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If it's true I imagine he wasn't even on our short-list and was drawn out of some sort of tombola transfer raffle

And to think people went into meltdown over Andros Townsend potentially signing.

It looks like Aston Villa could face competition for Tom Cleverley after The Times reported Hull City have also offered £9million for the Manchester United midfielder. Arsenal and Everton are also reported to be interested, but would prefer to wait to see if Cleverley becomes a free agent at the end of the season.

If we want him, sign him. We're currently strong with numbers & quality there at the moment, but. - We get a year more max from Morgan. - Cork future is still up in there air. - Taider is an unknown quantity.

Really? Damn. I thought he might have best fitted in with Guan's criteria of not being a generic winger. Lets see if anything comes out from Koeman's chat with the written-press today. That should be hitting online soon.

Speaking of the little fella... Total Dutch Football @TotalDutchFB Jordy Clasie talking to FoxSports.nl: "My future is not decided" #Feyenoord

Probably get him in exchange for Morgan next summer.

Spurs consider Welbeck & Song loans (with mention of Schneiderlin) http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9444510/transfer-news-alex-song-and-danny-welbeck-linked-with-tottenham

Well as far as incomings go, that wasn't so great.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/11061592/Aston-Villa-to-make-8million-bid-for-Manchester-United-midfielder-Tom-Cleverley.html

That's what I was hoping for. Charlie said on the other thread that Sunderland are apparently in for van Dijk... So maybe that puts them off the trail as well? http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11095/9444140/transfer-news-sunderland-boss-gus-poyet-confident-of-more-signings

Sky Italia correspondent Gianluca Di Marzio is reporting that Arsenal have made a bid for Borussia Dortmund's Greek defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos.

Lets hope we get some more info at Koeman's press conference today.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-manchester-united-target-alessio-2811438 http://www.squawka.com/news/squawka-scouting-report-can-alessio-cerci-cover-for-olivier-giroud/165540

You forget he scores in midweek St Mary's games as well.

LOL @ Villa

Burton @ St Mary's would be lovely. We'll get a tricky away game.

Hopefully more than the 1 that Guan hinted at.

Is this move linked with FFP at all? Whilst I wouldn't let him go myself, I can only hope (if it becomes permanent) that we have got a stupidly high sell-on percentage written into the contract.

I think we'd have been in with a shout for some of our top targets ordinarily, however with the outgoings this summer... I think the perception of the club put a lot of our top targets off.

I said the same thing earlier. We shall soon find out.

http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Crystal-Palace-announce-midfielder-signing/story-22835834-detail/story.html?

That's very true - And those are the sort of players we should be signing. The one's the big clubs look at, but who don't think are ready.

Cheers Guan. We should get Clasie regardless. - Cork doesn't appear to be due a new contract. - Morgan's time here is basically on a count-down. - Taider is an unknown quantity.