VillaChris

No chance of Hart leaving City.

I agree.

Given won't make the start of the season so Hart will be number one and it will be his shirt to lose.

Much rather have Onouha than Richards as he's simply a better defender.

I would do the deal at 15m + Onouha + Ireland so 30m package in total.

Carew only has 1 year left on his deal which complicates things.

Rather have him than Heskey as you know which out of the two will comfortably reach double figures goals wise.

I know it's unlikely, but would it be good or bad news if Jimmy didn't make England's 23?

Bad surely?!

Man. City won't suddenly just drop interest if he dosen't make the cut whereas if he's in and has some good games that will obviously add a bit more to his price.

As ever it will come down to what the player wants. It didn't with Barry initially but the difference was that the club that wanted him couldn't afford the fee we were demanding and we know Man. City won't have any trouble doing that.

I put Rodwell in the same bracket as players like Wilshere, the Fonz, Ramsey, Collison and Jordon Henderson.

If they live up to their promise these will be the best british players in 5 years time with Wilshere imo the pick of the bunch.

Still don't quite see the fuss over Rodwell.

Decent prospect, no more.

Heskey +20 mill for Bent.

Or £15 million straight

We'd do well to get our money back on Heskey.

And Sunderland signed Bent for 14m and he's had a brilliant season for them. They don't have to sell so 20m + would be needed.

We really should've signed him last season.

Heard rumours (nothing to back this up, pure rumour) that Everton and Fulham are looking at Scott Dann.

Not heard that one at all, but hes a local lad...Wont be first choice though as we've already had a bid rejected for that top defensive target, Jan Vertonghen, I expect us to go back with a second offer though.

Don't recognise the name, who's he play for?

One of the papers today estimated Heskey's weekly wage at 50k.

What was even more bonkers was us giving him a 3 and a half year deal when he signed so we could quite easily endure him for another two seasons given his age. :shock: :cry:

In principle I think you are correct. However, whats 30m nowadays. Wouldn't even get you Jack Rodwell and Carlton Cole (on the selling clubs valuations that is).

If you get 100million for Ronaldo - then 100m can do some serious damage, or 70m for Torres.

But 30m will get us 2 decent players, we couldn't overhaul our squad with it.

Add in an extra 10-15m from fringe players being sold aswell though.

And if you scout properly, you can make a difference with that money.

Yorke came and went as did Barry and we still had a good season last year.

I am not sure in the case of Yorke we ever quite got over his loss; looking back the money never really replaced him.

We signed Merson and Dublin from his sale.

We were top of the league for half that season aswell before yet again not strengthening in that january.

The following season we finished top 6 again, reached the league cup semis and the FA cup final so similar to last season.

Someone like Yorke might've made the difference but we still made a decent fist of it without him, just didn't again strengthen for the second half of that season.

If we do let Milner go, and at the moment I think its a possibility, then what sort of message will that send to the other players.

Will they think that we are not serious about progressing any further and are happy to see our best players leave. Cant imagine it will do much for the morale of the rest of the squad

Well, of course not, no-one wants to lose one of our best players.

But that's football, isn't it? Whoever you are. Manchester United lost Ronaldo last summer, Arsenal might lose Fabregas to Barca this summer. The question is what you do afterwards. Spurs lost Carrick and Berbatov to United but have still built and got fourth.

Hope he stays though. But if not, good luck to him, as I'm sure he'll leave in "the right way", and the club will go on.

Same for me.

I'd take 20m cash and Onouha and Ireland.

Onouha would nicely beef up the defence, Ireland would give the midfield some much needed creativity and together with sales, we'd still have 35m to find a top striker and another central midfielder.

Important to not be so melodramatic about this, Milner is a very good player but they all come and go, Yorke came and went as did Barry and we still had a good season last year.

Muamba isn't as good as NRC imo.

Tbh I've given up on even suggesting foreign players as we know MON won't go down that route.

Rodallega, Benayoun, Ireland, Bellamy, Dorrans and Onouha are all realistic for us I'd say so I'd expect a couple of signings out of that lot plus a surprise or two like James Collins last summer.

Yeah it's a decent pick up.

I'd still expect Klasnic and Davies to be the regular front two and Dindane to be played out wide a bit.

Wigan wouldn't get more.

I'd be happy paying 8-10m for him, nothing more.

Klasnic is much better than Dindane.

Eboue and Anderson?!!

Yeah I think Arsenal need a nonsense english centre half in there alongside Vermaelen. Might aswell go for a thou shalt not pass combination. Jagielka, Cahill have both been linked recent and fit the bill as does Shawcro...........only joking!

Interesting that Wilshere has done very well playing for Bolton in central midfield. Maybe a bit too early to be talking about him as a Cesc replacement but that's a long term option.

Arshavin when on form is very good.

If City offered us Needum Onouha and Stephen Ireland + £15 Million. I'd take it personally. Good replacement aswell as another very good defender who can play RB and CB. Plus if that £15 Million is spent on a very good striker than it's a good deal.

I wouldn't do just cash only though.

Same for me.

Milner is excellent and would be a shame to lose him but he's still very green as a central midfield so 25-30m would be fantastic business or those players with still a bit of money.

We did well off them last summer with Dunney so no reason we shouldn't be negative with any players coming in part exchange.

Spurs have shown you can lose key players and still challenge, we lost Barry and Laursen and still challenged on three fronts.

I still think Milner will stay another season unless Man. City put in a ridiculous offer we just have to accept.

I wanted Sturridge last summer but he took the money. If he wants to get his career back on track, then worth a try.

Yeah things have really gone wrong for him since winning the Premier League and FA Cup, getting CL experience and working with some of the best players and coaches in the game while picking up huge wages. Poor kid his career has gone right off track.

Before someone replies saying "but he isn't a regular" well he wasn't at Man City either so his career hasn't diviated from its course or gone off track he has just improved his surroundings, wealth and CV.

In time he might have to move for first team football but that time hasn't arrived for him yet. Besides moving for first team football doesn't carry any guarentee, just ask Sidwell.

Did he actually play in enough prem games to get a medal, think it's ten.

I wanted Sturridge last summer but he took the money. If he wants to get his career back on track, then worth a try.

When did he last score for Norn Iron? Must have been a while ago!

And there concludes the least competitive la liga in recent seasons (save for Atletico v Sevilla cup final on wednesday night).

Imagine not winning a league yet finishing on 96 points?! Mental.

Oh Lille missed out? They were 2nd going into the last games so assumed they were already in.

Let's hope Spurs draw Sevilla or Porto then.

Yep, amazing goal that was by Aitor.

Happy Sevilla finished 4th, they're a much better team to stop Spurs getting in than Mallorca.

Did Lyon finish in the qualifying places in France aswell?