CONFIRMED - Billy Sharp

[total_biscuit]

Local rag article:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints ... harp_move/

TB

[Ian Royal]

Yeah, ho-ho-ho QPR and your signings and being top of the table.

Top in September means sweet FA.

[RoyalBlue]

The video on Player shows the bus leaving for Derby.

How uncommon is it for a player to sign for a club and play the next afternoon without even meeting the players/training with them?

Sure it happens. He'll be travelling down from Southampton anyway, so makes sense to meet in Derby.

'Down from Southampton'? Think you must have your atlas upside down!

[Ian Royal]

Shitting Nora!? Is this going to happen too?! I may have to spunk in my trousers if this goes well.

[ILoveMoonPig]

Not sure what 11pm has got to do with it. May wait another week for this one.

Somebody needs to get down there and in the bushes now on this one.

Lol! Brilliant. Though I'm fairness, we could just ask the NSA, they'll have eavesdropped any telephone or email contact.

[One8Seven1]

http://t.co/i8333D7daG

Says we're beating QPR to another signing. #hattrick

[Royalwaster]

Yep but is it true?

[Victor Meldrew]

http://t.co/i8333D7daG

Says we're beating QPR to another signing. #hattrick

Why are people so hung up on QPR?
They are top of the league and signed the one player ahead of us (and supposedly outbid us for) in Charlie Austin.
With Assou-Ekottou rather than Bridge and already having loads of midfielders I doubt that Harry would lose any sleep by not getting Baird or Sharp.

I'm not totally convinced that Sharp is really what we want (he is definitely not the big hold-up player that most of us think is needed) but I would happily see him come just to add to the striking options.
If only Roberts were a couple of years younger and fit.

[Millsy]

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the latest before a match we can sign players for them to be eligible to play?

[M Brook]

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the latest before a match we can sign players for them to be eligible to play?

11am

[Pepe the Horseman]

Midday ennit?

[Millsy]

Ok 11 or 12 and even then we might not hear about it until just befire the match anyway I expect.

[Nameless]

Ok 11 or 12 and even then we might not hear about it until just befire the match anyway I expect.

If it's completed by 12 I'm not sure why it wouldn't be announced within minutes. They could use the internet.....

[One8Seven1]

Why are you all pent up about it happening today? It's a 93 day loan, and today we have Pog and Alf available. It would make more sense to sign the papers later next week, to make the loan last almost to the end of December.

[Royalwaster]

This is just a big wind up based on some tweet by some journo that's been interpreted as fact .... if we really wanted to sign him we'd have done so ages ago. Why wait till now?

[Millsy]

Ok 11 or 12 and even then we might not hear about it until just befire the match anyway I expect.

If it's completed by 12 I'm not sure why it wouldn't be announced within minutes. They could use the internet.....

To not give anything away to the opposition.

But also aren't signings sometimes not revealed unil hours after?

In any case I doubt this will happen today and even if it does we have all strikers fit and available at the mo

[UpThePrem]

I'm guessing the first we'll know about him being involved today will be if he gets of the coach at Derby. Anyone there??

[Pepe the Horseman]

@SkySportsPeteO: Reading have agreed a deal to sign Southampton striker Billy Sharp on loan until January. #readingfc #saintsfc

[JIM]

QPR admit missing out on SHARP and are after spurs u21 player. Harry is not happy.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Harry Kane probs. He's absolute toilet.