Saint_Tony

You'd think if we really want him and he has supposedly passed a medical, that this could be tied up in the next couple of days. Rojo is clearly a no go so Gardos might be our only option. A Romanian I work with thinks he is good enough to play for a top four side, sounds promising

If Yoshida is anywhere near the first 11 we will be in deep trouble

Any comments from Ronald after the game? We're still desperately short, need another 4/5. Said at the end of the season we'd need 8/9 signings and that's proving to be the case. Forster looks certain, as well as Gardos. Can see Les still ****ing about trying to sort deals on deadline day. Would be surprised if we're not bottom of the league by then.

Line up still shows how we're lacking squad depth. Still need Forster, 2 defenders (Gardos, VDV) striker (Ings) and a wide player (Redmond)

He's off to United now, so that's that sorted. Waste of time, hopefully Gardos will definitely be coming in now

Koeman said after the Brighton game 2/3 in by the weekend. Since then only one arrival, Taider. Maybe even RoKo isn't ITK?

Good news, I see no reason why Artur won't stay, I think he will be keen to compete for the no.1 shirt. Not seen a lot of Forster, but remember a game against Barca where he made several top drawer saves. Boruc is a good keeper, but has his flaws

We knew other clubs were going to try and screw us over with fees, as we have done ourselves. Just need to accept it, and hurry up and push the move through

Yes, probably a good idea to start discussing formations for a squad including 5 players that don't play for us

Ings would be great, was my first choice for Lambert replacement. Just have to hope someones getting it sorted whilst Les is out wasting too much time and not spending enough money in Portugal

At least Ralph is aware it has been a 'summer of pain'. He's still mainly full of ****, but at least he recognises how bad it has been for the fans

Everything's got rather quiet since the supposed signings at the weekend which never happened. I can understand it takes time, but don't think we have a chance of getting our business done by next weekend. We know about Taider and Forster looks likely, but it's the positions where we actually need reinforcements that I'm worried about

JWP and Scheiderlin should not be mentioned when discussing goals. Fonte and Yoshida are capable of scoring more combined than those 2. Pelle is going to need to be firing, but the jury's still out. We really need someone capable of scoring from distance

Francis saying he wished Lambert would have taken the penalty, hasn't he already had one and missed?I would really like to see him do well at another club. Just not Liverpool. Or Spurs.

Only from the paper talk section on sky sports which mentions Osvaldo will end his stay, but we won't make back our money. Another snippet saying Taider will sign today in a seperate deal. Don't know what papers they are from, but hopefully some truth in it

'no team are harder to place in the one to 20 pecking order until the closure of the transfer window'. From the racing post preview today, pretty much sums it up for me. They have us down as finishing 11th

Sounding more like the two deals aren't connected from reports today, are we going to be selling Osvaldo and getting Taider on loan?

It was his choice to go, a step too far I think. He is a legend here, but could have stayed and been the top man for a couple more seasons. He will come to regret it, but I understand why he went, it was an opportunity he couldn't turn down.

I'd be very concerned at this stage .We probably need 2 cbs, who, looking at our targets are Vlaar and Van Dijk. Fonte has good experience at this level now, but Yoshida and Jos are nowhere near good enough and should not be anywhere near the team (cue several posters trying to claim Yoshida is a solid cb)

Today is the day, 2 new signings to be announced

Expectation will certainly be lower. I think anything above 15th should be expected, I would be happy enough with 10th-14th which is where I think we'll end up. Although it's likely there will be very few points between these placings. If we were to bring in a few more (Forster, Van Dijk/Vlaar, Redmond and Ings/Samaras) we should be aiming for 9th-12th. Still difficult to say with so much of the window left and us taking forever to close out a deal for anyone. A top half finish is too much to expect of RoKo in his first season, but his record in cups inspires hope for a good run where he might show a bit of respect to the competition and the fans, unlike a certain (allegedly) league bonus chasing ex-manager of ours

Pretty sure Hernandez is more than good enough for a regular starting place for us. Laughable that some think otherwise. There's no chance of him coming here anyway. Zaha would be a possibility as it'll probably be a loan

So if we signed Messi that wouldn't be exciting as he is 'untested' in the PL? Who would you suggest as an 'exciting' signing from the PL who would come to us and cost less than £15 million?

Think the 3 will be Taider, Forster and Van Dijk. If we could get Redmond, Vlaar and Ings as well that would be a decent window

The likes of sky are only around to stir things up. Yesterday the main headline was 'Schneiderlin 'Let Me Leave'. There are no direct quotes to support it