West Brom boss Tony Pulis says managers should be able to appeal against decisions after a day of controversy surrounding match officials.

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Pulis's complaint came after referee Neil Swarbrick sent off Gareth McAuley instead of Craig Dawson during West Brom's 3-0 defeat at Manchester City.
Swarbrick has apologised for the error.
In a similar incident at Huddersfield, referee Richard Clark sent off Fulham's Cauley Woodrow but then called him back and instead dismissed Shaun Hutchinson.
Elsewhere, Leicester manager Nigel Pearson called Mike Dean "arrogant" after his performance in the Foxes' 4-3 defeat against Tottenham and manager Aitor Karanka claimed an assistant referee laughed after disallowing a goal for his Middlesbrough side in their 3-0 defeat by Bournemouth.
The incidents come three weeks after Sunderland defender Wes Brown was mistakenly sent off by Roger East during the Black Cats' 2-0 defeat by Manchester United.
Swarbrick's mistake came just 89 seconds into the match at Etihad Stadium, when Dawson fouled Wilfried Bony on the edge of the area.
Bony got up before running into McAuley inside the area. Swarbrick, however, awarded City a free-kick before calling McAuley over, and proceeded to send him off despite his pleas of innocence and protests from his team-mates.
"If we can help referees with a 30-second call-back option, twice a game, it would stop us talking about them," said Pulis.
Pulis's idea would be similar to the system used in American football, where officials in the stand have access to replays when there is an in-game appeal and can advise the referee on the pitch after watching incidents again.
"The referees can have a link-up with the people upstairs who are watching the video," explained Pulis.
"That way you are taking the major decisions, the ones that even as a manager on the sidelines you know could be wrong, and giving the referee a chance to redeem a mistake he might have made.
"It would eradicate the decisions that referees are getting wrong that affect games."
It could and it did. Head 28 miles east to Huddersfield's John Smith's Stadium where referee Clark had a similar issue in the 60th minute.
Fulham forward Woodrow was shown a red card for deliberate handball in the area. He refused to leave the pitch, before eventually being dragged off by his team-mates.
But further protests saw Clark consult the fourth official and he then changed his decision, instead sending Hutchinson off for the offence.
Huddersfield striker Nahki Wells's resulting penalty was saved and Fulham went on to take the points with a 2-0 win.
Leicester are fighting for their lives in the Premier League and the last thing they need is bad luck when it comes to refereeing decisions.
With the score locked at 2-2 against Tottenham at White Hart Lane, Mike Dean awarded the hosts a controversial penalty when David Nugent collided with Spurs defender Danny Rose.
Harry Kane converted the penalty to help Mauricio Pochettino's team edge to a 4-3 win.
Leicester manager Nigel Pearson was forthright in his assessment of the referee.
"The arrogance of the man at times is frightening," he said. "I find it difficult to accept that we have to deal with yet another contentious decision that has not gone our way."
Middlesbrough conceded two penalties as they were well beaten in their top-of-the-table clash with Bournemouth.
But the spot-kicks were not the only source of Karanka's ire. The Middlesbrough manager was more critical of an assistant referee, whom he deemed to be enjoying himself a little too much.
The Spaniard said: "Today we had all the things against us. The penalties, for me, are unbelievable.
"I can understand mistakes because everyone makes mistakes, but I can't understand behaviours. For example, when we had a disallowed goal the linesman was laughing."
McAuley's red card was the second case of apparent mistaken identity in the Premier League in less than a month, following Brown's red card at Old Trafford for a foul by his Sunderland team-mate John O'Shea.
And while Pulis is among those calling for technology, BBC Radio 5 live's Danny Mills, who was at Etihad Stadium on Saturday, said it was important that explanations were given by officials.
"We need to hear from the officials, because I just don't understand what was going through the referee's mind," said Mills.
"One player has got 'Dawson' on his back, and the other has 'McAuley'.
"Does the referee not have the common sense to just say to one of his officials, 'have I got the right man?' They are all hooked up with headsets.
"Surely referees' chief Mike Riley [head of Professional Game Match Officials] and Howard Webb [PGMOL technical director] need to come out quickly to explain what has happened and why."
Speaking on Match of the Day, Phil Neville said he "felt quite sorry" for the officials.
"They are getting slaughtered on every TV programme in England," said the former Manchester United and Everton defender.
"It's a mistake but it was comical. If I was Gareth McAuley, I wouldn't have left the field - I would have said it was Craig Dawson and not gone off."
Goal line technology was introduced into the Premier League in 2013 but TV footage is not used to adjudicate on any decisions in top-flight matches.
A proposal had been put forward by the Dutch FA (KNVB) to extend its trial of having a video official in the stadium watching replays and advising the referee on key decisions via a headset.
And football officials in the Netherlands had wanted to use video officials in the Dutch Cup next season.
But that plan was put back 12 months at a meeting of the game's law-makers in Belfast last month.
And Pulis does not expect his suggested changes to be implemented any time soon either.
When asked where he will go with his proposals next he replied: "You will have to get one of the big boys to say it and then people will take notice."


A young fox was saved from a sticky situation after its head became wedged in a jam jar.

The RSPCA said the cub, which was found cowering underneath a car in Rushden, Northamptonshire, could have perished without human intervention.
Once freed, the animal was checked over and released back into the wild.
Animal Collection Officer Sharon Knight said: "This fox had a lucky escape. Discarded jars, tin cans or even elastic bands can be a death trap."
Ms Knight said it was not known how long the fox had been stuck before she removed the jar last Friday.
"The poor cub had hidden himself under a car," she said. "Sadly the jam jar was firmly wedged over his head and it is unlikely he would have been able to get free without any help.
"It is horrible to think that if the member of the public had not contacted us, then the cub could have starved to death."
The vulpine liberation comes days after news emerged that another fox cub was found "near to death" after getting her head stuck in a peanut butter jar in Wiltshire.


Jo Stevens has resigned as shadow Welsh secretary in protest at an instruction that Labour MPs must back the bill to trigger Brexit.

She told Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn she had been urged by her constituents to vote against the Article 50 bill.
Ms Stevens said leaving the EU will be a "terrible mistake" and it was "wrong" to back steps that make it inevitable.
Mr Corbyn said it was "right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum".
The Cardiff Central MP is the second Labour front-bencher to have quit over the vote.
Other Labour MPs have said they will rebel against their leader's orders.
The European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill was published on Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled that parliament - not just the UK government alone - must vote to launch the formal process of the UK leaving the EU.
Mr Corbyn is ordering Labour MPs to back the bill, despite their misgivings, to avoid accusations of trying to overturn the result of the referendum.
Ms Stevens - the first person to quit the shadow cabinet over the bill - was the fourth MP to serve as Labour's shadow Welsh secretary since the May 2015 general election.
The city of Cardiff as a whole voted 60% Remain to 40% for Leave at the EU referendum.
One of her predecessors as shadow Welsh secretary - Pontypridd MP Owen Smith - has also said he will rebel against any instruction to vote in favour of the bill.
In a letter to Mr Corbyn, Ms Stevens said: "I accept the referendum result is to leave.
"I also accept that the parliamentary numbers are such that Article 50 will be triggered and we will leave the EU.
"But I believe that leaving is a terrible mistake and I cannot reconcile my overwhelming view that to endorse the step that will make exit inevitable, is wrong.
"I expect this to be the most important vote I will ever cast as an MP and for me it is a clear issue of principle and conscience.
"When I vote I will be representing my constituents, a great many of whom, including a great many Labour Party members and voters, have strongly urged me to vote in this way.
"That is why, in Shadow Cabinet, I argued against the imposition of a three line whip."
Ms Stevens said Prime Minister Theresa May was "now leading our country towards a brutal exit with all the damage that will cause to the people and communities we represent".
"There have been no guarantees before triggering Article 50 about protecting single market access, employment, environmental and consumer rights, security and judicial safeguards and the residency rights of many of my constituents. And no guarantees for the people of Wales," she added.
"Article 50 should not be triggered without these safeguards in place."
In response Mr Corbyn said: "I understand the difficulties that Jo, and other MPs, have when facing the Article 50 bill.
"Those MPs with strong Remain constituencies are understandably torn.
"However, it is right that the Labour Party respects the outcome of the referendum on leaving the European Union.
"We have said all along that Labour will not frustrate the triggering of Article 50 and to that end we are asking all MPs to vote for the Bill at its second reading next week."
Former Labour Welsh Secretary Lord Hain praised Ms Stevens in a tweet, saying she had been "brilliant" in the role of shadow Welsh secretary.
He described her as a "principled socialist huge talent sadly sidelined by crass whip [and] absence of clear Labour strategy or vision".
Jenny Rathbone, her Labour colleague who represents Cardiff Central in the assembly, said she was sorry to lose Ms Stevens as shadow Welsh Secretary "as she has undertaken the role with gusto".
Ms Rathbone said Ms Stevens was right to vote against Article 50 given "because no safeguards [have been] offered for Wales".
She added: "Nothing will be decided until Germany and France have had their general elections.
"So triggering Article 50 now could leave the UK adrift without a paddle."


A statute to a Leicester woman, jailed five times for her part in the Suffragette movement, will be built after an anonymous donor came forward.

