Championship: Malian ace Samba Sow flattered by Middlesbrough link

Lens midfielder Samba Sow says he is flattered to be linked with a move to Middlesbrough.

Mowbray insists he wants his business doing sooner rather than later, adding: "The plan is always to get the business done as soon as you can. "It's very, very difficult to do that of course because clubs want the biggest fee possible for their player, unless they are out of contract, of course. "With free transfers, you negotiate with their agents, bring them over, let them have a look around and see whether we can do a deal. "But in transfers with money involved, clubs like to leak it out that so and so is available and so and so is looking at them, creating more interest and upping the price, it drags on and drags on. "If we can do business we will try to of course."