Dave

I'll feel a lot more confident this is legit when Ornstein confirms it as opposed to Romano, but assuming it is real, it speaks volumes that nobody close to Eze leaked this deadline.

1. Man City 

2. Arsenal

I do think it's more likely Arsenal do it this year than the last two, you just can't underestimate Pep galvanising this group for one last hurrah. The League will get a lot more exciting when he leaves.

3. Man United

4. Newcastle United

5. Liverpool 

6. Tottenham Hotspur 

7. Aston Villa

8. Chelsea

9. West Ham

I think this batch of six are a really open field, United could finish third by default through errors elsewhere and they could finish ninth by being the most disorganised of all those sides. There's only a greedy six on paper now. It's going to be a intriguing battle.

10. Brighton & Hove Albion

11. Brentford

12. Fulham

13. Crystal Palace

14. Bournemouth 

15. Wolves 

I think these teams have shown enough over the last 18 months to not be fearful of relegation but also accept its going to be hard to breach the top nine due to financial constraints. I have us a lot lower than all the experts just as an insurance policy incase Glasner goes to a Bayern, Spurs, United etc who could all have openings and would be impressed by his CV if he can keep this momentum going. If he does stay though then we could really finish anywhere given the way we dismantled West Ham, Man United, Newcastle and Aston Villa with effective ease whilst beating Liverpool with an effective gameplan. I know they had injuries to key players, but so did we.

16. Everton 

17. Nottingham Forest

18. Leicester City

19. Southampton

20. Ipswich Town

I feel bad putting the recently promoted three in the bottom three given how they steamrolled through The Championship last season, but the teams from 9th to 17th all feel stronger than they normally are at the minute. It doesn't help that Leicester look worse on paper, Southampton's manager still has a question mark against him and may be a Beta version of Kompany whilst Ipswich really have no experience at this level. Still, it would be great if some of them could stay up.

Top Scorer - Haaland

Top Assists - Saka

Most Clean Sheets - Raya

Most Goals Scored (club) - Arsenal

Most Goals Conceded (club) - Southampton

Most Own Goals (club) - Leicester 

4-1. Penalty won and scored by Muani.

Two quick goals in the last ten minutes for PSG. It's taken them a while but they're in second gear now. 3-1.

Scrap that, VAR cancelled the goal.

After taking an immediate lead, PSG find themselves 2-1 down to Le Havre before the hour mark.

PSG kick the season off and they havent let Hakimi empty his suitcase from the Olympics.

He talks with his feet this one.

Good end to the Girona game,  both Girona and Betis were playing like it's 0-0 in a knockout game with five minutes to go.

Abel Ruiz had a great chance to win it but he hit the post.

Peter Ridsdale was on Talksport praising the job Ryan Lowe had done just last Tueaday.

Chelsea have become the first club where fans are asking their owners not to sign anyone.

20m. Yeah. That's a non starter.

Watched MK/Bradford and Birmingham/Reading after the Leeds/Portsmouth game. If this is the future of football in this country then I'm all for it.

Bradford won through a very good strike but they were well organised against the best team on paper at this level. MK Dons need to figure out a way to get Kelly and Carroll in the starting eleven.

Birmingham I thought were poor. The way they all pressed forward for Reading's goal was pretty comical, but managers will do this repeatedly to try and impress bigger clubs now given its worked for Russell Martin, Enzo Maresca etc. Spending all that money and having Bailey Peacock-Farrell in goal is a sorry state of affairs too.

Worth mentioning I thought the lady on colour commentary in the Leeds game was good. If this new system is generating more jobs and opportunities for better commentators that are not set in there ways after years of being comfortable in spite of football evolving tenfold in the last 5 or so years then that's another good thing.

Bates other teams. Cries when his team gets mentioned. Are we sure Whiskey isn't Cannabis?

That Leeds game was a fantastic advertisement for the new Sky Sports deal.

This is the first time all summer I have been concerned. The reason we've contacted an ex-player who left under a bit of a cloud to return on loan after a big drop in his stock would be because we don't think any of the other targets are worth transfer fee. Previously when we have been in this position we have signed nobody.

Keeping Eze feels crucial now and with his release fee that's out of control. At the minute we have the quality in Eze and Kamara with the depth of Sarr, Rak-Sakyi, Ayew and Franca. If you take out Eze and believe the rumours regarding Rak-Sakyi and Ayew then it becomes piss poor.

If he picks Leicester I get it, there isn't anything left for him to do at Palace.

A season long loan.

I think it makes sense for everybody. He's fallen out with the Galatasary fan base. He feels like they loved him, then he got injured, he played well on his return, but they had moved on and wanted on another shiny toy. The Galatasary fans simply dont think hes worth the wages and want him goine. This is what most Palace fans expected to happen.

Nobody else in Europe is going to pay close to the wages we're willing to pay. So it makes sense for Galatasary, it makes sense for Zaha to play football regularly and it makes sense for us to bide our time to see if better players are available next summer.

Oliver Glasner with a little dig at all our players that got runners up medals this summer.

Clearly second place will not be good enough this season.