Raised expectations

Ian Ladyman keeps on writing that we're getting Diarra and Santa Cruz. In his report of the Everton game in Monday's Daily Mail - which contains a few interesting points - he writes that:

January, of course, will bring some relief in the form of Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz, Portsmouth midfielder Lassana Diarra and at least one central defender, with a bid for Arsenal’s Kolo Toure still in Hughes’s mind.

Now if this doesn't actually happen it would be such a dissapointment, having read Ladyman write it so many times.