Transfer targets mentioned in the press include Luke Young, whom is a proven right-back, very solid at Charlton and Boro, and would be good if we could get him. Presumably he'd cost £6 million or so though. Benni McCarthy is 32 but does score goals on a regular basis (think he hit 13 for Blackburn last season) and would have the World Cup in South Africa to motivate him.
As for today's story about 33-year-old Ruud Van Nistelrooy (better than Salford Van Hire) coming, it seems a little bizarre to be offering him 100k a week having slagged of Ljungberg's 80k a week deal from the Eggman so strongly.
But it might work if we could get him on a short-term deal and he saves us from losing £40 million through relegation. Can't see him swapping Real Madrid for dinner at Theydon Bois though…
I can see us wasting yet more time on players that are NEVER going to come to us and in the last day or so panicking and getting in crap loans/bosmans.
ReplyDeleteHave we learnt anything?
Agree the Van Nistelrooy pursuit was probably to make us look ambitious more than anything else.
ReplyDeleteI was having bad dreams about Davor Suker too, although hopefully Ruud would have offered much more than Davor, who only ran for us when collecting his pay cheque.