So it’s VfB Stuttgart submitting a satisfactory tender for our dear Tuncay, £9m reportedly – the Turk wanted to stay in England, but fractional offers from Spurs, Villa, and Everton made this Bundesliga barter the best course for the club… Residual impact from the Carlisle friendly results in another prolonged absence for Matthew Bates…a staggering fourth [...]

No pictures just yet, if at all, but Boro appear to have clinically dispatched Dumbarton 5-0 this past evening…GON, Jeremie Aliadiere, Adam Johnson and Rhys Williams all netted for the visitors, but the result was tempered by yet another knack for Didier Digard Mido is back, but he isn’t; he was part of the trio with [...]

Stewie was down Birmingham way having his Villa turn and cough…£12m is the reported fee for someone who needs bullet points to highlight how effing useless he was last season: 0 league goals 2 goals overall in 42 appearances – both v West Ham in the FA Cup missed crucial penalty @ Sunderland – momentum shifted and we [...]

92 goals needed this season to earn promotion?? With this lot??? ‘You’re having a laugh Gazza!’ says AV… Nothing tangible on the transfer front – rumours persist around Stewart Downing moving to Villa for anywhere between £10-12m, Tuncay joining him for another £8m, or even beating it to Goodison Park for something reputedly far more derisory… David [...]