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Likewise. I see in his videos a player that is extremely comfortable with the ball at his feet like a Jack Clark or younger day Lallana. Very different to our one touch midfielders like Downes and Smallbone. Really hope he can hit the ground running and be our Hamer/Ndiaye/Lallana type playmaker that makes a difference.

what you syan?

Looking forward to hearing that. I thought ryming Fellow and Yellow might work... Look at the stars Look how they shine for you And everything you do Yeah, it's all Fellows We came along We wrote a song for you And all the things you do And it was called Fellows Your skill, oh yeah, your skill, and goals Turn into something beautiful And you know, you know we love you so You know we love you so

What odds the writer of this piece saw that we were linked with him and then simply made up this story? The fact it doesn't mention Saints as an interested party is very disingenuous. If we have to pay anywhere near the EUR10m mentioned, then WBA wont be able to afford that.

I didn't know Downs was seen as the backup striker to be honest. I thought they saw him as the guy to lead line this season. It goes without saying that if both Downs and Stewart don't do the business, that will bite us.

Sure, because we got relegated. I fully understand their desire to move and progress their careers and don't see them as the bad guys. It's a business. If my wages were cut by 40%, I'd be looking to change jobs. My point was that I'm not going to give the club a pat on the back for getting a reasonable fee for these two players. I don't see this 'business' as something to celebrate. We haven't done well to get `great money for two ineffective players' as the original posts alludes to.

If framing it that way makes you feel better, cool, but in my eyes we have sold an amazing talent and a likely Portugal world cup player.

Proper PL quality players almost always depart on relegation, so no surprise he departed at all. I thought for a second the £50m price tag might be a red line and be too high, but no. If we get promoted and West Ham relegated, would you take him back?

yeah, he had the 14 squad number until 2020.

it was perhaps either him or Fellows and we have got Fellows over the line. A Scienza deal moving might also be a factor. Two wingers rather than three always seemed more likely.

Seems quite a high fee for a guy they don't ever start. I'm speaking in relative terms of course.

We will have firstly approached his agent to ask if he fancied the move and discussed personal terms at that point. We will then have made an approach and offer to his club, which will have been low, and probably turned down. This will all be in anticipation of Edozie departing, which now seems very close, hence an improved offer will have gone in and now we wait for Edozie deal to happen and this deal to conclude. Anything could happen from here of course. Simples.

We were first linked with him quite a while ago now. I am pretty sure the time between then and now will have been spent agreeing personal terms if, and its more likely, we hadn't agreed them before we first approached his club with an offer.

I'd stand waiting outside her house only to have some random bloke shove a dildo in my ear

I understand the concern, but give it up. We have Stewart and the club have bought Downs to be that "young, big, strong and fast" centre forward. They simply aren't bringing in another because Downs has missed two chances.

I'd like to reach her release clause.

Akanji and Canvot.

I'm thinking you're probably not married to that Norwegian wonderkid.

We announced no one. Silly welcome videos take time to shoot.

Don't give up you day job.

QPR will have offered buttons, rather than us not wanting to sell.

We will have to see how Jander plays when he comes. I've only seen a video of all his touches in a game in 2002 and he was all over the pitch, collecting and starting play, but also making runs in forward areas. He's always on the half turn, dribbling, keeping the ball for a long time...sometimes a little too long (I got Jack Clarke playing centre midfield vibes), but maybe he has cut that out of his game since then. I didn't see any tackles, maybe he has added that to his game. Pretty excited to see him play for us. BBD -not yet, potentially going out on loan to the blades.

Still confirmed in his press conference today that Fernandes had made it clear that he wanted to leave, partly to give him a chance at going to the world cup. How much he forced things is unclear, but I think it's obvious from the social media posts by SFC around the time of the pre season tour that they weren't sure if he'd travel. WBA need the money. Jander seems like a Fernandes replica to me. Is that what you meant? Not sure Leo is well proven. One season in the Bundesliga top flight spent largely on the bench, but personally I still have high hopes. Ikone doesn't seem to fit to me, but he hardly made a match day squad last season, so they definitely want rid. You missed BBD going out on loan

He's scored 25 goals in the last two seasons for Copenhagen. #Justsayin

that's the video I watched and made me pretty excited. However, it was tapered by the fact the goals are pretty much all scored in the lower leagues and he was largely on their bench last season. His highlights are great, but seemingly not good enough for him to start games, all be it in the German top flight.