West Ham were rumoured to be in for Andy Johnson, remember? Well, according to a TiFF poster, Johnson’s agent has decided to use this to drive a hard bargain.
But of course, if West Ham will pay silly money – and past form shows that they will – then we have to as well.
Or we go to plan B. Which is apparantly where the Mario Gomez stuff comes from. Which, given the timing, would appear to be the club feeding stories to the papers to remind Johnson’s agent that there are other forwards out there.
Stoor signs.
Roy:
“I am delighted that Fredrik has joined us officially today. He is a player I have followed for some time through my contacts with the Swedish national team. I watched him closely with his club side and we did a lot of research on him.
“Of course I had the opportunity to see him at close hand in the three matches that Sweden played in Euro 2008. and we decided that this was the player for us at right back. Certainly with John Pantsil and Fredrik Stoor we have excellent cover for that position for the coming season.”
Last night we drew 0-0 with Palace in a friendly that featured few first teamers. Nick W was there and may be able to tell us more in the comments, but the big news was the new kit being revealed. I’m tempted to say “we’ll win nothing in that” but I suppose there’s more to winning games than what you’re wearing. Not sure I like it though. Will have to inspect it close up.
But never mind that, read this!
ROY HODGSON is bidding to complete a £33million revamp of his Fulham forward line by snapping up Mario Gomez from Stuttgart.
Craven Cottage boss Hodgson has stolen a march on Arsenal and his negotiators are understood to have agreed a fee of around £15million with the German club.
Bobby Zamora has already joined from West Ham for £6.3m, while ex-Crystal Palace striker Andy Johnson has arrived for £12m from Everton. Now
German international Gomez is close to agreeing personal terms.
Funnily enough I mentioned Gomez earlier in the year. He’d had a poor Euro 2008 tournament, but had scored loads in Germany, so I figured he might be good value. Interesting to see us linked with him. Anything to it? Surely not, but what a story to come from nowhere!
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