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Looks like all their focus has gone into trying to secure that deadline day deal for Juan Román Riquelme.

Dan Sheldon is pretty much 100% it happened, both renewals. He said people at the club have told him, but the club have decided not to release the info. I'd be surprised if someone so steadfast on that view was wrong, as it will totally kill his credibility.

I think they're just putting 2 and 2 together. A loan for one of their GK's was called off (he was heading to Luton) and there was an article about us and interest etc, so they've just assumed it'll happen. I still think it's potentially one for the summer, I can't see how we could carry McCarthy, Forster, Cabellero, Johnstone and Lewis as first team goalkeepers for the rest of the season.

Lol. I think Everton is done. I don't know what to make of Newcastle, 1) the Media are absolutely thriving on the drama and pantomime, and I'm fairly sure making a lot of stuff up. but 2) They are panicking as they need an attacker and haven't got anyone they've gone in for yet. That's what happens when you have no clear strategy or targets coming into a window. But I will say that Newcastle is food and drink for Sky Sports transfer deadline day.

Lingard will get more game time now, they have an extra gap in their first team without Greenwood. Newcastle fans having a mini meltdown as they desperately needed an attacker or they're down, apparently. Love fans emotional over reactions!

Sky Sports also reporting it as £40m, but structured heavily on appearances. Maybe free initially, but lots of adds on based on appearances and achievements by the sounds of it which could take it up to that level.

Sounds like a wind up to me, Twitter is full of them on days like this.

That's true, as they already got El Ghazi.

I thought Everton were in the shit with FFP? They've just splurged £30m on two full backs already, whilst getting £25m for Dinge. Not sure how they'd be able to wangle the £25-30m it would cost to get Ali permanent. Loan deal makes more sense, surely.

It stunk for me the moment it was called off to be honest, what stinks even more is that they haven't played any of their re-arranged fixtures yet. They have a perfect opportunity in FA Cup weekend (not to play us, but another of their called off games). There have been some mid-week gaps in the last couple of weeks to replay it, it's not even been spoken about. The Brentford called off game was re-arranged pretty quickly. They want to spend their money before they play their rearranged games so they have the best possible chance to win those games, that in it's self is creating an unfair advantage given the money they have to play with. They're so short on players, so unfit etc...but perfectly fit enough to fly away to Saudi Arabia and play a 90 min dick swinging friendly match. It's so obvious what they're doing, I'm surprised some are not seeing it. The call off criteria has been changed now, so you have to have at least '4 positive' cases - Why the f**k it wasn't that before I will never know, shambles from the first minute by the PL and they've allowed this situation to manifest it's self.

Some of these people on SSN are moronic. ''Tuchel has been complaining his players are tired, they've got more games coming up. Buy new players then!'' Amazing.

It's not the footballer.

Shame Ramsey feels he has to retire this early! Still got the legs to do it in the PL in my opinion, but he's been busy rejecting PL clubs all window. Retirement it is then.

Might a full deal for the summer, but a loan deal today. That's how I've read it anyway.

Looks like Newcastle are trying to sign Yannick Carrasco, £50m. Not sure if it's a summer deal or a deal for now though.

TV's in the concourse are done as far as I know, the hold up has been the screens in the stadium bowl it's self. It's not an excuse, but the electrical chip shortage at the moment is causing havoc for electrical purchases of any type. I know certain electrical components have a 400 day lead time, so I'd be 110% sure this is the cause of the delay and nothing other than that.

If we had someone lined up, then yeah...let him go, option to buy and forget about him. Weirdly though, we've not had him for a month and I've not missed him at all. So maybe we do feel as if we can risk it.

Hugo Ekeitie on his way in there now, £30-35m, thats a quality young player. Re: Man City, you have to remember they didn't dive straight into Toure, Silva, Augero etc - they came 2 or 3 windows further down the line. They started off buying the likes of Gareth Barry, Lescott, Santa Cruz etc - so proven PL players. Newcastle's signings, in terms of the links feels a bit scattergun - but that's probably the media making it up for fun. You can't argue that they've signed proven PL players though. They've got the money to bin off those guys in the summer if they do job number 1.

Marina Granovskaia - she's basically Martin Semmens equivalent at Chelsea.

I reckon Chelsea are looking at the Emile Smith-Rowe situation, very similar. He was on loan abroad, didn't really happen - funnily enough, we were sniffing around him as well and he went to Huddersfield and ripped it up. And he pretty much never looked back and Arsenal now have a really good player who is the first name on their team sheet.

It feels like the positions we need to buy for are better suited to the summer market. It's not like we have holes in the squad, we just need better quality than we have in those positions at the moment. Number 10/attacking player for one (Aljorin guy fills that spot) and obviously a GK. That's such a huge signing for us, we need to get that right...we need our Emi Martinez/Lukas Fabianski style signing as those guys are worth points every season to West Ham/Villa. We'll probably go balls out to get Broja, but if he continues his progression here then I reckon Newcastle will just outbid us.

And he's his manager who works for CAA.

Totally different types of player. If we lost Broja, we'd lose a key component of our game which none of our forwards provide. When the inevitable happens in the summer we will need to buy a replacement type centre forward, as having someone with his pace and power has really taken our game up a level. It's not just what he does as such, it's how he allows the rest of the team to alter their style.

Yeah, 11pm tomorrow. I'm not ITK, this is just my take on the links we've had. Anjorin is going out on loan to the Championship, so that's not a goer for us. Carvalho is going to Liverpool, pretty much done and dusted. I think he'll be loaned back to Fulham for the remainder. The Broja situation isn't going to budge, the summer will decide that and sadly I think it'll probably be game over for us by then if he carries on his form. Dele Ali is still rumbling in the background for a few clubs, he needs to leave and has been told he won't play at Spurs...so he'll end up somewhere tomorrow. This is based on nothing by the way, but we usually operate like cloak and daggers and we're experts at not leaking stuff - maybe that's why all the Ali talk in the media re: all other clubs has died a death as we're the ones trying? Who knows. Not expecting anything though, truth be told. We're in an unusual position of not really requiring anything and we're in more of a 'nice to have' position.

I wonder if we have a sell on? I imagine he wouldn't be less than £15m, so we may get a tiny % of the fee if we did a sell on.