WEEKLY TRANSFER ROUND-UP IV

Although defo Lyon are stupid to pay Portos asking price. As for Eto o-get real,a player at 28 who has just scored 30 la liga goals and won the trble will NEVER join Lyon-last year was our chance for Eto o,last year Barca didnt want him because his form or the clubs form wasnt that good,no other clubs were that interested and Pep didnt like him. This year he is back to being one of the very best,top clubs want him and Ideally Barca want to keep him,and there is no need for us to have two world class strikers like Eto o and Lisandro,because what will happen if we stop the 4-4-2-what your gonna drop Lisandro or Eto o even ?We need a player for back up like that Kleber guy we wanted or Mbokani. We have Lisandro then all we need is a player like Gignac/Remy/Kleber/Mbokani,Bastos,Cissokho and Lucio/Tamas/sum decent CB.

Completely disagree with Grosso being better than Aly-Aly is Fitter,quicker,much younger and more lively than Grosso-Aly is much much better-its true his fee is a bit on the riduculous side,and Andre Santos represents much better value-and it seems no club is really seriously interested in Santos,but in terms of player quality at this stage in Grosso career Cissokho is way better. And obviously management agree with me hence they want to get rid of Grosso and sign Aly. Grosso-Bastos would never develop-Grosso may even retire or be sold next year. Bastos-25,Cissokho-21. That could really develop,He mat have only done well for six months but in those six months he proved his class at 21.

http://goal.com/en/news/90/fra...

interesting stuff about aly in there

Well, as usual, I am not disappointed by Lyon's mercato. They always buy the players the fans want them to buy. But be careful, all the good things you say about bastos, we were saying the same with Keita. You never know how a player will adapt to a new team.

It is interesting to see this new wave in French football with young coaches in the big teams (Deschamps, Blanc, Puel)...
I don't really want to see Remy back though. I'd prefer us to get Gignac although he is a mercenary (changing clubs at will).

I don't really know why you want to get Cissokho. I'd keep Grosso over anyone else. He didn't have a bad game in the last months. His weakness is that he attacks too much, but combined with Bastos who can play LB, they could make a great pair. No need to spend 19 millions on Cissokho who was just on fire for 6 months. If you want to spend this kind of money, get Eto'o.

I believe on paper the team is just as strong as any other big club in europe (except for the huge clubs like Barca and real), we can get really far..

I especially cant wait to see Bastos-I believe he could be really special,I dont want to jinx the lad but I think if he works hard,shows his confidance and Gels-he could be a key man for us.14 goals and 9 assists will only potentially improve at Lyon.But I wont get carried away yet and till its official-I wouldnt want to jinx the transfer in any way.With Bastos,Lisandro,Cissokho,Gignac/Remy/? and a new CB Lyon should make the the QF and who knows maybe further.

The next season will be totally freaking awesome, kinda Ligue 1 dream team upfront, with Bastos, lisandro, gignac, etc

http://209.85.229.132/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.francefootball.fr/F...

interesting-Faccioli claims Bastos is all but a Lyon player,and it should be finalized by Thursday,also he says Cissokho should arrive. And that Lyon hope to sign one of Gignac or Remy-if not both-sounds uncessary to get both and probably bullshit. Things are really starting to get interesting thank God-I was really conserned/bored after June. And Lisandro will be presented tomorrow.

Somebody asked about Boussoufa the other day:
http://goal.com/en/news/11/tra...

I also heard Marseille wanted Lucio-that really would be annoying if they got him. Diawara-Lucio=Rock

They wrote that Marseille is also interested in him,it would be shit if they get him instead of us.

Well if its true its good surprisingly for a ligue 2 CB theres quite a lot of interest in Benatia and he is a morrocan international so he must be decent

Ronan,I read it on a German website and they have the informatin from www.atlas-lions.nl.Do you know him?

Benatia is a centre back,any CB is a good move-I also thought abot Tamas,amongst those I have previously mentioned.

theo walcott-where did you read Lyon want Mehdi Benatia

from the lame google translate it says an agreement was reached for 18m and he'll sign in the next few hours

I read that Lyon is interested in Mehdi Benatia from Clermont Foot,looks like an interesting player.Does anyone know something more about him or saw him play?

http://www.les-transferts.com/...
Can anyone translate this,please?

