Does everyone else remember when the transfer window shut in March. I think it used to be the third Thursday but I cannot recollect exactly when but it used to involve sitting in front of teletext refreshing page 312 to be underwhelmed to realise that we had signed nobody at all.

Someone with a sense of humour may tell you though that signing nobody is better than signing David N'gog but that isn't the point at this moment in time it was just a brief nostaligic look back to the transfer deadline days of old.

Those days went when the nice people in charge told us that the best way to operate in football these days was two transfer windows - summer and winter. One closes at the end of August and one closes at the end of January and have made 'celebrity' status of the likes of Jim White (yes I use the term loosely) as he counts down to the closure of the window with a host of people based around the country and plenty of fans who stand outside a training ground (why?) waiting for some random player they have never heard of to turn up.

Deadline day is quite interesting to follow if I am honest but what it means is that the game now has eight months of the year where transfers don't take place as opposed to what generally was a little more than two months. That means more time for rumours and many of them with no substance at all.

What I have noticed since we got promoted to the Premier League back in 2011 is the number of websites that churn out Premier League 'news' which in reality is the same story being churned out time and time again by a different publication. Today's feed on News Now would have you at first glance believing that we were already concluding the deal to sell Bony in the summer but none of the articles have any substance and are just clones of the one that started it all off.

Wilfried Bony has scored 19 goals this season, 10 of them in the Premier League so is always going to be the subject of press speculation with a return like that in his first season. And with Romelu Lukaku likely to head back to Chelsea at the end of the season Everton will be on the hunt for a new striker come the summer. Hence the current media speculation which starts with an almost logical conclusion that also coincides nicely with Roberto Martinez doing a deal with his former club to make it happen.

So there we have the logic behind the first article and the fact that it is now being repeated time and time again means it has to be true. Hell, people are even texting about it today as well and when it has hit text level then the sources become impeccable even if they do start as something like the Daily Star or a similar kind of paper.

Remember twelve months ago there was endless speculation about Michu and many said we would never hold onto him in the summer and this speculation is exactly the same now just with a different player who has made a good impact in his first season.

Staying in the Premier League is essential to us at least having the chance of holding onto Wilf this summer but even if we manage that then expect this to be the first of the speculation but remember that nothing is official on this front.

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