Fonte submits Official Transfer Request

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So we've gone from "won't sell Fonte without a replacement lined up" to "don't have anything lined up, and may not replace"? That's a dangerous game heading into a summer where we're probably going to lose VVD.
Where do those quotes come from? Not seen either.
 
Where do those quotes come from? Not seen either.

Blackmore's comment above is the source of the latter; Reed is the source of the former:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...on-captain-jose-fonte-hands-transfer-request/

“He certainly won’t leave on the basis that he can just go. We would not consider releasing him unless there was a decent transfer fee and secondly that we were in a position to replace him. If anybody comes along on the last day of the transfer window it’s not going to happen.”

I'm not exactly panicking yet, but when one of the club's mouthpieces walks back something Reed says a couple weeks earlier, it's cause for at least a little consternation.
 
I thought LeG on SW said we had someone lined up but was waiting on Fonte to go? Surely shouldn't be long then
 
We are looking and have been talking to other clubs since Fonte had his head filled with sweet nothings. I can't see us not buying one.

I don't doubt that we're looking; my worry stems from Blackmore seemingly setting the stage for us to shrug and say that we looked but prices just weren't right, because that's just the way January goes.
 
I don't doubt that we're looking; my worry stems from Blackmore seemingly setting the stage for us to shrug and say that we looked but prices just weren't right, because that's just the way January goes.
Blackmore has to have a out. He can't simply say we will get one or fans will bitch at him. He writes the same with other signings etc, he makes sure he always has a out. So if something goes tits up he saves face.