S-Clarke

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.

Graeme Bailey ‏@SkyGraemeBailey Seems that Dimitar Berbatov is heading to...Fulham - opting to stay in England ahead of Juventus and Fiorentina.

Give him a break MLG.

Another shrewd potential addition by Swansea, to replace Sinclair straight away. Reports in Spain claim Valencia have accepted Swansea's latest bid of €7million for winger Pablo Hernandez.

I do find it madness that they offered Green a mega deal to tempt him there, and now they've gone and signed someone else to replace him - 3 months after signing him. I don't care what you say Flyer, but that's not a way to run a football club.

I didn't think we'd ever be in the hunt for Ramirez, so never say never. We're playing at the top table now.

I did a high jump there, should win a gold.

Same as yesterday pretty much! All agreed, just waiting on the final bits and bobs and all the signatures. Was apparently going to be today, might get a late night announcement!

Bit of an odd one, not the way I'd like to see us go. Should always be the managers call as to who plays. The cynic in my wonders if that's why Guly has been ever-present even after some poor performances.

''No better than Davis and pretty average in his opinion!!!" ?

Nice to see that we're active in this area of the world in terms of scouting, 26 year old apparently.Can't comment as I know zilch about him really.

I like Steele, good keeper. I would have said Butland a few weeks back, but I don't think he's ready. I reckon a season for Birmingham will do him the world of good, and as long as we keep our interest fresh we could get ourselves a much more mature player in 12 months or so.

It's just them doing their usual scare mongering. It'll be done when it's done, and that's within the next 48 hours. They've got 2 players agreed and ready to put pen to paper, but can't until Gaston goes. It's in everyone's interest to resolve this. People don't realise that a deal like this for a club of our size is HUGE, we've never, ever erver operated at this level of the market before so there's probably been a little bit of learning required from a few parties...but we'll get there, and it'll have a nice domino effect at the club in terms of our appeal all over Europe.

Not entirely, it's all this ''Southampton way'' thing. They want to develop a formation that goes down through all levels, but it's not just his decision - it's a club decision at all levels apparently.

Would be good signings IMO.