Slam Dunk

Medical completed. Everything to be finalised tomorrow after his international game tonight. I seriously doubt he'll be involved for the Stoke game.

They could do, if they weren't all in Ireland, and we had the personnel trained to use them. And as for this: I'm genuinely lost for words.

So he's said that he won't be moving...Why make a thread on it?

^ Well De Bruyne has just been stretchered off with a suspected broken fibula playing for Genk. So that one is probably out of the window.

€20M in total. €15 to be paid to Anderlecht now, then €5M in future add-ons. What I heard.

I know there aren't that many great RBs around, but could someone explain to me how Sagna keeps getting mentioned for things like this (& PL team of 10/11).

His buy out clause now is something ridiculous like €60M, but it has been said that Valencia would be willing to accept a bid of around €30M for him.

Anderlecht Chairman: "I think we will make progress this weekend and on Monday will be agreement." "Everthing depends on Chelsea, but for now no agreement. I would like to sell him to Chelsea but keep him another year but that difficult." (No idea if they are direct quotes, just saw them on twitter.)

In keeping with UEFA guidelines, an Under 21 player is defined as one who is under the age of 21 on 1st January in the year in which the season commences. For the 2011/12 campaign Under 21 players will have been born on or after 1st January 1990. So he will have to be registered?

Do we not need Bertrand for the HG player quota? He is 22 now, correct?

Looks to be that way, ever since Arnesen spoke about his ability to play on the wings, I think the club has always had the RW spot earmarked for him. Not the worst choice, by all means, as he deserves the chance to play in the starting XI this season. I still think he could very useful centrally, running behind the centre backs, but with Torres/Drogba and possibly Lukaku, it just isn't possible.

Lukaku has nothing to do with Sturridge. AVB clearly has earmarked a place on the right/left of attack for Danny, Lukaku is a CF.

Wigan going for the Real Madrid knock-off look...

Hang on, when did we start taking Fanatix as a legitimate source of information?

Considering his name is 'McEachran', this is hardly shocking news to me.

On the prev page

Graeme Bailey Chelsea have rejected Valenciennes' loan bid Slobodan Rajkovic, as they are keen to secure a work-permit for him to play in England #cfc Good to hear. Guessing the club want to secure a permit for him before deciding on Alex's future.

^ It's definitely his.

Kakuta was very disappointing. Showed glimpses, but really needs to influence the game more. Saying that however, the whole France team have been poor (excluding Fofana & Griezmann). Edit: Fofana just scored a very lucky goal. 2-1 France.

We're asking for €30M? The club actually expect to make a profit on Zhirkov?

Haven't watched the highlights yet, maybe I don't even need to now! Excellent write up (as always) mate.

No way we'd be willing to pay his wages.

That article is using quotes from last night. As it stands, THERE IS NOTHING NEW. There have been meetings, we do not yet know the outcome however.