A weekly round-up of the transfer rumours in and out of Hull City and the names linked with the vacant manager's position.
Saturday 27th May
To the surprise of no-one – Marco Silva was unveiled as
the new temporary manager of Watford. That’s not his role officially but any
manager at that club is going to be temporary. Joking aside, it’s a brave move
for Silva. Even successful managers have fallen victim to the Pozzos and their
itchy trigger finger.
Sunday 28th May
The Mirror reckon Everton will challenge Spurs for the
signature of Harry Maguire for a fee of £22m. That would be an eye-watering
figure for a player who only has a year on his contract and is approaching ten
times what we paid for Maguire in the first place. Harry has a ton of promise
and is a good age but that would be a huge amount of money for a player who has
only been a first team regular in the Premier League for six months.
The same article has Burnley down as potential suitors
for former loanee striker Oumar Niasse of Everton.
In the Polish media rumours surface linking Kamil
Grosicki with Watford. Don’t worry, the English press will catch up with that
one and run it and run it this week.
Monday 29th May
It’s a day of tenuous links. The club hope to appoint a
manager in the next fortnight. The first link from French site jeunesfooteux.com
links former Yugoslavia and Bosnia international Blaz Sliskovic, now manager of
Croats Zrinjski Mostar, with the job. I think the return of Terry Dolan is more
likely.
Paul Lambert left Wolves after less than a season and was
immediately suggested as a City target by Bleacher Report’s Dean Jones. I don’t
know if this was a rumour, a guess or a prediction. Either way, all of the “newz”
sites picked up on it.
Kamil Grosicki is on the radar of Newcastle United
according to Sportowefakty. Either they have better contacts than most and
would know or they have more interest in making stuff up than the papers over
here. Who knows?
Another of our recently departed loanees Andrea Ranocchia
has been offered to Newcastle say their local, the Chronicle.
Tuesday 30th May
The national Daily Mail suggest that Preston manager
Simon Grayson has impressed the Allams with his achievements in Lancashire on a
shoe-string budget. Grayson does have decent pedigree having won promotion from
League One three times with Preston, Huddersfield and Leeds but does appear to
have hit a ceiling in the middle of the Championship. He has certainly got an
eye for talent and has spotted and developed players like Tom Barkhuizen and
Jordan Hugill this season.
The Mirror claim Marco Silva is set to raid City for
Kamil Grosicki and Eldin Jakupovic and also wants Omar Elabdellaoui. They say
Grosicki would command a fee of £7.7m, Jak a cool £1.8m and Elab-de-mouthful
£5.5m from his parent club Olympiakos.
There are too many stories around Grosicki to imagine he’s
going to be at City next season. Jakupovic seems an unlikelier target for a
Premier League club. He’s an infectious character but not a top-class
goalkeeper. At 32 years old, he might fancy a big move but he’s waited a long
time to play regularly in England. That would be more likely with The Tigers.
Thursday 1st June
A player was actually linked with JOINING City this week.
Sporting’s Dutch left back Marvin Zeegelaar (right) has been linked before and almost
joined Norwich in January. Sport Witness run a story from the Portuguese
newspaper A Bola saying City have shown interest but haven’t made a bid.
The blog Football Whispers say that Liverpool, who have
been linked with Harry Maguire and Andy Robertson in recent weeks, want Josh
Tymon. The 18 year-old is unlikely to sign a professional contract with City
and could leave for a compensation payment. Big clubs have certainly watched
him but I’d wait for a better source than this.
Friday 2nd June
The Mirror are selling Kamil Grosicki for us again on Friday.
West Ham are the latest club who are supposedly going to pay £7.7m for the
Polish winger. I’m not sure how it would go down in LONDON ENGLAND amongst
Hammers fans. They’ve not taken to Robert Snodgrass who was excellent for us
but has struggled since his £10m move in January.
If there is interest in Grosicki from at least three Premiership clubs, including two with serious resources, then why does his transfer fee seem to be pegged at 7.7 million? Why don't City slap a 10 million tag on him and have done with it?
ReplyDeleteWhy hasn't Tymon signed a contract?
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