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Friday January 17

News from north of the border and Inverness have re-signed midfielder Greg Tansey from English League One side Stevenage on an 18-month deal.
17:30
Southampton owner Katharina Liebherr has pledged not to sell any players during the transfer window.
14:54

Partick have signed defender Lee Mair from Scottish Premiership rivals St Mirren at the second time of asking.
14:52

Wigan tweet: 'CONFIRMED: Jordan Mustoe joins Wycombe Wanderers on loan'
14:37
West Brom are adamant new head coach Pepe Mel has no axe to grind with his current backroom staff at The Hawthorns.
14:35
Marseille caretaker manager Jose Anigo does not expect Zinedine Zidane to be the man the club turn to in the summer.
14:33
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini remains guarded about his plans for the January transfer window.
14:01
PSV Eindhoven have released Bulgarian full-back Stanislav Manolev.
13:48

NEC Nijmegen have signed Ajax youngsters Geoffrey Castillion and Danzell Gravenberch on loan for the season.
13:46

We go to France for an e-mail from Alan Anderson: 'Hello Nick and I just thought I'd see what's happening back in Blighty with the news here in France that Salomon Kalou is being lined up by Spurs - I have to say it's a surprising one on a number of levels. Despite pretty much all of the Ligue 1 sides (except PSG and AS Monaco) being open to offers for players this one seems slightly odd. Kalou hasn't be particularly at the top of his game for Lille despite them sitting third in the table (I saw him against Bordeaux last November and he was pretty ineffective and subbed after an hour). He's only scored 6 times and 2 of those were penalties (do Spurs need a new penalty-taker??). He's playing as an out-and-out central striker rather than the more left-sided role he played at Chelsea but he'd hardly be a marquee signing down at the Lane and seems that Lille despite be well-placed/aiming for CL (or Europa as a worst-case) are bothered about keeping him.'
13:14

Borussia Dortmund have announced South Korea striker Ji Dong-won will join them after his six-month stint at Augsburg.
13:02

Here's the full Shane Long story.

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Monday January 20

West Brom v Everton takes centre stage in Monday Night Football. We have betting tips and Jamie Redknapp's video preview.
15:51

Huddersfield have signed striker Harry Bunn from Manchester City on a short-term contract until the end of the season.
15:09
Jose Mourinho believes billionaire owner Roman Abramovich will bankroll another spending spree at Chelsea - if Financial Fair Play regulations are not enforced.
14:58

Interesting move to bring you in Sky Bet's Transfer Specials with Juan Mata cut from 11/2 to 11/4 to join Manchester United. You can also check out our Juan Mata Transfer Focus from last week.
14:42

Sky Bet make Manchester City 80/1 shots to become the first team to win the Quadruple and this story has all the details.
14:34

Here the full details on the loan move away from Liverpool for Tiago Ilori.
13:58

Sky Bet tweet: 'Would Draxler be a good signing for #AFC this month? The Gunners are currently odds-on 5/6 favourites to land him'
13:55

Chris Erskine has joined Partick Thistle on loan from Dundee United until the end of the season.
13:48

Rayo Vallecano have agreed a loan deal with Blackburn for striker Ruben Rochina.
13:42

Liverpool tweet: '#LFC today confirmed that defender Tiago Ilori has joined La Liga side Granada on loan until the end of the season.'
13:03

Sky Sports understands Chelsea youngster Islam Feruz has agreed terms on a new deal to keep him in West London until 2018.
12:50
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Wednesday January 22


Movement in the Tom Ince market as Monaco have now moved into odds-on 1/2 favourites with Sky Bet to sign the Blackpool winger this month. Following his father's recent sacking as manager at Bloomfield Road, defensive midfielder Barry Ferguson is 8/13 to be the next permanent boss.
17:55

Mata now as short as 1/6 with Sky Bet to leave Chelsea in this transfer window and Man United at the 1/5 favourites to capture his signature.
16:50

