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Hearts want £500k for Templeton and we've apparently offered £400k. Don't worry though, our 2nd bid of £250k should seal the deal!

 

Bristol City have put an offer in too.

A well of optimism today!

I'll get excited once anyone has signed on the dotted line at Murray Park.

Templeton and Salihi for Jelavic ... we could do worse. I ... think I will have lunch now.

According to FF, they brought all the news about our interest in Holt and that Albanian Salihi, i.e. nothing new. And a bit behind schedule, since Holt will not leave Norwich according to his manager. Some tossers at SSN these days.

BBC now has this ->

1222: BBC Scotland's Brian McLaughlin reports that Hearts have received two bids for winger David Templeton. One from Rangers and one from an English Championship club

... of course, the same holds true with any bids for Jela. As I said last week, we should have set a deadline for our top performers (e.g. Saturday), all bids thereafter would be rebuffed (unless they are ridiculous). Was not going to happen and I just hope that Ally was prepared for the current scenario.

NB: Keep us updated johnnyk! I just hope they don't tell us that we have let Jela go!

I wouldn't be surprised if that is exactly what we are doing at this moment. Not un-Rangers-like.

Jelavic has agreed terms with Everton.

Heck ... you should be wary with your posts on the final day of the window!

Now here's one from out of the blue (and you read it here first!) ... it looks like we are interested in VfL Wolfburg striker Patrick Helmes, according to an article in the German (rather respectable) FAZ (last sentence). Also linked are Dortmund and Hannover, will check about this later on.

He's got a decent record, but has failed (for some reason) to break into the first team and plays in their reserves these days).

... that happens when you want to be the first with any news. I think he was actually referring to Claros now, as some other report does.

Re Holt ... never expected us to sign him now. We should avoid the EPL by default. Is Billy Sharp still available?

Anyone got any idea what Norwich's valuation for Holt actually is? Just out of interest.

On a sidenote, there is no hurry with Bruins or Jaager, unless themtwo want to sign for someone else. Both are freebies.

Around could very well mean February 1st to 5th ...

STV Grant:

To kill a rumour before it properly surfaces, Fulham striker Marcello Trotta will not be moving to Rangers on loan. A deal isn't possible as he has already played for two clubs this season.

 

Live updates here:

http://sport.stv.tv/football/scottish-premier/295563-scottish-transfer-deadline-day-live-updates-and-chat/

Don't confuse press hacks with simple reality or facts, please!

Fulham Chronicle Link ... just to be on the safe side.

IMHO, we may sign someone the press has no clue of.

Another thing from the Fools' Paradise ...

BBC Scotland's Chris McLaughlin on Twitter: "Despite some pretty intense speculation, Miroslav Klose will not be joining #Celtic. There was never any contact."

BTW, the BBC has a self-updating transfer deadline day page now.

In for a laugh? BBC gossip today ...

Rapid Vienna star Hamdi Sahili has been on Celtic's radar for two weeks and could now be a shock candidate for the Bhoys along with Nigerian hitman Michael Uchebo. (The Star)

As the saying goes, pessimists are optimists with experience. Which more often than not holds true. Still, we are talking football here and we bought Jelavic when times were even more dire and dealt in quite a few faces in the last January window when we again had even less money to spend.

I for one am pretty sure that we get at least a couple of new faces in.

The good thing is, I will be away from any PC for the best part of tomorrow evening ... for the second time running on a transfer window final day.

On a sidenote, our freshly signed Jill is a centre-half ...

Regarding Crawley, you do wonder which internet paths some Bears do follow ...

@Zappa ... yes, that was funny!

Rumours on Crawley forums, from a Crawley players dad, that Tubbs (prolific goalscorer) is joining Rangers for £1.5m...

 

Can't afford to sign a free agent yet we're buying someone for £1.5m? I smell shite!

If you refer to Jaager, I would assume that we did not need him that badly. We need strikers and Ally budgets for them first and foremost. Should Jela go, Jaager might still come in. As for Tubbs ... they may mean QPR, something they like to do down there.

So we did indeed get a player in! And what a lovely one indeed.

As someone on FF said. Our offer of half their valuation is "absurd" yet Everton and West Hams offer which doesn't meet our valuation of Jelavic is reported differently.

Coming to think of it, given Everton's dire need for a striker, shouldn't we loan Jelavic to them anyways? I mean, they have no money and really really ... really need him!

Well, Broadfoot was one of those who got us to Manchester in 2008, so I refrain to talk bad of him. He is not needed anymore, nor of a quality that cannot be replaced easily. For his and our sake, it would be better to move on. It is kind of strange that those people I would have no problem to see leaving, Whittaker and Broadfoot, got an injury at the most inopportune moment.

BTW, does anyone know whether we still have Bruins on trial?