And I was thinking Amr Zaki and Remy to complete the strikers with Lisandro

I was thinking Afonso Alves and Remy to complete the strikers with Lisandro

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

I'm from france and i used to post on olweb forum. The lyon fan's are agree about the short list player. There are interesting, very approved by lyon challenge, and potentially great player, but our problem is the price rising. The market is igniting, maybe real madrid start first. Lille ask 18M€ for Bastos that's incredible, not international player, porto want 19M€ for cissokho who have played his best level for only 6 month!

I just wanted to say that we have bigger problems then the Defence problem,for example our Attack.Also I dont see Sarr-Ciani or Diakhate-Caceres better then Cris-Boumsong,the only defender who would help us a lot would be Lucio or even Ignashevich,noone else.

Teams similar to us Roma-conceeded an average of less than 1 goal a game. Porto-1.3 goals a game. What Im trying to say is that the CB at the back is the only real thing stopping us from getting further in the CL(providing we sign these players we are rumourd to be)so another solid CB would see us get a stage further than without one for me. Lots of options Diakhate,Apam,Lucio,Cacares,Ciani,Ignashevich,Sarr-one of them would do us the world of good along side Cissokho,Bastos,Remy and Lisandro

I disagree with your centre back view,Cris-Boumsong will probably get you a ligue 1 title but thise two will always struggle in the CL and ultimately its some kind of CL success that people at the club want. For me you have to ask yourself-would Crsi-Boumsong be able to handle a team like Barcas,Man U,Madrids offense and the answer is no-now thats not to bad Coz most teams defences cant handle Barca or Man u,but when your conceeding three to Steau,2 at home to Fiorentina,3 at home to Bayern,5 away at Barca-that really isnt good.Last season in the CL we conceeded on average two goals every game and that isnt good for a club of are status and level.

I dont realy think that we have a problem with our CBs even if I wouldnt mind if we should buy a new CB.It is time that Grenier and Tafer start playing in our first team and get some playing time at least like Mounier and Pjanic get last seaason and Pjanic and Mounier should get very much playing time,dont forget how Pjanic played in Metz and how expensive he was and for Mounier,if he wouldnt play in this season,it is better he goes to Nice and became one of their best players.

I dont think that Puel will give the chance CFA players. Last season our team played bad and they hadnt got a chance. It would have been better to see Tafer instead of Piquone. Now we will have a stronger squad. I also think that we should sell Clerc and give Gassama a chance, he has more potential than Clerc

Although if played along side Lucio I feel Cris would improve so maybe Cris-Lucio

well in terms of results and trophies Arsenal got worse when Henry left,but I get the point.I think we should sell Clerc and Bodmer,replace Clerc with Gassama-I think we should play with two attacking fullbacks-Gassama and Cissokho are ideal pacey full backs for getting forward.Sell Bodmer because if he is to play CB he is useless and we may as well buy a proper CB.Lucio would be phenominal-I can Imagine-

Lloris
Gassama-Lucio-Boumsong-Cissokho
Ederson-Toulalan-Makoun-Bastos
Remy-Lisandro

quality.(possibly Rev coming in for Gassama if he looks shakey)

Exciting times, can't believe we've got Lopez and by the looks of things Bastos - they both really are top quality players! I think Bastos is exactly the kind of player that Lyon needed last season. I'm praying that all these players can gel together as a unit, without obvious superstars like Juni and Benzema maybe the team will work better like when Henry left Arsenal.

Definately-I thought last season when thw first team was struggling we should have given CFA players a chance-afterall thats the only way you find players like Mounier,Benzema,BenArfa,Remy,Govou,Kanoute,Giuly,Luyindula have all come from are reserves I think Defo players like Abenzoar,Faure,Gassama,Kolodziejczak,Grenier,Mounier,Tafer,Lacazette should all be given there chance because I believe at least one of those players could play and have a real impact.That doesnt mean we should stop the signings though-Lucio would be fantastic,a solid CB,Good heading skills,a real leader.

