S-Clarke

As has always been the case.

Basically, they're financially screwed in simple terms. The money from this deal will help them a hell of a lot. So instead of us paying them up front, they are getting a loan against our agreed fee - which they'd then pay back in pattern with our installments.

Possibly. But people are forgetting that bologna officials had that match fixing trial to attend yesterday, which may explain why there were so many rehashed reports and nothing really changed. May pick up again today, although I still expect it to drag on

They aren't going to comment on rumour. That's all it is at the moment. To be honest I felt Nigel was kind of open about it all on Friday, more so than previously. But at the end of the day they're not going to comment to appease fans when in fact it could have the opposite effect. We kind of all know where it stands at the moment, so until the club have anything concrete and official they would be silly saying anything, which could potentially rile the selling club even more

Nothing new, that's just a random spanish twitter rumour feed. Just feeding of tabloid stories.

Let me just rehash this again to bring it back to topic. State of play as I see it.

Akinfenwa?

I don't know about that, It's just weird.

Someone has already lifted your first sentence Charlie, and posted it as fact in the Gaston Ramirez thread.

This is turning into a truly bizarre thread now.

There we go then. Quite clearly related to that, you don't go from being a first name on the team sheet to being farmed out of the door for a cut priced fee if all is ok...More fool QPR maybe.

And also, it was Bolonga's side that blabbed in the first place. Don't think we've done anything wrong here.

Went to Dubai I believe.

Nah, not tonight.

Wasn't the case when you posted the thread though it's also for 10m+, didn't think it would ever be the 5m. Something is iffy with this transfer, have they discovered he has a really bad incurable injury or something? Seems such a quick transfer for a player who was their captain last year.

He never said that. Where have people got that quote from? He said the ''endeavors'' are there to get players in before the start of the season, but if they don't manage it we still have until the end of August - and that's where he was more certain.

I'd imagine it's because Bolonga sources are leaking it to the Italian media. They have no ability to really leak it in the English press.

Just had a quick browse through the Jay Rod thread from June. It's basically this thread, just replace Jay Rodriguez with Gaston Ramirez and it's the same thread. Same content, same twits...and hopefully the same outcome!

It's hard to be sure if that's what happens as we don't sit in the board room, but I think it's clear that NC tries to drive a hard fee - in terms of outgoing and incoming transfers. I know that we priced Puncheon out of a move, as we wouldn't budge from £1m. No one would meet it, but we wouldn't budge - and we'll never ever, ever, ever get £1m for him now, maybe not even 500k. So what you say may be right in some areas, but I think he's prudent. He doesn't want to put the club into financial trouble so he won't ever spend what we don't have. I don't believe we are massively loaded, I think we operate a policy of spend what we generate - and we may generate just about enough to tie up Gaston, but possibly not all the fee up front. That's my opinion anyway, may be wrong - but I think in some areas he's entitled to drive a hard bargain as he's looking after this club, but other times he needs to just loosen it slightly.

He will still be ours by the end of the window, IMO. Blackpool would be fools to turn down 5/6m for him.

Ah ok. The tone of the tweets seem very fishy to say the least. Some stuff being fed out, I'm sure.

Who tweeted that?

That's the thing. Nothing has changed, everything is still the same as it was yesterday. So I have no idea why it's turned like this. People are acting as if this has been a month long Saga, when in fact it's only been 5 days.

Who is this guy? Did he break the story? or just a random jounro?

There you go, talking as if you know what's going on, and that it's already September 1st'. It isn't. Adkins has said he will sign players before the window. We will. Sit tight. Don't panic.