Quote of the day

"He's a good player. You'd love to have him here but he belongs to West Ham. If he has a clause in his contract, he's a player we'd like to have."

No sooner has the clause in Demba Ba's contract been activated by Chelsea than 'Appy 'Arry is busy unsettling another club's player with talk of release clauses. The player in question is West Ham's Mohamed Diame - wonder what Fat Sam will make of that.

'Arry's comments appear within a BBC article on Wesley Sneijder, seemingly surplus to requirements at Inter Milan. According to his agent, the Dutch midfielder is open to the possibility of a move to England but is "absolutely not interested" in joining 'Arry's QPR. I wonder whether the Silver Fox could pull off the same trick he managed with Mathieu Debuchy and convince Sneijder that, despite appearances to the contrary, we are a big club and last season wasn't a flash in the pan...