Championship - Transfer Talk: Spurred on

Eurosport - Tue, 22 Jul 10:56:00 2008

Norwich are currently embarking on a buy-everyone-in-sight strategy last employed by Tottenham in the short-lived Frank Arnesen era, whereby a preposterous amount of players are brought into the club at the same time in the hope that some of them turn out to be vaguely decent.

FOOTBALL Glenn Roeder 2007 - 0

For Wayne Routledge, Andy Reid, Michael Dawson, Sean Davis and Pedro Mendes, read Wes Hoolahan, Sammy Clingan, Dejan Stefanovic, Ryan Bertrand and Elliot Omozusi, who have already arrived.

Canaries boss Glenn Roeder (pictured) is now being linked with Luton midfielder David Bell, Newcastle forwards Andy Carroll and Shola Ameobi, Southampton striker Grzegorz Rasiak and Leicester target man Steve Howard, who, should they arrive at Carrow Road, will all hope to avoid becoming the next David Limbersky, Emil Hallfredsson, Mounir El Hamdaoui, Radek Cerny or Calum Davenport. Exactly.

Rather than pour water on the rumours so as not to over-excite the fans, Roeder has opted for the commendably more newsworthy fanning-the-flames approach, telling the Eastern Daily Press: "I feel pretty confident we'll have another two by the middle of the week and I'd like to think before the start of next week there'll be another one or two in as well."

Moving away from ambitious and not particularly convincing Spurs-Norwich comparisons, the Daily Mirror reports that Huddersfield are set to make a joint £700,00 bid for Ipswich Town pair Alan Lee and Gary Roberts.

Elsewhere, Sheffield United have reportedly agreed a fee with Watford for the sale of striker Darius Henderson, who has also attracted pretending-not-to-look glances from Cardiff, Birmingham and Wolves.

Should Shola Ameobi pitch up in the Championship, he could find himself facing off against his younger brother Tomi Ameobi.

The 19 year-old Leeds striker has been on trial at Doncaster Rovers, whose coach Sean O'Driscoll was moved to say, "He's a couple years away from being the finished article but he's got a presence about him."

Tom Williams / Eurosport

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  1. This is a ridiculous article - the Spurs/Norwich comparisons are absurd and totally untrue - so Norwich have bought more players than QPR and Spurs more than Liverpool? - er, no. This man knows nothing about football.

    From ianthompson1971, on Sat 26 Jul 2:49PM

  2. Some what unfair comments on Glen Roeder. 16 playes out in 9 months. So far 4 permanent players in during the same period, and on a tight budget. Glen has got to get the transfers right though. He let Hucks go when he was loyal to City, loved by the fans and still had plenty to offer. By the end of August I reckon we will still have a smaller squad then when he became manager. And I think we may see more players leave. It is a gamble.

    From past_master9, on Wed 23 Jul 12:03AM
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