Ken Livermore writes: 'Apparently Chelsea have confirmed they have had an offer for Matta from United, which has been rejected. However, he was then withdrawn from training, which would seem to indicate a move is likely.' Sky Sources understand a £40m bid was made earlier today.
16:22

Brad Smith: Looking forward to the big game on Saturday - Bournemouth v Liverpool. Myself and the Lynns hometown. I advise all LFC fans not to bother with TC next week if we knock you out. Cannot wait.'
16:08

Simon Somerville writes: 'Sorry for all the stats folks that's what happens after living in Canada for 22 years! To appease the faithful I pose the following to Chelsea: Consider loaning Mata to Liverpool before you sell him to United! I would argue this increase the chance of Liverpool taking points off Arsenal and City as much as it would United increasing your title chances! The schedule and Man U's position helps them with negotiations with Chelsea since they do not have to play each other again but would Mata want to go to Man U at this point in time and not play in Europe next year? Well I guess it is better than not playing at all. Would it involve Rooney eventually going the other way? Of course Liverpool would add an option to buy Mata in the summer, which they would trigger if they made Champions League.'
15:40

Rich Lynn: 'Simon, what does your post actually mean? Do Liverpool have to play 98 friendlies at Anfield to keep hold of Suarez?'
15:25
Many thanks to Mr Dave John for his efforts so far today, but please switch the email to matthew.brocklebank@bskyb.com for the rest of the afternoon as I am now at the helm. Thank you.
15:15

Richard Marsden says: 'That post from Simon, absolutely full of facts and figures...there's no place for the likes of him on the TC...what we thrive on is opinion, conjecture and baiting...facts just get in the way.'
14:55

Rich Lynn: 'Actually Ken, that only happens 78% of the time ....'
14:55

Hello to Ken Livermore: 'What is it with baseball ? The very mention of the word always ensures an avalanche of stats is not far behind. Never known a sport like it !!!'
14:50

An excellent post earlier on from Simon Somerville but here is a slight amendment: 'Sorry I made an error! Boston debt repayment is not $151m a year. They have a small debt probably due to the Stadium enhancements in recent years and a small portion and total Gate receipts for the year of $179m is net of this payment.'
14:45

Hello to Simon Somerville: 'Just wanted to weigh in on the Billionaire money talk! Paul if you are comparing Baseball to the EPL as an example of Billionaires throwing money at a team consider the following: Liverpool has a relatively small stadium and had a gate receipt of £42m in 2012 as well as the 5th highest payroll of 119m almost 3 times that of the gate. They made a loss of £41m in 2012. Boston had the 4th highest payroll last year at around $150m (8 players make up $100m of this) this was nearly $80m less than the New York Yankees who have a massive stadium and generate huge revenue. Big numbers! However they play 162 games a year 81 home games which means $833,333 per game. Boston has a small ground circa 37,400. The average attendance for home games is 34979 total attendance for the year 2,833,333 the average ticket was $53.38 which means gate receipts of $151,243,315. Obviously there are cost associated with running the stadium (gate receipts go towards debt repayment) and huge costs moving a baseball team around the country for 81 games and spring training but we have not even factored in concessions, TV revenue or Sponsorship deals and revenue generated from the Playoffs. Overall they generated $336m in revenue last year and there player expenses were $190 (includes benefits and bonuses).'

