S-Clarke

Discussions are still on-going between both clubs.

Umm, I don't think so. Basically they have no money. They need the money. They have an unhappy player, who is on strike refusing to train or play. They have an offer from us on the table. They can continue to ignore that offer and risk losing millions of mounds, or they can grab what they can get and make Ramirez out to be the bad guy in all of this. It's only going one way.

Got a hunch he will have a farewell game.

Whatever. He needs to make his mind up. I'm sure he'll be here by the end of the window.

Bolonga are starting to look a little silly here. We don't need to give them any guarantee's. If they want an unhappy player, who is on strike, and whose value will now only decrease - then good on them.

We can trust itchen_dan to bring the thread back to some sort of normality.

This thread is bizarre.

He seems very positive about it, not sure if he's just making educated guesses as we are - but with him being a journo it has a bit more credence to it.

I don't know, what do you think???? Read it again.

But he still wouldn't travel on a commercial flight.

I like this...

Yeah, wouldn't expect him him to come in via Gatwick, and to also spend a 2 hour journey to get to Verona airport - rather than wait for a slightly later flight from Bolonga. Let's be honest, he wouldn't travel on a public commercial flight. He would have some sort of private exec jet lined up, to get him over here to Soton airport ASAP.

He's spat his dummy out and is refusing to train with Bolonga. He is now no longer in their squad for the weekends games. Something is imminent, but who knows what.

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=724855 - first I've heard of that?

14m for Fletcher, holy ****.

tbf he's probably just heard that from exactly the same places as us. Let's not hang off every word he says.

Doubtful tbh.

Must be unhappy because he's not been playing. Oh.

What's that based on exactly?

On twitter at the mo, but we've been linked with him for a while so wouldn't be surprised if we followed it up.

People are also forgetting that the Spurs deal already fell through, they've obviously made their terms clear.

Offering him a contract as attractive as ours? His agent will know what we've offered, and what we guarantee him in terms of first team football. I really don't think it's as easy as some are suggesting, this isn't a straight forward deal what with the third party complications - and the fact that he's already agreed terms with us. That in it's self is enough to scare clubs off.

No idea, but It'll probably pep up later when they printed versions of the articles arrive online

Can't see spurs offering more than us though, what we've offered seems the going rate for him in reality. Levy is a pretty hard negotiator himself, so I can't see him letting them walk all over Spurs with their demands. Probably why the move there didn't materialize in the first place.

It's picking up. French papers are reporting Southampton have had an €8m bid accepted by Rennes for Jean Armel-Kana Biyik. More as this develops.