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Nah, it will drag on and on and on and on. Probably weeks and weeks until we have anything concluded.

Ah ok - cool. Just catching up on all the developments myself...all over BBC, Sky sports etc. So it's definetley happening, just need to get the player to decide. Got a feeling this will drag and drag though.

What worries me about Dann is that he only seemed to work well with Roger Johnson, but I do think that Dann was the better defender out of the 2.

Where has that come from?

For £1m that's a bit of a steal to be honest. Not sure we'd go for Rodriguez and Yakubu though.

I don't think it's a pure swap deal. Once we complete the Rodriguez deal Burnley can then talk to Chaplow, but they have to also pay a fee for him.

We have much more than £5m available to spend, which has been confirmed by Burnley's acceptance of our £7m bid.

You'd think the local journo's have a few closer sources, so the fact that they brought this out first and are now confirming it kind of adds a bit more weight to it.

He's probably spending his premiership bonus on a nice new pad.

Rodriguez is exactly the type of transfer we'd make. Young, Hungry and British. I'd be stunned if we signed any old has-beens this year.

Check out his goals. He's got a bit of everything.

According to the Journo twitter, we never had a bid accepted last year. We went in with a couple but they wanted a bit more each time, this is the most progress we've made. And please let us get rid of that flaming Delap transfer record.

*IF* the rumours have been true we've been after a CM anyway, what with our interest in that Spanish midfielder. and to be fair, Hammond should get his crack. A fair few people said he wouldn't make the step up to the championship, but he did bloody well.

I'd have said our targets from day 1 have been: GK, CB CM ST and RW Losing chappers doesn't change that, so it's possible he's on the fringes anyway.

Well according to the journo on twitter, no one will top our offer. ''Huge'' offer and £6.5m is only the start of it apparently. If he wants to play for England he'll need to leave Burnley, no disrespect to them...but he'll have to show some ambition and make the break.

Better player too, IMO.

The bloke who wrote that article is also on twitter, it's more than 6.5m - that's just the up front fee. We've also apparently offered mega dosh to Jay. People might look at it and say it's an obscene amount of money, but in the grand scheme of things these days - it isn't. And we're buying a future England international centre forward in my opinion.

Looks like it's moved a step closer. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-agree-a-fee-for-jay-rodriguez-851590

There was a rumour I heard a while back stating that one of our midfielders would be going the other way, couldn't quite work out who at the time - but it was always likley to be Chaplow due to his burnley connections. Jay Rod would be a stunning signing. I really, really, really rate him so much as a player. Top top class, will be an England international at some point. Hopefully with us.

Would agree with that. Don't think we have anything to worry about with this one.

Juventus involved again??? Didn't they learn last time?

Cracking signing for Swansea, very very good player. Can see them establishing themselves in this league as they have a very good nucleus there. They could probably do with another goal scorer to compliment Graham, but they do have a nifty little team there.

Would agree with the comments on Adam Johnson, the squad should be the other way round. Downing should be the standby winger. Johnson was more positive in his cameo than Downing was all game. Just a total non-football player, similar to Henderson. 2 players that you watch and just think ''what do they actually do??''

What an awful game of football.

But Christ, what an horrendous game of football. I've never seen so much **** in 120mins. Pleased for Hudders given how far they pushed us 2 seasons ago.