Darth Vader
Player Valuation: £25m
If we can off load Osman Naismith and McGeady in the same window it could possibly go down as the greatest transfer window of all time
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He could get off at Preston or Carlisle, NEA. He'd do the job for either of them.
alpha1
Player Valuation: £8m
What we need to do is bring in a keeper ASAP who can command his area properly and get that defence of ours doing it's job.
(That includes our defensive coaches coming up with solutions too!)
I find it hard to understand that a team with 2 of the best full backs in the league, plus a centre back who will soon become the most expensive defender ever, concede so many goals.
If we don't sort our form out soon we are in real danger of watching the likes of Lukaku, Stones and Barkley walk away.
Now is the time to invest in the team and show these players they can win things with us.
That starts with a new GK and back up CB of high standard.
(That includes our defensive coaches coming up with solutions too!)
I find it hard to understand that a team with 2 of the best full backs in the league, plus a centre back who will soon become the most expensive defender ever, concede so many goals.
If we don't sort our form out soon we are in real danger of watching the likes of Lukaku, Stones and Barkley walk away.
Now is the time to invest in the team and show these players they can win things with us.
That starts with a new GK and back up CB of high standard.
orly
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Klinker
Player Valuation: £950k
While individually all of our back 4 are solid players, only Jagielka can organize and run the defense. Stones' biggest weakness is his off the ball defending/positioning and with the captain out he is trying to add in the organizational duties but that is a tall order for an inexperienced kid.
orly
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mitchell1996
Player Valuation: £8m
yeah, f knows why like, just a waste of money isnt it
hes never fit before we even mention how he offers us nothing anymore
mitchell1996
Player Valuation: £8m
and bring in yarmolenko
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
http://www.theguardian.com/football...aismith-join-norwich-everton?CMP=share_btn_tw
Steven Naismith in line to join Norwich City from Everton for £8m
• Deal agreed but rivals show an interest in signing Scot
• Canaries had initial offer turned down in summer
Steven Naismith paid for Christmas dinner for hundreds of homeless people in Glasgow. Photograph: Martin Shields
Dominic Fifield
@domfifield
Tuesday 29 December 2015 16.26 GMT
Norwich City have agreed a deal in principle with Everton for the £8m purchase of Steven Naismith having revived interest first expressed in the summer, though they face competition from a number of rival Premier League clubs to secure the Scotland international.
Naismith, scorer of an eye-catching hat-trick in the victory over Chelsea in September, has started only four Premier League games this season, and none at all since the loss to Manchester United at Goodison Park in mid-October.
The 29-year-old had been the subject of a £7m bid from the Canaries in the last week of the summer window which was rejected with Roberto Martínez suggesting then that the player was “too important to Everton” to be permitted to leave given there was no real time in which to secure a replacement.
The manager’s stance has since shifted, with Martínez indicating earlier this month that he intended to adress the situation in face-to-face talks with Naismith in January.
Norwich, who have made no secret of their desire to add to their forward ranks having also failed with a £9m move for Crystal Palace’s Dwight Gayle on deadline day in September, have now returned to the Merseyside club with a new offer that has been deemed acceptable, though it remains to be seen whether the striker’s other suitors follow suit.
Sunderland, Swansea City, Aston Villa and Newcastle United have indicated an interest in the Scot as they search for goals to stave off the threat of relegation. Middlesbrough, who are currently top of the Championship, have also been monitoring the potential availability of a player who scored against Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City last season, only to find his place usurped by the excellent Romelu Lukaku and the ease in which Gerard Deulofeu has settled back in the Premier League since his summer arrival from Barcelona.
While Naismith is not agitating for a move, the need for regular first-team football at this stage of his career is clear. Martínez, who faces a similar situation with the under-used Belgium international Kevin Mirallis, addressed Naismith’s bit-part role earlier this month.
“I sat down with Steven in August and said: ‘You are too important to Everton to allow you to go at this stage. I don’t know how Arouna Koné will be, how Gerard Deulofeu will be, how the others will be,’” he said. “The offer of Norwich arrived very late and I couldn’t replace him. It was a very honest communication and I said in January we will reassess it.
“The way Steven Naismith behaves, and the way he works, means that when he says something you have to listen. Anything could happen between now and then, but I will listen to him. If it is someone who is selfish and has never been bothered about helping the team then you can pay them back in the same way. It is quite straightforward.”
Naismith may have been out of the team but he kept busy over Christmas by paying for dinner for hundreds of homeless people in Glasgow, an event organised by the charity Loaves and Fishes, which helps those sleeping rough in the city.
Norwich will complete the £2.5m permanent signing of West Ham’s one-time England winger Matt Jarvis, who has spent the first half of the season on loan at Carrow Road, on 2 January.
The manager Alex Neil was frustrated by the inability to force through further late business in the summer window, but has still steered his side three points clear of the relegation zone in the period since.
Hope he goes to Sunderland and scores the goals to keep them up and Newcastle and villla down.
Wish him well were ever he ends up .
Wish him well were ever he ends up .
Blue Cheese
Mental Patient, GOT Ward
I actually think Naismith is a decent squad player but his constant moaning about being a starter grates on me.
This news about Naismith has me curious and fairly optimistic about the upcoming transfer window. I didn't think we'd do any business that would affect the first team in January. Maybe a signing or two for the future, like in past years.
But now, based on Bobby's insistence that we will always come out of each transfer window stronger, there has to be something coming. Naismith wasn't a regular starter, but he was always in the mix as one of the first options off the bench. You don't get rid of someone like that with no expectation of replacing him. Should be an interesting month. My sense is if we sign someone to immediately contribute to the first team, it will be someone out of the blue.
But now, based on Bobby's insistence that we will always come out of each transfer window stronger, there has to be something coming. Naismith wasn't a regular starter, but he was always in the mix as one of the first options off the bench. You don't get rid of someone like that with no expectation of replacing him. Should be an interesting month. My sense is if we sign someone to immediately contribute to the first team, it will be someone out of the blue.
Sennott Street
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Yes, which is why the possible signing of him would not resolve the glaring need to address the left side of our formation.
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