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How many clubs has Calamari's dad said were a done deal since this thread started last year? I make it 4: Inter, Chelsea, Spurs and now West Ham.

Spurs was another PL club that he was linked to, and now West Ham it seems. My suspicion is that his Dad/agent is putting out these rumours and is desperate for him to be earning megabucks playing in a top-tier European league. Fact is that if he'd signed for Brighton last January, he most...

We've apparently had an offer in the region of 7m accepted, so if we offered wages of 5m over 4 years (25k a week) that makes it 12m, or 3m a year as far as FFP is concerned, so I think it's possible without any financial jiggery-pokery. But nah, **** signing the striker from Argentina's...

His agent/dad is certainly trying his hardest to get the best deal possible.

I've enjoyed this thread a lot, but I can't see it happening. What I do think will happen is that we'll sign someone else, and that, like nearly all of our successful transfers, most fans won't even have seen a Twitter rumour before the official transfer news email from the club is sent out.

Great. That should help get us towards 400 pages.

Maybe translates as the payment plan isn't convincing? Which maybe means that a large part of it is in promotion and/or sell on clauses.

That still remains my favourite transfer deal of all time.

It seems to be all about a loan deal to Bologna when you search Calleri.

That's a 4 engine plane - probably a 747 - so definitely long haul. Depending on the layout, he's either towards the back of business, or maybe premium economy. As noted, the mountains are far too green to be northern hemisphere.

Sitting in the seat next to BG, I heard.

It doesn't matter how expensive England is compared to BA, even footballers with expensive taste would struggle to spend more than 4-5K a week, leaving a surplus of about 35K to save for his retirement.

It's all about the £. The average wage in the Argie premier league is about £4K a week; the average in the EPL is over £40K.

South American BG.

24 pages to go. We'll probabky manage half of that with fish puns.

They have been very very good in that respect, so maybe!

Much as I want to believe, I can't imagine that they'd be able to keep it off the radar if he really was training. If your mate was ITK because his son is at the academy, how many other academy parents would know?? In this day of social media, it'd be all over Twitter before he'd even finished...

It's exactly the same: put out a rumour that a PL club are looking to make a bid to give more leverage in contract negotiations. Same was done for Rohan Ince and Liverpool a month or 2 before his contract was renewed.

Do you think that his dad/agent runs his Twitter account?

I want to believe that this is the genuine account of an ITK journalist. However, if it was, wouldn't it have thousands of followers? Andy Naylor has close to 9000.