The £80,000 needed for a monument to Alice Hawkins was given in one donation from a city businessman.
Ms Hawkins, a shoe machinist, helped lead the Suffragette campaign in Leicester and gave speeches in London.
Her grandson said the statue would be in recognition of all the women who fought for universal suffrage.
The anonymous donor had originally pledged some of the funds needed for the artwork but was moved to donate the full amount after watching the film Suffragette.
Ms Hawkins' grandson, Peter Barratt, said the donor had "made dreams and ambitions come true".
"The statue will feature Alice but it is in recognition of all the women in the Leicester Suffragette movement 100 years ago, to gain a basic human right that that we all have today."
Ms Hawkins left school in Stafford in 1876 to start work as a shoe machinist, later joining Equity Shoes, which encouraged workers to take part in political activism.
From there she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) and was one of 18 women to be jailed when they were charged by mounted police in Hyde Park in February 1907.
After her time in prison, she organised meetings and protests in Leicester, inviting Sylvia Pankhurst and helping form the city's section of the WSPU.
She died in 1946, aged 83, and was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
Mr Barratt said he was now inviting ideas from artists for the statue and hoped it would be put up in about 18 months' time.


England manager Sam Allardyce says his new job will be the "greatest challenge" of his career.

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In his first news conference since taking charge of the national side, Allardyce said "man management" was his "biggest asset".
Allardyce, who helped save Sunderland from Premier League relegation last season, succeeds Roy Hodgson after a disappointing Euro 2016 campaign.
Sammy Lee, Allardyce's assistant at Bolton, joins the England staff.
"This will be the greatest challenge for me in my long career and hopefully I will be as successful as I have in the rest of my career," Allardyce said.
Allardyce also said he would not make a decision on Wayne Rooney's captaincy until he has met the players and staff.
The former Newcastle, Blackburn and West Ham boss also spoke about:
"I have managed some world class players. Fernando Hierro, Youri Djorkaeff, Jay Jay Okocha, Gary Speed, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen. I have managed some talented players; the good thing about that is they make your life easier, they know what you want.
"Working with the England elite players will be very exciting for me because they will take on board ideas very quickly.
"In terms of winning no trophies or cups, unfortunately, as an English manager I never got to go right to the top of the Premier League.
"I saved clubs and never got relegated, and they are not the same as winning the FA Cup or League Cup, but they are big achievements."
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"No midseason break. I have been an advocate of that for 10 years or more. The demand on players is enormous.
"The Premier League is the best league in world so demand has to be on the players. It would help the Premier League and us at international level if we could try and achieve it.
"In my time when we finish at Christmas, in January and February it is always the most difficult time to get players through."
"I think choosing styles of systems depends on the players available and who we are playing. My coaching technique is to try to give players the opportunity to win football matches, home or away, and make them aware of the opposition.
"I think the bonding of the team is exceptionally important and trying to create that team spirit and have some fun. I have enjoyed my life in the game, this job is the pinnacle and I want to enjoy this the most.
"My style of play has always been a tag for me that I can't shake off but I played with Jermain Defoe down the middle on his own last year so it cannot be really associated with me after that.
"Working on people's strengths is the main factor. People said Defoe cannot play up front on his own but that is what he did all last season and scored 18 goals."
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"It is not potential anymore, it has to be reality and they have to stand up and be counted. The young players have a lot of experience now and some has been bitter. They don't want to feel like that again.
"Potential is not a word I want to use, you want the quality player to produce his best performances immediately. This squad of players is very experienced and going forward hopefully will produce better."


A man from Cardiff has met the German stranger who saved his life by donating stem cells.

Lawrence Trace, 59, was diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma in 2005 and his only hope was a bone marrow transplant.
There was only one suitable match on the worldwide register - 21-year-old Max Jeckeln from Raunheim, Germany.
Following the transplant in 2012, the pair built up a friendship over letters, emails and phone calls and finally met this week.
Mr Trace donated his Velothon Wales medal to Mr Jeckeln on Wednesday - a medal he said would not have been possible without the transplant, which took place at University Hospital of Wales.
He said he would not be alive today without Mr Jeckeln.
"I was very nervous, and it was very emotional," Mr Trace said.
"It was a very strange feeling to meet the man who saved my life. But it was also wonderful.
"I wanted to get in touch with Max to tell him that I was alive and kicking - and the relationship grew from there. He seems to love Wales."
Shortly after he was first told he had cancer, Mr Trace's sister was diagnosed with leukaemia, and later died. In 2011, his wife was also diagnosed with breast cancer, and recovered.
The bone marrow team at the Welsh Blood Service searched the worldwide register and found only one suitable match for Mr Trace - Mr Jeckeln.
"It was a 14 million to one chance that I would find Max. And then, even with the transplant, there was only a 16% chance that I would survive," Mr Trace said.
Following his transplant, Mr Trace's health steadily improved. He is now in full remission.
"I took Max up to Caerphilly Mountain to show him where I cycled, with his help," Mr Trace said.
"To anyone who is thinking of becoming a donor - just register. Even if the odds are overwhelming, I am proof that you can survive."


The first minister has criticised the SDLP for denying it signed up to a welfare reform provisional agreement.

The attack on the party was apparently co-ordinated by the DUP and Sinn Féin.
Peter Robinson told MLAs he listened "open-mouthed" to a denial by SDLP deputy leader Dolores Kelly, claiming what she said was "totally misleading".
Last week, Ms Kelly dismissed Sinn Féin's claim that the SDLP had agreed a position on welfare reform with the DUP, the UUP and Alliance in December.
She was speaking on the BBC's The View programme.
During first minister's questions in the assembly, Sinn Féin MLA Mickey Brady asked Mr Robinson whether the SDLP had been part of a four-party deal on 17 December that did not include a multi-million pound supplementary payment fund.
Mr Robinson said this had been the case.
He went on to criticise Ms Kelly: "If the member were to do what she should do at the speed that she should do it, I would not like to be standing between her and the confessional.
"For anybody to suggest, as she did, that her party had not endorsed either the four-party agreement or the five-party agreement is totally misleading."
However, other SDLP politicians have agreed with Ms Kelly's version of events.
The SDLP and Sinn Féin have been trading fierce words over the welfare issue as the legislation on changes to benefits has been making its way through the assembly.
On 19 December, the five executive parties signed off on the Stormont Castle Agreement, in which they agreed proposals to put to the British government.
The British and Irish governments and the parties struck the Stormont House Agreement on 23 December, which dealt with a number of issues - including welfare reform, the budget and how to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
The Stormont Castle Agreement has been published, and reveals several differences between the parties' proposals and what ended up in the Stormont House Agreement.
One is about the financial penalties which Stormont had to pay to the Treasury because it had not agreed to the welfare changes introduced in the rest of the UK.
The parties wanted the penalties, which amounted to tens of millions of pounds, to be scrapped.
But this was not in the final deal.
The Stormont Castle Agreement also included a proposal to replace the Parades Commission with two new bodies - one to facilitate local dialogue and another to rule on contentious marches.
This also did not make it into the Stormont House Agreement.
Instead, the final deal featured an agreement in principle that parading should be devolved to Stormont and that proposals should be brought to the executive by June.


A Vivid Economics report prepared for the National Grid shows leaving the European Union would put an extra £500m a year on to UK energy bills, Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The discussion centred mainly on the gas market, energy security and the risks of having to rely on supplies from Russia in the distant future.
But, actually, the report says, the short-term risks in the gas market of things such as having to pay more for imports and security of supply are minimal.
The £500m is actually made up of technical factors involving the electricity market, specifically if the UK fails to negotiate continued membership of the Internal Energy Market (IEM).
That cost comes from things such as losing access to more efficient cross-border energy trading systems.
But the report is clear such costs could be avoided if the UK remained part of the IEM, as non-EU members such as Norway have managed.
The report is also concerned about the possibility of it becoming more expensive to finance big investment projects such as new power stations, but that is not part of the £500m.
And it mentions potential problems involving the UK finding "itself excluded from EU 'solidarity principles' in which European nations agree to supply to their neighbours in the event of a gas supply crisis".
It stresses the uncertainty surrounding the forecasts, but concludes: "The impact of Brexit on the UK energy system is very likely to be negative."
But it does not say at least £500m, it says up to £500m.
Reality Check verdict: There is considerable uncertainty about the figure and much of the effect could be avoided by staying in the IEM.
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate


As Americans count the blessings which providence has showered over them this Thanksgiving holiday, a division has emerged over how they should view the security staff on duty at the nation's airports.

