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By Jonathan Stevenson
0748: The deadline slammed shut in Spain’s La Liga last night, by the way, with Ukraine defender Dmytro Chygrynskiy sealing his £22m move to Barcelona and the Catalan club selling Eidur Gudjohnsen to Monaco for about £1.8m. Real Madrid did not buy Franck Ribery from Bayern Munich, if any Chelsea/Manchester United fans are interested.0744: There may, of course, be an hilarious leftfield option for Club of the Day today, and I’m not talking about Spurs, Man City, or even Newcastle. No, there is an outfit that has been linked with no lesser names than Benjani, Kanu, Freddie Ljungberg and Christian Vieri, once the world’s most expensive footballer. Step forward Sven-Goran Eriksson’s Notts County.
From Jim, via text on 81111: "If Paul Hart’s reading here’s my advice for today: sign Benjani before breakfast, then unhook the phones and lock Kranjcar and James in a cupboard until 1701. Job done!"0735: Oh no, it’s started already. “Which centre-back are Forest gonna buy today, Stevo” asks John from London. If deadline days of yore are anything to go by Johnny, I’m betting they won’t.0732: Reckon there’ll be any crazy deadline day deals today How aboutArsenal making a cheeky £12m bid for Manchester United’s, er, combative midfielder Darren FletcherMore unlikely than Robinho to Man City this time last year!0728: …who, despite lying a lofty second in the league, have been linked with all sorts of players once again. They really are a deadline day dream. Coming in, allegedly, are David James, Niko Kranjcar and Martin Petrov, and going out is David Bentley. If the rumours are right and Man City are offering them £10m+Petrov for Bentley, that is a magnificent piece of business down at The Lane.0723: Slightly disappointed with how much business was going on yesterday, if I’m honest. Michael Turner to Sunderland, Diego Arismendi to Stoke, Tal Ben Haim to Portsmouth, Manuel da Costa to West Ham, Stefan Maierhofer and Segundo Castillo to Wolves… Don’t they know it’s deadline day today Thank heavens for Tottenham…
From Anon, via text on 81111: "My nan just texted me to say she is serving James Collins a full English at the B&B she runs in Aston."0715: So, an early plea. The 606 boards don’t open until 0900, so you’ll have to whack texts over until then. The magic number is 81111, and I’d be disappointed if it wasn’t anything other than red-hot all day long. I don’t care whether you’re at Heathrow or not, get yourself in the deadline day mixer. 0710: If you’ve just rolled out of bed, you’re feeling a little tender and you need your appetite to be whet,look no further than Tuesday’s gossip column, bringing you all the could-bes, would-bes and should-bes.It’s expanding as I type these very words, too.0706: For the next 12 hours or so, we’re going to bring you every spit and cough of transfer activity on deadline day. It is absolutely imperative that, in order to keep us sane, you get yourselves involved in this, the most glorious of all days to be a football fan.0700: Happy transfer deadline day. I don’t really need to say any more than that, do I