I find it hard to keep up with the transfer activity in work, has Kenny Dalglish spent much today? Also, is that Cotterill bloke outside Spurs Lodge waiting for Redknapp to come out and lie to him?

I'd be excited if we had something more concrete, for now I'll take it as a bad rumour.

It's a rumour that's been around a while. He was rumoured to be coming to us in the summer, but the press didn't realise we couldn't actually buy anyone. So there could have been contact before.

Wikipedia is rarely wrong:

Arsenal in for Arteta.

Shhhhhhhhhhh, the bank might hear you.

You changed it, didn't you

More importantly, there's now only 2 hours and fifty minutes until Jim White time on SSN.

No mate, went to check if what you put was true and that was there



Been changed back now anyway!

Six hours to go until the window closes. Harry gets an extra hour like usual no doubt.

Someone is bored today



And no it's not me!

Very much so. Don't get his name on the back of an Everton shirt.

Art thou in the know?

Daniel Sturridge to Liverpool doing the rounds now.

Box office rumours?

Guilime Balague (Sp?) has confirmed it on twitter. As have AS.com, whoever they may be.

Free transfer and not a loan apparently.

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After finishing off the exits of Peter Leon, Getafe, and Gago, AS Roma, Real Madrid will find accommodation to Royston Drenthe. After failing to negotiate with Galatasaray and when it seemed that the Dutch would continue at the club until next winter market, opened the way for Everton. Drenthe, whose contract with Real Madrid expires next June 30, will play in the absence of official confirmation, in the Liverpool team this season.

The player came this afternoon at the offices of the Bernabeu to give its consent to the operation and is expected to fly immediately to Liverpool to join Everton. Although little is known of the transfer details, it appears that allows you to leave Madrid for free and it saves so important a piece of a player with that Mourinho did not.

Drenthe joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2007 from Feyenoord star as the European Under-21 that year. It cost 14 million euros. However, it never reached the title in the white team. Mourinho decided to approve their transfer to Hercules last summer. His disciplinary problems marred their performance.

Everton, plagued by crisis, little has been strengthened this summer. Just got the assignment of Stracqualursi Argentina, from Tigre.

Lovely, if true.

Not as such, but it's doing the rounds. Nothing concrete yet.

More so than some.

Not sure how reliable the info I got was, but there won't be just the 1 player in or out of Goodison today.

EDIT - There's been conversations at the club going on in the past hour.

If it came from the fella sitting next to you it's probably unreliable



I'd be happy with Drenthe though, eventhough it won't happen.

Haha it's not him!

And Drenthe would be a cracking signing for Everton.

Llambias is down in London, which probably means Chiekh Tiote will be a Chelsea player before the end of the night. Cue Llambias and Ashley quaffing champers into the night and smoking themselves sick on expensive cigars, deja vu of the Carroll deal.