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I wonder if we are waiting to see if we qualify for the Europa group stages before pushing ahead with all our signings... Crazy to think but wouldn't be totally surprising if it was having some baring on our transfer window...

What has this got to do with Debuchy? the line of thinking is that he was supposed to be going to chelsea, now chelsea will get debuchy. I've a feeling Chelsea have set their sights on the Marseille full back...

But we can do all that and keep a lower profile... Chairman/Owners hate having their faces rubbed in it... You only have to listen to the interview with the Peterbrough owner the other day talking about transfer deals and all the egos involved...

I don't think we deliberately went for higher profile for our scouts etc. If you have this much success, you will become well known. You're right though, the fact we are now famous for getting a bargain is bound to count against us. So why let your chief scout do interviews for the media? Or your team manager to discuss it in length in the media... I don't have any knowledge of this going on at any other club... apart from Daniel Levy likes to drive a hard bargain perhaps... Just all seemed very unnecessary and a little self-congratuatly...

Can i just say i would be fine with this as long as Saylor can stay fit till January and Ivory Coast beat Senegal in the AFCON qualifier. It's far from ideal, but i would be ok with it as long we do get the rest of the targets in January. It seems quite clear Debuchy is our main target and to a lesser extent (maybe due to how well Bigi has done) Anita is our next target alongside Douglas... But as for a forward i'm struggling to think who they have in mind with them missing out on LDJ... Only links of any credibility have been Carroll (which to me doesn't seem a good fit) and Loic Remy... Although the window has been frustrating it's made the last few weeks very intriguing and i think will be very telling of MA ambitions with the club...

Let the games begin... I guess we'll learn more if he plays in their opening game of the season this Saturday...

Some good posts all round... But I go back to what I said earlier in the summer... The amount of publicity our scouting system was getting with AP and Carr giving the interviews and every Radio/TV pundit actually knowing our scouts name etc was in my opinion always going to have repercussions when it came to future transfers windows... We should of kept a much lower profile and just got on with business... It's only clever finding these players if they actually end up playing for us... FWIW i think/hope we'll get Debuchy and possibly Anita last few weeks of the window and maybe forward for the bench in January... Douglas may come in January but have feeling we'll look again next summer...

Wonder if he'll come to regret that new tattoo...

His hash tag was #headsgone

Just on SSN interviewed after the match... Hoping focus returns to the transfer market...

Need to see this like After a bit of searching on Twitter I'm guessing this is it Pre-match...

Apparently some fans are holding up a banner at the Hartlepool match reading "Buy Debuchy"...

Will be interesting to hear what AP says regards transfers at the talk in on the 13th as he is normally quite candid and he's bound to be asked... Anyone on here going?...

Yes. Thanks...

Bet 365 streaming the game but they have the KO at 5pm UK... Is it definitely 4pm KO?...

From following the thread from page 1 all the quotes i've read from the Lille end are for 10m Euro... £8m... Where have you seen Lille say 8m Euro?... Page 1 was a long time ago, they agreed to come down to 8m euros a very long time ago ( due to Debuchy's will to leave i imagine) i dont know about quotes from Lille but practically every report in France say that Lille want 8m euros. I highly doubt they are all wrong. I wasn't saying the price quoted was from page one... I was highlighting the fact i've followed the whole thread closely from the beginning and never come across Lille stating they only wanted 8m euro... Also after a very quick google search i found 2 French reports both claiming 10m Euro... End of the day it's probably true that no one knows 100% how much Lille want until the president is quoted if he hasn't been already...

From following the thread from page 1 all the quotes i've read from the Lille end are for 10m Euro... £8m... Where have you seen Lille say 8m Euro?...

Can we put this in the thread title: They want 10m euros/£8m not 8m euros... Might help some on here understand how far we are apart in agreeing a fee...

They value him at €10m/£8m not €8m... We are quite far apart with our latest offer...

Till 2015. Cheers... Swings the balance to Lille more... You can see why they want 10m euro...

Quick question... How many years does he have left on his contract as I thought it was 1yr but reading 3yr from various places today?

I agree with the sentiment... Though you are obviously overlooking Chelsea... Hopefully next week things will start to move... As someone mentioned earlier it's more to do with the fact we have signed no automatic first team upgrade yet that is making people more anxious...

Eh. what has the club done wrong, Lille are changing the goalposts. We eventually bid the 6m Euro's they want, they then want 8m Euro's. did they originally want 6mill euros ? 6m pounds, 8m euros I thought. I believe we've offered euro's not pounds judging by the thread title...

Club in negociations to pay up last year of his contract at a rumoured £400,000... Hopefully he'll show a bit good will and take it...

Steve Nichol on ESPN press pass...