Apologies to you and to Gandy if you thought I was discouraging speculation. Far from it, as I intend to go on speculating throughout the summer!

I was only trying to stress the fact that is speculation is often based on unreliable sources. Adeyemi is a typical example. It could be a lazy blogger (as that's all HITC is) seeing a player coming to the end of his contract and linking us to him because he was a youth player here. On the other hand you could take the link further by saying that Adeyemi played under Rosler at Leeds and Rosler is a potential HC candidate here. There you go, two speculations in one!
Looking at Steve Stone's interview in the Pink'un we learn that essentially we're still in a sell before we buy situation. That follows on from SW's interview the day before where he said that Dijks wants to stay but it would be an 'expensive deal' (about £4m euros) and that someone else would have to move on to make that possible. We are getting £30m+ from parachute payments but much of that will be committed to restructuring the club for life without PL money. That means Adeyemi on a free transfer looks suddenly more attractive. If he came in and Tettey is sold, then we might have the money needed for Dijks through any fee and a saving on wages. That seems to be the world we're now living in. The trouble is, as with Lafferty, players won't move on unless we get offers and they're willing to go.