Davide Santon’s future has been confirmed at Inter Milan beyond this season, according to widespread reports in Italy.

My reading of this is that if the information is correct, which I believe it is, then a fee may well have been sorted between the parties but QPR haven’t agreed to sell Remy, it would appear rather that they have chosen to reserve the right to have the final say if they want to keep him, rather than Newcastle having control of the deal.

As for Alan Pardew, it will be interesting to see how much he is blamed if things go badly, what with Kinnear making clear that it is he who controls transfers.

The criticism of Pardew’s tactics I’m guessing haven’t gone away either and are also simply simmering beneath the surface.

‘The article maintains that he will travel in the next 72 hours to Newcastle to undergo a medical. If it is successful Aly Cissokho could sign on Monday with the Magpies, who have been watching him for quite some time’.