Who are available and who will come?

Go on, name one...

I'll bet Villa aren't.

For sure its a shed load of money but if that's the way things are then so be it, I am in no way downbeat about the deals being done by the club / management.
Although in my wish list I would have loved to have seen a deal done with Liverpool structured in such a way to somehow include Joe Allen (obviously not for the same price) - oh well maybe I wouldn't like who they would have wanted in return (cash + player) & maybe that's just a wish too far....

1. Benteke is a top class international striker. AV fans will tell you an absolute beast who single handedly kept them up for 3 years
2. 30m is the right price for such a player. He will pay a significant chunk of it back in the number of additional places we will rise up the league table with him
3. He will score 15-20 premier league goals (same as Giroud/Costa/Lukaku/Ighalo/Sanchez last year). This is harder to find than 24c gold mermaid sh1t.

Get it done. Please.

Certainly LFC fans want to see the back of him.

As to all these transfers there is a risk a club overpays if it does it's business early rather than at the end of the window when teams have a settled team after 2/3 games and know who they will and can dispose of. Palace could well have sat tight and attempted to wait until the end of the window and pushed a hard bargain, but LFC know there is still basically 8 weeks to go until the window shuts. Its a catch 22 situation in that LFC will want the funds to invest on new players...CPFC want the player in pre-season training....the player will want some security...who flinches first?

I am so pro this deal happening and think it is huge for us. This guy gets goals wherever he has been and he scored at LFC with very little first team action. Having him for those 2/3 games in August may be the difference of finishing 10th or 6th which next year is about £2m a place....so overall this becomes an educated gamble on going for it at £30m and securing more prize money or bargaining and ending up with a player later on in the window and costing that prize money.

As you can probably tell I'm very much up for this deal as well. Liverpool will recoup pretty much all the money they've just spent on Mane and I have had many Saints fans say that they'd rather have Benteke over Mane.