Should they acclaim the staff of the Transportation Security Administration - who are, after all, working on a public holiday - for protecting them with their ceaseless vigilance?
Or should they find something sinister in the new full-body screening machines and pat-down procedures which are making air travel here an ever less joyful experience?
At the heart of the debate are conflicting impulses within the American soul towards state authority.
Here in the US, there is a nearly universal patriotic regard for any uniformed defender of the land. But it co-exists with a deep-seated suspicion of any expansion of the rights of the authorities over the rights of the individual citizen.
Most Americans have a healthy scepticism towards centralised authority which one does not generally find in Europeans. In extreme cases that suspicion can develop into the view that government is a kind of larcenous conspiracy against the people.
Hence the passions aroused by changes in the way air passengers are screened as they pass through American airports.
We are all wearily accustomed to the process of passing through metal-detectors as we head towards departure gates. We throw away our half-drunk bottles of water, remove our shoes, take our laptops out of our bags and hand over our coats to be X-rayed.
As with all security measures of course, it is hard to say how well the process works.
The equipment may not be capable of detecting plastic explosives for example, yet it is possible that the very existence of the process deters terrorists who might otherwise be planning to attack our flights.
Regardless, up until now, the procedures have been largely non-invasive and some Americans are outraged that that is no longer the case.
In those airports where full-body scanning machines (or "nudie-scans" as some commentators prefer) have been introduced, the choice on offer is simple.
You can pass through the scanner - which provides screeners with an X-ray image of your body beneath your clothing - or you may refuse, but then you must submit to thorough pat-down search.
The procedure is pretty intimate - there would be no point to it if wasn't - but it has incensed some travellers who see the firm patting down of thighs, buttocks and breasts as a process which would be considered sexual assault in any other circumstances.
Those Americans have an improbable catchphrase - you can buy it on t-shirts - which was first uttered by a passenger in California who made a recording as he was frisked.
"Don't Touch My Junk," he warned the searchers, concerned that the pat-down was getting uncomfortably close to his genitals
Not everyone who objects to the new procedures does so on the same grounds.
There is the privacy issue of course. Those of us with groaning guts and bulging butts don't necessarily want them displayed to the security staff, even if we have nothing on our consciences but a tendency to eat too much.
There is a constitutional matter too - the fourth amendment to the US Constitution guarantees Americans the right to be secure from unreasonable search.
The founding fathers, who authored the Constitution, could not have foreseen the threat of airborne terrorism of course (or indeed the possibility of powered flight) but constitutional rights are the cornerstone of the American sense of liberty. Government tinkers at its peril.
Some critics believe all the airport screening is part of a kind of "theatre of security" which is designed to reassure the public but wouldn't actually deter a sophisticated terrorist.
The hijackers of United Flight 93, the shoe-bomber and the Christmas Day attacker were all thwarted by brave and vigilant fellow passengers runs this argument, not by the authorities.
And finally there is a kind of techno-libertarian point at stake in all this. Who exactly gets to see these scans and how long are they kept?
Over the last week, as the US prepared for the busiest travel day of the year, senior security officials have popped up repeatedly on television to remind Americans that the new procedures have a purpose, are designed to keep them safe, and have been made as non-invasive as possible.
It's a tough argument to make when TV producers have dug up disturbing stories like the experience of a flight attendant - a cancer survivor - who was forced to remove a prosthetic breast when it showed up on a scan. Her dignity and patience struck a rather humbling note in a week of strident opinions.
Thanksgiving Day was seen as a kind of frontline in this debate when protesters talked of deliberately slowing down security in protest the increasing demands of aviation safety.
As I prepared to join the great exodus to the mid-west, the early signs were that those calls for protest had been largely ignored. Largely, of course, because Americans want to get where they're going.
But it might also mean that for all the anger, irritation and uncertainty over the new procedures, many air passengers grudgingly accept that they'd rather be safe than sorry.


A new £14m university campus has opened in Scarborough.

Coventry University's Scarborough campus has been built on the town's former Weaponness Park and Ride site.
About 200 students have begun courses at the site, though it is expected to eventually be home to more than 2,000 students.
The building, which includes engineering and science labs, a mock law court and a library, is part of a £50m sports and education facility.
Professor Craig Gaskell said: "Launching our new state-of-the-art building is a huge milestone for us and demonstrates our commitment to Scarborough and the Yorkshire coast area."
A new University Technical College has been built nearby and Scarborough Athletic FC's new 2,000-seater stadium is also under construction on the site.
Coventry University also has a campus near London's Liverpool Street Station and recently announced it will open a campus in Dagenham in September 2017.


The Food Standards Agency is warning people not to eat burgers that are pink in the middle, to avoid the risk of food poisoning at summer barbecues.

It says cases of food poisoning double in summer months - in part due to undercooked meat.
Officials say burgers must be cooked until they are steaming hot all the way through.
The warning comes as an online survey of 2,708 people suggests one in 10 prefers their meat rare.
And 81% of the adults polled by the FSA said they had eaten undercooked burgers at home.
The FSA says some people mistakenly think rare burgers are safe to eat at home, because steaks can be safely served this way.
But the agency says steaks are different to burgers.
With steaks, any harmful bacteria sit on the surface of cuts of meat and can be killed off by searing or cooking, even if the middle is left rare.
Burger meat, on the other hand, is minced and mixed together, so harmful bugs can get to the centre of the meat and will not be killed unless heated to the right temperature.
Officials says this advice holds even for expensive burgers or products labelled as "steak burgers".
And burgers should be cooked until the juices run clear.
Some restaurants do serve burgers that are rare, but their chefs must follow strict rules.
Bacteria such as salmonella and E. coli present on animals' hides or guts can get on to the surface of meat as it is being cut and prepared for sale.
And once meat is minced, these bugs can end up in the middle of burgers.
Although bacteria need heat to grow, this tends to happen at between 8 and 60C.
Above 60C bacteria start to die.
Cooking also causes proteins in bacteria to break up.
These proteins need to be heated for long enough and at high enough temperatures for them to break down, rendering the bacteria harmless.
The usual hygiene advice applies - store uncooked meat separately from cooked meat.
Raw chicken must not be washed, experts warn.
FSA advice also suggests pre-cooking chicken in the oven before finishing it on the barbecue.
And it says the same advice can be applied when cooking sausages, burgers and kebabs for large numbers of people.
Meanwhile, disposable barbecues may need extra attention as they can take longer to heat up to the required temperature.


Southampton manager Ronald Koeman says the club are now looking to sell record signing Dani Osvaldo.

Italian striker Osvaldo, 28, arrived at Southampton in August 2013 for £15m, but was sent out on loan in January after a training-ground fight.
The former Roma forward failed to arrive back for pre-season training and has since been given leave of absence.
The board knows we need new players. There is no need to hurry. We have a good squad but we would like better players to be competitive
"It was a difficult situation for him to come back to," Saints manager Ronald Koeman told BBC Radio Solent.
Osvaldo scored three times in 13 games for Saints but had a tumultuous time in English football.
In January, he was suspended for three matches and fined £40,000 after being found guilty of violent conduct during an incident at Newcastle.
Later that month he was involved in an altercation with Saints defender Jose Fonte, which resulted in him being sent to Juventus on loan. He eventually missed out on Italy's World Cup squad.
His failure to arrive back for pre-season resulted in the Southampton board deciding to look to sell the forward.
"He was too late," added Koeman. "The decision of the board was to allow him not to come back. We have to look for opportunities for him to play in a different team."
Meanwhile, Koeman says no bids have yet been accepted for defender Dejan Lovren, who is wanted by Liverpool.
However, the former Feyenoord boss has confirmed the Croatian centre-back has asked to leave Southampton.
"There are a lot of rumours," said Koeman. "He said he would like to go, we will wait for the bid, but if there is no bid we will continue. I know the situation."
Koeman has also asked fans to be patient as the club look to sign new players, after seeing defender Luke Shaw, midfielder Adam Lallana and striker Rickie Lambert all leave the club.
"We are working on it," he said. "Our job is to be prepared if someone leaves the club.
"The board knows we need new players. There is no need to hurry. We have a good squad but we would like better players to be competitive."


The families of three UK schoolgirls missing in Syria have appealed for them to immediately come home.

Shamima Begum, Amira Abase, both 15, and Kadiza Sultana, 16, left the UK last month for Syria, where it is feared they have joined Islamic State.
Their families said they felt their loss "more acutely" on Mother's Day.
They again criticised police, the girls' school and their local authority for not passing on information they say could have stopped them leaving.
In a joint statement, the families said they "pray" for the safe return of their "beloved daughters".
The families have criticised the Met Police and Bethnal Green Academy, in east London, for not making them aware of another pupil at the school - a friend of the girls - who left for Syria in December.
Sharmeena Begum, 15, from Bethnal Green, left about two months before the three girls.
"With respect to the disappearance of our children we have been disappointed by the handling of this matter by the school, Met Police and the local authority, all of whom we feel failed to act appropriately and pass on vital information to us or indeed between each other," the families said.
"Had we been made aware of circumstances sooner, we ourselves could have taken measures to stop the girls from leaving the UK," they said.
The statement comes after the head of the Met Police apologised to the families on Tuesday for the fact they failed to receive a letter intended for them.
The families have complained the letter - about the Sharmeena's disappearance - had been given to the three pupils instead of being sent directly to them.
Shamima, Amira, and Kadiza were among seven girls spoken to by police at Bethnal Green Academy as potential witnesses after she went missing.
Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said he was sorry the letter "didn't get through".
All four teenagers are thought to be in the city of Raqqa - an IS stronghold in Syria.
In the statement, the families said they hoped "lessons are learned from our experience" and that other families will not have to "bear the same pain we are enduring".
The families said they appreciated the apology from the police and welcomed moves by Tower Hamlets Council, in east London, to educate parents about radicalisation and extremism.
"We will continue to do everything we possibly can to ensure our girls are brought back to us safely," they added.
It comes as three teenagers from the UK - including two 17-year-old boys from north west London - were detained in Turkey on suspicion trying to enter Syria.
The trio were returned to the UK on Saturday night where they were arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts and released on bail pending further enquiries.


China's central government has promised to do more to prevent accidents, after a New Years Eve crush killed 36 people in Shanghai, state media report.

The report, carried by the state-run Xinhua news agency, did not say what measures would be taken.
But the government also said transport during the busy Spring Festival holiday needed to be better managed.
On Tuesday, the relatives of the dead laid flowers at Shanghai's riverfront where the incident took place.
The mourning took place on the seventh day after the death of the relatives, in keeping with Chinese tradition.
The families were accompanied by government handlers and kept away from the media.
The victims, including the youngest a 12-year-old boy, were trampled and asphyxiated as hundreds of thousands of people gathered at the Bund, as the riverfront is known. The cause of the stampede is not known.
China's cabinet also said on Tuesday that governments should take rapid action to ensure safety and respond quickly when accidents occur, Xinhua reported.