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Thursday January 23

Chelsea tweet: 'Agreement reached with FC Basel for the transfer of Mohamed Salah.'
16:10

In the last few minutes Basel have officially announced that Mohamed Salah is set to join Chelsea after agreeing a deal with the Premier League side. Liverpool had been strongly linked with the Egyptian, but Chelsea have won the race for his services.The highly-rated attacker is now set to hold talks and undergo a medical at Stamford Bridge.
16:00

Hull City tweet: 'We can confirm that Elliot Kebbie has joined the club on a short-term deal until the end of the season'
15:35
Liverpool's pursuit of Mohamed Salah appears to be over with Chelsea set to sign the Basel winger.
15:30

Barnsley have signed Hull striker Nick Proschwitz on loan until the end of the season.
15:20
Dougie Freedman has revealed Bolton are in talks with Swansea over the transfer of striker David Ngog.
15:10

St Johnstone have announced the signing of former Scotland striker Chris Iwelumo.
15:05

Betting has been suspended on the future of Wilfried Zaha, who is expected to join Cardiff on-loan. The Bluebirds were 2/7 favourites with Sky Bet
14:50

Fulham have confirmed that young winger Alex Kacaniklic has extended his current contact by a further 12 monthts to keep him at the club until June 2015
14:45

Hello to Colin: 'I don't know what the fuss is all about over the Mata fee. Man City, Chelsea and Liverpool have all paid over the odds for players over the past few years so why not United. It will take more than one purchase to solve the problems at Man U but the significance of no RVP and Rooney is huge. If these two were in the line up last night, United would be going to Wembley. Anyway it is what it is and Machester will need teams to come back to them while getting some traction and putting a winning streak together. It's a very competitive league and all the top teams will drop points especially as some progress in the CL and I expect most of to them to move on in the next round, including United.
14:35

Derby have signed goalkeeper Kelle Roos from Skrill Premier side Nuneaton for an undisclosed fee.
14:20
Sam Pollock is now in charge of the Transfer Centre for the rest of the day. Will we see a big deal or two? E-mails to the same place for the next hour and we'll print the best.

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Friday January 24


Cardiff boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has swooped to sign Norway striker Jo Inge Berget.
16:44
West Ham have made a bid for Leeds captain Ross McCormack, Sky Sports understands.
16:25
News from France is that Paris Saint-Germain could be about to end their pursuit of Newcastle United midfielder Yohan Cabaye and instead turn their attentions to Roma's Miralem Pjanic.
15:00
Jose Mourinho insisted Juan Mata leaves Chelsea for Manchester United with his and the club's blessing, while Manuel Pellegrini isn't best pleased with the situation.
14:05

Wayne Rooney to Chelsea has been popular with Sky Bet this morning - he is now 3/1 from 6/1. For Sky Bet's full list of Transfer Special markets, head to their website via this link.
13:30

Ken Livermore: 'Looks like the next signing for Chelsea, or Spurs is going to be the Brazilian Romulu. The asking price is 10 million, and exactly on trend, Liverpool have offered 8 million. So whilst we haggle over the difference you can expect one of the London teams to nip in and sign him.'
13:00

John Egan: 'Noel, Liverpool fans already know how it feels as Liverpool were trying to sign Willian before Spurs came in and that was why I found it funny when Chelsea did the same to spuds.'
11:40
Brendan Rodgers insists any January signing has to be able to make an immediate contribution - He also talks about Mohamed Salah.
10:58

Noel Madden says: 'Oh how the Liverpool fans laughed when Willian snubbed Spurs to join Chelsea, now they know how it feels (even though I don't rate him). Not sure how Jay reckons Chelsea didn't need Willian. He has been one of their key players for the last couple of months. I also think the theory of Chelsea signing players simply to prevent rivals strengthening has been well and truly blown out of the water by their willingness to sell Mata to United. On a separate note; Vertonghen, Paulinho, Kaboul and Sandro came back from injury in a friendly game yesterday. All 4 have been absent from our run of 16 points from 18. Will any other squad improve as much in January?'
10:55

Kumar writes: 'I agree with Mr. Anderson. Ferguson would never stoop to the level of acquiring a rival's world class bench warmer. He would only stoop to the level of spending a record fee on a player who stands in the center circle looking completely disinterested in the match just to force a move to United.'
10:50

Alan Anderson: 'Morning Matthew and just a couple of things from over here in France. Firstly the on-off transfer of Yohan Cabaye to PSG from Newcastle is in danger it seems as with Paul Pogba likely to join PSG in the summer it'll leave too few midfield places available and rumour is that's putting Cabaye off the move (apparently he's also still happy at Newcastle). Also my view on the Juan Mata news for what it's worth: since when did Man U (obviously) take cast-offs from their main rivals? Is this a whole new level of ignominy? I can't ever imagine that SAF would have stooped to accept a rival's 'bench-warmer' regardless of the fee involved.' I wouldn't class Juan Mata as your average 'bench-warmer'.'

