Unbelievable

Aye, his name crossed my mind too when I read Beren's post. 5 million was it?

He's tearing up the Prem for Tottenham on my FM save, so he must be good..

I think it was nearer £4.5m for Ba... Apparently we got the lot and Chelsea paid him the £2.5m. Reported by just the one source. Seems very unlikely considering this was apparently one of the terms in his contract with us, so why would Chelsea have to pay his cut. It is howver extremely likely they had to pay his agents a shitload of money on top of what we paid Ba/them.

Won't be cheap unfortunately. Seems like that new deal was just to bump the price up with an understanding he would be free to go if the right offer came in. Wouldn't surprise me if he has negotiated a cut of the transfer fee too.

He's out of contract in the summer. And? We've upgraded a first team player, before he actually left. That's a rare occurrence. Embrace it. It's certainly a more pleasant approach to transfers than selling a first team player and not replacing them until at least another transfer window has gone by as far as I am concerned, but hey ho..

And we haven't sold anyone else yet, which is always a bonus. I think the point TT is trying to make is that whilst we have until the end of the month to try and complete this move, by then three very winnable games will have been played. Which is a big deal. If you want a striker to help you win matches, it helps if they're available for the matches. That's a fair point. On the other hand we all know how Ashley & Co conduct their business, which strangely didn't stop a large number of posters on here feeling ambivalent or even optimistic about our top scorer leaving for a pittance.

I don't mind people posting rumours of dodgy sources* as long as there is something new we didn't know already from more reliable sources in the article tbh. * Not tw@tter mind, that shit rightly deserves its own thread for the braindead.

Look i was just putting it up for people to have a look. You dont have to read it. How do I know what it is until I've read it? Look, I'm sure I could find another 1.000 articles on shitty transfer rumour sites that say we are interested and may put a bid in, going off what the mainstream media have been reporting (RMC, Equipe). Don't see what the point is of posting them all in here though..

Another source for what? For what has been said by countless other, more trustworthy sources already?

Least trustworthy source ever.. Probably going off yesterday's rumours..

L'Equipe say that he is now talking to Spurs http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Belhanda-interesse-les-spurs/340829 Spurs need to fuck off unless they seriously want to field 11 attacking midfield players..

Voetbal International are linking us among a host of other clubs to Argentinian Anderlecht midfielder Lucas Biglia, who has an 8 million transfer fee clause and wants to move this January. Don't know the first thing about him. Anybody?

Was rumoured to be in Newcastle earlier, but ther are now pics of him on a training pitch in Morocco.

Thread title.

Somebody better tell TyneBridge to step off the ledge before he jumps..

my theory seems to be quite realistic then. Based on approximately two minutes of youtubing mind you

Seems to have decent close control and likes to carry the ball forward.

From the little Dennis Wise scouting I did it appears he is played on the left side of central defense at his current club, although he seems to be primarily right footed.

It's quite clear OM's strategy on this is to drum up as much interest as possible to get as much money for him as they possibly can. What would you have us do, just go in and offer 20 million and be done with it?

lets have your views then ....... Given them many a time mate. Suffice to say I'm not exactly known as Ashley's biggest fan on here. However I'm not going to engage in a discussion with you until you've proven to be capable of anything more than pointless and incessant whinging.

Let's hope NUFC's new recruits have something more positive and constructive to contribute than this forum's new recruits.

And Dos Santos almost scores the winner for Mallorca in ET