Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Can't see the fuss. Matt comes out and says what 90% of the population (outside of Manchester and Kent) were thinking and suddenly he's the bad guy. Rooney was knackered by half time and contributed little to the game thereafter. That said, sometimes you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't. If he had hauled Rooney off, and we'd still lost, he'd been tarred with the same brush as Graham Taylor when he hauled Lineker off for Alan Smith in 1992.

That would be just peachy.

Back up plan to get a central midfielder if we don't get Steven Davis maybe?

Apparently NC has been telling them that Southampton has the best looking girls in Britain, with fewer morals than a Barclays banker...

So its not like we're last choice then?

Our interest in Davis has all gone v. quiet over the last day or so. Primed for Anfield instead or just the way we do things?!

Good name but should probably miss any pre-season tours to Zimbabwe, just in case.

QPR have signed Man Utd left back Fabio on a season long loan. Presumably that'll end their interest in Buttner (if they think the deal to us is done and dusted)?

So he's a kind of 'reverse Skacel' then? A LB who we will play LM or CM rather than a LM we play at LB?

Clear Adkins wants more Butt in the side. If we sign Buttner & Butland to go with Butterfield would make this clear. Expect further interest in Jacob Butterfield, Hans-Jorg Butt to challenge KD as GK & Nicky Butt to join as a coach soon.

According to some Twitter posts, we're now favourites to sign him. Tenuous at best but hey, I thought I'd post it!

Anyone can claim to be ITK but only those with true inner sight can truly be ITK...

Would prefer Davis to Jenas, who we've also been linked to. Hopefully nothing in link to Liverpool as it was all looking quite hopeful for us.

Only take him if he's as good as the last Jermaine to grace SMS...

Been quite a few stories around recently about Liverpool being interested in Mark Davies of Bolton. Wonder if this article has been written about the wrong player?

I wonder if there might be some further news today, if he did sign yesterday as suggested?

Good job he knows better then!

Has he been photographed in a new shirt yet? Someone said on another thread that there was boardroom activity today. Sounds good!

I thought we did our deals in posh New Forest hotels now?

Spearmint Rhino?

Talking of which anything on Steven Davis. Weirdos? Normal people? Anyone?

Article on the Ugly Inside website saying Dan Harding could be the subject of a bid from Sheff Weds soon. Might explain why we're looking at Buttner?

Did anyone else catch this or has it been repeated since this morning, has anyone heard?

£6 mill for Butland or McGregor for free or Forster for £2 mill. The latter both with much more top class experience (well, SPL anyway). Thing is would we spend £6 mill on Butland and then make him Kelvin's back up? If it's true we're willing to spend big on him, surely he'd be coming in as first choice?

Adkins desperate for some Butt?