CSA96

Official.

Our club record signing has signed the contract dressed as Hagrid

This should be imminent

Just seen Ornstein correcting that it's not £40m for Toney, it's £33m - considering the talk of what they'd get for Toney if/when they sold him... that's low (granted contracted situation and they got 1yr of extra PL status by keeping him longer)

Chelsea and United making progress on a deal for Jadon Sancho, apparently. Will require Raheem Sterling to go somewhere... Arsenal? I'd take him on loan if I were them, can't see them buying him though

Ornstein / The Athletic: Arsenal reach agreement with Bournemouth to sign Neto on loan, medical on Friday morning - which will allow Ramsdale to complete permanent move to Southampton

Cornet really likes cutting in and shooting from outside the box, heaven help him

Plays RW, LW and LWB. Should mean Manning heads out now Cornet was also used up top by Burnley at times

Cornet is a great player on his day, capable of winning games single-handedly and a good goal record from out wide. From what I understand he was a Sullivan signing and Moyes never wanted him

Went on a scoring run at Arsenal just as his deal was up for renewal and Jesus was injured. Very fortunate, never a £100k striker

Had a medical with Palace, who have committed to spending £30m on him and picking up his £100k a week wage

The other three England keepers are #1s for Everton, Palace and Newcastle - being the Saints #1 gives him a platform, in comparison to sitting at Arsenal and simply not playing

I think someone at the Guardian suggested it was due to some Achilles concerns after conducting the medical

There isn't one? The bid was only accepted last night shortly before the game and he only travelled down this morning to start the medical/contract signing/media duties part of the process?

There goes Trabzonspor's alternative for Onuachu

Yeah, he's gone with Pickford, Pope and Henderson as his three GKs. Fair enough really, all the #1 for their clubs

Aaron Ramsdale not included in Lee Carsley's first England squad, so will be free to train at Staplewood for the next two weeks

Just had a quick search and the Benfica manager did a press conf about 45 mins ago where he said that Cabral doesn't want to fight for a spot in the squad and wants to leave and that they're open to him going... so might be movement to make this possible

More likely. It's only 9am in Sao Paulo

Think it was just a mistype, been corrected since

If it's right at the very end of the window and we've been unable to get a striker/winger in with the 2nd PL loan slot... then yes

Agree. I don't think anything nefarious went on here. I think we were prepared to save money on the GK situation by going for Bijlow on loan, medical confidence dependent. We didn't get the reassurances we were hoping for and have just reallocated budget to buy in the GK position (and ended up with RM's #1 preference) rather than loan someone in, meaning we will probably now use our spare PL loan slot for a wide player/striker rather than buying one of those.