The London Underground's Victoria Line was part suspended for a time this evening after reports of a person on the track at Green Park.

Services were suspended between Warren Street and Brixton stations, including most of central London.
Police and ambulances were seen outside Green Park station.
Oxford Circus and Green Park stations were briefly closed but have since reopened for all lines, according to Transport for London.
Delays were expected to continue on the Victoria Line.


Russian police in Sochi are hunting for a woman they fear may be planning to carry out a suicide bomb attack.

They have put up wanted posters in hostels around the town, which is hosting the Winter Olympics next month.
The woman, 23-year-old Ruzanna Ibragimova from Dagestan in the North Caucasus region, is believed to be the widow of an Islamist militant.
She is thought to have slipped into Sochi earlier this month, bypassing tight security ahead of the Games.
At least two other potential female suicide bombers are also at large in the region, other police posters state.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has launched one of the biggest security operations in Olympic history, and has personally inspected the sites.
More than 30,000 police and interior ministry troops have been deployed and access to the area limited.
Security fears were heightened after two suicide bomb attacks killed 34 people in the southern city of Volgograd on 29 and 30 December.
US President Barack Obama, in a telephone conversation with the Kremlin on Tuesday, offered America's "full assistance" in making the Olympics "safe and secure", the White House said.
Two US warships will be on standby in the Black Sea when the Games begin on 7 February. Washington has also offered to supply Russia with hi-tech equipment to help detect improvised explosives.
Islamist militants from Dagestan and nearby republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya are considered by Moscow to be a major threat to the Games.
Several national Olympic associations have reported being sent an email threatening athletes with attack, but it was widely dismissed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and national bodies as not credible.
The IOC said it appeared to be  "a random message from a member of the public," and posed no threat, but repeated that it "takes security very seriously".
Officials at the British Olympic Association said they "receive correspondence of every type and it is not uncommon to come across something like this that lacks credibility".
"It is extremely important in matters such as this that everyone maintains a level head and a sensible perspective," said spokesman Darryl Seibel.


Police searching for missing toddler Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos have asked for permission to demolish part of a farmhouse.

The extension to the property was constructed after the 21-month-old from Sheffield went missing in 1991.
The toddler's family believe he was abducted, but police are investigating whether he was accidentally killed.
South Yorkshire Police said it was confident permission for the demolition would be given.
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Det Insp Jon Cousins, said he was negotiating with the family who own the farmhouse.
"There is reason for me to consider removing a small part of this farmhouse in order that I can be sure that I have not missed any opportunity to find the answers that I need to," he said.
A photograph from 1991 showed part of the building did not exist when Ben went missing, he added.
A team of 19 South Yorkshire Police officers, forensic specialists and an archaeologist are excavating the farmland where Ben was last seen playing 25 years ago.
They are being assisted by members of the Hellenic Rescue Team and Red Cross.
The search, in its eighth day, was prompted by information given to police following a television appeal in May.
A friend of a digger driver, who had been clearing land with an excavator on the day the toddler went missing, told police the man may have been responsible for Ben's death.
The driver died of cancer in 2015.
On Sunday, the Needham family thanked the volunteers who were working with the police search team.


Dwight Gayle scored his fourth goal in three Championship games as Newcastle United won at Bristol City.

The 25-year-old, signed from Crystal Palace for a reported £10m in the summer, clinically fired home after Mohamed Diame's ball over the top.
Newcastle edged the opening period, with Isaac Hayden twice heading wide when well placed.
Gayle struck the post after half-time, as City failed to seriously trouble Magpies goalkeeper Matz Sels.
The Robins, playing in front of the biggest crowd at Ashton Gate for 26 years, saw plenty of the ball but struggled to convert their attacking play into genuine goalscoring opportunities.
Hordur Magnusson came closest to an equaliser, heading Luke Freeman's near-post corner just wide in the final 10 minutes.
Striker Jonathan Kodjia, still without a goal this season, had the home side's clearest sight of goal in injury time but could only volley over from close range.
Newcastle, who have now recorded back-to-back victories after losing their first two matches of the season, held on for their first away win since December 2015.
Bristol City head coach Lee Johnson: "There were loads of positives for us. We lost to one quality finish after being caught out by a great ball.
"We have a bit of work to do with our forward play. The strikers need to know when the ball is going into the box so they can time their movement and we took too many touches at times.
"But I can't be too critical because the players gave everything. The way we penned Newcastle in and the energy we showed were really pleasing."
Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez: "It's great to have a team who can go forward and score goals but you also need organisation and team spirit to get results.
"For me, it was a step forward in the confidence of the players because we now know we can win games with our forward play or by defending strongly.
"I expected a difficult game because what I knew of Bristol City and their manager is they know what they are doing and can change systems during a match. I expect them to do well this season."
Match ends, Bristol City 0, Newcastle United 1.
Second Half ends, Bristol City 0, Newcastle United 1.
Gary O'Neil (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United).
Corner,  Newcastle United. Conceded by Aden Flint.
Attempt blocked. Rolando Aarons (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Yoan Gouffran.
Foul by Bobby Reid (Bristol City).
Ciaran Clark (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City).
Chancel Mbemba (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt missed. Jonathan Kodjia (Bristol City) right footed shot from the right side of the box is high and wide to the left.
Attempt blocked. Luke Freeman (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Gary O'Neil with a headed pass.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Rolando Aarons replaces Dwight Gayle.
Attempt missed. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high from a direct free kick.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Jonjo Shelvey replaces Isaac Hayden.
Hördur Bjorgvin Magnusson (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United).
Attempt missed. Hördur Bjorgvin Magnusson (Bristol City) header from very close range is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Luke Freeman with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Bristol City. Conceded by Yoan Gouffran.
Luke Freeman (Bristol City) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Foul by Callum O'Dowda (Bristol City).
Vurnon Anita (Newcastle United) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United).
Attempt saved. Lee Tomlin (Bristol City) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Gary O'Neil.
Attempt missed. Aden Flint (Bristol City) header from the centre of the box is high and wide to the right. Assisted by Gary O'Neil with a cross following a corner.
Corner,  Bristol City. Conceded by Vurnon Anita.
Attempt missed. Bobby Reid (Bristol City) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Lee Tomlin.
Bobby Reid (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Jack Colback (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Bristol City. Aaron Wilbraham replaces Tammy Abraham.
Dwight Gayle (Newcastle United) hits the right post with a right footed shot from outside the box. Assisted by Jack Colback.
Attempt missed. Ayoze Pérez (Newcastle United) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Yoan Gouffran.
Hand ball by Matt Ritchie (Newcastle United).
Substitution, Bristol City. Callum O'Dowda replaces Scott Golbourne.
Substitution, Newcastle United. Ayoze Pérez replaces Mohamed Diamé.
Mark Little (Bristol City) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Yoan Gouffran (Newcastle United).
Delay over. They are ready to continue.


Wales scrum-half Gareth Davies and wing George North are among 12 players shortlisted for the Six Nations 2016 player of the tournament award.

Centre Jamie Roberts has not been included by the panel, on which former Wales captain Gareth Thomas sits.
Three of England's Grand Slam winners, Jonathan Joseph, Jack Nowell and Billy Vunipola, are shortlisted, but not locks George Kruis or Maro Itoje.
Two players were nominated from France, Ireland and Scotland, plus one Italian.
Ireland's Jonathan Sexton and Conor Murray are joined by Scotland's Stuart Hogg and Duncan Taylor, while France's Guilhem Guirado and Virimi Vakatawa were recognised, along with Italy captain Sergio Parisse.
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Roberts' exclusion comes despite a campaign that drew widespread praise for his displays, including a man-of-the-match performance against Scotland.
Davies, who spent most of the tournament as Wales' first-choice number nine, was replaced in the starting line-up by Rhys Webb for the final match against Italy and scored a try after coming on as a 62nd-minute replacement.
Northampton Saints' North, who previously suffered four head blows in a five-month spell and was sidelined for much of 2015, was the only player in the championship to score more than three tries.
England's Owen Farrell finished the tournament as the top points scorer, contributing 62 points over five games.


British number two Aljaz Bedene says he has a "strong case" to put before the panel that will decide on Sunday if he can represent Great Britain.

Bedene, 26, played three Davis Cup ties for Slovenia before becoming a British citizen in March 2015.
That was after the International Tennis Federation introduced a rule preventing players from representing more than one country.
"I've got a strong case, and I'm still positive," Bedene told BBC Sport.
The case will be heard in Moldova, with Bedene appearing by video link from Irving in Texas, just a few hours before competing in the final of a Challenger event.
Bedene is appealing on the grounds his passport application was lodged before the rule was altered at the start of 2015.
The hearing was originally scheduled for Prague in November, but the ITF postponed it - after Bedene had arrived in the Czech Republic - to "ensure the rights of all parties are considered".
The Lawn Tennis Association was frustrated by the delay and Andy Murray - who feels Bedene should be eligible for Davis Cup and Olympic Games selection - described it as a "bit disrespectful".
"I've been waiting for a year and a half now," said Bedene, who was a practice partner during Britain's Davis Cup tie with Japan earlier this month.
"I'm quite nervous - I really want it to be successful. I've got my own 15 minutes over Skype at 5 or 6am, but I'll wake up to do that and try to convince them."
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The Lawn Tennis Association is, privately, talking down its chances, and if the hearing ends in disappointment, Bedene's last option will be an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which seems a likely course of action.
"It's a tough one," he said. "If they would say at the beginning 'No,' straightaway, no complications, I would accept that, but it's been taking way too long, and yes, that's the next step."


