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2000: West Ham expect to sign Joe Hart from Manchester City in the next few days, according to the latest reports.
He's now 1/10 with Sky Bet to make that move but if you think they'll be a last-minute hiccup, you can back him at 7/1 to stay.
1620: Kyle Walker is officially worth the same as Nottingham Forest.
Leeds, meanwhile, have continued their busy summer by signing someone who used to play f0r [shout] Real Madrid [whisper] B and C teams.
And in 'do these games really count as debuts?' news, both Alexandre Lacazette and Wayne Rooney have scored for their new/old clubs today.
Rooney's goal is a corker, by the way, exactly like that one he scored against Arsenal in 2002, if Arsenal had been Gor Mahia and the Premier League had been the PesaSport Super Cup final and the 16-year-old had been a bald 30-something wearing what appears to be a white kit that's got in a dark wash somehow.
1502: Lots of reports around that Daniel Levy's negotiating tactic of just saying "Fifty million" every time Manchester City call has paid off, with that fee now agreed for right-back Kyle Walker.
Does feel like just about a good deal for all parties. Walker gets his move, Spurs get a ludicrous wedge of cash, City get a right-back who can run.
1405: Something may have got lost in translation here, as Frank de Boer promises to look in Crystal Palace's "own kitchen" before signing a bunch of new players. Last time I did that all I found was an old bag of flour with all weevils in it. There certainly weren't any 20-goal strikers or box-to-box midfielders lurking at the back of the cupboard with the Oxo cubes and vanilla essence.
Nice news from Germany, where Sven Bender will play alongside twin brother Lars after signing for Bayer Leverkusen.
Meanwhile, over in Milan, Inter have attempted to shut down all this Ivan Perisic to Manchester United talk. "It is not going to happen," Mean Girlsed director Piero Ausilio. "We haven’t considered anything they have offered."
That's pretty final, then. I'm sure that's the last we'll hear on that topic. *innocent face*
1130: Right, let's have a bit of a catch-up, because there's a bit going off. Perhaps the biggest news is Gylfi Sigurdsson, who appears to have reached full #headsgone status after swerving Swansea's pre-season US tour amid talk of a £40m bid from Everton being turned down.
"Gylfi did not feel in the right frame of mind to travel this morning," a Swansea statement euphemismed.
The good news for fans of the Icelandic playmaker's mental state is that Sky Bet reckon he'll soon be joining what seems like literally every other footballer on earth at Goodison Park - it's just 1/8 that he makes that move this summer, with Leicester at 8/1 seemingly the only other runners left in that particular race.
Elsewhere, everybody's favourite Bundesliga club RB Leipzig have told Liverpool to back off in their pursuit of Naby Keita, who they insist is not for sale. The Sky Bet traders aren't so sure - they still make Keita 8/15 to end the summer at Anfield.
And finally, Enner Valencia - a walking reminder of the dangers of signing a player on the back of an impressive World Cup for Ecuador - has left West Ham for Mexico.
Think that's everything for now. We'll (almost certainly) be back with more news (hopefully) later on.
0820: Early transfer news and Premier League newcomers Brighton have signed Austria international left-back Markus Suttner, 30, from German side Ingolstadt for an undisclosed fee on a three-year deal.
0730: It's Thursday! Soon be the weekend! Then next week! Then some more weeks! Then the football season will be back! The proper one! Not this preliminary pre-qualification qualifying European stuff!
But, until then, we must satisfy ourselves with pre-season friendlies and tittle-tattle. Liverpool won one such pre-season friendly last night, after which Jurgen Klopp told panicking transfer-hungry fans to stop being such sillies. Klopp being Klopp, he of course did this in his jovial, avuncular way.
"If any fans think, 'What are the other teams doing and why are we not doing anything', I can't help. Sorry.
"We cannot buy players because other teams buy players. We do our business as good as we can do it and we are convinced about the way we are going.
"Nervous fans? Sorry, I don't have to write a message for this. I am not nervous – maybe that is the message."
Elsewhere, Adnan Januzaj bids farewell to Manchester United, admitting his Old Trafford dream all turned a bit sour there. He was the future once.
And, of course, there's Paper Talk to enjoy as always. The reliable bringer of hot nonsense, wild speculation and, occasionally, solid information.
Today's edition features Daniel Levy in his absolute element patiently waiting to extract absolute top price for his players just because he can, plus a great many of the usual suspects: Olivier Giroud, Samir Nasri, Hector Bellerin, Radja Nainggolan, Luke Shaw, Wilfried Bony. Paper Talk playing all the greatest hits this morning.
