Despite the fact it's in the Daily Mail I could see this happening. Only if we are very confident of signing Wilian though, I would have thought. While I'm sure he'd be happy to stay I think van Der Vaart would love to go back to Hamburg. His wife works there so she'd surely be keen too. He's a classy player and I'd miss watching him, but if we can sign someone a bit quicker and younger to rotate with Sigurdsson I'd not lose too much sleep over it. It looks like Sigurdsson is 1st choice in his position now anyway and he doesn't seem the type to sit happily on the bench.

Unlike Modric, any deal here will only happen on Spurs' terms.

Who was closer to scoring in their games? Arsenal should have scored 6 times in the Sunderland, and I've still yet to figure out what went wrong for Man U, I didn't really pay attention to the Liverpool match.

This is kind of a stupid thought, but what about Kaka to Arsenal? I'm saying that cause in the past hour that has been popping up on my Facebook news feed and on twitter.

Kaka's lost his quick first step and change of pace. Real Madrid are desperate to offload him. I can't really see Arsene being keen.

This. He's fallen out of favor and Real want him out. He could probably be gotten cheap, but I'm not sure how much is left in the tank.

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Victor Moses to Chelsea.

Rodgers reckons Sahin to Liverpool within the next 24 hours.

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I didn't realise Sheffield Wednesday has a trampolining team.

Oh yes...

And Rodrigo Rios Lozano is very good at trampolining after scoring a goal. Signed from Barcelona. Scored on debut vs Birmingham. Did that celebration.

Me commentating on the moment is in this montage... http://audioboo.fm/boos/928898-tonight- ... barnsleyfc

It looks as though our shady chairman has plumbed new depths of shadiness. Ezekiel Fryers has joined Standard Liege on a free from Manchester United on a 2 year deal. However, Spurs have paid the registration for Liege and presumably thrown other compensation (Bentley?) their way, presumably in order to avoid paying the £6mil compensation to United as decreed by the tribunal (foreign clubs don't have to pay for signing youth players on a free). Sounds well dodgy, but see you in January "on loan" I guess, Mr Fryers.

Has he signed a permanent or a loan? The write ups were all pretty glowing. One of my good friends from back home, now living in London, is a massive Owls fan so I always keep a look out for their scores. Now they're in the Championship Steve and I are planning to go to Ashton Gate in April, which will most likely be my first trip there in the 5 years I've lived here for. How are they looking this year?

Have you seen Spurs' mid-fielder Luongo yet, who (despite being Australian) seems to be doing pretty well at Ipswich Town so far?

No mate not seen Luongo yet... but it's good to see him trying to forge a career in football after a difficult year between the pipes.

Wednesday are doing well but only two games so far. Dark horses for promotion I'd say.

If I was a hockey goalie I'd be looking for a new sport too I think.

Arsenal now have apparently pulled out of the Sahin race, the reported reason being that Arsene wanted a permanent move for him. Either that means they actually couldn't reach an agreement with Madrid, or they are shifting their focus to other targets, Yann M'Vila comes to mind there.

Also, according to Wenger, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain looks set to return to the squad after missing the Sunderland match while Koscielny will miss the Stoke game but return for the Liverpool match.

M'Vila would be a good addition. Sounds like a bit of a headcase but you guys need a good DM, which he is. Song's gone and Diaby's pretty average.

Diaby's good, but he's a short term solution, that's why Arsenal needs to get M'Vila. Arsenal is definitely in the drivers seat with him, Zenit pulled out after he rejected them and Spurs is the only other team reportedly interested, though there's is only recent and a bit suspicious especially since they aren't interested in most of the players this offseason unless Arsenal is also linked, Vertonghen may or may not be the exception I don't know who was interested in him first.

M'Villa seems quality, but I agree with spur, bit of a headcase. I just don't think Liverpool really need Sahin right now. Henderson actually looked decent tonight against Hearts, Gerrard is obviously still a big part of the midfield, Allen was just brought in, Downing, Assaidi, Sterling, Lucas, Shelvey....and then Sahin? I feel like Gaston Ramirez would be a better target.

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To be honest Vertonghen and M'Vila are the only players I can think of that Spurs had any interest in, and in M'Vila the interest sounded fairly tenuous. Who else are you thinking of?

I ask through curiousity, I'm not trying to be antagonistic.

Based on the first weekend of play, Swansea are going to win the league and Arsenal are going to fail to register a goal.

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Man up, stand in line.

*shrug*

Seems legit.

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