01 Aug 2014 16:53:26
Have to give myself pat on the back apart from stating hangleland signing for palace on the 30th I stated on the 25th that peter crouch was on the cards a fee with stoke agreed 950k now its up to the player; its taken 2 weeks to progress this far. villa have bid 5m for hooper this afternoon as have qpr. saints have bid Norwich asking price of 5m for Redmond they will let him go if they can secure a purchase albert addohmah. ; Leroy fer now in talks with saints Newcastle have now bid for remy 8.8m; dgs now seriously considering a counter bid we are in talks with a centre back can't establish who ; the naughty boy Morrison looks likely to go out again on loan dgs are fed up with him but don't want to sell him at present sampadoria could be a possibility against one of their players probably obiang ; let's hope for better performance this weekend ;Just heard we did in fact approach magpies for defender taylor this was a no no IRONMIKE

1.) 02 Aug 2014
I hope we don't sign Crouch he's 33 and hasn't exactly been a prolific goal scorer for stoke, seems like a desperate move if we do sign him.
I'd prefer for us to get a striker with pace so we don't rely on lumping the ball to a big target man in the hope runners feed off him but I guess needs must and BFS has to get results so he will probably use his tried and tested methods.

We can't sign Cambell on loan which is a shame as he looked sharp at the World Cup but Valencia could make his mark with Carroll out of the team but we still need back up in attack.

Looking forward to watching the game today hopefully the lad put on a better performance for us.

2.) 02 Aug 2014
No Crouch for me! I just don't rate him. He brings no additional quality to the squad at all. It only encourages Sam to go back to old long ball tactics when he's devoid of attacking ideas. We don't want this style of play.

3.) 02 Aug 2014
Have to agree with above posters in regards to crouch seems better playing football on the floor rather than trying to win aerial battles for all his height.