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The most notable absentee from Doncaster’s 2-0 FA Cup defeat at home to Notts County on Saturday was striker Billy Sharp, after the club had agreed a fee with Leicester for the transfer, in the region of £3 million

Ipswich Town have become the latest club interested in signing defender Sean St Ledger from Leicester City after the defender had been put on the transfer list following a Boxing Day fall-out with manager Nigel Pearson.

Reading manager Brian McDermott has encountered another obstacle in his bid to keep hold of midfielder Jimmy Kebe as Premier League side Stoke are the latest club to announce their interest in the Malian winger who is out of contract in the summer.

After taking Queens Park Rangers from the odyssey of mid table in the Championship to the Premiership in little over a year, many would have been forgiven for thinking Neil Warnock would be given time in the limelight of the Premier League. Think again.

Barcelona’s emphatic victory against Santos in the World Club Championship last month only confirmed what every football fan on the planet already knew.

Manchester City went into Sundays FA Cup third round tie with Manchester United with a slightly depleted side. The Toures are on International duty and Balotelli and Dzeko are both nursing slight knocks.

Football, like the world, works quite simply, in business terms. Money equals power. Power equals success. (Or at least a better chance of it.)

It was this time last year that the transfer market went slighty mental with the transfers of Fernando Torres and Andy Carroll.