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Monday January 27


Hearts assistant manager Billy Brown has been handed a further reprieve after his contract was extended by a month.
17:18
Nicolas Anelka says he has rejected offers to move abroad and wants to stay at West Brom.
17:15

St Johnstone have completed the loan signing of Stevenage midfielder James Dunne.
16:56
Managing director Ian Ayre insists Liverpool will not pay over the odds on inflated transfer fees.
16:54

Colin Ross writes: 'It will be interesting to see where Luke Sha lands. At United he will pretty well land himself a starter role as I think Evra wants to finish his career in France and he is on the wrong side of 30. Not sure if an 18 year old will get the same starts at Chelsea although he is a very talented young man and Chelsea fan to boot. United may decide to splash the cash with the very exciting prospect of Shaw and Januzaj playing together. He's top of my transfer list right now plus I'd like to see Kagawa and Mata start some games to see if we can get some production out of Kagawa.'
16:40
Rene Meulensteen believes the transfer window will hot up in the coming days but expects Dimitar Berbatov to stay at Fulham.
16:38

Oddschecker tweet: 'PSG now just 4/9 to sign Yohan Cabaye this month. 3/1 he stays at Newcastle. 7/1 to go to Man United'
16:29
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis is confident Arsene Wenger will sign a new contract to remain at the Emirates Stadium.
16:12

Here's the full story on David Ngog's move to Swansea.
15:28

Sky Bet FL tweet: 'Are #LFC back in for Tom Ince? We make the Reds 8/1 to sign the winger this month, #Swans 1/2, Monaco 6/1!'
15:12

Bolton tweet: 'David Ngog has joined Premier League side Swansea City for an undisclosed fee'. More on that done deal to follow.
14:55
Liverpool have rejoined the race to sign Thomas Ince, according to Sky sources.

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Tuesday January 28


Schalke have signed promising Duisburg Under-19 striker Joseph Boyamba on a three-year contract.
16:08
In case you haven't already had a read, don't miss Ben Coley and Andy Schooler's match-by-match preview of tonight's Premier League action.
16:00

Hearts teenage midfielder Adam King has joined Swansea City on a three-year deal.
15:20

Sassuolo have sacked coach Eusebio Di Francesco following the team's poor run of form in Serie A.
15:01
Brighton have made a bid for Charlton midfielder Dale Stephens, Sky sources understand.
14:52

Kilmarnock have announced the re-signing of Finnish playmaker Alexei Eremenko until the end of the season.
14:36

The London Evening Standard report: 'Chelsea have made Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa their first-choice target to strengthen their attack in the summer.'
14:24

Richard Evison brings us an update from Sky Bet's Transfer Specials: 'There has been one major gamble today and that surrounds Manchester City defender Joleon Lescott. The England defender has been backed from 20/1 into 2/1 to make the move to Galatasaray. West Ham were the favourites to sign him but that deal seems to have collapsed and the Hammers are now out to 5/1.'
14:14

Robert Morris writes: 'As an Arsenal supporter; I would honestly say that this is the first time for many a season that I am truly happy with our squad. If any money should be spent this window it would have to be a replacement for Bendtner? I do laugh when I look at the 'Major Ins' list and Arsenal reads 'Will appear here...' Can you change this to 'Will NOT appear here...' He He'
14:09

