There is talk from the Anfield Megastore that the club have instructed them to print up Number 7 shirts for an immenent signing today. Talksport radio reports that the name being linked with this is none other than David Beckham! Also at Liverpool, Matthew Upson has been spotted at their training ground for a medical David Bentley [.

Dotting the 'i' If you were wondering about the difference between David Beckham and David Bentley, one makes faked virals about making bets to display their passing accuracy while the other does it for real. The story to go with this video is that Galaxy forward Alan Gordon bet Becks he couldn't put the ball through the [.

Who should you trust?

The Three Stages of the Transfer Window Insanity!

There are alleged sightings of West Ham striker Carlton Cole at Liverpool's training ground (BBC Sport)

This is what makes the transfer deadline so damn amusing.

Speculation is rife with this one!

The Three Stages of the Transfer Window Insanity!

"David Bentley has gone to Liverpool on a one-year loan, heard from an inside source..." (BBC Sport)

Meanwhile, Rafael Benitez may have nothing in the coffers, but Rory Smith has now sent Liverpool fans into afternoon overdrive with this one: "Rumours abounding among agents that Liverpool could yet pull something out of the bag with a loan swoop it's deadline day, everything's a swoop for David Bentley, who won't, of course, be moving to Manchester City.

England international Shorey to Portsmouth

• Follow all the transfer deadline day dealings live as the clock ticks away [Telegraph]

• Aston Villa defender Nickey Shorey will be loaned to Pompey. The left back would have been pushed down the pecking order with Villa's capture of Stephen Warnock from Blackburn [Goal]

• Portsmouth wins one, but loses a bigger one.

Time is ticking away on the transfer window and after the Bentley announcement things have gone a little quiet as it seems (a late change of plan aside) that there will be no further arrivals at the club.
The two potential deals still up in the air are for Richard Dunne to Aston Villa and Martin Petrov to Tottenham with Sky Sports expecting the Dunne deal to be completed, but there appears no progress on the Petrov move as time is beginning to tick away.

I feel like Mr Pink after the dust settles in that brief, but oh-so-memorable shoot-out. I'll just tip-toe around the bloody mess, pick up the case full of loot and hot-foot it out of here.

The bloody mess is Bentley to Man City, Petrov the other way, David James splattered all over the place, and even Anton Ferdinand, sitting lifelessly on a chair minus an ear.

Where would Tottenham Hotspur's second XI finish in the Premier League? You be the judge. I've got: Cudicini - Naughton (or Hutton), Dawson, Woodgate, Bale - Bentley, Jenas, Bostock, Kranjcar - Pavlyuchenko, Crouch.

Is that better than Liverpool's second XI: Diego - Degen, Agger, Kyrgiakos, Fabio Aurelio - Lucas, Plessis - Benayoun, Voronin, Babel - N'Gog?

As our currently absent Miss Spur alluded to some time ago, Niko Kranjcar finally completed his move to Spurs yesterday. It's a Croatian to replace a Croatian by the looks of things after Luka Modric picked up a significant injury at the weekend.

After being linked with a number of targets on deadline day, some good and some worryingly bad, we ended up with just the one signing and probably the best of the bunch at that.

Last night we saw the Arsenal past and Arsenal future, with a good stark warning for all of our youth players who think that they are bigger than the club...

Jerome Thomas of West Bromich Albion began his Arsenal career having joined the Arsenal from his schoolboy appointment at Luton Town Football Club in 2001.

The London Evening Standard have reported that Martin Petrov has undergone a medical ahead of him being unveiled as a Tottenham player later this afternoon, with talks underway to include David Bentley in any deal - but possibly only on a season long loan.
It is a difficult one to call with regards to Petrov.

From Sky Sports, quoting Petrov's agent Luchezar Taney:

Manchester City rejected the deal mainly due to manager Mark Hughes' unwillingness'.

Tanev told Bulgarian radio station Darik: "I can say that Martin wanted to join Tottenham. You see that he has some problems at City and that's why he decided to look elsewhere and Spurs made an offer for him.

Usually if you are stuck at work on deadline day it can be an immensely frustrating time without Sky Sports News to keep you upto speed on the latest news, rumours and deals. Today however, if you missed the deadline coverage, consider yourself fortunate indeed.
Today, especially with the deadline being 5pm, transfer deadline day was as damp a squib as the Twenty20 games at Old Trafford.

Here we go:

• City closing in on David Bentley?
  
• Fergie rules out late moves.
  
• Juve signs Grosso.
  
• Gudjohnsen and Monaco.
  
• Interest in DaMarcus Beasley?
  
• Earthquakes are buying.
  
• Tottenham eyes Kranjcar.
  
• Here's an extensive roundup.

No-one does fickle quite like we do at Tottenham, yet despite this, the reaction to last week's defeat has by and large retained a sense of perspective. 12 points from 5 games still represents a ruddy good start to proceedings, and with forthcoming fixtures involving Burnley, Bolton, Portsmouth and Stoke we ought to be chugging along nicely by the time the clocks go back.

If you want to save yourself time you might as well just cast your mind back to the first round tie away to Doncaster – five more goals, away from home, and despite the occasional early scare the gulf in class eventually told. Deja-vu all over again. It's not the Tottenham I grew up with I tell ye.

Sky Sports News are reporting that we are in talks with Tottenham over a deal for David Bentley.
There is no mention as to whether Martin Petrov may be included in the deal, but regardless, whilst Mark Hughes has a succesful record in the transfer market of late this is one that I don't see as being a good move.

Apparently Mark Hughes is sick of spending money!

The Three Stages of the Transfer Window Insanity!

David Bentley at the wheel

Official on-the-record chat from Manchester City and it involves Tottenham's David Bentley. They say, wait for it, they absolutely will not be signing the midfielder either on a permanent basis or a loan.

Arsenal announced their financial results for the year ending 31 May 2009 and the news is great on all fronts.

Revenue from football activities is up £18million due to our extended runs in both the FA Cup and the Champions League. When people say qualification to the knock-out stage of the Champions League is worth £20million that is not far off the mark.

It looks like it's official, well, sort of. I am a follower of Harry Redknapp on Twitter, as are another 270+. Now, I can't be sure that it's really Harry, but some of the things he has said in his tweets sort of confirm that it is him.
In a tweet sent this morning, Harry said the following;
"I'd like to let you know that we have agreed terms with Niko.

Sky Sports News 2pm headlines have confirmed (via their reporter Brian Swanson) that there will be no deal concluded with Tottenham for David Bentley and quoted a source that stated that our purchases 'have been concluded'.
Now up on the Sky Sports website.

Well we can call off the missing person's search. Head down to Deepdale tonight and you're likely to be treated to rare glimpses of Giovani and David Bentley, last seen being surreptitiously airbrushed into the background as 'Arry's favourites went through their pre-match warm-ups. There has been some clamour for Giovani's inclusion in recent weeks, and after the two woeful attempts by 'Arry to compensate for the absence of Modric, it would really warm the cockles tonight to see the Mexican put in a virtuoso performance on the left.

Curiously, our most emphatic win in recent years was achieved without us ever really hitting top gear. There were some moments at the end of the first half when we played true champagne football, and Defoe might have finished off a couple of moves so pleasing on the eye they ought to have been put on canvass and stuck in a gallery.