Transfer Round-Up

By: John | July 17th, 2009

Incoming:

Aly Cissokho: Should arrive in Lyon either today or tomorrow to take his physical and pen his deal which is said to be worth 15mill with a clause that sees FC Port recieving 20% of his future sale! JMA has found a new nemisis in Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa. Let’s hope we never have to buy from them again.

Andre-Pierre Gignac: Gignac was set to have a meeting today with TFC president Olivier Sadran, who is seemingly more intent than Nice’s Maurice Cohen on keeping his star striker- or maybe he want a fatter price tag, to twist his arm until he allows him to move to OL. Regardless, the saga continues, so we’ll see what develops. OL’s last bid was said to have been 15.5mill.

Vagner Love: The Brazilian striker is seemingly a back-up plan for failed Remy/ Gignac bids, the CSKA Moscow man is supposed to be valued at 18-20mill. No contact has been made as-of-yet.

Kleber: Le Dauphiné Libéré says that Lyon alread made a bid of 8mill for the Brazilian striker and that it was turned-down by Cruzeiro and that they demanded twice the sum. Skysports claims that Cruzeiro set the price at 15mill.

Richard Soumah: With the Bastos pursuit and signing, news of Lyon’s interest in Soumah’s arrival has vanished off the face of the earth. Indeed, right before the Bastos rumors began, and with “LiLo’s” drawn-out negotiations, it seemed like the Guingamp winger would be OL’s first signing of the summer. But now, RMC says that Lille are very interested in him as a replacement for Bastos, but with all that cash they now have, they probably will go after LeMan’s forward Gervinho. More disturbing is that they also claim that OM are now trying to sign him. If Mounier is leaving, we should scoop him up as a back-up to Bastos, at least to keep him out of the hands of Marseille.

Fernando Menagazzo: Huh? Yeah I know, but I’ve seen this rumor in a couple of places and more than once. Why would Lyon be interested? The guy can play anywhere in the midfield except the one place we need: LMF. I don’t know. Maybe some of you better informed could let-me-in-on-it. Anyway, Bordeaux want 5-6 mill for thier midfielder.

Outgoing:

Anthony Mounier: Hopefully with Loic Remy seemingly putting the nail in the cauffin of this deal himself, this whole ordeal will finally be over. Anthony’s potetetial move to Nice seems dead, and hopefully a loan deal can be worked-out in the future, bec I’m sure he’s not staying to play second-fiddle to Bastos.

Fabio Grosso: with Cissokho on his way to town, Grosso’s bags are surely packed and he’s ready to head to back home. Juve and Napoli are said to be vying for his signature.

Cleber Anderson: Anderson is said not be on Puel’s “must keep” list and might be put on the next plane to the first bidder.

Jeremy Pied: The CFA midfielder was loaned to FC Metz for the entire season.