Hibernian's return to European competition ended in heartache as they went out of the Europa League on penalties to Danish side Brondby.

Trailing 1-0 from the home leg, captain David Gray's deft finish levelled the tie after 62 minutes.
The full-back was forced off injured but Hibs survived into extra-time.
John McGinn missed Hibs' first penalty in the shootout, and despite Paul Hanlon, Grant Holt and Martin Boyle converting theirs, Brondby took it 5-3.
It was a harsh way for Neil Lennon's side to exit - at the first hurdle - after taking the game to their hosts in the second half and defending bravely throughout.
The Edinburgh club had never won a European tie in 61 years after losing the home leg, but they came close to making history after deservedly prevailing in normal time.
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The prize of a tie against Bundesliga side Hertha Berlin however goes to Brondby, who kept their nerve in the shoot-out.
Needing to score to keep the tie alive, Hibs barely created a chance in the first half. McGinn had their one sight of goal in the 18th minute, but Martin Albrechtsen swiftly blocked the Scotland midfielder's effort.
But the visitors were not unduly troubled at the other end either as a defence re-enforced with a third centre-back in Liam Fontaine repelled most of Brondby's attacks.
The hosts' best moments came from set-pieces.
Christian Norgaard and Kamil Wilczek - whose strike after just 16 seconds proved the winner at Easter Road - headed over from corners, while Johan Larsson's curling free-kick was just too high.
But it was 36 minutes before Hibs' debutant keeper Ross Laidlaw - taking over from Otso Virtanen after the Finn's first-leg howler - was called into action.
The 24-year-old conceded five goals on his last outing in April 2015 - for Elgin City against Annan Athletic.
But after missing the whole of last season with a lacerated kidney and being released by Raith Rovers, he showed no signs of rustiness as he tipped a powerful drive from Norgaard over.
Hibs began the second half with greater intent and urgency, McGinn's inviting cross from the left flank headed over by Gray, whose last-minute winner in the Scottish Cup final had sent Hibs into Europe.
But the full-back showed great poise to control and flick home Darren McGregor's prodded ball forward with the outside of his right foot, after Brondby failed to clear Dylan McGeouch's corner.
It was reward for a sustained spell of pressure, but served to stir the hosts into life.
Lebogang Phiri and Svenn Crone both sent shots wide of the target, while Teemu Pukki - a player signed by Lennon at Celtic - found himself in space inside the box but his tame effort was blocked.
Gray's energy and commitment was encapsulated in the driving run out of defence that ended his evening, Norgaard sending the full-back sprawling and landing awkwardly on his shoulder.
Hibs survived some late scares - McGregor escaping with a yellow card when he impeded Pukki's run on goal, while the impressive Laidlaw got a hand to Larsson's effort to divert it wide.
But after neither side threatened to win it in extra-time, Hibs' luck finally ran out.


Ireland suffered a 3-0 whitewash at the hands of Afghanistan in the Twenty20 series between the sides after losing by 28 runs in India on Sunday.

Afghanistan set a mammoth total of 233-8 off their 20 overs, Mohammad Nabi scoring 89 and Mohammad Shahzad 72.
Kevin O'Brien was the pick of the Irish bowling attack with figures of 4-45.
Ireland battled to a creditable 205 all out off 19.2 overs in reply, Gary Wilson hitting 59 and Paul Stirling 49, while Rashid Khan took 3-28.
Ireland won the toss and chose to put their opponents, who had already secured the series victory, in to bat in Greater Noida.
The Afghans scored at a stunning run rate of 11.65 per over, but an opening partnership of 65 off 26 balls between Stirling and Stuart Thompson got Ireland's response off to a promising start.
Thompson smashed five sixes as he made 43 off just 18 balls.
Despite a fine half-century by Wilson, the Irish wickets fell steadily thereafter however, Amir Hamza and Karim Janat providing support to Rashid Khan by taking two wickets apiece.
"It was a fantastic game of cricket to have both teams score over 200, so credit to the ground staff and to how the teams played," said Ireland captain William Porterfield.
"It's been a deserved series win for Afghanistan but there hasn't been that much between the teams really, just five balls either way in the games.
"You cut down a few boundaries and you score a few more. You have to give it to them though as they've come hard at us and won the matches.
"You know in these games it's going to come down to the last over or so. I was pleased with the way we kept coming and kept fighting to the end," added the Irish skipper.
The sides will play five ODIs and an Intercontinental Cup game at the same venue.


Twenty anchor sculptures are appearing around the north east of Scotland and the Northern isles as part of a fundraising campaign.

The Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Orkney and Shetland public art trail has been decorated by artists to aid cancer charity Friends of Anchor.
The sculptures will eventually be auctioned off.
The money will go towards a project to establish a world-class oncology research unit in Aberdeen.
The University of Aberdeen is attempting to raise Â£4.5m in five years.
The Friends of Anchor (Aberdeen and North Centre for Haematology, Oncology and Radiotherapy) charity has pledged Â£1m.
The "20for20 anchor voyage" marks 20 years since the charity began its work.
The collection of anchors will be on public display until the end of October.
There will be 11 in Aberdeen, as well as Stonehaven, Banchory, Inverurie, Ellon, Peterhead, Fraserburgh, Elgin, Kirkwall and Lerwick.
The areas all fall within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's Anchor Unit catchment area.
Friends of Anchor chairman Jim Milne said: "The effort and craftsmanship that has gone into each of the anchors is truly remarkable.
"I'd really encourage everyone across the region to take on the '20for20 anchor voyage' and see these 20th anniversary anchors for yourselves."
Professor Steve Heys, head of the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition at the University of Aberdeen, said: "The support of Friends of Anchor is second to none and will be pivotal in helping us achieve our goal of establishing Aberdeen as a centre for world-class cancer research.
"Such a centre will enable the university and NHS Grampian to attract and retain first-class academic and clinical staff and so contribute to clinical excellence through patient care and participation in clinical trials."
All production and manufacturing costs for the project are being covered by Balmoral Group.
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A convicted paedophile took a job at a caravan park and befriended a woman before sexually assaulting her eight-year-old son.

Michael Blyth, of Paignton, Devon, hid his past from the woman and abused her son in 2013, Exeter Crown Court heard.
He was jailed for seven-and-a-half-years for the assault and making indecent photos of children.
Blyth, 60, had already served an eight-year sentence for abusing boys when he was a scoutmaster in Yorkshire.
The court heard he took a job at a seaside caravan park in Torbay and befriended children, offering them sweets and toys.
Police also found 146 indecent images of boys on his computer, including three which showed very serious acts of child abuse.
Judge Erik Salomonsen said: "You are assessed as posing a high risk of further sexual offending against children and are a dangerous offender.
"You broke the terms of the order, were looking at indecent photographs, and went on to commit the sexual assault."
Mr Gareth Evans, defending, said there had been a long gap between Blyth's earlier offending and these cases.
Blyth, who was also sentenced for breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order, was found guilty of the sex assault on 5 April and sentenced on Tuesday for all other offences.


Australia's government has given its approval for one of the world's biggest coal mines to be built by India's Adani Mining in Queensland.

In August, a court temporarily blocked the project because of environmental concerns.
But the approval has now been granted subject to "36 of the strictest conditions in Australian history" environment minister Greg Hunt said.
Critics say the decision was "grossly irresponsible".
The approval was signed on Wednesday by Mr Hunt and follows a long running debate between those for and against the mine.
"I have the power to suspend or revoke the approval and strict penalties apply if there is a breach of the strict conditions," he said in a statement on Thursday.
First proposed in 2010, the Carmichael project is worth some A$16bn ($12bn; Â£8bn) and will dig up and transport about 60 million tonnes of coal a year for export, mostly to India.
The mine will cover an area seven times the size of Sydney Harbour.
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It includes a railway project and was first approved by the government last year.
But critics challenged the approval of the mine in Federal Court mainly because of concerns that two vulnerable animal species would be threatened.
The court found that Mr Hunt had failed to heed advice about threats to those species and blocked the mine from operating until fresh approval was granted.
On Thursday, Mr Hunt said the conditions he had imposed upon the Carmichael mine and its rail infrastructure project took into account "issues raised by the community and ensure that the proponent (Adani) must meet the highest environmental standards".
Some of the conditions Adani will have to meet in order for mining to proceed include the protection and improvement of 31,000 hectares of special wildlife habitat and A$1m of funding for research programmes to improve conservation of threatened species in the area over the next 10 years.
In an emailed statement, Adani said it welcomed Thursday's announcement saying it "makes clear that these concerns have been addressed, reflected in rigorous and painstaking conditions".
However, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) spoke out against the approval of the mine and railway project.
"To approve a massive coal mine that would make species extinct, deplete 297 billion litres of precious groundwater and produce 128.4 million tonnes of CO2 (carbon dioxide) a year is grossly irresponsible," said ACF president Geoff Cousins.
"At a time when the world is desperately seeking cleaner energy options this huge new coal mine will make the effort to combat climate change all the more difficult," he added.
The ACF said the mine would produce more climate pollution than New Zealand's entire annual emissions.
The mine and railway project are situated in the Galilee Basin in the central Queensland region, some 300km (186 miles) inland.


