Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

It's Mayuka.

Ok, so in my mind, we've signed Ramirez, Mayuka, Fontas and Boilesen. In reality Sibley will tell us the Ramirez deal is off or Dickson has handed in a transfer request.

Knowing the way we prolong things, probably just a re-hash of Adkins comments... Nonetheless hopes are up...

Apparently he was driving inconsistently. They'll never make this stick...

Just typed todomanyaa into Google and it lists it on Facebook as an unofficial club site. I guess it's/they're the Penarol Ugly Inside?

...translated by Google as... No idea if this is reliable but would suggest a fee has been agreed with Penarol.

How big is the cheese sandwich? For my kids, I'll cut it in 4 so it would be a quarter of the two bits of bread with the cheese in the middle. Are we talking the full two bits of bread, cheese (my fave is red leicester), u****? I need clarification before entering into any bet with you.

What does your Ajax supporting mate say about Boilesen?

Phew! At least he didn't say Forecast...

Although they're both wingers, I think it depends what you're after. Ince is left footed and, whilst it appears to me that he has a bit of pace, he is more about trickery and would be more like a poorer version of Ramirez IMO. Phillips, on the other hand, is more about pace and power, is more explosive, is right footed and would presumably play where Jay Rod is failing on the left, cutting in on his right foot. If we do get Ramirez and we can get a Blackpool winger, I think we're making the right choice for our requirements.

You won't be able to find the article even if he does sign.

So basically we're paying the money to Bologna but Penarol 30% of any sell on fee? Not joint ownership per se but like a legal charge put over property? I guess this way neither Saints nor Bologna blinked first, it was the agent who did (unheard of?). Whatever, hopefully we'll be welcoming a much needed creative force into the team very soon.

Arse.

Couldn't get in the Bolton side last year? Sounds great...

On the online translator I used, it says Fiorentina were a "step away" from signing Ramirez last year. Seems to be a habitual problem teams getting close to signing him only for deals to fall through near the end then? No wonder he's annoyed with Bologna, if so, and why we're also potentially having difficulty getting over the finish line.

The only nagging concern for me is that there's no fall back position of the loan window to fall back on as in the Champ and League 1. Still in NC & NA we trust & hope for a couple of decent, maybe even exciting, signings before the window closes.

At Gatwick now, just back from Menorca. I'll see if I can find him..

Interesting that we suddenly slap in a 6m bid just after NC supposedly met with Ramirez's representatives. Can't see us signing both so maybe that meet didn't go so well?

My eternally optimistic side is hoping that the reason there's still been no announcement of the squad numbers is because we're hopeful of adding a player or 2 before the Citeh game. My realistic side says, though, that we just haven't announced them yet. Schizophrenia is so hard to deal with; I never know which side of me to believe.

http://www.molineuxmix.co.uk/vb/showthread.php?t=72486&page=4 According to this Wolves forum they turned down £8m from West Ham but now the Star are saying they've accepted £6m from us? Need a new accountant, methinks! Would be an excellent signing, if we could get him, but can't see Wolves accepting £6m when they're demanding more than £12m for Fletcher. Still, on the plus side, with this and the Danny Rose stories, we at least have some viable rumours going round again!

Nowt from Nigel after the game about new arrivals then? Or are we still working very, very hard behind the scenes?

Yes, let's loan out the only striker scoring regularly in pre season. That said, Nigel's new formation looks like there will be plenty of bench time for Billy if he can't get in ahead of Rickie so stranger things have happened. Crazy if we do, IMO.

Tell him to forget the cr*p sweets or biscuits when he's back in the office & to bring us back a football megastar instead. Ta.

According to Alan Nixon, our "main man" has been away. Might explain the current lack of activity. [Ducks & covers whilst all the 'what the f**k is Cortese doing away at this key point of pre season' posts fly around...]

Agreed; I'm sure Vitesse said something about Buttner signing an 'agreement' (presumably with his dad) after he joined Vitesse, which his dad says is valid, but which neither Vitesse nor Saints are willing to honour - quite rightly - as it occurred after he signed up. Silly lad, if so, as he's made himself untransferrable as who would just lump over some cash to his dad for no good reason?