Time to close the post on Benteke.
SP confirmed last week that he was not coming our way and it was all media hype.

With but a week or two before the new season is on us,have a feeling that no new £25m + striker will be coming our way soon,and that AP will continue to vary our striker options within the players he has available, with Bolasie /Mutch as cover when Wickham is inevitable injured and Campbell is out long term.

But we'll be relegated by Christmas

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Keith Millen yestday in his interview after our defeat to Fulham, mentioned that Pardew and Parish are working really hard to get strikers in, no mention of course as to who they might be! I am sure Benteke will move somewhere before the start of the season, and there still must be (I believe/hope) there's a chance that might be Palace

Is this about the SP tweet re expectations being raised by the Mail online and others? I feel that this was a tactical comment for bargaining purposes suggesting that we're not pinning all our hopes on the mega deals being quoted in the press. But to interpret it as saying that the Benteke deal (or the Berahino deal for that matter) is dead in the water is imho reading far too much into it.

I think Wilf would be good for that like in the 1-0 cup win over Spurs.

Correct, although if we do not make a striker signing in the next week or two,before the new season gets underway,hope he will include Anderson in his 25 man squad, as another option rather than the already failed Bolasie/Mutch combination.