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Lets hope someone pips us to Adam and Downing too. Would certainly be a boost

Few articles in tomorrow's paper saying its a done deal. Also, the tits on RAWK have closed the Wickham thread, so its looking all done......

Tony Barrett is starting to worry. The guy is a probably more in the loop than any other hack. So i'd say its time to start getting a little worried

Dont worry...at least we signed Jordan Henderson early.

Things are looking a little ominous Tom. Nolan Roux does not seem anything special. We needed cover for strikers and Wickham would be ideal. Fits the so-called profile of young and English too

Agreed. A kid with real real potential available at a decent price. But we are too busy dicking around trying to buy central midfielders we don't need. Quite bizarre that we dont seem to have bid. Totally at odds with what some respected journos were saying

I cant see us bidding now. Medical set up n all

Don't understand why we arent in for him. Thought it was nailed on. I guess Centre Mid is more pressing!!!!

Nevermind

Not sure what your point is. If the papers knew we were in for carroll they would have broken the story regardless of redknapp and regardless of suarez

Heard from the club? Interest in Suarez was there for years. When did you know we were thinking of spending 35m on Carroll? I might be wrong but I dont recall the club saying much about Henderson before we bought him. There was no weeks of links to him. I can't be arsed anyway. If you wanna blow your rectum over paper talk go ahead

But the point is he was a target for long before the 24 hours it took to buy him but i dont think we were ever linked. We were negotiating at least a week before based on what jw henry said

Lol. To be honest if we end up with Downing, Adam and Henderson as our sole signings i'll be annoyed. But its becoming clearer that not even the papers know who we are after. Even Barrett alluded to that in his interview. Everything is being done behind closed doors. No one knew about Carroll until the day. In the past regimes we could take these players as given because everything was done in the open. But there are people all over forums slating kenny and commoli one month into a window when we have only signed one player who has potential. It's bordering on the ridiculous. Not a pop at you, just an observation

A month into the window and people are getting fucking ulcers. Skend, you havent even said who we should buy. Name some players...come on. No one at the club has said we are after this player or that player. Its all paper talk at the moment.

He knows nothing about it. I just asked him on twitter

It is a fucking shit joke if that's the case nd will show he knows nothing about our targets. He is probably hoping we bid for Wickham now or he will look a fool

Can someone post the TB article? Is it that bad? I'm assuming its from last night. Bit bizarre if he os saying we are spending 16m on SWP bearing in mind his talksport interview and what he said about why lennon would make no sense If we get SWP then the people running the club deserve a slating...top to bottom

RAWK re-opened the thread on us signing Rodwell due to some strong info they received I don't think he is as good as people make out

Agreed. If we get him for that its a bargain. He was the best lb in europe not long ago. In a team with better balance in defence and attack he could be awesome again. Only 25 too

Times running with Clichy turning down deal and wanting move to Liverpool. Anyone got a subscription?

Bit bad on the lad if he is made to go to Sundetland when he wants to come here.

Don't be sorry mate. I actually knew Pennant was going to be shite and also Morientes! I actually agree with you that it's a little disappointing if we only end up buying these British players and no one of real top top quality. I was saying what Barrett said in interview when asked why were only buying British. I'd like to see what happens at the end of Aug and who we have.

Sunderland agree 13m fee for Wickham. Doubt we will go to that level

Potentially.... Exactly. That potential may never be realised and we arent in a position to wait two or three years for someone to reach their potential. We need to get back to the Top 4 asap

The radio interview/I didnt ignore anything. It never named foreign failures. Barrett just explained the logic of the targets Maybe have a listen rather than getting uptight!