Dempsey and Podolski would be a bloody good attempt to get more goals into the squad. At ten million he's good business.

Good player but let's be honest, we'd all prefer Kagawa (let alone Götze/Hazard).

Klaus wrote:

Dempsey and Podolski would be a bloody good attempt to get more goals into the squad. At ten million he's good business.

I agree. Goals we need, goals he brings.

He's a pretty good player who's having a career year.

What's that about Sagna? Hadn't heard that anywhere else.

He's got knock. Like clap, but less serious.

If we sign Podolski, I'm not sure I think there's room for another senior attacking player here unless someone we're not expecting leaves the club.

asajoseph wrote:

If we sign Podolski, I'm not sure I think there's room for another senior attacking player here unless someone we're not expecting leaves the club.

I think that Podolski in is a cover for RvP out, so maybe Dempsey in as well ?

We aren't going to sign Podolski to ONLY play when Van Persie is out (i.e. the roll Chamakh has played this season - bugger all!).

If we get Podolski, I would expect to see a lot of him up the left, as well as taking the pressure off Robin up the middle (i.e. covering for injury, and allowing to come off after 70 minutes every now and then, and maybe even resting him). With that in mind, and Theo, Gervinho, Chamberlain and maybe Miyaichi coming back as well, I'd be surprised to see space for Dempsey open up anywhere.

We have people scouting Dempsey? I thought they only scouted youngsters.

Agent trying to get more money out of Fulham and/or drum up interest.

Podolslki / Dempsey would be very good summer.
What do people want? An exotic name or someone who can come in and perform from day one?

I think people hope for a Kagawa/Hazard signing, but there are only a handful of players like that on the market this summer. Most of them are unlikely to move to begin with, and if they do richer clubs than us will be in for them.

Claudius wrote:

Podolslki / Dempsey would be very good summer.
What do people want? An exotic name or someone who can come in and perform from day one?

We're pretty well stocked in the positions Dempsey plays already so if we're signing someone else to go into that area of the pitch I'd rather we signed a real world beater.

Unless you think we're signing him as back up for RVP in which case I'd rather a proper striker.

Good player, settled in London and a pretty proven goal scorer with tons of premiership experience. Hard to see a negative if we were to sign him although I can't quite work out where/when he would play. Be a good signing but I can't really see it happening.

Dempsey would be a decent squad player for us. Wouldn't say no for about 10-12 mill. He could do the left forward position in the matches where we need solidity and fight rather than pace and skill, ie in the matches that Yossi and Ramsey have been playing on the wing.