With the transfer window shut, who wants to hear about deals that won’t happen, 4 months in advance? Well, I do, sort of, just not every day…
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the weekly transfer nonsense round-up!
There’s nothing like a summer of doing pretty much naff all to get the rumours going early. Some might argue that despite signing Marouane Fellaini, United could still do with some more options in the middle of the park, not the papers though,
Christian Benteke and young Sheffield United defender
Harry Maguire have been linked with January moves to Old Trafford.
Newcastle, they didn’t do much either, did they? Do links with Herenveen striker
Alfred Finnbogason and Tottenahm’s
Aaron Lennon mean that Joe Kinnear has finally got his act together? It’s unlikely.
Just because Arsene Wenger has got the hang of this spending money lark, it doesn’t mean he has to stop signing up young Frenchmen. Juventus’ ex-Man Utd midfielder
Paul Pogba is young, French and expensive. Perfect.
‘Big-spending Monaco’, ‘moneybags French side Monaco’, what are they like eh? Coming over here, trying to tempt
Hugo Lloris away with a big bag of cash… Look out though, here come Real Madrid with an even bigger bag of cash, and they want to lavish it on ‘petro-billionaire plaything Monaco’s’
Radmael Falcao, just 6 months after he left Real’s local rivals Atletico. I say 6 months, it’ll be 6 months come January, it’s currently around 3. Such are the complications of casting your transfer eye so far in to the future. Dr Who-esque.
Alternatively, the Spanish giants could move for
Luis Suarez, which won't be in the slightest bit tiresome...
Victor Valdes is leaving next summer and Barcelona are going to need a new keeper. They don’t care who it is, as long as he plays for Chelsea.
Petr Cech and
Thibaut Courtois (currently on-loan at Atletico Madrid) have both been linked and it’s only matter of time before
Hilario gets a mention.
Time to turn the glamour down a notch now. Sheffield Wednesday could make loan moves for Stoke’s out of favour keeper
Jack Butland and Wolves misfit
Roger Johnson too. Remember when they paid £7m for him? Crazy, crazy days.
Stephen Hunt didn’t have the best of times at Molineux either. He’s a free agent now and Derby are keen.
And if retro revivals are your thing, Hull will look to roll back the months by getting their summer of 2013 bid for
Shane Long back together. Coming to a provincial theatre near you, sometime in January.
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