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Not going to happen, we rejected a loan offer from Juve two days ago. Fwiw, our press seem to think it's close and will happen. We want a sale. Only way it's gonna happen is if it comes with an obligation to buy.

Not going to happen, we rejected a loan offer from Juve two days ago.

Good, we'll be broke so we need the cash.

Coutinho bid accepted according to The Sun. I assume they spout the same BS in sports that they do in their regular reporting?

Under the radar only in the sense that we probably just decided to go for him this morning. Yeah, seems rushed but I get the feeling the club might hit the bullseye with him.

http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=133597 Funniest thing is that Balliu reportedly had no idea of his Albanian ancestry and was scouted by the Albanian FA, because his surname "sounded Albanian" (his father isn't Albanian as the article says, rather he descends from Albanians) and fast-tracked for citizenship

Surely it's rigged? Looks like a publicity stunt for the bank.

Atlético reject €8m from Crystal Palace for Moyà.

Valencia, and it was because of clashes regarding transfer policy

We just rejected Juve's offer for Gomes, so we won't loan him to Wham instead.

Atlético won't pursue the signing of Diego Costa this window, according to "Marca".

Juninho with Boro. Munitis at Racing.

Espanyol have signed Didac Vilà from AEK. That's going to be his third stint at the club. Makes me wonder, what other players have played for the same top flight club in 3+ non-consecutive periods? (without counting loans to other clubs).

It will be bad news if Benítez loses one of the most tactically-aware midfielders in the squad, imho. Always where he needs to be, you can't pay enough money for that.

According to Sport we have made an inquiry for Lemar.

Looks like we're selling Munir to Torino. I'm coming around the opinion that I'd rather keep him than Alcácer at this point.

Lee f***ing Ryder ladies and gentlemen. That to me reads "I know shit so I'll be noncommittal and then I can claim to be right whatever happens down the road".

I can't see the club lining up a replacement in 48 hours that's not an afterthought, so I'd rather keep him. 15m doesn't really buy you much nowadays, anyway.

Really hope Liverpool rubbishes us for real and we look elsewhere. Coutinho is not nearly worth that money, and we should be smarter than that. Knowing us, we'll buy him at whatever massive premium Liverpool sets. Meh.

Wenger started 5 defenders this weekend. He's lost it.

According to our president, Dembelé's addons are 20m based on player performance, and 20m based on team performance. So with the 105m in fixed that's €125m for Dortmund.

Yeah, I can certainly see why RB would take that deal in an instant, not sure why Keita wouldn't rather keep his options open.

Xisco too. Probably meant 4th in PL as Enrique only scored in championship Yeah, they probably meant that. For some reason I thought Xisco never scored for you.

On the news they said it was only the fourth Spanish player to ever score for Newcastle. I guess the others are: - Ayoze - José Enrique - Luque?