Lucio would be great but I dont think that he will come to Lyon.With Lisandro who has already signed and Bastos who I hope will sign in the next few weeks,all we need to do is to buy a LB and a second ST.I tought that we need to buy another CB but with Boumsong,Mensah,Cris and Bodmer its better that we give someone from the CFA a chance(Seguin,N'Diaye,Abenzoar) or buy a new perspective young player for a small amount of money.I also think that Lyon should give more playing time for their youth
like Grenier and Tafer,they are both great players and should get a chance,at least in the French Cup.I thought we could do something like Arsenal and give the reserve and young players a chance in the Cup.In our squad are plenty of talented,young players who we must gave a chance to play.What do you think?

There is probably no truth to this whatsoever but if there was it would be fantastic

http://www.goal.com/fr/news/71...

jeremy pied plays for us he is going to metz on loan

http://www.transfermarketweb.c...
Isnt he already playing for our CFA?

Bodmer must be stupid-firstly he wont even be given the chance to ever prove himself in CB and even if he was given an extended run in the team at CB-he will never ever beat off the competition from the likes of Mexes,Gallas,Escude,Squillaci,Sakho-and more.I think he is most definately here for his contract any passionate footballer who had a talent in midfield like Bodmer does would be desperate to leave-not desperate to stay to play out of position,and thats at best for him-he is only 26 and he should leave. I think Boumsong is OK-but he has to have a reliable partner. Cris is 32 and for me past it,he wont recapture his form of when he was 29 at this stage,but I was thinking the problem maybe that when Squillaci was here,didnt Cris play LCB. I know he likes RCB but maybe he is best at LCB. Theres a rumour Lyon want Lucio-that would be great.I think for LB we are fine if we sell Grosso and bring in Cissokho and Bastos,and Kallstrom and Mounier stay. Bastos can slot in to LB if by chance Cissokho gets injured.

Bodmer did an interview last week where he stated he will transitioning to defense full time because that seems to be where his future lies and is the position that will most likely get him to the World Cup next year if he has a great season.

its easy to forget about him i guess but Lyon had a lot of defensive injuries in general last year. hopefully this year will be different.

Inara, you forgot about John Mensah. Hopefully he wont be as injury prone because he is a really great defender.

I think we need two of these three offensive players: Bastos, Gignac and Remy. If we get all three, it would mean Remy sits on the bench and he leaves next year. Even two of these players causes problems again in the midfield: If Bastos and Gignac come, it means Govou and Ederson have to vie for time on the right(add Remy to that mix if we have Pierre and Lisandro up front), or Ederson and one of the CMF's Toul/Mak have to share time. Anyway, I think it's a long-shot we get all three, but it's would be hell of a welcome problem to have.

Rev is more defensive- ass-raping by Mancini aside.

Dror: I always viewed Clerc as more offensive and Rev more defensive. Clerc has even played up-field at RMF and RWF several times since I've been an OL fan.

I know its not much to go on, but Gignac impressed me with his confidence the second he stepped onto the pitch for his first cap. he had an instant impact that I havent seen a player make for the NT in a long time. to me it says that he can handle the pressure of the CL for sure.

^^^Silly to compare Gignac and Remy based on their performances with le nat when together they only have 4 caps combined. Gignac did get that assist on Ribery's goal against Lithuania, but still silly way to compare them.

anyone know how much of the budget is left for new signings...assuming the Bastos deal went through?

I guess Remy is more versatile than Gignac but based on performances for Les Bleus Gignac is more of the finished product as a striker.

Remy did not impress me when he played for France.

A comment says in there they cant wait to see Lisandro team up with Bastos and Remy-very true neither can i.(THATS IF THEY COME HOPEFULLY)

I dont like this tag CL material for young players-look at Cissokho,Benzema in fact look at every player who has played in the CL-they have had to start somewhere,for me Remy will be the element of surprise,he is very talented but not well known and just like players who have gone before he will succeed. Id be a bit worried if we were paying 16mill for a player who wasnt CL material,but yer if we play a 4-4-2 we still need another cheapish striker for back up. Sanogo,Luyindula-sum 1 like that. I think Remy looks like a 1980/1981 Michael Jackson,and Bastos looks like Robinho.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Lisandro is fucking clinical! omg, atleast from this video it looks like he can finish

Dont forget Bastos hasnt signed yet-far from it we need to hope/be patient,and then I pray to God he will be here because he is excellant. Remy,Lisandro,Bastos,Cissokho,CB leads to Lyon being very strong

I dont know. I think I still prefer Gignac to Remy. Maybe Remy has a lot of potential but I dont think he's CL material just yet.

this is so awesome.

