MelvinBragg

Aye, interesting. You suspect it's a player McGhee has really wanted if we're paying a fee. Maybe that's why he's been trying to sell Johnson all summer? Maybe he was told he'd need to raise some funds through selling someone..?

Burrows tweeted that fee and terms agreed for the new signing. Just getting the paperwork done. Fingers crossed obviously...

Given we're apparently trying to buy someone just now, does it not strike you as a good idea that the world thinks we only got £350k for Johnson? Just saying, like...

If we're trying to buy someone else, I'll happily believe we got £350k for Johnson...

Given we have got Johnson and Lucas off the wage bill, I'd hope for another. I'd also suspect that Belic is costing us less than Johnson in wages. So I'd hope for one more...

I'd be very surprised by this...

Guy outside West Ham on SSN just seemed to confirm the Belic story...

Damn my fat bastard fingers...

Makes me wonder if he would be Johnson's replacement or would he be taking Lucas' place on the wage bill?

Perhaps not, but it does suggest that he will need replaced as the manager and the players clearly think he was the best option...

Stroker who can also play as an attacking midfielder? Hmmmm. Is that what we need?

Aye, given our tactic all season has been "Give the ball to Marvin and see what he can do", to suggest that we won't miss him that much is nonsense...

Is he not a holding midfielder?

You have more faith in Motherwell supporters than I do...

Another question would be how will the fans react to Johnson should he still be playing for us after the window closes..?

Weeks of speculation...

I'd be hoping we'd have been prepared for the possibility of it happening at the last minute. Don't know if I'm in the minority here, but I'm at the point where I think if we get a half decent offer, I think it'd be better for all concerned if he moved on. Do we really want another player with a petted lip? Surely McDonald is enough...

Burrows on Twitter saying that unless anyone leaves, no one will be coming in. So looking like if Johnson leaves, a replacement for him will be lined up. Otherwise we won't see any new faces. Although I do wonder if we don't offer Lucas a deal, does that count as someone leaving therefore we'd see a replacement brought in...

Noticed he wasn't playing for the U20s last night. Kind of assuming that (along with the fact that he hasn't come off the bench in any of the league games) meant we probably weren't going to be keeping him...

I don't think that would shock or surprise anyone. Most Motherwell fans know that any money made today will not go to transfer fees. Only hope would be that Johnson's wage would be used for a loan replacement or a free agent. Have noticed that on recent deadline days that there are a lot of players released on the day presumably as clubs try to trim their wage bill. I suspect today we'll see one out and one in. If the one in doesnt happen today, it may be that we pick up a free agent in the next week or so...

As I keep saying, we've been trying to sell Johnson all summer. If we don't have a plan in place for him going, that truly would be incompetence...

I've traditionally been one of McGhee's biggest critics on here but even I don't blame him for this. What I do feel though is that having tried to sell Johnson all summer, we should have a plan in place for replacing him even at this late stage. If we don't, then that's something he should take a share of the blame for...

Given we have, as a club, not very subtly trying to sell Johnson then I would have to hope that we have made contingency plans for any sale coming at this point of the transfer window. Will it be our first choice replacement? Probably not but given where we are in the transfer food chain, I suspect we rarely acquire our number one target...

Celtic would surprise me given they have Sinclair, Forrest and Roberts...

Tend to agree with all you've written here. McDonald, similar to Ainsworth, you kind of know within the first ten minutes what kind of performance you're going to get that day. Too often this season it's been the moaning, huffy version where everything is someone else's fault...