Ladles And Jellyspoons

The F365 Transfer Blog: Monday June 13

If only there was some sort of summary of all the summer transfer moves, and as many rumours as you can keep track of. Oh, hang on there is! Click here you lucky people...

17.00: At this point we're giving up for the day after - once again - very little actually happened.

16.58: Remember Anthony Gardner? He of gangly Spurs 'fame'. It seems West Ham might sign the free agent this summer after a move to Birmingham collapsed.

16.55: Lukman Haruna (nope, us neither) admits he would love to play in the Premier League amid speculation linking him with Wolves.

Mick McCarthy's side are thought to be interested in the Monaco midfielder and are believed to have valued the player at around one million euros. However, reports claim Dynamo Kiev have agreed a 1.5million euro (£1.32m) fee for the Nigerian international.

While Haruna admits he would love to play in the Premier League, he believes Kiev are also a big name in football so he is waiting to see how the situation develops.

He told skysports.com : "I would love to join the Premier League and play on the biggest stage in the world. However if a club does not meet my club's valuation, I can't do anything. I have heard about Dynamo Kiev, they are a European name, so we will see."

16.33: There's no news. No news at all.

Well, there's this from Rennes head honcho Pierre Dreossi, about midfielder Yann M'Vila.

"We will not listen to any offers for him," Dreossi said. "This has already been decided by the club and the player.

"M'Vila will not be going anywhere, even more so after he signed on for another year.

"If he leaves it will not be until summer 2012."

16.12: More Alexis Sanchez stuff now, and he's going to cost City/United/Chelsea/Barcelona a pretty penny.

Udinese owner Gianpaolo Pozzo said: "Sanchez? The right offer has yet to arrive.

"Thirty five million euros is not enough for Sanchez.

"We already turned down a similar offer. A higher offer is needed.

15.59: Double Liverpool update now. Firstly, the ladles and jellyspoons across the office at Sky Sports.com reckon that Charlie Adam's people have been talking to Liverpool's people about a move to Anfield.

Interesting.

Secondly, Paul Jewell insists nobody - not Liverpool, or anyone else - has made a bid for Connor Wickham. Yet.

Go Fish LA – August 4th - Ladles and Jellyspoons

Now that Summer is officially here I am thinking about the next fishing trip – and I have a feeling it’s going to be the best yet – with a special out-of-town guest chef – Rick Moonen – joining the trip. One of the comments I always get on our fishing with chefs trips is that they are never long enough, they go by too fast and just as everyone is getting into it, lines have to be reeled in and we are headed back to the harbor.  The shorter trips also mean we don’t get out to the waters near Catalina for the bigger fish. Well all that is going to change when we set out to sea for a 3/4 day trip to Catalina Island on August 4th. The boat will depart at 6am – yes I know a little on the early side – but this is an adventure of a life time- and I promise you will forget the time of day as you sit on deck as we head out to sea.

There will be coffee from LA Mill and breakfast treats to munch on as we pass the time getting to the best fishing spot – oh and a little sneaky peak to get the party going – cocktails from Matt Biancaniello ( Library Bar ) at dawn anyone?! A longer trip also means more time to consume vast quantities of food that the chefs’ bring to share – and we aren’t talking your normal vittles – oh no! These chefs, many with Michelin stars, come with food enough for 10 times the number of guests we have on board.

We have several great chefs who have not yet fished with us coming onboard in August – Rick Moonen (rm Seafood, Las Vegas) [now that we have a chef from out of town we'll have to rename this trip GoFish!], Walter Manzke (previously at Church and State) and Rory Herrmann (chef de cuisine at Bouchon in Beverley Hills). There are other chefs who are hoping to make it but are yet to confirm their schedules – when I get confirmation I’ll be sure to post the list.

It’s thrilling for me to be able to welcome Moonen aboard – he has made his life’s work about cooking great food but more importantly he’s all about sustainable seafood. It’s going to be thrilling wetting a line with this fisherman chef. We met earlier this year at his restaurant, rm Seafood in Las Vegas, where he showed me how to make lobster rolls for my book Made in America. Not only has he said we can make lobster rolls together again on this trip but I’m also going to put in a request for a couple of his famous Moon Doogies.

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