Bastos + Lisandro = WOW

now the priority is to get a good second striker for the 4-4-2.

hopefully Grosso will stay. I dont want Cissoko anymore for that raping of a price. screw porto.

I suspect Remy will want to come if he has been told that he will pertner Lisandro in a 4-4-2,because that was his biggest concern-coming here not playing and missing out on France world cup squad-but if he plays well for us he will be in the french team-but even if he plays well with Nice the chances are he wont be in South Africa.

not a huge difference between them, but i think Clerc is better defensively and Rev offensively.
as for not signing a CB and staying with Cris + Boum as our starters, i don't think its that much of a disaster, Boum improved a lot in the 2nd half of last season and Cris did the opposite, but i believe he still has it in him

What do you guys think is Clerc better than Reveillere?

It looks that we wont sign anyone for defence.

if Bastos is here that is great news. the top two players i was hoping would come were lisandro and bastos. also, i prefer remy as well but i still dont like the 14mil and Mounier for one good season with Nice. Is Mounier a loan deal?

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10...

It says Puel wants to play a 4-4-2 with Remy-Lisandro up front and I imagine Ederson-Toulalan-Makoun-Bastos in midfield. Even though I really want Lyon to sign a Centre back because I feel are ones are week so Im expecting(please God are new speculated recruits come)

Lloris
Clerc-Cris-Boumsong-Cissokho
Ederson-Toulalan-Makoun-Bastos
Remy-Lisandro

flash,Mercato365. I prefer Remy to Gignac,Gignac only uses his right foot,and I think Remy is technically the better player-as well as he is a true Lyon who cares about Lyon-but who knows even if we do some how agree a deal with Nice-Remy didnt seem that keen on coming. I reckon your right about Cissokhos medical-I think Milan did it for money purposes

The whole Cissokho medical failure was set by AC Milan just to buy him for less money than Porto was asking.
Remy and Gignac-I like tham both but I like a litlle bit more Remy and Bastos is great.

Ronan,where did you find this?

I believe the failed medical with Cissokho all was just a evil plot set up by Galliani. There will be nothing wrong with his medical. If we get both remy and Bastos we'll be a force. And with Remy we don't need another striker.

Apparently Bastos and Cissokho are close,and the biggest shock is that Nice have decided to accept Lyons Remy bid-dont know if I believe that. Bastos should be easy to conclude but Cissokhos and Remys might not-Cissokho may fail are medical,and Remy is unsure weather he wants to join Lyon.we will see.

No Bastos will be 16mill plus 2mill for the incentives

Everything is slowly coming to fruition. Nice has set a price for Remy. So it will be:

Bastos: 18 million + incentives.
Remy: 14 million plus Mounier
Cissokho: 15 million rising to 19 million.

Perfect.

If the deal is true and Lyon have offered 15mill,then it would seem silly for Aulas to offer all that money and not pay the bonuses. Despite the high fee its not me whos paying and afterall Lyon have sold more money than they have bought so far so i guess they will.We need another CB for sure if we want CL success(QF)so a new CB,Cissokho,Bastos,Lisandro and a striker and we are good.

**** this is insane, 15m + bonuses for a 21 year old Left Back! He came to Porto for freaking 300.000!!! he's been there for six months! OMG, we are fucking crazy to buy him, worst is, we will, and even worse, i kinda like it :D I know this may have consequenses for future buyings, from now on, clubs will set much higher prices when they negotiate us. On the other hand, i like that Aulas is flexing his muscles and showing his ambitions. With Bastos and one striker, preferably Gignac, i think both Lyon and Marseille can get really dangerous in Europe next year.

Aulas will give the money and we will sign him. There is noone who is better then him who we could sign. We need Cisssokho and Bastos to be a very strong team.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/90...
Hahahahaha. I hope OL never deals with Porto again, this is insane.

