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  1. Hopefully this is wrong, and probably is https://www.modernghana.com/sports/1216406/newcastle-united-interested-in-15m-rated-ghana.html
  2. Yes, and beyond if Stephens does go to Bournemouth on a perm. Tella possibly to Burnley if the clubs can agree a fee. Adams linked with Forest. DCC will be moving on I’d think. For Alcaraz and Sulemana it’ll need to be substantial offers to shift the club as the above dozen will raise plenty, bar Salisu who allegedly only has a £15m release fee. KWP plenty of suitors, Lavia too which pushes prices up even with relegation. JWP will have buyers. Martin will have funds to rebuild, Manning would be very welcome as an addition. Nathan Wood May be beyond us already. DC, MC and strikers areas to strengthen. The likes of Ballard, Payne, Doyle et al look like they could be breaking through next season on the bench at least. So it’s about top-2 calibre signings through the spine.
  3. Agree on the abuse. Their fans have seen them win the PL and FA cup under those owners and the Chairman’s father died in their car park in the helicopter crash. Get the frustrations now but they’ve seen success that may not be ever seen again at a mid-sized club (winning the PL). In terms of it being more difficult next season, their wage bill is or was the 7th highest in the PL. SFC’s was 14th. So the level of restructuring in players and staff and extent will be huge. Potentially less raised via star player sales with two out of contract and another with only a year left. Still players other clubs will want but likes of Daka have only been so-so.
  4. Expensive business, xenophobia https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/24/brexit-food-trade-barriers-have-cost-uk-households-7bn-report-finds
  5. He’d be a bit safer at Staplewood now Rupert Lowe isn’t at the club. Could be an option, he’s upset their fans by saying he only went there as a springboard to England. Obvious really but no need to say it. Morelos and Kent released from Rangers, although they may get PL interest https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12115089/Rangers-RELEASE-five-players-including-Alfredo-Morelos-Ryan-Kent-Allan-McGregor.html
  6. I thought Semmens did a decent job until this season. That said, he was also a complete cock at the summer fans forum. SR now fully on the reins, it’s their shitshow to sort out. At least Dragan being more hands on might mitigate Rasmus’s worst impulses unless they have been subject to some critical thinking and expertise first.
  7. Which amongst all of the current Swansea players we are discussing Martin May want to bring to SMS, there’s one who would be most needed at CM and on Saints long list since he was at Celtic - Olivier Ntcham. Nathan Wood has the sort of profile at CB SR would also like but may be out of our range with top six clubs sniffing. Manning would be great but Burnley keen.
  8. I’m coming around to it, and do remember how he dealt with Obafemi seemingly taking the unprofessional SFC behaviour from the post-2017 period to Swansea and rooting it out. Hoping that the two out of contract defenders, especially Manning, might re-join him and Piroe also very welcome. It’s a good point others make about leadership, I felt Ralph had to do too much on his own and if Martin can bring some staff in who care and set the standards/enforce them, then great.
  9. Brentford I’d have thought would mix and match one permanent affordable striker (Che only has a year left on his contract) with a quality loan one, like Broja was for us. That will tie them over with Toney perhaps match fit March onwards. In terms of the squad after all of the dozens of departures, I hope SR go quality over quantity this time and some of the u18s need opportunities that they wouldn’t have got yet at PL level unless they were a Shaw or Rooney type exception. Good experienced keeper for that level needed as an essential.
  10. Lavia will likely go for £40-50m and lots of CL club competition before City’s buyback kicked in 2024. JWP harder to say but ought to be £35-40m Salisu apparently has £15m release clause, W Ham want him, Everton if they stay up KWP in demand, Villa and Spurs said to be interested (Levy rued selling him for £12m), possibly Chelsea and Man U. If so, could push price to £25-30m Alcaraz - hope he doesn’t go but Brighton, AC Milan, Benfica apparently keen Tella - should be looking for £20m but would be happy to keep him if we can ABK - top six would be interested to ration his games and let his body settle down next couple of seasons. Rumoured Saints looking for £20-25m. Perraud seemingly going - get the £11m back possibly? If Martin could bring Ryan Manning with him that’s cash to re-invest elsewhere in the squad’s spine. Che - Brentford option to replace Toney? £15m say. McCarthy might even raise small fee + losing wages, and Theo/Ely OOC Martin should have a very good budget for that level to work with.
  11. I wouldn’t say it’s bed wetting, it’s just not excitement either, and our fan base has lacked that for 6 poxy years bar RH’s first season and Project Re-start. It’s a neutral appointment, could surprise us but could be the bobbing around mid-table flirting with the play-offs that a lot of us think it will be. It isn’t Man City and Keegan early 2000s, attack minded, invest in players above that level and blow the league out of the water, Nuno and Wolves or Kompany and Burnley. It seems to be saying that we may be a long-term fixture at that level. Which when 38 out of my 45 years alive the club has been in the top flight doesn’t inspire me.
  12. Hard to know what to make of this appointment. Hasn’t really either failed or succeeded as a manager in quite a small sample size so far. Remember him as a senior player at Norwich so perhaps that’s more of a reference point. Less ambitious hire than Adkins was (just got 2 promotions in 3 years and we were a division below Scunny at the time) but not another internal cheapie either (Selles, Gray, Wigley) or an obvious wrong fit (Jones). Therefore, I struggle to see how he’s going to attract the standout type of player to finish top two next year even with a better budget than Swansea so I guess SR’s plan next year is to stabilise in mid-table in the first season and look to finish in the play-offs the next year perhaps better the year after with a good wind. It doesn’t scream balls out for promotion next year either. Steve Cooper - if available, that would have been ambitious. Martin temperament-wise seems better suited than Jones but Nathan’s record is miles better. The parachute money has run out at Swansea but Robins at Coventry and Luton never had any and are miles past this bloke. Hard to guess and depends what SR want. Kompany was clearly more ambitious as an appointment for Burnley and more likely to unite the fans and club. I don’t think that’s SR, they just go with their view of the data regardless.
  13. John Turner is supposed to be sharp and growing in pace, let’s see how he gets on today. The early runout is a bonus after Hants bowled out for 367.
  14. If the club don’t inject pace, physical strength and leadership throughout the spine of the squad over the summer and shed the sluggish weaklings signed over the last few windows it’ll be a battle to survive in the Championship.
  15. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65612295 Following on from Honda - one of the big Thatcher successes - ‘Brexit was the straw that broke the camel’s back’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-57987601
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