Diego Costa has admitted he wanted out of Chelsea this
summer and fancied a return to Madrid. That'll please
everyone. He probably went on to say he is happy under
Conte, what a fine manager he is and how he is doing
everything to curb his temper. These interviews are all
lies, aren't they? Costa has seen off the "challenge" of Loic
Remy. The French striker has joined Palace on loan to
spend the rest of the season feeding off Benteke's knock
downs. He will get to know Wilf Zaha quite well too, as
Spurs ended their interest in the wideman. Chelsea have
been searching high and low for a new defender to add to
their ranks and appear to have settled on one they already
know cannot defend for toffee. David Luiz is thought to be
heading back to the Kings Road in a £32m deal.
Hull have gone transfer crazy. I repeat, Hull have gone
transfer crazy. They have thrown out a club record fee for
Ryan Mason, brought in Cardiff goalkeeper David Marshall
and who would bet against them bringing in Ballotelli and
Wilshere? Well, I would actually but hopefully you get my
point. They also believed they had Derby's Jeff Hendricks
but they are about to be gazumped by, no not Sunderland,
but Burnley! Hendricks will be able to thread the ball
through to Patrick Bamford who is set to join on loan. Hull
will now try and persuade Bournemouth's Max Gradel to
trade in a relegation battle for a European charge.
Clearly nobody at Everton briefed Koeman that there are
some right good young defenders at Barnsley. Stones and
Holgate both hail from the land of the Tykes, but Ronald
has missed the boat on Alfie Mawson who is off to Swansea
for £5m. Apparently he is the next John Stones. A lot of
time was spent on working out who he is the next version
of, clearly.
The domino effect of that is Spurs will hold on to Son. He
was likely to head back to Germany, but will now renew the
rental contract on his pad in London.
It's almost as if Arsene has lost faith in his youth policy.
First Chambers, then Wilshere. Now the brilliant Serge
Gnabry is on his way out, and quite probably for good.
The winger is likely to sign for Werder Bremen in the next
24 hours which is thought to be paving a way to a move to
Bayern next season. Wilshere looks like he is also off to
Italy with AC Milan and Roma supposedly battling it to have
him injured for six months of a year long loan.
Sahko has standards. And playing football for
WBA or Stoke does not meet those standards,
and who can blame him? Kloppo is keen to
get the French centre back off the training
ground for now, and the big man was not too
keen on a relegation battle. Dutch defender
Bruno Martins Indi has lower standards. He
will be joining Mark Hughes on loan shortly.
Poor Leicester must be very confused. Slimani
was in tears at the end of his last game at
Sporting, suggesting he was saying goodbye. Adrien Silva
went one step further, basically telling everyone he was off
to the English champions. Now Sporting are saying neither
are leaving. What is actually happening? Who knows, but
it will certainly give those folks on Sky Sports something to
talk very loudly about on Wednesday. Sporting must
literally be spending all day rejecting bids from English
clubs. West Brom, rather than looking at the array of
attacking talent at the Portuguese club, tried their luck with
William Carvalho, the solid defensive midfielder. Sporting
barely bothered to finish emailing "no chance" before
pressing send.
I think we can all agree Joe Hart with a Torino scarf
confirms he has gone there. Out of sight, out of mind and
all that.
Bastian Schweinsteiger might be making a late bid for
nicest guy in football. Jettisoned by Jose, Bastian has been
spending his newly found spare time saying he wants "to
help United reach their goals" and he "has no problem with
Mourinho" and that he "finds the reserve team squad very
welcoming." Ok, he didn't say the last one.
Sunderland will be fuming at how far ahead Hull have got
in their race to sign available players. They are so angry
they have started letting players leave the club without
noticing they are not signing replacements. Jermain Lens
has slipped off quietly, heading to Fenerbache.
Spurs don't get mentioned too often, but twice this
morning! They have launched an "audacious" attempt to
bring in Isco from Real Madrid. Isco or Zaha, hey? A clear
recruitment strategy in place at the Lane.
Something non-transfer for a moment. Aguero has been
handed a three match ban for letting Winston Reid's throat
collide with his elbow at the weekend. This is not good
news for Fantasy Football players. Someone far fewer FFL
players have in their teams is Mangala. He is heading back
to Porto on loan.
Watford were rather busy yesterday. On one end of the
desperation scale they re-signed defender Marriapa who
was without a club, for fairly obvious ability related
reasons. Right at the other end of the scale they picked up
Kenedy on loan from Chelsea. For a team already
struggling to integrate 39 new faces into the squad, what
harm will three more do, hey?
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