Ronan:
Dont forget Malouda(came from EA Guingamp for 4mil),M.Diarra(from Vitesse for 3.9mil) or even Benzema who came from the U-19,why dont give tafer a chance to be at least the 3rd striker.Its easy to buy already proven players for big money but its hard to find a cheap,young and perspective player who will became a futher star.
I also think that Emanuelson is at least as good as Cissokho is.Also he is a proven player,he had several matches for his national team,he played in the CL with Ajax,over 120 matches in the Eredivisie and he is for me much better than Cissokho.
For your strikers,Mbokani would be a solid 2nd striker and i am not sure for Kleber and Sanogo(especially Sanogo).Who is Pellisier?

Let me get this straight: AC Milan were going to pay 15mill for Cissokho before they pulled-out. Now no one else is in the market for him except Milan who want a loan on the cheap. Now JMA bids the prior agreed upon price 15mill when he has no competition? That's crazy. Obviously OL has the upperhand and can negotiate on their terms, like the Lisandro negotiations. I don't understand it: first,you let yourself get jerked around then you volunteer yourself to get robbed. Maybe Aulas is better at selling than buying. And go after Santos or a cheaper LB and save your money for the attack. Gignac/Bastos are much higher priorities IMO.

Emanuelson is good-not as good as Cissokho though. Cissokho is way better than Grosso-that was an outrageous comment-who wants the player who doesnt care about Lyon,32,slow,Lazy,lathatgic,cant be bothered to get forward at Lyon compared to Cissokho who is young,fast,defends well,supports attacks through runs. Cissokho is most definately better than Cissokho-clearly management thinks the same as well.Eto o-best striker in Spain,playing for the best club in the world-Lyon isnt an option for him. Last season was different,Barca had struggled,he wasnt in good form,the club didnt want him-so he was available. Now he is a superstar and Lyon cant compete in his eyes.Besides he would have to play and we would be forced into a 4-4-2 every game. Cissokho is overated-Porto value him like hes one of the best LBs in the world-that is to far but no doubt he is very good and I would love him here,even if Aulas is mad to pay the fee.(Cissokho is better than Morel,Grosso and Obradovic-bot Emanuelson-Cissokho is close)

Funnaly enough most OL fans wouldnt want a young ligue 2 striker to be given the 2 stiker position.,sure I agree we cant have two world class stikers but coming down to "young ligue 2 strikers" is a bit downgrading-I was thinking a player who gets 10 goals a season in one of the top leagues suits us-someone like Mbokani,Kleber,Pellisier,Sanogo-sum one who is decent but will settle for second best behind Lisandro.Planus-you must think Bordeaux are fools if you think they would sell Planus and Diawara-besides what so good about planus.

Lyon should forget Cissokho,for 19mil we could buy a much better player like Urby Emanuelson(10mil),Jérémy Morel(4mil) or Ivan Obradovic(8mil).
LLORIS
CLERC-BOUMSONG-PLANUS(8mil)-EMANUELSON(10mil)
GOVOU----TOULALAN-MAKOUN----BASTOS(15mil)
EDERSON
LISANDRO LOPEZ
IN:Planus,Urby,Bastos and some young perspective Ligue 2 players like Soumah,we dont need any other players.Our Midfield is very good and with Bastos it`s great and I think that for our Attack,with Lisandro and Tafer,we need to buy another striker maybe from the Ligue 2 because Puel wont change the One striker system and we cant have 2 world class stikers with one sitting on the bench.Has anyone an idea what young Ligue 2 stiker we could buy?

Cissokho is overrated. I have the feeling to read the same comments you guys wrote when we got Kolo.

Grosso is way better than Cissokho and I'd prefer to keep him. I know Eto'o said he wasn't especially interested in France, but as he can't make a move to Man City or United anymore, shouldn't we try to get him? Of course his salary is crazy but he is for me the best striker of the last 2~3 years with Ibrahimovitch.
If Eto'o has no options, he may be tempted to join us. and 25 millions is cheap for someone like him.

Otherwise, we must go for Real's strikers that noone is interested in.

