Swansea step up their bid to sign Bristol City's Albert Adomah

“@Cider_Dog:

So we don't have enough strikers to cover for loss of form/injury and you propose selling Pitman and buying someone else??

That doesn't really crack it on the numbers front, does it?

OK, I'll go over the £7m bit again for those who can read but not understand or perhpas prefer not to.

I said, that if Rodriguez who Southampton signed for £7m was worth that then so is Adomah.Now, you can consider that Rodriguez is also worth £3m or that Albert is worth more.

Matter of opinion, really.

@ manchestergas:

Firstly, they won't be going anywhere without a bid being made.It hasn't-Please don't believe the made up articles on here.

Secondly, they already earn a great deal more than Carayol did and probably does so your reasoning's flawed.”

“...and anyone talking about Owen must have memory loss about Marcus Stewart and Michael Bridges as the 'dream team' up front...”

“There is no doubt we need a good striker - doesn't any team? But what price are we looking at? OK now that Taylor is struggling it is bare bones time. If this is the case it might just be the long awaited chance that Pitman has of showing what he can do with a proper run. I think the guy has been written off by too many too quickly, and I'm hoping pre season form (and fitness) might be the making of him.

I seem to recall Jon Stead was pretty much the forgotten man at City till he got his chance when Maynard shot off and Steady took it with both hands.”

“Sell Albert for 7 million?, buy Owen with the cash?...some people here has spent too far long without football this summer lol.

I'd like to think that we could keep AA for another season and then get a higher price for him with a year left on his contract, tricky yes, but worth the risk IMO.

As for the striker, I feel that Baldock 'signing' has died a death, which is no bad thing.

If we sold Pittman we could perhaps push the boat out for a proven NPC striker.”

“I don't think it would be an amazingly huge loss to see Albert leave us, as long as the price is right and we use the money to bring in someone else. I honestly don't think Albert touches the class of Scott Sinclair though. Albert is a very talented winger who is still learning, he could learn a few tricks from Dyer at Swansea which could help him develop...I wouldn't mind keeping Albert for another season though, you never know we could get more for him. Hes got 2 years left on his current contract so there's no real need to let him go anytime soon, as Derek McInnes has stated. In my eyes Albert is slightly over-rated, i mean he's probably the most talented footballers in our squad but i would like to see him in the Premiership first where it's a totally different ball game. As David Cotterill found out. I do rate Albert don't get me wrong. I just believe he's not as fantastic as some people make out. He's worth around 3m, yes, but there are a couple of flaws in Alberts game, which need sorting out. He may be able to sort them out with a little help from players at a better club however, i guess he hasn't got many players around him with hugely great ability at the present time! I wouldn't mind seeing Albert having his chance in the Premiership though, just to see if he can make it or not.”

“OH, BEFORE I FORGET EXACTLY HOW HAVE SWANSEA STEPPED UP THEIR BID????????????”

“Whoops-I meant I wouldn't compare Sinclair & Adomah.”

“@ Big_Gregory

We played Soton who paid that for Rodriquz from Burnley-What I said was that if Rodriquez was worth £7m so was AA.I would compare AA with Sinclair (Price is due to him having only one year left on his contract) and I wouldn't have paid £35m for Andy Carroll or £15m for Joe Allen, however beauty is in the eye..............

Michael Owen-No thanks.

My understanding is that one player will sign before we play Gillingham who have just been fined about £70k for discrimination against Mark McGammon (remember him)and one before we play Forest or shortly afterwards.

That'll be it, pretty much, on the permanent side but I reckon there will be at least one, possibly two, Prem loan players in before the end of Sept.

Every player has his price and we don't want another Maynard on our hands-Offset that with trying to be succesful and you'll see”

“Some of these posts have made me chuckle. A few suggesting AA is worth £7m - I heard Scott Sinclair is leaving for less than that so why would Swansea make a net loss and have a fraction of the player?

As for the Michael Owen suggestion...............come on get real!!!

Is it 10th Aug or 1st April today?”

“Owen has already stated, he expects another couple of seasons, in the top flight and that's not the Championship!

Time to get back to reality guys!”