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Liverpool also mentioned. Arsenal & West Ham also feature this morning as having interest.

Loving this thread this morning. We've got eyes on the ground, eyes in the air. We've got it well covered If Les is off to Zurich, maybe he's heading off to "Scrooge McDuck" our riches?

Indeed! Ulrich van Gobbel

STOKE HAVE JONES HOPES Stoke assistant manager Mark Bowen claims the club are hopeful of signing defender Phil Jones from Manchester United in the next week. United boss Jose Mourinho appears to be going with Eric Bailly and Daley Blind as his centre-back pairing, and with Chris Smalling also in the mix, Jones may be tempted to move on for regular first-team football. Stoke manager Mark Hughes is keen to land the England international, and Bowen has confirmed a deal could materialise. "I don't know what's gone wrong, but he's gone from even a player Fergie [Alex Ferguson] was talking about as being someone who could have been one of the greats. But we have a bit of reputation for bringing players like that into this set-up and then thriving. Fingers crossed, something may happen."

Get French Football ‏@GFFN Chelsea, Tottenham, Watford & Valencia do not rule out moving concretely for Sofiane Boufal before the window shuts http://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2016/valencia-watford-tottenham-chelsea-remain-in-the-hunt-for-sofiane-boufal/ #BoufalWatch

Fonte & Mourinho have the same agent so they could have terms agreed without even making an approach. I'm sure there's mileage to run on this deal yet.

You could be right. - Stanciu & Boufal are genuine No.10's. - Ghezzal is more of a winger. Left sided, but has been playing on the right.

4m Euros?!?!? (Ah! just seen the above) - Well we seem to be sowing our seeds across Europe with Boufal / Stanciu / Ghezzal Guessing it's one from 3?

#ITK_Watch is an on-going process.

Cheers for the update AR-10. Does there need to be a BID though? There's normally a long-winded unsettling period 1st isn't there? "No.10" & a forward?

No surprise that as the window is closing more & more of these players being crossed off the list. Interesting how the Boufal whispers have died down. Very little in the French media about him, whereas weeks ago we were getting daily updates about him going to various clubs.

I know, maybe we should which is why I put Austin up front in that role in my formation. (He's not great at it, but he's the best we've got).

The curious thing is do the club know that? (Hence him never being mentioned re: new contracts).

Not sure if he's injured or not.... Then again, Barnsley do have some of that Stones money to spend...

He's a little bit like Jack Cork in the sense that I like him, and he would look good alongside Vic or Morgan... But as a lone defensive midfielder? I'm not 100% sold on that.

Maybe not. Slightly different type of midfielder - But Romeu did get better as last season went on.

Nope they didn't. 4-2-3-1

Telegraph Football ‏@TeleFootball #efc in talks to sign Deportivo La Coruna forward Lucas Perez Martinez, reports @Matt_Law_DT http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/08/22/everton-in-talks-to-sign-deportivo-la-coruna-forward-lucas-perez/ ^ This is who GGalpin speculated *may* have been Guan's left-sided attacker we missed out on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPc4HEZxC4 There's a fair few misses in that lot though!

CHELSEA REBUFFED BY MILAN AC Milan have turned down a £30m offer from Chelsea for defender Alessio Romagnoli, according to Sky in Italy. It is understood Milan do not want to sell the centre-back this window. Romagnoli joined Milan for £21m last summer from Roma and is an Italy u-21 international.

Liverpool / Arsenal / Sunderland all mentioned.

Damn it, I'll give you the Redmond one. Hopefully Scottish in Burke's case too

I don't know why, but I've always like signing Championship players and it's something we don't do enough of. I don't have my nerdy spreadsheet to hand, but who were our last signings from there? J-Rod & Clyney?

Corrected my post, Norm. Just for you.

No square pegs in round holes tonight. Everyone playing in their right position. Good pressing, lots of hard work and good combinations. Really impressed with what I've seen. Could (& should) of had more goals.