Auntie says...
Chelsea and Leeds United are among the Premier League clubs to have checked on 23-year-old English midfielder James McAtee's situation at Nottingham Forest. (Mail)
Nottingham Forest, Chelsea and Aston Villa are all chasing Bologna's 21-year-old Argentine forward Santiago Castro. (Gazzetta dello Sport via Sport Witness)
Mad if Chelsea want a player that we don't even think is worth using off the bench.
All depends on price, doesn't it? I would be interested if we hadn't paid the price that we did.
I mean they currently have a starting CM who was in that exact position with us, so you can imagine they think we aren't exactly great at bringing potential out of young players.
In actual fact I think it's a mix. He's just not at all suited to our style, and might look better in Chelsea's team.
Santos? Not really a starter for them is he? And he was only 18 when he was here, McAtee is 23.
Credible reports that we're in talks with Eintracht Frankfurt over Kalimuendo. Given the situation with Wood and the fact that Taiwo is probably never going to be a Premier League starter with us, we presumably have some significant striking options lined up.
I hope it's for a sale. I don't want us loaning him out.
I can't imagine it would be a loan, he's already got multiple senior top flight seasons under his belt. There's not much development to do, he's either a Premier League quality player or he isn't at this point.
I'd consider loan offers for McAtee, but only from European top flight teams.
Probably easier to get a loan fee that covers 6 months of amortisation than a transfer fee that doesn’t represent a big loss for PSR. And there’s every chance we’ll have a different manager who does rate him next summer.
Apparently Will Osula is their first choice, with Kalimuendo an alternative.
Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace are all eyeing Ajax's 22-year-old Dutch defender Youri Baas. (Teamtalk)
Ornstein says Palace have agreed a fee for Brennan and Romano says Strasbourg want McAtee (which makes more sense than Chelsea).
£35M for Brennan apparently. Player still to decide whether he wants the move or not, although every time I've seen him for Spurs this season he looks pretty miserable.
I think we should try and cheeky loan move back. I liked Brennan and I am sure home cooking would make him happy.
Chicago: Nostalgic.
We've got the fat end of the deal once with him, I don't see the point losing money on him now.
Not for me thanks.
I’d guess there’s no sell-on clause seeing as we got all the money up front for him iirc so they probs didn’t want to be doing any further deals.
