So who are we signing?

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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?

Red614 wrote:I'd be more pessimistic than that TDA - Wigan and Reading would probably pay higher wages than championship sides. It's what drives most deals nowdays.

That was actually my point Red.......footballers follow the ££££ and move on again if it doesn't work out.......Carlton Cole is a prime example, but as I said above, I think Malky needs to bust the bank in Jan to get the quality, to ensure no slip-ups this time. The financial rewards from promotion would easily erase that overspend, both for club and player.

NEW RUMOUR ALERT

Sky Sports are running the story that Cardiff are among many premiership and championship sides interested in Bristol City's right winger Albert Adomah.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/8403353/Bristol-City-could-face-a-battle-to-keep-hold-of-Albert-Adomah

The right wing is definetely our weak side. Noone is better on the left, and after Smith we haven't got much quality on that flank. Good move potentially as long as we don't get caught up in a bidding war.

In other news, Derby's manager has denied we have made any contact regarding Brayford.