Hull City are expected to sign Southampton's Gaston Ramirez and Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa on season-long loans before the transfer window shuts at 11pm.
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Having already wrapped up the club-record £10m signing of Abel Hernandez from Palermo and West Ham's Mo Diame for £3.5m, manager Steve Bruce and vice-chairman Ehab Allam set about completing their quartet of deadline-day deals with Ramirez and Ben Arfa. Uruguay forward Ramirez, 23, had been linked with Torino in June and more recently a season-long loan to La Liga side Sevilla. Saints' boss Ronald Koeman indicated less than a week ago the forward would be staying on the South Coast. He had said: "Gaston had a difficult pre-season. "He has been injured twice, he is still not fit and needs more minutes." Southampton, though, have had a change of heart, perhaps after landing £12m-man Shane Long from the Tigers last month. Attacking midfielder Ben Arfa has scored 13 goals in 76 appearances since joining the Magpies from Marseilles in 2010. However, the 27-year-old Frenchman – who has a year left on his current contract – has been out of favour with Alan Pardew's side and faced a spell languishing in the reserves. Only 24 hours ago, The Mirror reported Championship side Birmingham were hoping to cut a deadline-day deal for a player also on the radar of Lyon and Besiktas.