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Did well missing out on Rojo I think...

Sadly I'd put a lot of money on this being a cover-up for some other CM we're after. Koeman said someone in before Newcastle right?

He's widely regarded as one of the best talents in world football, really can't see this one coming off. Regularly played Champions League football and will probably soon break into the Germany team, had a poor year for injuries but he's absolutely light years ahead of Ward-Prowse from what I've seen of him. Pretty sure most teams in world football wanted him when he was at Bochum. If it did somehow come off though, we'd have signed Spanish, Dutch, Portugese and German full-internationals this summer. Not bad.

Massive shame but it's going to be another Clyne situation, can only see us getting around £15m for him.

http://cricfree.tv/watch/live/southampton-vs-espanyol-live-streaming Another spanish stream, if you're on Virgin and can't use the livetv one.

Caulker had an absolutely awful season at QPR after an average one at Cardiff, but they are two truly awful teams. Could do a lot worse as a 3rd choice CB, if we can get him back on track then it'd be a good move. Not holding my breath though, proper poor last year.

Pretty much that. Forster Cedric - Fonte - van Dijk - Bertrand Wanyama - Clasie Mane - Tadic - Rodriguez Pelle Subs: Stekelenburg, Yoshida, Targett, Davis, Ward-Prowse, Long, Juanmi

Can anyone translate this interview? Pretty sure he just mentioned Charlie Austin...

http://www.onsball.net/file.php?f=252 Working.

Not trying to be pessimistic but when do we give up on Isgrove? 22 years old with only 15 senior appearances in his entire career. Unsure why we extended his contract in March, assuming he'll be released in 2017.

He was absolutely dreadful last season and is now undergoing surgery, this transfer would be completely uninspiring. Why not van Dijk at £8m or so?

Doesn't sound great, assuming one has to be Vlaar.

He's not very good. Would much prefer van Dijk.

It's only a 45 minute game.

No news is depending on who you believe. Guardian is currently saying that the deal is done and Les Reed is agreeing a settlement with Atletico before it can be confirmed.

Or Atletico would ignore our offer and sell him to Tottenham for the lower price as it's already basically done and we've royally ****ed them off.

Well we've broken off any ties with Atletico, even though we're offering more than Tottenham I can just see them refusing it.

He did say nothing concrete is done, I imagine it just means that the personal terms haven't quite been agreed with Toby yet. Will be shortly though, could even be a little kick up the ass for Spurs.

@HotspurRelated The agent of Toby Alderweireld has said there currently isn't an agreement in place with anyone. #THFC

van Dijk or Abdennour.

1) Not in the near future, because the English youth is quite simply not good enough in comparison to the foreign talent comign through. When a player does actually come through (Sterling, Shaw, Chambers...), you have to hideously inflated fees to buy them. 2) If we're going to progress, we honestly need to do it. I love having an English core and signing players like Forster/Bertrand, but if there isn't any reasonably priced options out there, what's the point. Whilst being commendable, it can't hold us back and we need to find a successful middle ground. Also, any updates on Toby?

For all we know Toby may still want to sign, hopefully he gets asked if he's spoken to him since the Tottenham interest came up.

We'll find out a lot today with Koeman's presser and he's had an interview with Adam Blackmore. He's normally reasonably open with this stuff.

He'll be the Chambers replacement as a back-up/EL right-back.