[Stairs]

Sam Johnstone to Villa and a fresh link to West Ham's Ayew.

[WBA-Josh]

New midfielder (from Wolfsburg) added to rumour thread

Joshua Guilavogui is the cheaper alternative to William Carvalho and plays in a similar way to Mulumbu when he was at his best.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/josuha-gu...eler/93704

[drewks]

New midfielder (from Wolfsburg) added to rumour thread

Joshua Guilavogui is the cheaper alternative to William Carvalho and plays in a similar way to Mulumbu when he was at his best.

http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/josuha-gu...eler/93704

Mulumbu at his best would be just fine for me!

[aries22]

First pre season friendly on Wednesday coming so I'm not going to panic just yet. Bit embarassing with so many with their knickers in a twist this early on at the paper talk. Everton have been busiest so far but everyone else has made just the one or two signings bar a few that have three. Palace haven't signed one at all yet, and with De Boer in charge I'm sticking some money on them to go down.

And that's after Be Boer was quoted by BBC Sport as saying he was 'excited' to have money to spend at Palace. I bet a few of their targets have turned their noses up at them.

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I suspect, come 31 August, I will again be underwhelmed and again uninspired and regretting renewing my Season Ticket following all the hype about "Getting business down early" and "Signing four or five top quality players"

Club transfer of ownership was the excuse last summer - one wonders what it will be this year.

Yow never lairn BaggieMan, me ole mucka. The season ticket office 'ave dun yow up loike the provairbial kipper AGAIN.

[Beefy 1965]

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[Beefy 1965]

Good if this comes off and a bit of pace too  

Rumoured (in the Daily Mirror) to be heading the field to sign Kurt Zouma on loan from Chelsea.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/fo...n-13316981

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Seems Chadli was not the only one to duck training in the Austrian mountains  

All credit to Tony Pulis, who's taken time out of West Brom's pre-season schedule to coach Simona Halep through Wimbledon.

[Sir Megson]

Good if this comes off and a bit of pace too  

Rumoured (in the Daily Mirror) to be heading the field to sign Kurt Zouma on loan from Chelsea.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/fo...n-13316981

Would be very happy with that loan! - can't see TP wasting Zouma on loan, not likely he'd consider freezing out a defender 

Good replacement, albeit a temporary one for Olsson.

[Beefy 1965]

Talks tomorrow ?

Sky Sports News HQ‏Verified account @SkySportsNewsHQ 2m2 minutes ago
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BREAKING: @ChelseaFC defender @KurtZouma due to have talks tomorrow with @stokecity and @WBA ahead of potential loan move. #SSNHQ

[Baggievicar]

Don't like the sound of talking to 2 clubs at once. The player (and agent) will presumably just be out for what he can get and you can't really blame him, but I doubt we'll win any bidding war.

[Beefy 1965]

There would be no bidding war Vic
As a loan we pay half the players wages.
It's simply where the player chooses to play,
I think we have the edge there as we could guarantee him a lot of game time

Also can't believe this , but maybe one of them ?

http://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/893445663?-11200:789:0

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Speaking of defenders, deal for Marc Wilson on the back-burner. Others pursued first before shape of squad determines whether he's needed