Saint Without a Halo

Just the Left? I was there too looked like more than just the left to me! A better defence Pace and and a bit more creativity required, the ability to win the ball back too could have been useful seconfd half! lets hope this deal gets sorted ASAP!

why do we assume Cortese blinked first. Bolongna would say that whatever the truth is! If true and a deal is done at last, we will never know who compomised their position the most!

I'd settle for that from him after today

Reasonable first half very cautious by saints Very poor second half out fought and out passed by wigan. As soon as we started to chase the game we lost all discipline and pattern looked very poor. 2nd goal of a poor defensive error just capped a poor day. Must improve and we need new blood and some pace.

Are you sure? Why not? surely we could own 30% of a player as a company! The FA would not let us own 30% of a player who played for us! The two are very different as we woud plan to own 100% of him before he played. This could actually be a very astute move if possible and true as it would allow us to dicate any price Bologna get as no one will pay them the full amount without agreement with us.

Took them a good two weeks after our deal though! not saying a quick deal is not poossible but it is still unlikely look at chelsea holding out over Moses they could have paid more or Real Madrid over Modric. Everyone is playing the same game. Yes we could lose out but that is called negotiation

From my scant knowledge of lawyers It will probably take a good three days for anyones lawyers to read through the 4 various contracts agreements and report back on them! Never mind negotiate any changes they want even if they are starting with ours as a baseline!

Michael Dawson deal still open could we be interested?

The waiter probably thought you were from Peru with that shirt!

They are not lazy they are broke, the league has lost respect given the match fixing scandels and the general public cannot afford football given the state of the economy. Not quite Greece yet but look at the interest rates on their bonds these days!

Inter have no money to pay 8 m upfront never mind more! they are selling and swapping players cant see Bologna interested in a swap they want cash now!

Ahh reason, common sense, points well made and no personal comments! What else can we ask for!

Inter Milan have no money are shipping their own players out and only brought someone in via a straight swap with AC. Cant see them putting up more than 8m upfront!

It will only when and if we sign an alternative

It is unusual to pay all upfront and not the norm! Maybe we dont have enough money for all out transfers if all our deposits go in one tranche! Anyway we know Bologna need money and no one else is going to pay up- front so why should we! The longer the clock ticks the better our offer looks!

Maybe because we havnt got it yet!

Yes Italy is well and truly screwed what with the economy, corruption and the match fixing scandals income to football clubs is dropping even Inter are selling all their players Bologna are bankrupt need funds and hoping to flush someone out with more funds or a better cash flow deal but are fast running out of time 9 days and ticking now!

Alps do you really think we only do one deal at a time. i am sure there are a whole number of targets lined up and we all know that most deals happen closer to the end of the window when the selling clubs begin to panic! Keep the faith we will be OK!

I think we should reduce our offer by a fixed amount every day they dont accept it! that would give them a real dilemma of "Bird in the hand? worth two in the bush!" Stop them ffing about and we would flush out their true intentions too and move the main focus on to others if need be!

With Blackpool now top of the championship Holloway is going to be even more of a pain!

Apparently only women can multi task!

QPR paying 9m for dawson apparently on Sky news http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11675/8008391/Spurs-accept-Dawson-offer- 1) puts Ramirez price into perspective 2) gives Spurs some more money?

Bolgna are in **** and need the money as do most Italian clubs including the Milans! the only teams with real money are in the premiere league and the two big spanish clubs. Bologna are hoping for more and they want to show their fans they are not desperate to sell, but the probability is they will have to make do with what Saints have on the table. This deadlock is not unlike Modric to Real at the moment except that Bologna need to sell more than Spurs. The fact the deal is complicated and not straight is also to our advantage given the time effort and attention it has taken us to get here and the number of days left for anyone else to have a go!.

This is spot on!

Fishy? Bloody hell Pompey in for him then? wouldnt put it past those cheats!