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"Apparently as both Newcastle & West Ham cases are in remit of HMRC won't lead to any punishment on football side eg points deduction."

http://m.stokesentinel.co.uk/transfer-gossip-newcastle-utd-and-burnley-show-interest-in-stoke-striker-jon-walters/story-30293850-detail/story.html Jonathan Walters....[emoji23]

If recent transfer rumours of homegrown players were to be believed it appears Ashley and Co are still looking for value and are targeting players who will only have 12 months remaining on their contracts. In recents weeks we have seen Shawcross, Keane, Arfield, Andre Gray and Luke Shaw who are all out of contract in 2018 linked with moves.

Was he the one a Chinese club offered 40m for last year? Allegedly knocked back £300,000 a week....

http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/teams/celtic/rumour-mill-newcastle-eye-paterson-hibs-face-hateley-fight-1860-munich-in-for-rangers-target-celtic-fans-raise-80k-for-charity-1-4210052?

Has Rafa signed the correct person? He is not fast and he's not the Scotland Captain either... Blackburn fans say he is fast. He is not slow but he's never really looked fast either when playing for Scotland.

Has Rafa signed the correct person? He is not fast and he's not the Scotland Captain either...

Daily Mail reporting that we have enquired about James Wilson.

Assuming Rafa wants him, and could talk him in to dropping a division, if we got Lucas Leiva in I think we would definitely see Tiote away.

There is talk on Twitter and on Sheffield United forums that we are signing Che Adams (with Toney possibly going on loan).

No he didn't [emoji23] He scored 2 in 11!

Article on Stuart Findlay in today's Daily Record. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/never-chance-celtic-wont-say-8435412#tmXg35OdvXS1ed8C.97 "When I knew Newcastle were in for me, I didn’t care about money or moving away from home – none of that mattered. “All I could think about was the fact that Rafa Benitez had actually sanctioned the deal for me. To hear that, it gave me an outrageous amount of confidence. Because of that I’ve arrived here with a real spring in my step."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/crystal-palace-boss-alan-pardew-8434963 Pardew interested...

It was in the Chronicle this morning "A whole host of names have been mentioned, some seriously and others merely in passing, including Chelsea forward Patrick Bamford and even Aston Villa winger Scott Sinclair. Anderlecht’s 22-year-old Ghanaian winger Frank Acheampong has been on Newcastle’s radar for a long while, as was 24-year-old Czech international Ladislav Krejci before his move to Bologna. Derby County’s Tom Ince is also a player United have long admired."

Some Dennis Wise YouTube scouting has him playing on the right wing mostly for Liverpool but seemed to have played mostly on the left for Derby.

It was started by a "journalist" on Twitter that has 54 followers...

I expected Chalobah to have been linked with us at some point. Someone claimed on here I think that we were interested in some Chelsea youngsters. It's went all quiet on the Bamford talk too

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/688204/Liverpool-news-Jordon-Ibe-stalls-Bournemouth-move-Newcastle-West-Brom-latest Jordon Ibe stalls on Bournemouth move: Liverpool winger waiting on West Brom and Newcastle

The journo Alan Nixon is reporting that we have had a bid of 3.5 million rejected for Hanley

Hanley whilst not a world beater has done a job in poor Scotland and Blackburn sides. Whilst he doesn't look amazing he does have some decent attributes for a centre half. Rafa over the years for me through his coaching and tactics has made some decent centre half pairings and he must see something in Hanley (if reports are true) that he can work with and improve. Much like Gayle at the other end of the pitch I guess. He's also shown this with Lascelles who is now the Golden child. I'm sure at the start of last season many on here didn't even rate him that highly. The season before, on loan at Forest, he couldn't even get a game each week. However in a Rafa team his game has come on massively, I expect the same if we get Hanley (or Caulker etc who is similar that he has the attributes but hasn't had the consistency etc).

Assuming it's Yacob of West Brom they were talking about?

With all this talk of him often being used at left back. Could we still be interested in Arbeloa too? Would be good to have a couple of experienced players in the team.

Won't be getting a testimonial any time soon [emoji23] Didn't realise he has only played 63 games at the highest level (not including internationals)...

He better get another relegation clause in that Palace contract....