Argentine not signing - Bentley transfer info

This morning, the Sun newspaper published an article stating that we had an offer of £4 million accepted by Fiorentina for their right winger, Mario Santana.

This was later rubbished by the Italian clubs chairman, who frankly sounded fairly angry with his director of football. Mr. Cognigni was interviewed on Rai Sports this afternoon and set the record straight.

"We will not be selling Mario. We have had an offer from only one Spanish club, and we turned them down as Mario is very important to Fiorentina".
We're pretty confident that talk of signing the Argentine International was nothing more than mere agent chatter as no ITK from any source even came close to disclosing this transfer.

I suppose the Modric transfer came like a shot out of the blue too, but I can't see the club signing Santana when they are about to announce the transfer of David Bentley.

The news surrounding that transfer is that Blackburn won't sanction the deal with Spurs until they have announced who their new manager will be.

Blackburn have tried to convince Bentley to stay and discuss a new deal with the new manager (most probably Paul Ince), but sources close to him have said that David wants to return to his home in Westwood, Peterborough.

No news on Bentley changing his medical date with the club (Tuesday, 24th June 2008) have surfaced, so we take it that he will go ahead with the planned medical.

More news will follow regarding the Bentley transfer.