Transfer deadline day – live! | Paolo Bandini

• Check out part one and part two of our deadline day coverage • Keep up to date with the Guardian Sport Twitter account • Email paolo.bandini@guardian.co.uk or Tweet @Paolo_Bandini • Joe Cole joins Lille on season-long loan • Tottenham seal £6m deal for West Ham’s Scott Parker • All today’s completed deadline day deals 8.35pm: And while we’re doing the Twitter thing, here’s @JmsDmnd explaining Leicester’s late notice business. “Leaving it late because they are desperate for a striker and were pinning their hopes on Nicky Maynard (staying put),” he says. 8.31pm: Top football finances blogger Swiss Ramble is at his wits’ end on Twitter. “I’ve been racking my brains trying to work out Arsenal’s strategy this summer,” he tweets. “But have come to the unhappy conclusion that there isn’t one. 8.30pm: Royston Drenthe is on Merseyside and still trying to sort out his loan from Real Madrid to Everton. Which he seems to have been doing for a little while to be honest. 8.27pm: OK, but seriously – who waits until now to place a bid for a player? Sky reporting now that Leicester might be about to make a fresh approach for the striker Nikica Jelavic, having already had a £6.5m offer turned down. How does this happen? If you wanted him that badly, couldn’t you have thought about it at, say, breakfast time? Or even mid-afternoon? Is this just an idle dinner conversation that got out of hand? 8.25pm: I’m hearing that Bolton have now officially completed the signing of David Ngog from Liverpool. 8.20pm: At what point do we start to say that this actually just hasn’t been a particularly exciting transfer deadline day? 8.16pm: My spies in Portugal tell me that FC Porto have stolen a march in the battle (nay, global conflict) to sign Nicklas Bendtner “Portuguese media have just reported that Bendtner is in route to FC Porto for €12m,” says Mário Guerreiro. “And that the Alvaro Pereira’s move to Chelsea could still be a possibility, as Chelsea have now offered Lukaku in exchange.” Mário even provided a link, for those who speak Portuguese . 8.14pm: Jim White is literally on the phone as he bellows to us that Shaun Wright-Phillips’s move to QPR is now good to go ahead after he cleared up some loose ends with Manchester City. Seriously – on the phone! Is he talking to us or the person on the other end of the line? We may never know. 8.10pm: “Sky have gone with a relative unknown alongside their big gun Jim White,” reckons Pete Marland. “He’s got off to a shaky start, stumbling over done words. But I am expecting him to pick up the pace as the evening goes on. Still it is a big call to pair him with one of the lesser known female SSN presenters.” Hang on a sweet second there Pete – Natalie Sawyer is anything but an unknown to those of us who have this channel on in our office 24 hours a day. She’s an experienced veteran. He did stumble over his words though. 8.08pm: Newcastle fans! You didn’t think that your club was really going to sit there and watch the interest accrue on that Andy Carroll money while failing to address their glaring need up front did you? Never! Apparently Mike Ashley’s people are right this minute attempting to hijack Fulham’s bid for the FC Twente forward Bryan Ruiz. And according to Sky, they’ve got a half-decent chance. 8.03pm: Andy Hunter is on fire. “Wigan have followed up the signing of Shaun Maloney by taking Patrick Van Aaanholt on a season long loan from Chelsea,” he reports. “Roberto Martinez’s work with Tom Cleverley last season has not gone unnoticed.” 8pm: He’s here! He’s actually, really here! Sky Sports News Silver Fox Jim White is at his seat and ready for the next three, glorious hours. The channel has been previewing his arrival in the studio since some time last year, so I’m expecting literal fireworks, allied with insights that would make the messiah weep with envy. 7.59pm: And now here’s some news from north of the border from Ewan Murray: “Celtic will sign Moroccan left-back Badr el kaddouri on loan for six months.” 7.58pm: Our man in the north-west, Andy Hunter, reports that “Everton are pushing ahead with the signing of Royston Drenthe from Real Madrid despite Mikel Arteta’s move to Arsenal falling through.” 7.55pm: The word on the street (well, the internet) is that QPR may be preparing a late move for Nicklas Bendtner. Am I the only one who thinks it would make more sense for Arsenal – given the modest additions made so far – to keep hold? 7.51pm: Sky Man at Stoke has it “on good authority” that they have opened discussions with Manchester City over the possibility of signing Adam Johnson on loan. But, as he points out, they still have deals for Peter Crouch and Cameron Jerome to tie up. Can they get all the paperwork sorted in time? 7.50pm: An update from our man in the north-east this afternoon, Ewan Murray: Both north east clubs remain desperate for strikers… Sunderland now turning their attention to possible loan move for Chelsea’s Daniel Sturridge. Despite earlier conflicting evidence surrounding Gyan, there remains every chance he will leave the Stadium of Light for France or Turkey, should the opportunity arise. Newcastle, meanwhile, have moved for Twente’s Bryan Ruiz, who was last spotted in talks with Fulham…. 7.47pm: Owen Hargreaves has signed a one year contract at Manchester City. In my opinion, and those of most guardian.co.uk readers , a gamble worth taking. 7.45pm: Just 15 minutes to Jim White on Sky Sports News. It’s the big name arrival we’ve all been waiting for. 7.44pm: One suspects this email from Stewart Pearce is indicative: “The real buzz amongst Arsenal fans this morning that we might see a signing along the lines of M’Villa, Vargas, Hazard or Martin. Now to hear that “all efforts” are being put into capturing benayoun on loan really is a smack in the teeth. I expect Man City et al are quaking in their boots.” 7.40pm: As I noted in my last entry on the previous blog, Arsenal’s proposed deal for Mikel Arteta has collapsed, and they are now placing all of their eggs in the Yossi Benayoun loan basket. Meantime, Hull’s Jamie Devitt has joined Bradford on loan. 7.32pm: OK folks, sorry about that – technical gremlins have forced us to move to a new location. So, what did I miss? 7.30pm: Welcome back to our live coverage of transfer deadline day. What you’ve missed from part one and part two of our live blog: • Liverpool midfielder Joe Cole joins Lille on season-long loan deal. • Scott Parker completes £6m switch to Tottenham from West Ham. • Arsenal complete deal for Fenerbahce defender André Santos. • Sunderland’s Anton Ferdinand set for medical at QPR; Stoke agree fee with Birmingham for Cameron Jerome; Liverpool midfielder Christian Poulsen signs for Evian. Transfer window Paolo Bandini guardian.co.uk

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