So who are we signing?

Just thought I'd try and narrow this down a bit!

The firmest rumour seems to be that of Djibril Cisse. Everyone is claiming we have signed him on loan, with City paying £25,000 per week and QPR paying the rest. He's also the Bellamy link, as they played together at 'Pool and left at the same time. He's an eccentric character, but I think he would cause serious damage at this level. He scored almost a goal a game in the Greek top league and the standard probably isn't dissimilar, although he's struggled at QPR this season (but hasn't everyone?).

After Cisse, there was rumours of Darren Bent...but are Villa really going to contribute towards his £80,000 a week wages, as I'm sure we wouldn't pay the whole amount? And he isn't likely to take a drop in wages. Skybet dropped him from 16/1 to 5/1 for the move to City however. Dwight Gayle has now signed for Peterborough, so that rules that out. Charlie Austin will probably stay until the end of the season with Burnley or move to the Premiership, Danny Graham is wanted by Reading and Norwich and he doesn't want to drop a level. And West Brom's Chris Wood keeps popping up (ahem) and he's available for £1.5million, could be a good punt as apparently Dave Jones wants Velcro at Sheffield Wednesday.

Frank Lampard has been told to find another club, and Big Sam wants him back at West Ham, which sparked Twitter rumours we were after Kevin Nolan. And there was a lot of talk on that one and I, for one, would love to see us sign Nolan. Beckham and Giggs are probably a no, as Malky seems to have ruled both out...although you can never say never with VT I suppose!

At the back, there was talk of a £2million bid for Celtic's Emilio Izaguirre, although that's gone quiet now that Celtic are in the next round in the Champions League. This is more likely to happen at the end of the season when we go up. Derby have publicly stated that we are not talking to them about signing John Brayford, which means we probably are. Don't know much about him, but West Ham were interested as well. Back at QPR, where the Malaysian link is pretty strong and seems to be working well for us, Jose Bosingwa has been fined two weeks wages and 'Arry has said he may or may not play for the team again, sparking another Twitter loan rumour, similar to the one about Nedum Onuoha, although both of these look unlikely.

Either way it should be a pretty exciting January and any of the above players would have a massive impact.

Anything I've missed?

Nice summary!

One more:

Alfred Finnbogason

http://www.ccmb.co.uk/fudforum/index.php?t=msg&th=344728&start=0&rid=5410

bobbysauce wrote:Nice summary!

One more:

Alfred Finnbogason

http://www.ccmb.co.uk/fudforum/index.php?t=msg&th=344728&start=0&rid=5410

He looks good, 16 games played and 14 goals!

Nolan is a thug, to use a cliche he isn't a 'Malky type' player at all.

Pick of the bunch for me is Chris Wood. Banging them in at an impressive level even with millwall's lack of talent, he could be profilific for us. Also, at 6 foot 3 he's much more of a physical presence than Helguson can put out.

Red614 wrote:Nolan is a thug, to use a cliche he isn't a 'Malky type' player at all.

Pick of the bunch for me is Chris Wood. Banging them in at an impressive level even with millwall's lack of talent, he could be profilific for us. Also, at 6 foot 3 he's much more of a physical presence than Helguson can put out.

Nolan is a cynical player who chips away at the opposition, which makes him similar to our very own Craig Bellamy. He is well acclimatised to football at this level and the Premiership and is an excellent box-to-box player. Although a different player to Whitts he is just as influential in games and would stop our over-reliance on Whittingham and perhaps give him a nudge.

Nice work Slumdog, have some Christmas flair.

I agree with both of you, Nolan would be a good signing but I also don't like him. Nasty bit of work. I can't see that transfer happening though.

Chris Wood would be a great shout but I can imagine most other clubs will be thinking that too - including Millwall!

I fucking hate Kevin Nolan. Plus, I don't think we need another midfielder. What we need is defenders!

I think we are guaranteed to sign some defenders. That's a no-brainer. I hate Kevin Nolan as well, but he gets results and would help us out no end. I would be happy to see us sign him.

Right, so, it won't be Chris Wood then.

http://www.newsatden.co.uk/10762-millwall-loanee-wood-agrees-to-sign-for-rivals-leicester.html?

The silver lining to that is that he won't play against us on Saturday and that Leicester might very well fulfil my prediction of going up auto.

Arkay v2.0 wrote:Right, so, it won't be Chris Wood then.

http://www.newsatden.co.uk/10762-millwall-loanee-wood-agrees-to-sign-for-rivals-leicester.html?

The silver lining to that is that he won't play against us on Saturday and that Leicester might very well fulfil my prediction of going up auto.

Well Arkay you have dampened my mood with that news you party pooper.

You could always make it up to me with news of Cardiff signing Lavezzi from Paris-SG?

Slumdog's Son wrote:

Arkay v2.0 wrote:Right, so, it won't be Chris Wood then.

http://www.newsatden.co.uk/10762-millwall-loanee-wood-agrees-to-sign-for-rivals-leicester.html?

The silver lining to that is that he won't play against us on Saturday and that Leicester might very well fulfil my prediction of going up auto.

Well Arkay you have dampened my mood with that news you party pooper.

You could always make it up to me with news of Cardiff signing Lavezzi from Paris-SG?

Lavezzi? No way. Falcao on the other hand...



Oh sorry, wrong one

Arkay v2.0 wrote:

Slumdog's Son wrote:

Arkay v2.0 wrote:Right, so, it won't be Chris Wood then.

http://www.newsatden.co.uk/10762-millwall-loanee-wood-agrees-to-sign-for-rivals-leicester.html?

The silver lining to that is that he won't play against us on Saturday and that Leicester might very well fulfil my prediction of going up auto.

Well Arkay you have dampened my mood with that news you party pooper.

You could always make it up to me with news of Cardiff signing Lavezzi from Paris-SG?

Lavezzi? No way. Falcao on the other hand...



Oh sorry, wrong one

ARKAY!

Watching MOTD at the minute and Djibril Cisse has scored, yet Darren Bent didn't feature yet again in a Villa team that's dropping faster than Audley Harrison in a boxing ring. Is Bent a more likely choice? I'd be ecstatic but would it happen?

Slumdog's Son wrote:Watching MOTD at the minute and Djibril Cisse has scored, yet Darren Bent didn't feature yet again in a Villa team that's dropping faster than Audley Harrison in a boxing ring. Is Bent a more likely choice? I'd be ecstatic but would it happen?

Bent's injured I believe. I know he wasn't starting every game, but would be shocked if they let him go after splashing out an absolute s**t load on him.