No signings today, Andy Murray and Aston Villa poll results

There isn't a rumour anywhere that we haven't already discussed and it is Friday. Friday is a day for taking it easy, not getting too excited or carried away and if you are of a certain age, having a few beers and taking it easy.

I'm no longer of that age and I have quite a bit of work to get through today and it's not interesting work, but for boring work. It is the type of work that you really should get done on a Monday, just so you don't have to do it all on the best day of the week. But, I'm going wildly off topic now, so, back to Aston Villa and I have put some beers in the fridge, yes.

The thing is, there really isn't anything about Aston Villa that we haven't talked about and you know what, I don't think we're going to hear anything from the club today about any new players. I have a feeling we're basically now going to have to wait until next week.

We might actually here from the other club because we usually find out about it from the other club first and until the club tell us, I'm not getting too excited, otherwise we'd all believe Bentley was about to sign, because he told us he was in talks with Villa. I think it is now very much a case of the deals getting discussed and negotiations are under way.

But we do have the tennis! Andy Murray, if he wins today, will be the first British man to reach the final since Bunny Austin in 1938 and well, it is quite exciting, even for those of us that don't really watch tennis apart from Wimbledon each year. For the record, Bunny wasn't his real name, it was Henry, but he picked up the name at school and it stuck. I quite like that and it reminds me of a P.G. Wodehouse novel.

But, I'm going off topic again. My point is, unless you want to talk about the hospitality packages for next season, how we all know that Sidwell will have a better season or the importance of Martin O'Neill leaving 4-4-2 where it should be left, can I suggest we take it easy today and not get so excited as it isn't going to happen on a Friday from our end without everyone knowing there was a press conference yesterday.

I hope it doesn't happen now but before I go, did you see the results of the poll from the Mail yesterday? If you didn't click here, they make for interesting reading.

Everything is still wildly positive but things are heading in the wrong direction, but that shouldn't be a surprise as all that is happening is we are levelling out after all the hype and PR. But the drop will increase if we don't finish top six next season as this one coming up is the important one and no amount of PR is going to help them if it doesn't happen.

Anyway, there really isn't anything and I've even ended up checking the club site, so while we might now only be one of four clubs not to sign someone, I don't care any more. It is going to happen next week, it is all about quality now and budget provided by Lerner. We'll see how much he really wants it now.