A 16-year-old Vietnamese boy was found "cowering" in bushes in Dumbarton after escaping from human traffickers, police have said.

The teenager, who is thought to have been trafficked to Russia before ending up in Scotland, was found by a member of the public on 16 January.
He is now in the care of West Dunbartonshire Council's social work department.
Police have appealed to anyone who has information to contact them.
The case emerged at a meeting of the council's community planning management board, according to a report in the Dumbarton Reporter. Police Scotland has since confirmed the details.
Ch Supt Grant Manders told the meeting the teenager had been found on a footpath near Overtoun House.
He said: "A young Vietnamese boy - 16 years old - came into our care having been trafficked from Vietnam to Russia.
"Smashing wee boy escaped his traffickers up in West Dunbartonshire and was found cowering in the bushes having escaped from wherever he might have been going."
It is thought the boy ran for about an hour from the site of his escape before being found.
Det Con Andy Docherty said: "He was found in quite a distressed state.
"We quickly established that he was of Vietnamese origin and he stated that he was subject to a human trafficking. His welfare is paramount.
"Inquiries are ongoing."


Conversations from social media and messaging apps were key to the prosecution and conviction of former England and Sunderland footballer Adam Johnson, who has been jailed for six years for sexual activity with a 15-year-old girl.

The court heard evidence gathered from a range of services as part of the prosecution case.
Hundreds of messages from social media, messaging and chat apps - respectively Facebook, Whatsapp and Snapchat - formed crucial parts of the evidence presented to the jury.
They demonstrated how Johnson groomed his victim before the offences, and how he continued to do so afterwards.
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These are some of the key messages from the case - we have re-created them based on what was heard in court.
On New Year's Eve 2014, Johnson responded to a Facebook friend request from the victim, who had "one enormous crush on him" and who "idolised him", according to the prosecution.
He recognised her from her profile picture. He accepted the friend request and messaged her to ask for her mobile phone number.
The court heard that "she was sceptical that it really was Adam Johnson" so to prove his identity to the victim, he posted a "Happy New Year" message on his Twitter account.
He gave her his mobile phone number and encouraged her to use the messaging service Whatsapp.
The FA's Player Essentials says: "Do not give out your contact details on social networking sites."
Whatsapp has more than 1 billion users. It offers a service similar to text messaging but is free to use.
Prosecuting the case, Kate Blackwell QC told the court: "What's clear through the WhatsApp messages is he guided her in a classic case of grooming. Grooming in its purest form."
The court heard that within an hour, Johnson was aware that the victim was only 15 years old.
A total of 834 Whatsapp messages were presented as part of the evidence against Johnson.
By 4 January 2015, a plan had been made to meet, but the victim was unable to do so on 5 January.
Johnson met the victim on 17 January 2015, in a car park behind a Chinese takeaway in County Durham. Johnson gave her a signed Sunderland shirt, as he had promised in earlier messages. He also signed her own Sunderland shirt.
The encounter lasted 15 minutes.
After dropping the victim off, Johnson continued to message her, making sexual advances.
They arranged to meet again on 30 January with Johnson having pursued her with a series of messages in which he made clear that he was looking for a kiss "and more" as a thank you for the signed shirts.
They met in the same location as on 17 January. The victim used Snapchat to record part of their initial conversation, to send to her friends as proof she was in the car with him.
Johnson was convicted of a sexual offence that took place during this meeting. The jury cleared him of a second charge.
After dropping her off, Johnson messaged her to say: "It was class," adding: "Just wanted to get your jeans off, LOL."
The girl replied: "Next time."
Records recovered from Johnson's mobile phone show he searched for "legal age of consent" days after this encounter.
The trial heard that by the beginning of February they were communicating via the Snapchat app. Johnson created a second account in an attempt to hide his activity from his partner, but by 20 February had forgotten his new username.
The Snapchat platform allows users to send messages to each other which are deleted shortly after being viewed by the recipient. As a result, prosecutors admitted that the police retrieved "very few Snapchat messages between the two" in their investigation.
However, an image captured from the victim's handset - showing her in a white bikini - was given in evidence, with one from the defendant in which he encourages her to "send one with the bikini off".
A third meeting was arranged through Snapchat - the victim was at school when he messaged her - but cancelled at the last minute.
By this time, rumours had started to circulate among the victim's friendship group. She discovered a "Facebook groupchat" conversation among school friends who had found out.
As more people were added to the conversation, messages she had sent to someone describing the encounter with Johnson were posted.
The court heard that this involved her being called a "slag". She broke down "in desperation and panic" and told her father what had happened.
He told her mother who insisted they went to the police.
Adam Johnson was arrested at home on 2 March 2015, on suspicion of sexual activity with a child.
He asked the police if this was in relation to the victim, claiming that he "only gave her a couple of shirts".
The court heard that when interviewed Johnson "was proceeding on the basis that, like him", the victim "had deleted all the WhatsApp messages and so, rather like the Snapchat messages, they would not be retrieved by the police".


A clash between rival gangs is the most likely explanation for a deadly shooting at a cockfighting event in Mexico, prosecutors say.

Twelve people were killed on Sunday in the incident in the state of Guerrero and another five were injured.
A 12-year-old boy who was watching the event is among the victims.
"All the evidence collected so far indicates the attack was carried out rival criminal groups," said state prosecutor Miguel Angel Godinez.
Those killed - or their relatives - might have had connections to one of the criminal gangs that are active in the region, he told the Radio Red station.
Cockfighting is legal, regulated and quite popular in Mexico.
But Guerrero State Governor Hector Astudillo said the venue where the shooting took place was a clandestine arena.
According to witnesses, an armed group stormed the arena and began shooting, aiming at a particular group of spectators.
Among the victims was the event's organiser, Pedro Cano.
Mr Astudillo said that the town of Cuajinicuilapa, where the shooting took place, is in a safe and usually trouble-free area of Guerrero.
"The Costa Chica region is where we had the lowest violence levels in the state," he told Milenio newspaper.
"We could never foreseen something like that happening there."
Army troops have been deployed in the area to reassure the population, said Mr Astudillo.
Mexico's powerful criminal gangs are active in Guerrero, one of the country's most troubled states.
Last year's disappearance of 43 students in the town of Iguala exposed the depth of the problem.


Another attempt is to be made to solve the mystery of how the largest stones used to build Stonehenge were moved.

In 1996, a BBC TV programme aimed to find out how the stones for the largest trilithon were put into place, and how the lintel was placed on top.
Since then the concrete replicas have remained untouched and forgotten about at an army base on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
They have now been rediscovered and the experiment will be repeated.
Archaeologist Julian Richards is teaming up with farmer Tim Daw see if modern techniques are any more efficient.
A prehistoric structure or monument consisting of three large stones, two upright and one resting upon them as a lintel.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
Mr Daw, who farms at All Cannings, near Devizes, and who created the first "Neolithic" long barrow to be built in the UK for 5,500 years, also works part-time at Stonehenge.
He said one of the most popular questions asked by visitors is 'how were the giant stones moved?'.
"When Julian Richards mentioned there was a life-sized replica of the largest stones at Stonehenge that were looking for a home that we could do some experiments on I said 'let's do it'."
The 45-tonne replicas were used in the BBC documentary Secrets of Lost Empires: Stonehenge, which was broadcast in 1996.
They have remained at Larkhill Camp, about a mile from Stonehenge ever since.
The experiment was partially successful, but now new theories have emerged about how the stones may have been moved.
Mr Richards said: "Over the last 20 years I've had lots of ideas come to me from different people from all over the world saying, 'there's a much better way of doing it, we know how it was done really, you've made it too complicated'."
He said the new project would get together some of the original team to test out the new theories.
"We're going to have to get at least 200 people together for about a week to make this happen."
Mr Daw added: "The first thing is to collect the stones from Salisbury Plain where they have been languishing for the past 20 years and get them back to my farm," said Mr Daw.
"Hopefully next year we'll get some teams of people [to take part in the experiment]"
Mr Daw said different theories had now emerged about how the huge stones could have been moved.
"The experts certainly think they know more. Whether they actually do know more is an interesting question.
"Without trying all the wonderful ideas of how you do it Neolithic style, just using man power - no wheels, no draught animals, no machinery - we can't tell what is practical and what is just fantasy."
It is hoped the result of the experiment will be turned into another television programme to air next year.


Westminster attacker Khalid Masood acted alone and there is no information to suggest further attacks are planned, Metropolitan police say.

Deputy assistant commissioner Neil Basu said: "We must all accept that there is a possibility we will never understand why he did this."
Four people died and 50 were injured when Masood drove his car into people before stabbing a police officer.
The family of PC Keith Palmer said his bravery will be remembered.
Detectives confirmed the attack was over within 82 seconds.
Mr Basu said: "We still believe that Masood acted alone on the day and there is no information or intelligence to suggest there are further attacks planned.
"Even if he acted alone in the preparation, we need to establish with absolute clarity why he did these unspeakable acts to bring reassurance to Londoners, and to provide answers and closure for the families of those killed and the victims and survivors of this atrocity.
"Nevertheless, we are determined to understand if Masood was a lone actor inspired by terrorist propaganda or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.
"If the latter proves to be the case, they will face justice."
He urged those who knew Masood to speak to police.
In a statement released on Saturday, the family of PC Palmer addressed those who tried to save his life.
"There was nothing more you could have done," it said.
"You did your best and we are just grateful he was not alone.
"We care about him being remembered for his selfless bravery and loving nature. We miss him so much, but we are also incredibly proud of Keith."
The family said they had been "overwhelmed by the love and support" shown for them and for PC Palmer and they praised the support from the police.


