From a very impressive source buried deep in the foundations of Finch Farm:
Witsel? Next Thursday/Friday unless we are gazumped, which is an ever-present danger with his Dad as agent.
Mata? Possible something might start in a couple of weeks but all this imminent/done stuff is rubbish.
Schmeichel, Pelle. Just polite initial enquiries. Nothing to get excited about yet. Begovic? No.
Interest in two CBs, one playing in Spain, one in Germany. Expect something to start to move next week. Lots of competition for both so will require us to wave the ££££s.
Pace! At least one fast wide player wanted, ideally left-sided. Grosicki is a potential target but Euros raised his profile and price higher than we like so we are waiting to see if that settles down a bit.
Striker, half a dozen preliminary enquiries but nothing advanced. We ideally want 2, even if Rom stays. One big, hold-up type. One fast over the ground.
Stones, still wants out but Everton want "quite a bit" more than £50m as have to give Barnsley 15%. We have interest in 3 City players (two have been well rumoured, one is from the U-21s) but there won't be a player exchange deal as they are just too complicated.
Lukaku will stay unless Juve get £100m for Pogba and decide to blow three quarters of it on the free-scoring lump. Very unlikely.
Astonishingly McGeady, Kone and McCarthy are available at the right price but Oviedo and Niasse are wanted, at least for now.
Koeman still assessing the kids. Early whispers are most not yet judged first-team ready and that means we will potentially buy a couple more than initially planned 8-9 not 6).
There you go. No need to spend the next week on the internet frantically hitting refresh. Just call me Daddy