We must buy Cissokho, he is one of the best LB in the world. I dont care about the money, our team must become stronger if we wont to win Ligue 1 title. If we dont buy him who should we buy? Santos wont come to us.

The reason why Lyon dont want Grosso is because he didnt played good last season, like most players on our team, and Cissokho is a much better player than Grosso

I'm a Fulham season ticket holder and saw him in the flesh and blood, so yes. But also watched him play for Arsenal a couple of times on tv. I think he has potential, but at this current stage it is very difficult to tell how he will develop as a player. As many players start off promising but fall by the wayside as their career develops. He has good pace and trickery and is perhaps more suited as a winger than a LB. He didn't seem spectacular. Not all of Arsenal's youth products turn out to be good - take Justin Hoyte for example.

What do people know about Kolo? I remember there being encouraging reports when he signed. I don't understand why Lyon seem so keen for Grosso to go as he has good experience and quality.

Meh, I'd rather wait for Kolo to develop, then sign Traore.

Also, Ronan "You're fed up"....Wow. The reason why Lille, Toulouse, Nice, etc., are demanding such high fees, among other reasons, is because their players are going DIRECTLY TO LEAGUE RIVALS, clubs that are hindering THEIR SUCCESS. If Marseille really want Rami so bad, then they should pay what Lille are demanding. I think Inara mentioned how overseas clubs and those that border us don't squabble over prices, they just sign. It's that simple.

Sam:
Of course i saw him play and with the sentence he is from Arsenal so must be a good player I didnt mean he plays for a great club so he must be good I mean he finished their football school wich is one of the best in the world so he can play good football.Who cares about is he inexpirienced if he plays good,in Milan every player is expirienced but they havent a good team.He will get expirience with the time.Cissokho isnt so good,just because he played 5-10 good matches he is worth 15-20mil?!Armand isnt so bad,he could be at least a back up for Santos or Cissokho.And have you ever saw Traore play Sam??Clichy is one of the best left backs in the world so its hard to play for Armand when Clichy is fit and in good form and also with Gibbs.

Yer No way Armand Traore,he couldnt break into Portsmouth let alone Arsenal. Aly Cissokho is best in terms of quality,but price wise look no further than Andre Santos for 6-7mill-people have talked about Santos for the last month joining Barca,Milan,Roma,Juve but as of yet there hasnt been one bid-which suggests its false speculation-I say move in now-Id like Cissokho but when you have Porto rejecting a bid of 15mill for him that is senseless-so we should move on.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11...

Im fed up with these French clubs demanding huge masses of money for players(ie Toulouse,Lille,Nice)I hope Bastos does this-I want him here

'he's from Arsenal so must be a good player'? Have you ever even seen the guy play? It's pretty ridiculous chatting about all these names when you have no idea of their actualy ability or how they would work for Lyon. Put simply, Traore is very inexperienced and certainly not what Lyon need, he is error prone and is the understudy to Clichy - whether he will make it big or not in the future I don't really know.

RONAN:
If Porto is asking 15+mil for Cissokho Lyon should forget him,nobody will pay this.There are much better and cheaper alternatives like A.Santos for about 10-12mil or Armand Traore because he is young,fast,cheap and is from Arsenal so he must be a good player.We could sign him for about 5mil and i am sure that Cissokho isnt much better then Armand.

Yea Ronan i know it's crazy, But as long as we get him i really don't care.

Reportedly Lyon have bid the acceptable 15mill for Aly,but Porto want 1mill each year for the next four years in incentives-so in total they want 19mill-are they having a laugh !? they bought this guy for 300 000 just 7 months ago,he makes six or seven solid appearances and they are charging the price of a world class LB-complete joke,as much as I like Aly if you pay anymore than 10mill for him you are stupid. Can you imagine Lisandro for 24mill an Cissokho for 15mill-39mill. When are initial bid was 25mill. Mind you I will be happy if we sign Cissokho.

