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Fair point, Neymars dad was paid a $40 million backhander. Calleri would cost half of that. Calleri's dad is his agent, and all players decisions are influenced by thier agents. It's not a question of backbone, purely taking the advice of those he pays to handle such things. No different to any...

Don't blame the son for the sins of his father. Neymar's dad was far worse, would you turn your nose up at him?

Any chance this guy could still be the marquee signing that we need? Since we missed out, and he went on loan to São Paulo, he scored 11 goals in 14 matches. We were definately interest before and those figures only serve to prove his potential. I'm all for blowing the entire transfer budget...

Ok, let's take a break and reconvene in the summer.

L'equipe in France reporting the Sau Paulo deal to be completed tomorrow. Sao Paulo se renforce bien en vue de la saison prochaine. Le club pauliste a annoncé la signature pour trois ans de Kieza, deuxième meilleur buteur du dernier Brasileirao avec Bahia. Le Tricolor va officialiser mardi...

Or have they? Is this the Albion playing Calleri's new owners, publically cooling thier interest to make them sweat? Never play poker with a lizard.

His dad is just having once last go at pimping him out to a higher, more attractive bidder. Not very dignified, and the reason players should always employ a proper agent.

Haven't we been here before? December 15th Argentinian journalist Pablo Gravellone, who works for Argentine news outlet Todo Noticias tweeted regarding Calleri: "There is a verbal agreement. Calleri will sign for 5 years with Inter, then he will go on loan to Bologna." January 19th "There...

A six month loan? Oh well, stand by to do this all over again in six months time.

There you go

I Get the feeling that Aubameyang will go to Arsenal and Calleri will replace him at Dortmund.

Could third party ownership not be abused to get around FFP? Say a Championship club wanted to purchase a South American based player, but his parent club was holding out for a transfer fee which would cause the Championship club to breach FFP, something they were staunch advocates of, and...

This is why so many deals occur on transfer deadline day, players keep flashing their knickers to see if they get a better offer. It was always thus.

When a club is in negotiations to purchase a player, it isn't like popping into Sainsburys for a loaf of bread. It is more akin to buying a house. Negotiations take an age, and the time difference only exacerbates the already long winded process. We have cleared the first hurdle by agreeing a...

You're spot on there and this is why the club has a player recruitment & analysis department, so we don't have to pay over the odds for the same old names. The club invests in a scouting network to save money going for the obvious names we could all through into the mix. How many of us would...

Sorry to disappoint the conspiracy theorists, but I am not affiliated to the club in any way, either officially nor unofficially. Alas, I'm just an average Johnny, and not even a 1901 member. I'm just another F5 basher, trying to cut trough all the misinformation, make believe and general bollox...

So, If we have missed out then it is a shame, but if you step back and take off your blue and white tinted specs for a moment and look at this situation from Jonathan Calleri's point of view, it's not all that surprising. The lad is 22 and is the best young player at Boca Juniors, the biggest...