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Edozie is the only senior winger on our books that can beat a man. We desperately needed more quality out wide even before his (impending) departure.

Don't really understand it from a Newcastle perspective. Ramsdale is really no better than Nick Pope - he's not an obvious upgrade, just more of the same: a perfectly serviceable keeper who has his good moments but isn't quite at the top level. Hey ho. He was always going somewhere I suppose. I'd like to think the club have seen this coming from a long way back and have contingency plans well in place regarding a replacement. I'd like to think that.

I've gotten shot of some absolute tat on ebay and gumtree.

Given that we knew we were down in January (if not earlier) and gave Spors plenty of time to assess the squad and the market and plan for a major rebuild, it's not very encouraging to be a couple of weeks out from the new season with only two signings on board (and I'm not even sure Quarshie is a starter). I don't think making do with the majority of the second shittest squad in Premier League history is going to be the rip roaring success in the Championship that others seem to.

Fernandes played a deeper role in Portugal, and does for their national team U21s too. He's a 6 or and 8. Which in Southampton maths adds up to 10, apparently.

According to transfermarkt he's played 19 times for Gremio's first team. And according to transferroom.com's work permit calculator, he's played enough and at a high enough level to qualify for a work permit quite comfortably (no need to loan him out to Goztepe like Juan). No idea if there's any legs in this link, or if he's any good. But we do need some wide attackers.

Love seeing the squad written out like this to remind everyone what a shower of shit we're stuck with. And that's even before the semi decent players leave.

He gets knocked down, but he gets up again.

Would be the death knell for his career. In his position on the RW they have Saka, Nwaneri, and they're about to sign Madueke. In the 10, they have Odegaard, Havertz, Nwaneri might end up there eventually, and have already committed to wunderkind Max Dowman (15) being in the first team squad next season. Doesn't ring true to me.

They're hints. We're getting Mane back. Fetlock the thread.

I imagine being an integral part of the by far worst PL team and worst defence in two of the last three seasons didn't exactly raise his stock.

Pretty sure Rusty said something similar once upon a time. And if he did believe that, then he sure as shit didn't know how to coach the concept into our squad.

Brugge are getting raided this summer. Talbi to Sunderland for £23m. De Cuyper to Brighton for £17.5m. And they're about to lose their best player Jashiri to AC Milan with the clubs just haggling over the price (Brugge want €35m as a base, plus add ons). The player's training on his own, having already made his mind up that's he's going to Milan. Onyedika has been linked to West Ham for around £17m too. They're going to have plenty of cash to play with. Personally, I'm not hugely bothered about Edozie staying or going. He does some nice things on the ball, but lacks the physicality and pace to be a top class wide player - even accounting for how poor his delivery/decision making is. Some of those aspects may improve in due course, but I don't see him finding a yard of pace any time soon.

Which one's Emma Peel?

He's in a tricky space, Elliott. He's not quick enough to be a winger. Not physical enough to play deeper. And not dynamic enough to play as a 10. And yet he's a really talented footballer. Albeit with noodles for hair. I suspect he's destined for a career of mid-table mediocrity in a West Ham or a Fulham.