Your mention of Rooney possibly looking to sign Bird or Sibs got me doing a little digging, apparently the following players at Brum are out of contract next year with 7 I think 30 or over, so maybe theres a deal to be done if Rooney does come calling for one of these in return?
Neil Etheridge, John Ruddy, Marc Roberts (with option), Kevin Long (with option), Nico Gordon, Marcel Oakley, Ivan Sunjic, Gary Gardner, Alfie Chang (with option), Keshi Anderson (with option), Scott Hogan, Lukas Jutkiewicz.
Seems Hull and a n other Champ club also interested in Blackett-Taylor so that may be the end of that!
Also talk of revisiting Marvin Johnson at Sheff Wed, again this seems like click bait, looking at players we were supposedly interested in last summer?
Also are wing backs, wide players what we need right now? I get it a pacey wide midfielder who can actually get past the defence would be useful, but if we are not looking to sign a defensive hard tackling midfielder, I'd be somewhat concerned.