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Sunderland sign Collins and Warnock Hope this is true, even though the fee for both is low, that free's up a lot of wages for better players.

Sky Sports Have these quotes from Feyonoords technical director been posted? Do think we are taking the piss a bit, we either buy this player or don't. Feyenoord seem to have a good relationship with Villa, which I think would be wrong to ruin over this. They let the player come to see us without any hassle, so I believe we should make a decision now.

Agree with the quotes from Koeman, we are not going about this the right way at all. It is as if we've totally forgotten this is another team's player and that they should wait until we sell someone to fund this player. They gave permission for him to come to Villa and talk without a fee, so we should either pay up soon or just leave this deal alone.

So where have you seen dunne pre season ? Last night??? Yup. I am a Dunne fan but he really looked off the pace at Philly. Hopefully its just the heat. But yeah, he got caught out pretty bad in that one run for sure. He looked off the pace all through the Euro's too. Makes far too many silly and costly mistakes Dunne and he's not getting any younger. If we can offload him I would, much rather keep Collins. However I do feel we have to get rid of one, and Collins because of his age looks the more saleable.

This commentary is terrible, if someone phoned me up on this line I'd put the phone down.

Douglas of Twente, £3.1m bid made by Newcastle according to Sky. Surely worth a cheeky little bid from us too if he is going anything close to that price. Though I suspect signing Vlaar and Douglas is asking too much, would probably need both Dunne and Collins to go for that to happen.

Not to get in a heated argument or to baost one academy is indeed bigger than the other but allow me this question: how many Feyenoord academy graduates are currently playing in arguably one of the best leagues in the world? Barry, Cahill, Sturridge, Agbonlahor, Clark, Albrighton, Weimann, Bannan, Herd, Craig and Gary Gardner to name just a few. Here is a small list from players in the top leagues in the world (I may have forgotten a few). If you would ask me to make a new list in 5 years...it would be so much longer. Robin van Persie (Arsenal) Salomon Kalou (Just joined Lille from Chelsea) Royston Drenthe (On loan at Everton last season from Real Madrid) Luc Castaignos (Inter Milan) Jeffrey Bruma (On loan to HSV from Chelsea) Glenn Loovens (Real Zaragoza) Jonathan de Guzman (Just moved on loan to Swansea from Villarreal) Gerson Magrao (Santos) Karim Rekik (Manchester City) Nathan Ake (Chelsea) Dominic Adiyiah (AC Milan) Kyle Ebecilio (Arsenal) Moestafa el Kabir (Cagliari) Ronnie Stam (Wigan) Michel Bastos (Olympique Lyon) Gianni Zuiverloon (Real Mallorca) Touche! All our youth player's are playing for a team in a top league .

Andy Carroll, would take him in a heartbeat. A strike force of Carroll, Bent, Agbonlahor, Wiemann and Delfouneso offers so many different options up front.

Daily Mail are saying Chris Gunter is about to sign for Reading as their other target Danny Simpson opt's for us. Daily Mail

You recon? Looks a lot older, darker, Spanish/Portuguese looking rather than blondish and Dutch like Luuk De Jong. If the other guy is Ramis, that other guy is probably his agent.

Lambert mentioned he'd be interested in Andy Carroll on SSN apparantly.

ITK's really bollocksed up on this one!

Fingers crossed he is wrong about him, but I do feel unusually wary about this transfer. At 23 now, I'm surprised no one else had been trying to sign him. Saw a couple of mid table championship sides were interested, but thats about it. Hopefully turns out to be like the other two full backs United have had recently, Walker and Naughton. We've had our fair share of rubbish/average full backs in recent years, hope Lowton is a surprise and makes the step up convincingly.

You saying Mat Kendrick is a bullshit artist? No, why is ‏@ITK_TRANSFER Mat Kendrick?

That guy is a massive bullshit artist, he either makes shit up or copies what other sources have said, like most of these accounts on Twitter with ITK in them.

Lets hope he can do it here, does this now rule out Nathaniel Clyne?

Seems a lot of Sheffield United fans are not convinced he is good enough for us and that there are better options available. Just because we look like we are signing him (for peanuts too by the sounds), doesn't mean he will be our first choice right back next season. I thought the consensus was were signing 2 full backs anyway, so maybe Clyne is still an option.

West Ham fans on their forums aren't sure who it is, think it could be somebody called Mangane.. it's possible it could be Clyne? Pretty sure that is Mangane yeah, he failed a medical a couple of days ago with West Ham.

No way to Dan Gosling, can't see anything in that though. Hardly had a look in at Newcastle, I remember seeing him doing absolutely nothing when Villa's reserves trounced Newcastle's reserves 4-0 at Villa Park earlier this year. Are we going to make any "big" signings this summer? £8 million upwards signings?

Villa I presume Nursey was talking about. When he left Norwich and spoke with McNally. If he thought he could get Norwich in the champions league, he'd certainly think he'd be able to get Villa there.

Bold statement from Lambert if he said this to Norwich chief McNally.

In the country at the moment too according to Sky

Someone's already edited his wiki to say he is a Villa player. Sounds like steady, clever business if we've signed him for €2.8m. Would love it if we signed Narsingh.

James Nursery has said we should now rule out Kyle Naughton;

Would certainly rather have Butland.