You can bet Reed will be ready to play for Fulham. Expect Cunningham to be eased in for Christmas.

If Mowbray hadn’t slagged him off last season, and played him in his proper position, we might have had a chance.

£1million loan fee in for Mulgrew?

What’s the deadline for paperwork to be filed?

Come on down Jack Rodwell.

Mowbray said earlier today that anyone we sign today won't be in the team on saturday. Smallwood at CB is on.

What time does the window shut? 5???

Blue 3rd kit? Will we need a 4th kit?

Sorry but he's lost the plot in that interview. "Everybody has a name and says 'why don't you and get him?' Well if I phoned up about him and they are saying he is £20million and we can't afford him so we have to move onto the next one. And if we phone up about him and they say he is £10million well we can't afford him. Why don't we swap Tyler Magloire for the centre half at Rochdale, whoever he is, and stick him in our team and see how we get on?" Norwich and Sheffield United both got out of the league without spending 10/20 million. It's down to good scouting. Are there players out there better than Bennett, Mulgrew and Bell - of course there are! Ridiculous to suggest otherwise.

Get that fax machine going for gods sake.

Williams has been on paternity leave. Not sure if the injury was made up to cover that. Don't know why they would need to hide it.

2008 the worst transfer window in memory. Sold Bentley, Ince decided that Emerton was going to be good enough on the right wing, despite being our preferred RB and way past his best. Remember thinking 'we must surely be signing a winger' right up to the 10PM deadline.

Surprise surprise another striker.

Cunningham and Hanley coming in would be a game changer.

At this stage, I agree. But we'll be back here next summer putting the same effort into replacing all these loans, and not have any players to trade on for profit.

Another loan? Are we back to Venky's "lease" model?

All people are asking for is a left back and a big ugly centre back who can head it. Not difficult when you've got £12m to waste on centre forwards who play on the wing.

The new scouting team aren’t exactly covering themselves in glory if we end up with Hanley. I’d be pretty pleased with that though given where we are with hours left this window.

Interesting info. Makes it all the more necessary for an explanation from Mowbray and Waggot if defenders don’t arrive in the next 23 hours.

Smallwood at CB before the end of September, it’s going to happen isn’t it ?

Stuart Downing out of contract too this time next year, one year deal only.

Last January we were a few points off the top 6. Throwing a few hundred grand on wages of a couple of solid defenders for 4 months MIGHT have been enough to sustain the run and get into play-offs. Instead we capitulated at the back and dropped away. You don't get these chances very often.

2-0 to Fulham Tosin on the bench. Gallagher on the wing. Evans in for Travis.

Maybe £1m in total including wages. Not a long term sustainable strategy.

I’ve got a hunch that Gallagher is going to be crowbarred into the team no matter what this season. That is despite him not being a winger and Danny Graham being player of the year last year.