Vaclav Sverkos next?

There’s a new mole in town and – if he’s to be believed – we’ve got more good info:

1) Simunic likely

2) We’ve bid £5million or so for Vaclav Sverkos of Czech Republic. He’s the fellow who shinned in the goal that beat Switzerland. This is funny for me because I remember watching that match and visualising him in a Fulham shirt. Really. I have a thing about Czech footballers.

3) Roy has four players he wants to sign, one of whom is likely to be a loan. He has £15 million, so £10 m for Simunic and mystery player 1.

4) Roy is happy with Andreasen and Andranik (hmmm, the And brothers) as defensive midfielders, so won’t be spending there.

5) He’s after a centre-back (Simunic, we think), a right back (?), a left midfielder (?) and a centre-forward (Sverkos, it seems).

6) He is actively trying to shift the squad’s dead wood. We thought that might be hard, didn’t we?

7) The Kitson and Harewood stuff is made up. As predicted, Roy will look to get better value elsewhere. We asked about Darren Bent and ran a mile when Spurs gave us a price. Good that we asked though, eh?

8 – I think that’s it.

[UPDATED TO REFLECT LARGE SQUAD] Possible frequent players:

Schwarzer – various

New RB – Hangeland – Simunic – Konchesky – Hughes…. Omozusi/Leijer/Watts/etc

Davies – Bullard – Murphy – Gera – Andreasen – Andranik- Dempsey – Gera – Proper left winger

Nevland – Healy – Sverkos – Kamara – Johnson

Which says that we’re alright at the back (assuming Simunic is coming), midfield is still crowded (how’s he going to pick four or five out of that lot? Especially if there’s another player coming) and that we have numbers up front but perhaps not the reliable goalscorer/all purpose superstar we want. Still, encouraging enough. Looking at all that I just can’t see a front two season. It does look as though we’ll see either one up or split strikers, the dropping off player being (I presume) Gera (or Dempsey). Who knows though, this is no more than idle speculation.