S-Clarke

We are wiring the monies at the moment...please stand by.

Dawson's move is off then, as Kaboul is now injured for months. So they need to keep him now....not sure how motivated he'll be!

I don't think there was ever a great deal in this to be honest. Probably if everything else went to pot.

Not now that we're in the PL. No loan window for us, the squad at midnight on the 1st sept is the squad we have to fly with until January. Under really exceptional circumstances the FA may allow us to have an emergency loan of a GK, but that would require Davis, Gazzenga to be injured. We also have the guy in the development squad.

It's going to be a mental 48 hours for us, that's for sure.

2 defenders f'sure then. There is no way we should be relying on Seaborne as a PL defender.

I imagine with NA at the helm and our medical staff, we are very very stringent in our medicals. At the end of the day as you said, this will be worth taking time over as it is a significant long-term investment and the last thing you want is to shell out 12m squid on a player who has a degenerative knee condition for e.g I mean Hull didn't really think the Bullard transfer through did they? Or they got very had advise. £5m quid and 40k p/w, he was signed with an Injury and they released him with an injury.

Oh yes, all very clever

There was an interesting little story regarding medicals on SSN the other day, it showed what actually happens in the whole process. You have MRI scans, heart scans, breathing tests as well as your joints. You get all sorts of weird and wonderful injections and blood tests, and medicals are often conducted in separate parts as well - but I imagine we're doing this all in one at Bologna. They also said on Sky that no medical is always 100%, it's up to the doctors to then present evidence to the club on their current condition and if the signing would present a long-term risk. Short-term problems would often be ignored.

This!!!!

Then you're slightly barking! just to put as a smokescreen in our intents to sign a championship player???

The problem is they want the money end of, if it'll take an extra few hours tomorrow then they'll extend it. They're not just going to throw away €15m on a few hours. There will be an every changing deadline.

I'm amazed to see people saying ''that's it then'', when if you've been following this for the last 2 weeks you'll know it's part of the course. This is how it's been going. For some reason Bologna continue to try and plant things in the media, to hurry us up I'd imagine. The talk of Liverpool is just that, talk. In 48 hours they will not be able to do a deal, it's way too short a time scale considering how long it took spurs earlier and how long it's taken us so far...! Remember a few days back? ''Ramirez to Southampton is dead, we have other clubs we are negotiating with in Europe'' - that didn't come to anything did it?

Do not panic. It's the normal scare mongering to try and get us to sort it. There is no way in hell that any other club can now come in and agree all the deals in 48 hours. It's near on an impossibility.

Ah well, injury has killed it I guess. Any other news from your side on anything imminent?

Silly me, yeah that's it.

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Boro fans probably know more than Nixon on this, they all seem pretty sure he's out long-term with an ankle ligament injury.

Puts what we paid for Jay into context. A snip in comparison! Oh, and Ramirez @ 11.9m. Bloody over priced English players! Mental.

It's not a big injury apparently. Fan of his, very classy on the ball. Can also play as a sitting midfielder, or as a RB. Nice versatility in the squad. By the tone of his tweets I'd assumed we'd gone for one of the Stoke fella's though! (As we did watch them as well for some reason). £6m is a tad pricey, wouldn't pay too much over that.

Blackburn are paying £8m, plus £1.5m in bonuses for him.

There should be an article online shortly regarding this according to Nixon, which possibly indicates that the interest is serious and has pepped up.