Many of the victims of the St Petersburg metro bombing were students, it has emerged.

Thirteen people, plus the alleged bomber, were killed in Monday's attack, and around 50 people were injured.
The names of the victims have been confirmed by Russian authorities, and details of their lives have been coming out in local media.
A candle-lit memorial has been laid out in Moscow's Alexander Garden, with flowers and photos of the victims.
Doll-maker and arts teacher Irina Medyantseva died after trying to shield her daughter from the explosion, according to relatives.
Her daughter Yelena, 29, was treated for her injuries in hospital and her condition is said to be stable.
"Due to that heinous terror attack against innocent people, my beloved wife died and my daughter was injured. It's a horrible tragedy," Mrs Medyantseva's husband, Aleksandr Kaminsky, told news site Russia Today.
A psychology student from Azerbaijan, Dilbara Alieva was taken to hospital but later died from her injuries.
"She was always bright. She was fascinated by what motivated people and was so good at figuring them out. She was writing her dissertation on motivation and sport," her teacher, Irina Berezovskaya, told the Washington Post.
Maxim Aryshev, from Kazakhstan, was an IT student at St Petersburg State University of Economics, and had ambitions to become a programmer.
In the immediate aftermath of the attack, he was wrongly named as the bomber on social media.
One of his classmates told Russian media, "He was cheerful, sociable, loved to joke around, be sarcastic. He was the life of the party and had many friends."
Mansur Sagadeev had recently celebrated his 17th birthday and was studying at the St Petersburg College of Communications.
He was in his second year and hoped to pursue higher education.
An obituary posted on the college websites said he was known for his modesty and kindness, and always tried to help classmates.
A martial arts coach and local kickboxing champion, Denis R Petrov was on his way to a training session when he was caught in the explosion.
Russian media found a poignant message Angelina Svistunova wrote on social media just two weeks before her death: "I thank my mother and father for giving me my life, giving me a beautiful name, giving me a wonderful childhood, a wonderful youth."
"Maria was the best wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, sister, friend," one of Maria Nevmerzhitskaya's relatives told Russian-language website Meduza.
Ksenia Malyukova was obstetrics student who loved cheerleading.
A former member of the army, Dmitry Mazanov was a warehouse worker.
He left behind a wife and two-year-old daughter, according to news website Meduza.


A man deliberately crashed his car into a tree to kill his estranged wife who was travelling with him, a court has heard.

Leicester Crown Court was told Iain Lawrence 53, of Ratcliffe Road, Leicester, had not come to terms with the break-up of his marriage.
The accident happened a day after an argument about finances involved in their upcoming divorce proceedings.
Mr Lawrence, who was not seriously injured in the crash, denies murder.
The court was told that Sally Lawrence's death was "a planned killing born out of grief, anger and jealousy".
Mrs Lawrence, 47, died from head injuries in the crash at Oadby in Leicestershire last October.
The court was told Mrs Lawrence's seatbelt had been unclipped before the crash and an airbag had been disabled.
The prosecution said the car had been driven deliberately into the tree with the passenger side taking the brunt of the impact.
The court also heard that Mrs Lawrence had often told relatives and friends that she was scared of her estranged husband.
The jury was told that police later found her car unlocked on the drive of the house with her handbag and overnight bag inside.
The trial continues.


An investigation has found no evidence a case against a brothel madam was dropped because she threatened to make allegations against Sir Edward Heath.

The probe into Wiltshire Police stemmed from the aborted prosecution in 1994 of Myra Forde.
A retired senior police officer claimed she had threatened to expose the former prime minister in court as a client to whom she had supplied young boys.
The IPCC found the case was halted when witnesses refused to give evidence.
It was also deemed unclear whether the comment about Sir Edward had even been made.
The officer making the claims worked undercover to investigate Forde's brothel in the early 1990s.
He gave evidence to the Independent Police Complaints Commission alleging a solicitor had threatened that, if the case went ahead, Forde would make the allegations against Sir Edward.
The policeman was relatively junior at the time and did not record the incident in his notebook.
He told investigators that during his career the incident had worried him and, having seen a TV programme about Jimmy Savile in 2014, he decided to come forward.
However, the IPCC spoke to Forde's solicitor and barrister at the time who both disagreed with his story.
His Honour Judge Seed was the prosecuting barrister at the time. He told the IPCC the decision not to go ahead was solely based on "insufficient evidence".
The watchdog said Judge Seed was clear when interviewed that "the comment about Sir Edward would have played no part in that process."
"He said he had never met [Sir Edward Heath] and he would not have spared his blushes," the IPCC said.
Another police officer, Ch Insp Richard Kirven, told the IPCC inquiry he had heard rumours that if Forde was charged she would provide information to the press that would "result in embarrassment to certain persons," but he regarded her as "a bit of a fantasist".
Myra Forde refused to speak to the IPCC but told The Sun newspaper last year she had supplied male escorts to Sir Edward Heath.
The retired senior officer who sparked the IPCC inquiry claims in 1994 he passed on the allegation about Myra Forde and Sir Edward to his superior officer at the time.
But the IPCC concluded Wiltshire Police was unaware of it and could not have been expected to investigate.
The announcement of the IPCC investigation on 3 August last year was followed by a public appeal for "victims" of Sir Edward Heath, by a senior Wiltshire Police officer in front of his former home in Salisbury.
It was strongly criticised as "trawling" for victims.
In a statement today, the force said: "As a result of the appeal, a number of people individually came forward with information. This led to a wider police investigation being established and we are following a number of lines of inquiry."
Operation Conifer employs 16 officers and has so far cost Â£388,000.


Magician Paul Daniels has died aged 77, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

He was at his Berkshire home with wife Debbie McGee when he died in the early hours of Thursday.
"Debbie and the family would like to thank everyone for their support and asks that their privacy be respected at this sad time," his publicist said.
Illusionist Dynamo called Daniels "a true master and [his death] is just such sad news".
Daniels was born Newton Edward Daniels in Middlesbrough and developed his magic skills in working men's clubs, making his TV debut on talent series Opportunity Knocks.
He then took over the primetime Saturday night slot with his BBC show, which started in 1979.
Daniels was known for a string of catchphrases, including the line: "You'll like this... not a lot, but you'll like it."
BBC correspondent Nick Higham said: "Paul Daniels could be chippy and some thought him smug. He fell out with BBC managers who dropped his show in the 1990s.
"But there was no doubting his popularity - or his talent."
He had recently returned from hospital to his Berkshire home, having been diagnosed in February. It was initially suspected he had suffered a stroke after he fell at home, but it was then discovered he had an inoperable tumour.
His son, Martin Daniels, said at the time: "He has said before, 'When it's your time it's your time' and that's how he is trying to face up to things."
As well as McGee, who had been his on-stage assistant, Daniels leaves his three sons from a previous marriage - Martin, Paul and Gary.
Gary Daniels has tweeted a picture of a rabbit in a magician's hat with a tear in its eye, by friend and artist Helen Martin, and wrote: "It is with incredible sadness that I can confirm that Dad, Paul Daniels, passed away overnight."
In addition to his magic, Daniels presented game shows in the 1980s and '90s, including Wipeout, Every Second Counts and Odd One Out.
He also designed special effects for the stage productions of Cats and Phantom Of The Opera, and was commissioned by the English National Ballet to create magical effects for The Nutcracker.
Daniels had continued touring with his magic show and was booked to perform at venues across the UK this year, according to his website, before news of his illness emerged.
He supported a number of charities during his life, taking part in fundraising events and entertaining children at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
A fundraising website has been set up by his family to raise money for charities, including a brain tumour charity and the Royal Berks charity, based at the Reading hospital which treated Daniels.
The Magic Circle said Daniels had "been an inspiration to many magicians" and is of "legendary status" in the world of magic.
In a statement, it said: "At the height of his career The Paul Daniels Magic Show on BBC One pulled more than 20 million viewers - that was more than one third of the British population regularly tuning in on a Saturday night to watch a magician  make them laugh and witness feats of wonder such as his famous Chop Cup routine.
"In this day and age of fragmented media platforms, no other magician is likely to be able to achieve such a TV ratings record."
It added that "the magic world owes Paul a huge debt".
Magician Dynamo told the BBC: "Without Paul Daniels I don't think I'd be doing magic today, so it's really a testament to how important he is for the magic world, he was a true master and [his death] is just such sad news.
"He was a real personality, he didn't just perform a bunch of tricks, he knew how to take something and make it magical but humorous at the same time.
"He had his own style which I don't think anybody could ever emulate or recreate. Paul Daniels for me is probably the best magician Britain has ever had. He has such an amazing legacy in magic."
Daniels' nephew James Phelan, also a magician, told the BBC news channel his uncle was a "force of nature" who made it his life's work to "entertain people and make them laugh". He added: "Right up to the last day or two, he's still been doing that."
TV personality Keith Chegwin tweeted: We have lost a lovely, kind and magic man."
Louis Theroux, who filmed a documentary with Daniels and McGee, wrote: "RIP Paul Daniels, a thoughtful skeptic, enemy of hucksterism and paranormal flimflam, and gifted magician."
Uri Geller told BBC Radio 5 live: "Our careers started off by him trying to debunk me and so we had a kind of a row in the early '70s, but then it turned into a very, very close friendship and I'm saddened for his family but that's life, and life must go on."
Ola Jordan, who danced with Daniels when he appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, tweeted that it had been "a pleasure and honour" to work with her "amazing dance partner".


