Davies In Talks But NO Deal Done Yet

God I hope this goes through.

surely they wouldnt let us talk to him unless we had agreed a deal in principle with wba, by saying 'no deal done yet' means we have to agree personal terms and he has to pass a medical surely?

trouble is my mate is a huge rugby fan and hates football, so he doesn't know who's who !!!!! just that an Albion player and two other guys and agents arrived this afternoon after training ??????

can you ask your rugger mate if one is about 5ft 8 with bling bling on?

I would get my old boy out if Defoe signs! The boys the best finisher in England IMO...far better than Owen. If he signs for us, I'm sure he will have a blinding season, make the plane for the Euro's and be a guaranteed starter!

and ask him if one of them looks like Jah Jah Binks! you never know

he's a rugby player......he wouldn't know who Kaka was, let alone Jah Jah Binks !!!!

so like, if Davies signs is avfc48 still going to whinge?

Hope one of them doesn't look like Rodney Trotter aka Crouch Potatoe. West Brom are really pulling our string.

The Usual Suspect, does a bear s**t in the woods?

(Relatively) massive IMO. Tremendous ability. We aren't competing in a top 4 world remember.

If MON gets one of Hoyte, Rosienier or Johnson and Matty Taylor, I'll be more than happy with the squad.

Is it greedy asking for Defoe as well?!?!?

I cant understand it NO POSTS FROM AVFC48. Anyway i think MON is playing this transfer market like a classical guitar. When Pompey and Spurs etc have done all there Dough we have almost all ours to spend.... I just hope MON has'nt left it too late. We will all know in approx 30 hours. i hope he timed it to perfection.

How exciting is this? We must have 40 mill to spend.....bring it on!

Sign Defoe, swap Carew for Boswinga. My dog knows Jermaine's bitch so it's gotta be true!

5 centre backs including Bouma as that is where he used to play. Don't want to see Cahill or Moore go but another striker is essential, Barry is O.K. as cover for LB but RB also needed.

It would be great if we pulled out of the deal last minute so WBA are left with him after they have messed us around all summer holding us to ransom with a supposed mystery bid from spurs. Do we need a player like him that is holding his club to Ransom by not playing

Should teach mowbray a lesson pull out at the last minute sign 3 others then offer £5m max cuz thats davis is worth, always injured only plus point is he is young, but not worth £9m. The only down side to my cunning plan is that it would take 12 weeks to sign 3 players based on current performance, 12 hours would go against the grain somewhat, UTV

Should we sign Davies, it would mean us having five central defenders. My understanding of that, is that M'ON is already preparing for life without the bearded one. I have said since M'ONs first days that his third season would be the one where we we can reasonably expect the biggest strides. He will have a year of assessment and tinkering. A year of moving players both out and in. And a reasonable amount of time to really put his mark on the team. However we are massively unbalanced for the season and that does surprise me. We have 3 keepers, great. We've 4 (maybe 5) central defenders, acceptable, although wether Knight will be better than the Ridge only time will tell. Full backs we have errrrr ...........1. We have 8 midfielders. Unfortunately Young, Maloney and Berger are happiest on the left. Barry, Okey Cokey, Petrov, Osbourne and Gardner are all central midfielders. We have no naturally right sided midfielder and this is why SWP would have been a great addition to the squad. We have four strikers (and I know Fear disagrees) but I think they should be given the season to see if they are good enough. It was obvious before the season started that M'ON was going to use a similar formation to the one that last won us the league. If the team can adapt to this 4-3-3 formation and we stay reasonably injury free, then we are just a right back (and back up) and cover for Bouma from a reasonable squad. However the 4-3 -3 so far has looked unbalanced. And with no natural right sided players at the club, I think that this will prove to be our achilles heel this season. Unless the next 24 hours throws up a couple of surprises of course.

Understand the point suspect, but I didn't say that SWP should have joined, only that it would have been good for us if he did. However I do know that the deal was possible and was something that would have been acceptable to SWP at the start of summer. Circumstances have since changed and the deal is now a definite no go for exactly the reasons you mentioned.

if we sign davies plus a right back we will be fine although if we were to really push on for europe and excel this season we would need another midfielder along the lines of kevin nolan/wayne routledge and jermine defoe 4 signings is highly unlikely doubt we will be getting another striker hopefully moore will get more starts alongside carew

Your right. It was called div 1 then. 8-)

I think the CD transfer is a waste of money, £8.5 rising to £10m I hope i am proved wrong At least we do not have to pay for him till next year

CD would be a massive siging for us, he's quality, quick and has bags of ability (like young Ashley). Johnson is his way to Pompey? Unless they need to offload Nugent first.

Or they were hoping that Tottenham might just step in.