TRANSFER RUMOURS! 11th August
StrumSolo > 11/08/2014, 16:49
It's finally happened. £32m and what seems like years later, Eliaquim Mangala is a Man City player. What now?
Angel Di Maria to United of course. It's been bubbling away for a while already and could reach full saga status if the £50m(?) deal isn't wrapped up soon. There's still talk of notorious Dutchmen Daley Blind and Kevin Strootman bowling up at Old Trafford too, obviously.
Daniel Agger will either replace Thomas Vermaelen at Arsenal, or join Thomas Vermaelen at Barca. Alternatively, Spurs might need a centre half or two if, as rumoured, Michael Dawson, Younes Kaboul and Vlad Chiriches are shown the door. There's £12m and a box of Kleenex on the table, .
Lukas Podolski and Joel Campbell to Galatasaray? That'd be a shame.
Sunderland have rejected West Ham's £5m bid for Connor Wickham. £8m ought to do it, though Newcastle are also lurking. Not just at the Stadium of Light either, Alan Pardew's been spotted in the bushes at Carrington with with £7m worth of unmarked notes, hoping to get a glimpse of Wilfried Zaha.
That's not to say he isn't still holding a candle for Serge Gnabry, mind, just that the Arsenal winger's availability on a season-long loan is also arousing the interest of Villa and Southampton.
And it looks like being a busy few days all round for Ronald Koeman. Given his past life he ought be able to spot the absence of a defence better than most, and improved offers for Sam Byram and Marcos Rojo, along with reported interest in Steaua Bucharest's Florin Gardos should go some way towards shoring things up in front of Fraser Forster's goal, who signed from Celtic in a £10m deal over the weekend.
Swansea's Jonathan de Guzman is a target for QPR, Everton hope to complete the loan signing of Chelsea winger Christian Atsu in the next day or so, and this just in; Barcelona are interested in Kyle Walker.
Christ.