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Don't let go of the nerves for either Calleri or Bolanos. It's not over yet.

Increasingly, as suspected, it looks like the 3rd party ownership issue is something that is getting in the way. Presumably we'd have to do separate deals with Boca, and whoever owns the other 15% to allow him to actually play for us? I'm guessing they changed the rules in the light of the...

I don't think you're alone in that!

There's a picture of him, quite a while back in the thread, meeting the Pope in Italy when he went to fetch his Italian passport a few months ago.

I think this is the crux of it. I'm not sure he will be able to leave on a free, well not totally. Presumably the investment group that part owns him will be able to hold out for some kind of fee when he moves? Not too sure how things work with 3rd party ownership though - totally muddies the...

Yep, there is no way that this lad in the only option on the table.

That is literally mental.

He was very close to signing for Inter in the summer, so this would make sense.

Has he not had a hip injury for much of the season so far?

Hopefully it's a buy in December and pay nothing until June 2017 arrangement for us. Much like a DFS sofa!

Yep, that's what I took it to mean too.

So, basically, we've offered them 10m dollars and given them 10 days to accept or reject? Seems pretty sensible.

We were 100% interested in the summer, but it looked like he was going to be signing for Inter. For whatever reason, that deal didn't happen. Whether or not Inter go back again in January will be the crucial factor in our hopes of getting him. However, the fact that we're being credibly linked...

You must have changed your tune then. A quick look at your previous posts reveals that basically every single one is anti-Barber and/or anti-Bloom. This particular gem from February this year stuck out: "WE will never be promotion all the time Paul Barber is part off our club also we need a...

The Inter deal fell through at the last minute.

Last season's shambles is WHY we need to spend so much this season.

It seems a random rumour for someone to make up, so fingers crossed that there is something in it. If we get this one over the line then WOW.

I think there's almost certainly a degree of truth in this too. I'd imagine he wanted to wait to see what the first few 'punishments' would be like. Now he's seen that they were pretty paltry, he's probably feeling more comfortable loosening the purse strings.

This. Perhaps TB has the vastly increased TV revenues that kick in for the PL next year firmly in mind? If there's ANY year to go up, it's this one.

If we sign him and Elvis, I'm going to be throwing the kitchen sink at us going up. Still available at 5-1.