Richard writes: 'Afternoon. I see all the BIG club supporters going into meltdown at the thought of their clubs actually having to win something to qualify for European competition. Don't worry lads I don't think Michel and his cronies read the TC so this awesome idea will never get off the ground. Anyone have the email address for UEFA '
14:07
Interesting story for Manchester United fans as David Moyes hints there will be an overhaul of the Manchester United squad in the summer.
14:05

Sky Sports News tweet: 'Tom Ince in talks with Stoke over possible move #SSN'

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Wednesday January 29


Sassuolo have appointed former Genoa manager Alberto Malesani as their new coach.
14:22

Bournemouth have agreed a fee with Charlton for Yann Kermorgant,Sky sources understand.
14:19

Manchester United tweet: '#mufc goalkeeper Sam Johnstone has signed a new three-and-a-half-year contract with the club until June 2017.'
14:14

Click here for all of Sky Bet's Transfer Specials. Will any of the players listed be the major signing for Liverpool?
13:53

Lille striker Tulio De Melo has signed a six-month contract with Ligue 1 rivals Evian.
13:25

The London Evening Standard are reporting: 'Fulham are closing in on a £12million deal for Greece striker Konstantinos Mitroglou.'
13:23
French midfielder Elliot Grandin has been released by Crystal Palace after just five months at Selhurst Park.
13:14

Reading tweet: 'Young midfielder Lawson D'Ath has today extended his loan spell at Dagenham & Redbridge until the end of the season'
13:11
Here are a few more details on Yevhen Konoplyanka's potential move to Liverpool.
13:08

Sky Sports News tweet: 'Sky Sources: Liverpool head of recruitment Dave Fallows heading to Ukraine for talks with Dnipro winger Yevhen Konoplyanka #SSN'
12:47
It won't surprise any of you to report Paris Saint-Germain are set to unveil Newcastle midfielder Yohan Cabaye as their latest signing later today.
12:36
Now the Sky Sports sources understand that Liverpool are in talks to sign Dnipro winger Yevhen Konoplyanka.

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[FONT=Book Antiqua]Thursday January 30[/FONT]


Schalke midfielder Jermaine Jones has joined Besiktas on loan, the Turkish Super Lig club has announced.
16:02

The Ince move proves bang-on, with Sky Sports reporting he is set to join Crystal Palace on loan.
16:00

Zach Amin brings us up to date from the Sky Bet Trading Room. He says: 'With just over one day to go until the transfer window closes, it has been a busy day, with the biggest news being that we have suspended betting on Tom Ince's next club market after he was backed in heavily to as short as 1/6 to join Crystal Palace. Lewis Holtby is now 1/8 to join Fulham after being backed in from 6/4 throughout the day. Yevhen Konoplyanka is now 1/3 to join Liverpool following reports that talks have been held between Liverpool and the player's representatives, however Tottenham are 9/4 second favourites after reports they have also joined the race for the player.' Head now to the Sky Bet website to check out their full list of Transfer Specials.
15:35
Tottenham are to appeal the red card shown to Danny Rose in Wednesday night's 5-1 Barclays Premier League defeat at home to Manchester City, Press Association Sport understands.
15:30

Swansea have signed Raheem Hanley an 18-month loan deal.
15:25

Nottingham Forest tweet: '#NFFC have signed OGC Nice defender Kevin Gomis on loan, subject to international clearance'
14:56
On-loan Manchester United defender Michael Keane has returned to Old Trafford following the end of his loan spell with Derby.
14:52

Here's a video of Alan Pardew talking about the transfer business at Newcastle.
14:46

Charlton have raided Standard Liege again to sign Iran international Reza Ghoochannejhad.
14:41

Here's the full story on West Ham signing Abdul Razak.
14:34

St Mirren have taken Aberdeen striker Josh Magennis on loan until the end of the season.
14:20
Interesting for Manchester United fans as reported target Toni Kroos' Bayern Munich future is put in doubt.