably already spent half of the money we've made from selling players. Out Sylla £1m Lowton £1m Andi £2.5m Delph £8m Out £12.5m In Amavi £8m Gueye £7m Sinclair £2.5m In: £17.5m £5m spent Sale of Benteke minus Genks £3.75m = £28.75. Take the £5m already spent and we still have £23.75m to spend without any outlay from Lerner.

Don’t Man City already pay the greater sum of his wages? Perhaps that’s why they’d hold out for a few quid. Not since the end of last season.

I thought Darder signed a contract extension a few days ago? That was an old article from November last year doing the rounds .

You sure? Looks like someone took it on their phone to me.

I've never been so uninspired watching a fella score 20 goals . Defending was awful in most. Every time he dribbled with the ball it seemed to bobble off a shin or knee. Even his assists were usually misplaced behind or in front of the player where they had to change their run completely to recover the chance.

Agree with this .Would have no problem with the sale if we bought a better number one but as it stands he's the best keeper at the club. Would like to think we could get closer to £5m for him as well if we did sell.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3167055/Brad-Guzan-available-3m-mass-exodus-Aston-Villa-continues.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 Don't get why we are so determined to be rid of him, surely even as a number 2?! Got to be more to it than just "that" mistake. Not saying there is any truth to that article but maybe Guzan has been told we are looking for a new number 1. He doesn't fancy being a second choice after finally making no.1 with the USA or the club think £3m and his wages off the bill would be good business as they would be happy with Bunn to do the job of no.2 for much less wages?

I think it's more Valencia have an option to buy him back at a certain price? Or am I imagining that? That could be the case but the release clause was also there as I remember Everton were linked to him a year earlier and were set to trigger the release clause. Never happened obviously.

I think Gil had and £8m release clause when we signed him. Release clauses in Spain mean very little and are usually much much higher than the players worth . something we should look into in the future

Oh I really hope not . this would be the absolute worst case scenario(Barr signing no one) for me . If we bought an up and coming player and loaned Adebayor for the season I could live with it but the other way round doesn't bare thinking about. Next summer we would be in the complete sh**house.

What a roller coaster . delph going (down) , Guyue signing (up), Delph staying(massive up) Benteke going( massive down) , Delph Going (massive down after his comments) ,Amavi signing (huge lift) , Adebayor (down) I know Adebayor is only speculation. But it's one hell of a ride the last 7-8 days.

The slight worry I have is that we would lack height . If we signed Darder and Praet. We could be playing with a first 11 that only one of the outfield players is over 6 foot. Might not be too big an issue but it wouldn't bode too well for set pieces.

Sign up Ake if for nothing more than his hairstyle.

We can rule Embolo out if that is true .