WITH THE PREMIER League season mere days away, here’s the pick of today’s transfer chatter.

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Roy’s Rock: That’s what we’re calling Colombian midfielder Carlos ‘La Roca’ Sanchez. He’s supposed to be doing his medical in Birmingham today before completing a £4.7 million move from Elche.

Once a Blue…: Everton just have to dot the Ts and cross the Is of their season-long loan move for Chelsea’s Christian Atsu.

Calculators put to good use: The Daily Mail have grown tired with all the chump change deals going around so decided to roll Manchester United’s pursuit of Daley Blind, Marcos Rojo and Angel Di Maria into one big ball of notes totalling £80million.

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Hull Breach: After Shane Long fled for Southampton, Steve Bruce is now bolting the doors in case Ahmed Elmohamady follows the Tipp man trail south – possibly to Southampton, QPR or West Ham – according to Goal.com.

Spurs fire sale: Mauricio Pochettino is ready to flog a full starting line-up according to the Telegraph. The Ex-Saints boss is apparently particularly keen on shifting Nacer Chadli, Andros Townsend and Aaron Lennon out the door.

Kostas a pretty penny: Having set Thomas Vermaelen on his merry way to Camp Nou Arsene Wenger wants 23-year-old Greek CB Kostas Manolas from Olympiacos. The Mirror say Wenger will need to part with £5million to make it happen, so…

Cheick yourself before you wreck yourself: Having failed to land Sami Khedira, the Mirror also say that Arsenal will go for the next best thing... Cheick Tiote. And what’s more, they say the Gunners would happily pay £8million for the late-tackling midfielder.

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