Geez it's been reported it is 6.7 up front with a further 300k on appearances. That is a WAY too much money to be spending on another twat. It's really lucky I trust Rafa otherwise I might be a little more ****ed off.
He did put the most crosses into the box last season though so that's encouraging but I just dont know how were gonna line up. I know Rafa LOVES to play Gerrard, Alonso and Sissoko in the same midfield. But if we play a 5 man midfield, we surely must play Crouch up front alone. So we bought Bellamy to sit on the bench? Obviously the formation will change throughout the season and depending who we play but more often than not Rafa loves to play those 3 together in midfield.
It's nice to finally have an out and out right winger but that's a lot of money on a gamble type player IMO. I hope this works out.
Good to see Carson and Anderson sign new deals, Carson in particular as there were a few clubs after him. He will no doubt be understudy to Pepe with us still trying to move Dudek.
I think we will still see some departures though with Dudek the obvious one and also Kromkamp, Diao and Traore all been sold. Apparently Charlton are in for both Diao and Traore with a lot of interest in Traore and Ive heard it will be about 2 million for both of them. Id snatch their arm off if that offer came up.
Oh and apparently were close to signing some young greek striker named Lazaros Christodoulopoulos who is on trial with us. He has a release clause of 130k and were offering a three year contract. He was spotted by our chief scout, Eduardo Macia and apparently the kid was in awesome form for his Greek club, PAOK Salonika. So who knows with that one, probably be confirmed one way or the other in the next couple of days.
Now that we have Pennant...

All we need now to conclude our signings is another striker.