Caen striker flies in for trial

David, Fulham want a reported £10m for Dempsey.

Would like to see someone with talent, pace and the ability to chip in with a few goals on the right-hand side even if it is only for 30 minutes every game. If the lad is good enough to force himself into the reckoning for a starting place so much the better.

May light a fire under Vellios and Vic to boot.

Don't know anything about this lad, but if Arsenal are / were interested it is usually a good sign. Likely to get more opportunities with us than them if he is good enough, and if a trial has been set-up he must consider us as an option., and we must have some idea that we could use him.

I believe that Hutton at about two million is a great investment and would help to balance the side so that our play does not need to always go through bainaar to be effective. The other right sided option is making Coleman the right back and give him time to settle.

We don't want to sell a young asset that gave us cash on a old, even if good, player that gives us no resale or growth in value. So if it goes ahead and is true.. well that would be interesting.

I know absolutely nothing about this Niang fella but I think I'd prefer someone like Dempsey as we need someone who can come in and play immediately, without a 'settling in' season or two.

Dempsey is a good player but he's expensive and has zero resale value. Plus surely our priority has to be a right winger. Any striker we buy will be second in the pecking to Jelavic.

Would love to see Holtby here.

Seems different than punts on the likes of Vellios or Gueye. Those are risks that if they pay off, great, but if they don't then the financial cost of the initial investment isn't crippling. If we end up spending £6million on a teenage then it would have to be a) he can contribute immediate AND b) he has great potential sell on value. That strikes me as the kind of gamble that we probably should be taking, assuming we're in a position to gamble at all.

Niang and Johnson and we could have some real attacking weapons to go with our solid defense. Fingers crossed.

Niang is extremely highly rated. The expectation on his shoulders is stratospheric in comparison to Gueye. This kid is Rooneyesqe material. I can be shocked if we got him, bu I can only assume that it would be on the proviso that he plays straight away and then we sell him for 30mill in one or two years. I'm more shocked that we're being linked with him than I was about Rodwell being sold.

I'm just hoping that this isn't another Riquelme!

This M'baye Niang is a bit like Shrek, a one-off, once-in-a-lifetime talent, from what I've heard. Stade Malherbe Caen are worse off then us financially, so I would prefer to see us take a chance rather then stay amongst the mediocre group of teams that sit below the top four, which is where we'll remain if we keep signing players around the current level.

I like Moyes as our manager and he's taken us in the right direction over the last ten years... but one criticism I would have of him is that he takes too long vetting and assessing players before signing them. Fair enough, we don't have a lot of money, so we need to make sure we spend it wisely, but the difference between a good manager and great manager is someone who is willing to take those chances; this kid is one.

Someone once said my name whilst sneezing though, hence the nickname......... SNOT

The article also said that Moyes would have the full 12 mil to spend. In that case i's spend the other 6 on a right mid. Holtby and the Greek I can't spell seam to be the big speculations. If we pull it off we could be in for a season.

I agree with Mick that we need a right back, but we need other positions much more. Currently Pienaar is our only really creative player. When we do sign one I expect someone better than Hutton.

This guy is out of our league and has a lot bigger fish after him. Smells like another Bk Phantom bid to me.

1) Too Young
2) Too risky given the fee
3) Looks good on YouTube
4) Magaye Gueye No. 2
5) Get Landon Donovan
6) We only play one striker anyway
7) Sell Big Vic
8) Niang is awesome

Sorry if I have missed anything out.

Niang might look good but it's a bit of risk that I don't think we can financially afford. £6Mill should be spent on bringing in a couple of faces to fill out the squad, starting with Adam Johnson's wages and another loan, preferably a Baines back up or a new right back.

I can't say I'm particularly happy to lose Rodwell and Cahill. But if the Everton linked players are for real, we'll become much better balanced.

Jon Ferguson 151: And a colleague of mine - a Brentford fan - is impressed with Bidwell. We have backup for Baines. Next year, I'd look at bringing in a right back. But right now? A striker, followed by right mid.

Regarding your question about how a post gets promoted, it doesn't need any word from EFC if we deem the source to be legitimate enough. If it hits the BBC, then you know there's something to it; depending on how the Echo cover it, that's also a reason to lift it out of the Rumour Mill; and often we'll go with Sky Sports transfer stories as news if we feel right about it.

Obviously, the intent is to be as responsible as we can about delivering news that is not yet official and not link-baiting to draw people in under false presences.

I'd also like to see Coleman put at RB and given a years experience in that position, he'll make mistakes but he needs to learn and if he even gets half as good as Baines we'd be laughing! Everything we create comes from that left side and has done the last 3 years; teams know they need to just mark Baines out of the game and we're out of ideas!!

Need to get RW over another striker. This Belgian lad coming in, Jelavic and Naismith being able to do a job up there if we need it.