S-Clarke

At the end of the day, if you leave your business until the last day then yes - it's very exciting, but also has the potential to be incredibly frustrating. Look at utd for example, flapping around in the final few hours trying for all these different midfielders. It's clear to me that Fellani wasn't ever their main choice, yet they've been forced to completely pay over the odds for a decent, but not great central midfielder. That's their only business, and you'd have to say he wasn't even the sort of Cm they were lacking. If anything, Arsenal and Man Utd's business should have been the other way around. Arsenal are similar, OK they've signed an absolute world class player...but it just screams of being done to appease the fans more than what they really needed. Their defensive is average and their lack of a holding midfielder will mean that they don't win anything again. Crystal Palace obviously had no strategy what so ever. Half of the players they signed were available weeks ago anyway, so why they left it til the last day is beyond me. They've signed some utter panic driven dross as well. I think people are right when they say that clubs who buy lots on the final day, don't really have a strategy for long-term success. On the other hand, we knew who we wanted and where we wanted to strengthen. We got all 3 over the line with weeks to spare. It's a little frustrating we lost Puncheon without replacing him, but there clearly wasn't anyone worth while going for in the last couple of days to replace him. We don't come across as a club who panic, we trust the players we have and the management to make the right calls. We have a long-term strategy which has been proven pretty clear on our signings over the last few years. I think we're much stronger than we were last year and we look a pretty accomplished premiership side these days. All we need to do is learn how to put the ball in the back of the net! But with Lambert, Osvaldo and Rodriguez in attack, we shouldn't have to wait too long....

I don't believe they have any say in that, it's an official FA guideline. The FA would have paid that to us, not Spurs.

Luke Shaw ‏@Luke_shaw3 4m I beg that boy stops

Surprised at how dead it's been, thought it would be a mental day. Lots of talk but very little action.

Nice to see we have our own mong fan.

Mark must have had the most pointless day of all.

Just a loop, they'll say the same they did 3 hours ago. We've done our business etc. It's just been a live loop all day!

He will play for France eventually, plus he's played @ U21 level. And also, wouldn't he need an English blood relative to make this even possible?

We get about 1-2m as an FA Development fee. Probably not even that much tbh.

Ok, WBA could get Lukaku then. Nice.

Ollie has a bit of a chip on his shoulder re: us, so yeah, nothing at all in it. There's no way you can bid at this hour and expect a deal to happen either. Everything that is going to happen has happened, or has been in progress for hours.

Oh well, we've all gone home. Come back next year.

We let Mayuka leave. Nothing else happened.

It's an odd one. He's not in our plans as he's not listed in our PL squad on the FA website, so that won't change. He's on a lot of money with us, mainly down to promotion clasues and the like. Clubs don't want to pay that in full. We don't want to pay any wages for a player who isn't at our club. The odd thing is though, we'd still be paying that wage with him not going anywhere and not contributing anyone. Strikes of a little bit of Cortese playing a bugger, it's not the first time and it won't be the last.

Quite funny when you think about WBA and their business. They've been trying all summer to replace ''Lukaku''. So they spend £6m on an average-to-poor player, Victor Anhciebe from Everton. Everton, then replace him with Lukaku. Brilliant. I think WBA have lost the plot. Relegation beckons I hope. Can't stand the club (personal reasons)

Sorry, should have said ''winger'' rather than player.

and make a £1m loss in the process.

I'd add De Ridder into the flop category, one of the worst players I've ever seen.

They'll need to pay his wages, or maybe he's finally realised he needs to take a cut.

Everton have got Fellani to hand in a transfer request, just so they don't have to pay his loyalty bonus. Should be done soon...

In short, you're a moron.

Not sure how to be honest? Would think he's the last player we'd want or need. We have more than enough in the central area, what we needed was pace and creativity in behind.

It's ok, they spent £15.7m on Andy Carroll.

WBA have offered £6m for Victor Anichebe Everton will respond, but are still laughing at the money they will be getting.

lol