If you want another big time striker,Vucinic fits perfectly,tall,quick,versatile(can play AM and LW/RW),young,CL pedigree.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11...

also unless we buy a new CB we need to play thet bit more defencively because of the vulnerability of Cris-Boumsong,especially in CL play-Im telling you come up against Real,Barcas or Man u offense next year and they will show those two up completely,-if we buy another big money striker then we have to play a 4-4-2 because we cant drop one of them to play a different formation-like 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3. I think buying a 8-10mill stiker who offers an aerial threat would be the best for us,and with pace-I tell you Brandao would be ideal for us-and then a Cb,Bastos,Cissokho the new striker and then im 100% satisfied. Now we are being linked with Vagner Love,although he is good-he has a very similar style to Lisandro and like Lisandro he is only small,so we would be better off elsewhere.

I think Cissokho-Bastos would bring much more attacking foootball. Those two are very attack minded players-where as last season we had a pathetic,lathargic left side consisting of any player who was available to play in the LB/LW poition-a lot of the time players were out of position playing in either LB or LW-and they wernt good so ultimately the left side was shit. Bastos is creative,assists and pacey,while Cissokho is pacey and loves getting forward-so those two youthful players would create a much more lively,quality and attacking left side than last season.I dont think we have the players for a 4-4-2,are CM area is the most packed in the team so playing two players there and leaving three out will be difficult.

As I see it : we got 35 + 8.5 = 43.5 millions from the sell of Keita and Benzema. Plus we lost their huge salaries as well as Juninho's.
We "only" spent 24 millions on Lisandro.
Even if we spend 12 + 18 on Cissokho and Bastos, we would only have spent 10 millions (and we will probably sell Grosso in the meantime). So really we should get at least 1 more CL level stirker.

It seems Lyon are trying to rebuild a south american force. I saw we went after Kleber. If we can get the players right, our portuguese speaking community (if we include Cissokho and Lisandro) could become deadly.

For me the priority is a striker. If we get Bastos and Cissokho but no stikers, it just means we will see the exact same season as last year playing a football turned towards the defense.
Puel, I beg you, give me a 4-4-2!

Well, IMO, i believe we should get remy next year, as Govou will probably be gone then, our priorities should be bastos and Cissokho, if we get those two, i will find t hard to see how we can afford Gignac, but if we do, it would be great!

I don't know about you guys, but after being an utter disaster at the beginning, I thought Kallstrom made large strides at LB towards the end of the season. He looked damned good, even stealing balls and tackling like a seasoned defender; I thought me may even be developing the skills to play at DMF consistantly. I think he's more than capable to play back-up or even start against weaker sides in L1- maybe not Marseilles or Bordeaux obviously- but I'm not sure about Europe.

I think paying 15mill for Cissokho is majorly inflated,but you cant blame Porto for that-if I was a Porto fan I would be furious with Cissokho,Lisandro and Gonzalez all being sold-three key players in recent times gone. So if they hadnt sold Gonzalez and Lopez they would probably accept about 11mill for Aly. The main thing is regardless of the big fee,is that Cissokho is a very talented LB,and it will be a pleasure to have him here. Grosso just looked clumsy and Lazy last season for us-not for Italy. While Cissokho was bombing up and down all the time for Porto-Cissokho and Bastos would be so good for the lest side

No if we let Grosso leave and we sign Bastos and Cissokho we are fine for LB-Cissokho obviously is first choice LB,if he gets injured/suspended Bastos can play LB and Mounier can move into LW. Are left side is Kallstrom,Bastos,Cissokho and Mounier-all of them can play LB and LW

http://www.olweb.fr/fr/Accueil...
http://goal.com/en/news/10/ita...
If grosso leaves and we sign Cissokho,do we need another LB or should we give Kolo a chance?If Kim would be the back up for LB like last season we need to buy 2 LBs.

I think JMA's nutts for offering anywhere upwards of 8mill for Cissokho. No one else seems to be bidding, just Milan waiting around to see if they can get some cheap loan deal. But if Aulas brings him in as well as either Bastos/Gignac or both, he will be forgiven.

http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/l...
http://www.ligue1.com/ligue1/l...
It looks very promising!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.les-transferts.com/...

this reckons Cissokho is imminant
Even if the price is inflated,at least were getting a quality young left back,but I doubt,I hope not,but with spending so much on Cissokho Lyon probably wont buy Bastos,because that would be 30mill on the left side in total. But Cissokho-Bastos would be as good or better than Abidal-Malouda.