Deal for Rojo stalls over fee

Hindsight is wonderful but we should have called quits on Zouma mid July and turned to other targets.

For those of a certain vintage the slowies just come on and we are frantically looking who we can hook up with.

Well so far no duff signings from Brands (codicil: see how Mina performs this season), with no purchases above market value, so we'll see what the state of play is when the window crashes shut tonight.

If he signs for us l will wait till l see how he fits in before passing judgement and trust Brands. After all, l have no choice.

Zouma will now be first choice at Chelsea by the looks of things after Lampard has had a look at this options. He won’t now be coming here now, or January. Poor thing.

What are they doing ? I know we need back up but signing Man Utd 's 5th choice defender, on a permanent too, is sheer desperation.

He is always injured or making rash challenges and getting booked risking being sent off. VAR will have a field day with him, he will be a liability.

There has got to be a better option.

If not, get him in on loan only, surely we don't want a permanently injured Man U cast off as a highly paid millstone.

The quoted price of £25m would be a criminal waste of cash.

25m scandalous waste of money with no sell on value! A panic buy!

But I'd rather we sign no-one and stick with Holgate/Pennington/Gibson/Feeney as backup instead of Rojo, who probably won't play that much anyway. And then buy a CB in the January-window instead...

But hopefully this is just a rumour stirred by Man Utd-rags and we buy a CB that's the real deal. As I said there are plenty out there...

We were heavily linked last summer but went with Zouma before. reports are conflicting as to whether that was preferable or because we could not land Rojo.

I watched Rojo a good few times In the 2013/14 season and he was great. He did stand out in the second best side in Portugal. However, it seems that injuries have reduced him and he’s no longer that player. But why would we buy him rather than loan him if that is indeed the case? Maybe Silva and Brands think they can bring Rojo back to his best. The length of contract will say a lot here. It can’t be longer than 3 years.

Surely the club knew early on in the summer that Zouma was a definite no no. We have had a decent transfer window so far, a centre half for me, was top priority.

Luiz obviously put a spanner in the works with his strop, and he’s stamped his feet and got his way. Zouma being a nice guy has just got on with it and will sit on the bench more readily.

If we can get Zouma, next summer, why aren’t we just loaning a centre half for now? That’s what I don’t understand.

Would we have been prepared to risk all in the hope that Zouma would want to join us? Right up until the last minute, so to speak.

As I say, a good window but very disappointed the CH position has not been addressed.

And I thought that we already had a central defender who captains his country - Martina.

I just hope this falls through. He isn't a left back or centre back.

Total scatter gun approach to this window as far as I am concerned.

Linked with just about everyone and bidding on multiple players that don't exactly spark the imagination or will improve the team.

Overloading with defensive midfielders, not addressing last year's failings of lack of goals only buying a 19 year old striker unproven in the prem.

Pretty dissapointing window.

Decent window getting Kean signed up.

Got rid of a lot of dead wood with more likely to go to European and Turkish teams.

Decent window, glad we didn't sign Rojo or Iwobi although there is still 7minutes to go.

Happy with bernard Kean gylfi and Richarlison for our attacking 4 players with Tosun, Walcott and DCL as back.

Ok could have really assaulted the top 4 with Zaha and Zouma in my opinion, but don't write the players off that we got.

I think the loss of Gueye is huge, greater than Zouma and unlike most think that was most important to replace more than any other. Perhaps I will be pleasantly surprised by the signing of Gbamin but from what I have read he seems a totally different profile than Gueye replacement.

All in all, given we had last year to convince Zouma, 6 months to replace Gueye - seems more a failure than success in transfer market this summer. The January market always even harder.

Another long hard season ahead of us in my view.

Gbamin may do a decent job too of filling in, with a bit of luck.

Whatever , I am glad we didn't sign Rojo on a 3-4 year contract , rather the boys or Gbamin be on standby . A loan would have been acceptable.

In addition we have shifted Lookman, Vlasic and McCarthy for decent money and time still to move on Tosun, Henry O and perhaps Schneiderlin (as well as loaning out the likes of Mirallas and Bolasie). Overall a good window

We new we needed one, well in advance yet, left it too late in the hope that somehow we would either get Zouma back, or Fikayo Tomori on loan, the David Luiz situation put paid to that.

I did think that there may have been a revelation late on, but it wasn't to be, but overall considering the situation we were in, and needing more out's than in's, not a bad Window at all.

Apart from that 'oversight'!