S-Clarke

Roma's best striker who they want to sell ASAP, will make any deal easier to conclude from that front. Internactional are openly listening to offers of £20m euro. Lukaku will not be for sale, full stop.

Wouldn't have thought so.

blimey. Would imagine the answer will be a big fat no though. No harm in asking though I guess.

"Mauricio Pochettino is close to convince his fellow countryman, Ever Banega, to join in his project at Southampton. The news about the English club’s interest in signing the Argentinean mid-fielder was first broken by ‘The Sun’. The offer was tempting for Valencia -10 million [EUROS]. The footballer, notwithstanding, did not seem quite keen. We was not convinced of landing in a mid-table team in the Premier League and the whole affair had overtones of utopia. However, the former manager of Espanyol, did not give up and one month on the transfer may take place. Pochettino knows of Banega’s technical characteristics and is convinced his game can help Southampton to give the quality jump they need to rub shoulders with the big teams in the Premier League. The Argentinean manager has placed in England the same bets on possession and combinations as on the Spanish ‘La Liga’ which brought him to the attention Southampton’s board. Banega would fit with no problems in this scheme and it seems that the footballer would be keener on moving to English football. For Valencia, these 10M are still a good offer, so as soon as the footballer given his consent, the transfer will be made.

Does seem slightly overkill as you say, but looking at it another way........we have an opportunity to sign a current CM for Argentina, who is 25 years old, for less than £8m. That's just isnane and we see it as an opportunity too good to pass up I'd think. Makes you wonder why the hell other clubs aren't linked though, at that price he will be the bargain of the decade.

It has made me wonder if the rumours in the Spanish press about Sociadad wanting Morgan may have something more to it (they have $40m euro to play with now to replace their star CM) I doubt they do, and we will just have lots of options. But it does make you a little nervous!

Looks like this one might be happening.

To be honest, I have no idea who is serious and who isn't on here these days. Everyone is beginning to merge into one.

I think we should stick with ''There's only one *Insert name here*"

Where's that from? The latest update from yesterday suggests that we have ''accelerated'' our interest, contacts are being drawn up and that he's our priority whilst in spain.

I think what you're also seeing is how the new TV deal will change the landscape. You wouldn't have seen Norwich going for this level of player last year, but they now have the extra clout to do so - same as Swansea. If you're financially well run and on a decent footing, the increased money can enable you to make some real strides. Will be interesting to see how the rest of the window takes shape.

I think he's said no a second time. We tried again for some reason.

anyone get the feeling we're not going to play with much width next season? And the majority of the width will be provided by the full backs? A lot of us saw a winger as a priority in the summer, but that's not on anyone's radar by the looks of it.

Sounds to me as if a contract in principle has been agreed with Napoli, including agent fees etc - but Napoli still haven't given Internactional the fee they want. But we sound like we want to pay what they want. Interesting.

Back on...?

Always been a fan of Chaplow. Felt it was a bit of a coup when we signed him in mid-table of L1. Had a bit of a rubbish time at PNE, but that was because of the clown of a manger they had - not down to him as a player. I'll never forget that period between September > November in the championship, he was unplayable and won a fair share of games for us in that time frame. An excellent box to box midfielder and a decent bloke to boot. He will be a brilliant signing for Millwall if they get him.

I believe we only paid around 1.8-£2m up front tops for him. Rest was on PL appearances and installments over periods of time. And given the fact he was only here for 6 months and didn't play once, I doubt those installments came into play. Safe to say we've probably lost something like 600k. No biggy. But still one of the oddest transfers in recent history.

I wonder if he was actually any good? Weird, weird, weird. First time a club have ever paid 3-4m for someone, yet never played them, and sold them for almost the same amount 6 months later. work that out.

Celtic are huge, they're a monster of a club. There's no point debating that. The issue is the league the play in and the money they're (not) able to generate. That's how we're being given the opportunity to such a good player. Personally, I wouldn't be expecting us to be battling relegation though. If we are, I'm not sure MP will be around for long......I think we've got big idea's for this season. We will surprise a few I reckon.

Care to name all those teams, and all the players they've signed? (left, right and centre?)

Been watching the developments of this from afar, but safe to say that I think this will be a very solid edition to team. What I believed we lacked at times last year, was a real presence and power through the middle of the park. Morgan and Cork are terrific in what they do, but there are some games where you just need a bit of physicality and power in there - and this is the sort of CM I think we've lacked for a while. Not afraid to pop up and take a shot either, an all action box to box power house. Which will leave us with potential midfield options of NI international captain - Steve Davis, Cork, Morgan and Wanyama. Not half bad eh?

Doubt he'd be backup as such, but he'd add to the competition throughout the squad.

Full of experience, can play as a DM or a CB. Adds quality squad depth, which is so important. Can't shrug at a player of his calibre on a free.

That was a great match and a fantastic moment for British sport.

Seriously, put him on your ignore list and be done with it. Do you think the rest of us want to read this inane utter trash? Cause I don't. I kind of wanted to read some updates on our potential signing.