Opprettet 1/26/2009 10:10:59 PM
Sist oppdatert 1/26/2009 10:10:59 PM
Rather than keeping the suspense going...and because I hoped to have a definitive answer but haven´t...here is the list of players I believe were under review...fair play to some very good guessing elsewhere earlier.
These names are not necessarily in order, but the people who watched them strike me as being significant. Obviously this is excluding Marc Janko who is rated too pricey at £9 million right now.
1...NICOLA ZIGIC...I understand Sam was at the Sevilla v Racing game when he scored his third goal in three games...the chief scout had also been at the Getafe game last week...the big Serb has been watched by Sam at past clubs...he is not everyone´s cup of tea, but whatever...the snags here are that he is at his second club of the season - although he did not play for Valencia in La Liga - and that makes it tough...plus the fee would be big...maybe as high as £7 million.
2...MILAN JOVANOVIC...Number two Neil McDonald watched the Serb [what is it with Serbs?] play for Standard Liege...he is ok and quite like Roque in style...problems here are that Standard are wealthy and still in Europe plus chasing a spot in the Champions League...the price could be about £8 million and it´s open to debate whether he is worth it.
3...EDIN DZEKO...A leading scout saw him for Wolfsburg at the weekend...Rovers already know about him from watching his left back team-mate Schafer earlier in the season...scoring a lot of goals...no idea on price...Bosnian but not a Bosman.
I thought a move or a decision might have been taken on one today, but as yet no confirmation of that.
All I can say is that it will be hard to land any of them - or Janko - with time running out.
On top of this - and I should stress this is unconfirmed - my best Man City man tells me they want to sign Roque by midnight tomorrow or it´s off.
This may be idle chat, it´s not a planted threat or anything like that. I´m not even writing that part in the paper tomorrow.
So things are alive but maybe not moving towards a quick conclusion yet.
Still, that´s what managers and chairmen get paid for...
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