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Is that it? If he was that keen it would have been done by now.

From Adkins, check out the interview on saints player.

Maybe Cortese has a 2nd job? Can't blame him.

Well exactly, but we have fans that would moan either way. This is exactly why transfers should be kept silent until 100%, and i'm fairley confident this will happen as Cork has no where else to go and he's on record stating that he wants to get it sorted for pre-season.

"The majority of deals in this transfer window are done towards the end of July and in August. The deals that are done earlier are probably done because Clubs are desperate to build a whole team, we have a whole team and we are just trying to hand pick one or two or three to enhance the group that we have got and make us better." To the people panicking - read that. To people thinking we need an entirely new team, we don't. We can wait until august 31st for all I care, as long as we get the required quality.

http://shed.chelseafc.com/chat/forum_chelsea_open.shtml?1:50:lastpost:13381194&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

But Riise would very likely be a loan deal anyway, so Roma would cough up most of the wages.

Fail.

Still there for me.

.......Jack Cork, who's heading to Southampton. #CFC Darren_Can Darren Can Chelsea are ready to sell one of their stars............ #CFC

Don't agree with that at all. He'd walk into every championship team, and quite a few premiership teams. He's not the ''top level'' player he once was, but we're not playing at the top level so he'd be a great asset. You can't pass up the oppertunity to sign quality like Riise, and you can't rely just on youth. Look what happend the last time we tried that!!

Then the first thing we should do is report Burnley to the FA for tapping up.

tbf Clubs have had long enough to bid for him, Burnley want him but obviously don't have the money. The fact we've annouced it makes me believe we're almost there. I'd be totally devestated if he signs for someone else now, and it'll show why the club needs to keep quiet until it's 100%!!!.

Pretty much expect this to be a done deal. We never annouce officially until we're almost there. + we're the only club that have actually had permission to speak to him and his agent.

It would quadruple what leicester city have spent so far

I'm following it on twitter.

TBF Adkins should have known the lads personality and attitude from the off anyway, seeing as he worked with him for a few years.

Adkins confirmed it in the press Conf. which makes me believe we're pretty close to annoucing it....(we're the only club to have a bid accepted as well, so he's got no one else to talk to)

This is one of the best press conf's Adkins has ever done!

Money was always avaliable.

Quoted 4m, but I don't think anyone has actually stumped up the cash yet.

Totally agree with everything you say there. As we've seen with M'Boro last season, they spent £12m - they finished bottom half. Swansea barley spent a penny, but kept a squad together for years and built on the momentum.

CMS will join Lecister today, pretty much done and dusted. I expect us to either get maynard, or go for a forigen player.

Possibly the wages he wanted, and maybe his mindset for moving down south. Maybe he feels we can get better value elsewhere? Who knows, but at least it shows we have significant money to use.

I think that's what Cortese said in January, we were trying for players like Mackail-Smith etc but they kept quoting the chambo fee we may be getting.