So why on earth has the plunge in Chinese stock markets - Shanghai fell another 7.6% today, taking the losses on shares over four days to well over 20% - left European markets unperturbed this morning after yesterday's fall?

Well, it may well be that the absence of massive (or any) Chinese state intervention to prop up the market, of the sort we saw just a few weeks ago, has delivered some kind of coldish comfort to Western investors - for two reasons.
On the one hand, the lack of panic buying by Beijing's poodles implies the Chinese government does not believe that the economy is grinding to a halt in a devastating way, or that the share-price drops will damage the health of important financial institutions.
Paradoxically, Beijing actually looks more in control of the events that matter - in the short term at least - in not artificially inflating share prices and bailing out the 50 million to 90 million Chinese households who've been punting on the market.
That may, of course, just be an illusion.
Beijing will be hard pressed to meet its target of 7% GDP growth this year without doing the opposite of what is needed to put the economy on a sustainable footing, which is to curb debt-fuelled investment in infrastructure, construction and lame-duck heavy industries.
Also very difficult to gauge is the scale of the negative impact on the spending habits of investors whose wealth has been mullered and on the investing habits of companies whose share prices have been poleaxed.
But there is a serious risk of economic aftershocks from the market quake: multinationals with production in China aimed at Chinese consumers tell me they are significantly scaling back their manufacturing plans.
There is, however, one other positive gloss to put on the untrammelled Shanghai rout.
It is widely thought that the long-term sustainability of the Chinese economy requires Beijing to place more confidence in market forces and not mess with them before breakfast, lunch and tea. So in that sense, its neglect of stock markets today would be seen as benign, a sign that Beijing gets it (at last).
That said, the Chinese government is a million miles from understanding what true markets look like.
In a proper open economy, Shanghai's stock market turbulence would be the big talking point in China's media. But there is no mention of it anywhere in today's People's Daily newspaper - which is laughable even by the censorship standards of the People's Republic.
Two other things.
Tokyo's fall, in contrast to Europe's early rise, is simply because Japanese companies are so exposed to China.
And another reason why the UK market is up this morning, and Wall Street is expected to open higher, is that China's woes - and the slowdown in emerging markets in general - are seen to have delayed that fateful moment when the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve end our era of near-zero interest rates.
A rise in the Fed Funds rate in September now looks marginally less probable than my beloved Arsenal winning the Premier League this season (a zilch probability). And although it is still plausible that the Bank of England will raise interest rates next March, those on the Monetary Policy Committee who want a rise may yet be Shanghaied.
UPDATE 11:28
Spoke too soon. China has cut interest rates and so-called reserve ratios at banks, making it easier for banks to lend.
Plainly the market falls have spooked Beijing that its 7% growth target will be missed.
Ouch.
FURTHER UPDATE 11:34
The big point about today's Chinese monetary stimulus is: that may revive growth and the stock market in the short term - but it will further inflate China's dangerous debt bubble and will increase the longer-term risk of a crash.
As I said, ouch.


Bryan Adams has retained his record for the most consecutive weeks at number one, after Drake was finally dislodged from the top of the UK singles chart.

Drake's One Dance has tumbled to number five, pushed aside by Justin Bieber's latest single, Cold Water.
Bieber's song is a collaboration with dance acts Major Lazer and MÃ˜, whose 2015 hit Lean On is Spotify's most-streamed song of all time.
"We are amazed at the support from the UK," Major Lazer said in a statement.
Cold Water racked up 102,000 combined sales (comprising 47,000 downloads and 5.6 million streams)  - almost double the number Drake achieved last week, in his fifteenth and final week at number one.
Adams' Everything I Do (I Do It For You) remains the UK's longest-running number one, having spent 16 weeks at the top in 1991.
Only Frankie Laine's I Believe has managed longer - 18 weeks - but that total was achieved over three separate spells in pole position.
The success of Drake's single was bolstered by its popularity on streaming sites, which allowed it to remain number one even when it fell to 14 in the "pure" sales chart.
His dominance raised questions about the way the charts are calculated, as songs that achieve popularity on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services linger in the Top 40 at the expense of new music.
This week is no exception. Apart from Bieber's single, there is only one new entry in the chart - by former Rudimental singer Anne-Marie, whose new song Alarm debuts at number 32.
On average, the songs in this week's Top 40 have been on the chart for 14 weeks each. Ten years ago, the average was 5 weeks.
Earlier this week, BBC Radio 1's head of music, Chris Price, suggested some music streamed from playlists, such as Spotify's "United Kingdom Top 50", should be excluded from the chart because they become self-perpetuating.
"Since the chart itself has such a massive impact on consumption, streaming editorial is being counted once when users discover music via playlists, and then many times more as later-adopting listeners discover them in the chart," he told trade paper Music Week.
The Official Charts, which compiles the weekly top 40, said its rules were constantly under review but defended the inclusion of streaming data.
"The industry is in a transitional period between the old-world sales model and new-world rental model," said managing director Martin Talbot.
"It is fundamental to ensure the chart continues to reflect the way music is consumed."
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A burglar from Swansea was caught after leaving behind a half-eaten piece of beef jerky.

South Wales Police traced Kristian Dee Evans back to the crime in Rodney Street, home of a student from Hong Kong, through DNA on the snack.
Items including the 22-year-old victim's packed suitcases containing her clothes and shoes were taken
Evans, 33, from Gorseinon, has been jailed for three years after pleading guilty at Swansea Crown Court.
Det Insp Trudi Meyrick said police forensically examined the snack, which had been taken from the kitchen, half-eaten and left on the floor.
"Forensic technology is an important way of catching [a] burglary suspect and in this case has resulted in us putting the suspect before the court to receive a prison sentence," she said.


A terminally ill man whose wish is to marry "the woman of his dreams" says he has been "overwhelmed" by the public's help in raising funds for his wedding.

Emma Haggan, 30, and Jamie Tanner, 36, were planning their dream wedding in Italy when Jamie was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Prolonged medical treatment meant that the Bournemouth couple have had to put tying the knot on hold.
A campaign, run by the Wedding Wishing Well Foundation, has raised Â£7,500.
Mr Tanner was diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma - also known as small-cell lung cancer - in August 2015.
He is currently being treated by specialists at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
"At first we were told it could be lymphoma and that Jamie had a good chance of survival. This then became testicular cancer and again his chances seemed good but unfortunately he was finally diagnosed with small-cell carcinoma which is extremely aggressive and at this time considered incurable", said Ms Haggan.
Despite being in pain, the family said Mr Tanner remains "determined" and "strong".
Ms Haggan said: "Jamie has been my superman, accepting every challenge and treatment and fighting every step of the way.
"The cancer is now in his lungs and the treatment makes him very ill, yet I seldom hear him complain."
The couple met eight years ago after moving next door to one another.
Ms Haggan said: "Our relationship was romantic from the very beginning. He had grown incredibly close to my daughter, Amara [who was born with hip dysplasia] and never missed a hospital appointment or operation.
"Eventually though, Jamie and I decided to start trying for our own baby and were blessed with a daughter in July 2010."
Though the couple are no longer able to travel to Italy for their wedding, they hope to marry in May while Mr Tanner's condition is still stable.


Scotland achieved record-breaking levels of inward investment last year, a survey has found.

The latest EY (formerly Ernst & Young) Scotland Attractiveness Survey revealed 119 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects were secured in 2015.
The figure represented a 51% increase on the previous year, compared with 20% for the UK as a whole.
On the UK regional league table Scotland surpassed south east England to come second behind London.
Mark Harvey, EY senior partner, Scotland, said: "Scotland had a truly spectacular year for FDI in 2015, making some significant strides in key areas, resulting in a major step change in performance.
"Importantly, the majority of FDI projects for Scotland in 2015 were new rather than expansions.
"This ability to attract a higher proportion of new, first-time investors signals a positive future for Scotland.
"The challenge now is to not only maintain performance, but also take it to the next level and excel against the competition."
Scotland's 2015 record was also reflected by a considerable increase (52%) in the number of jobs created by FDI.
A total of 5,385 were secured in 2015, the second highest figure for the decade behind 2011 when 5,926 jobs were recorded.
The survey found:
Mr Harvey added: "Edinburgh and Glasgow have consistently been at the forefront of attracting inward investment to Scotland and have outdone themselves this time with a combined increase in projects of 40 in one year."
The US continues to be Scotland's primary investor but neither China nor India are in the top ten investors in Scotland, despite being the third and fifth biggest sources of investment respectively for the UK as a whole.
Holyrood's newly appointed economy secretary, Keith Brown, said the report showed that Scotland was  "a great place to do business".
"In an increasingly competitive global market, it is encouraging that year after year, international firms are seeing Scotland as an attractive place to come and invest," he said.
"Over the next year we will be opening two new investment hubs, in London and in Brussels, to add to our hub in Dublin, and will be working hard to continue to promote the skills, talents and location that make Scotland such a successful place to do business."
UK government minister Andrew Dunlop said the figures demonstrated "a huge amount of confidence in Scotland".
He added: "The country has put the uncertainty of the independence referendum behind it, and it is great news that major international companies are responding to that stability by investing in Scotland.
"This demonstrates clearly the benefit for Scotland's economy and Scottish jobs of being part of the UK, one of the world's fastest-growing major advanced economies.
"But we cannot be complacent and it is vital that we continue, working with the Scottish government, to deliver economic growth for Scotland."