What is happening at Bolton ?

Oh, and this is all without needing to sell Cahill.

Nope. I don't post much cos I can't get on this at work.

Just read on another website we are in for Eagles & Mears from the mighty Burnley, 3mil for both. I can't vouch for the source, but posters are saying he is reliable.

Sturridge you beat me to it!

I'd very much take Eagles and Mears, Reo Coker is all but ours aswell, Jeffren would give us some unbelievable talent on the left, or up top depending on where Coyle wants him.

I'd have Reo-Coker & Jeffren deffo. Eagles would be good bench player. Mears - i'll pass on, we've got enough average defenders already.

Unless Cahill replacement is Sam Ricketts, Mears n Steinnsson o battle put rb. I'd much rather have Eagles than someone like SWP, cost effective and decent enough player

Presuming we dont sell Cahill and we bring in all players mentioned that would give us a squad of:

GK: Jussi, Boggers, Lainton
RB: Steinsson, Mears, Ricketts
CB: Cahill, Wheater, Knight, Connolly
LB: Robbo, Alonso
RM: Chungy, Eagles
CM: Holden, Muamba, Davis, Sparkey, Pratley, NRC
LM: Petrov, Gardner
ST: SKD, Klas, Blake, Oba, Eaves, ?Loan, ?New

Thats a pretty strong squad with quite a few versatile players in there capable of covering positions when there are injuries.

I'm still worried most about lb as although robbo fives heart he is not perm standard n gives away far too many fk in danger areas n I've only seen alonso couple times so can't really make judgement but if he can't get picked ahead on robbo he can't be that good ( I know he's young first season blah blah) anyone know of any lb in our price range who would b available or been linked with?

Like a lot of posters I am getting frustrated by the lack of movement in the transfer market however in my view this is easily explained by a number of factors; Villa have £40m to spend so the clubs/agents are all bumping up their prices to try and get some of it ( Wigan), average players are asking too much in wages ( Dann and Gibson -£40k a week for a reserve player!),bigger clubs are trying to bully smaller clubs ( Arsenal offering £10m for Jagielka) and finally just agents being agents feeding rumours to the press to try and get the best deals for their players - the two that concerned us in the last couple of days are Reo-Coker in talks with Bolton or Reo- Coker going to Leics because we can't afford his wages, Aresnal have walked away from Cahill due to Bolton's demands or Arsenal to bid for Cahill as soon as he gets back from the US tour. You could go on and on its just how the market is.
Moving on - Eagles looks like a good deal not too sure about Mears but he is very intelligent and has a turn of pace, my frustration would be why has it taken so long to make the deal.
Still no news on a new striker, I still think we will get Sturridge back ( Drogba has just signed a contract extension) as he won't sit on the bench however DJ is still at Balckpool, has just turned down a move th QPR and think he would be a great addition to the squad.

I'd be very surprised if Sturridge left Chelsea due to their lack of "homegrown players". However, Chelsea don't do common sense and Villas Boas has said he may let him go. If we were to get him back i'd be very confident about the upcoming season!