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Needs to hurry up and get Jorge Mendes as his agent, then.

Get French Football‏ Little anecdote: Monaco stole Stevan Jovetic from Marseille's clutches. He was due a Marseille medical tomorrow until Monaco swooped. (RMC) Ha!

So Ajax sell all their young talent, go out of the Europa League, then sign Siem de Jong? For £4m? Wow.

I wasn't nervous about Rafa going to West Ham until reading the Pete Graves post. Graves seems a good bloke btw, he's just doing his job and he'll be bricking it too. We beat them 3-0 yesterday and they look rubbish - very much in trouble. So Bilic is almost certainly gone and Rafa is almost certainly top of their list. Can he be tempted? Well he won't have time to buy players down there and, although he's indebted to West Ham for being nice when Real came in for him, he's also indebted to our fans. Family isn't an issue.... he's close to them now, but travelling to London won't be an obstacle. He's clearly pissed off at the club though, so it's a battle between being loyal to our fans and also hating his boss. So yeah.... starting to get nervous at this. They'll definitely approach him.

Dick move from Monaco. They could do so much better with this money, but we really needed him.

Spent all week pondering over brining in Alli or a Spurs defender but get neither due to faith in De Bruyne and an expected Charlie Daniels price drop. Out went Daniels, Kane captain Needless to say, the wildcard is already out. De Bruyne, Kane, Ward Prowse and Ramsey have all been shit.

This guy is the one.

Chuffed for his goal, get in

Subbed Daniels out, yes

Why all the pessimism tonight? The quotes don't look THAT bad, certainly not quitting quotes.

Better option than Coutinho. Still a huge amount for someone who was playing for Rennes' reserve team 2 years ago. Same for Mbappe soon...

Swansea would have to buy permanently, right? They'll probably get him in a Llorente exchange.

Keith Downie Understand Newcastle were offered Portuguese international goalkeeper Rui Patricio for £8m + Tim Krul but they said no. We said no to that?!?!

£1.35M according to TransferMarkt They paid?

Happy Bank Holiday weekend everyone

Rennes are going to get a huge chunk of that. Perfect time to offer them Saivet and Riviere.

Go with 3 at the back, Yedlin/Kenedy as wing-backs then we can either put 2 wingers off a striker or hoy 2 up front. Meanwhile: United linked to Stefano Sturaro Italian media report that United are considering a move for Juventus midfielder Stefano Sturaro but that Serie A champions do not want to sell.

Qarabag? Isn't that what flies around the Stadium of Light pitch?

Would still beat our current lot.

Surprised we're getting any fee for him tbh.

Between Nigel, Luuk and Siem, I'll be delighted to see the back of that name. Nowt against Siem personally.

Rafa certainly isn't untouchable anymore, mind. Of course Ashley is the huge problem, but I think other managers would have this team playing better. Sick of persevering with 1 up front, for example. We're just so stale

RMC saying that West Ham and Lyon are in for Ndong, who's one of their better players right now.

Hawksbee and Jacobs on Talksport . Radios version of Baddiel and Skinner Difference being we'd probably like to see three lions maul them.