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I get your point, but selling a genuine talent (which is what Brentford think he is) for just £10m isn't something I want to celebrate. Better than him departing for nothing thouugh.

No market for Larios. real shame to lose Jaydon, but we obviously didn't feel he was good enough yet (not last season and not this) and time/contract has run out.

That was Joe Shields. At that point we were spending serious money on academy players, not just on fees, but on wages too. It sounds like it didn't continue though after his departure and our relegation etc. hence some young talent departing. Not every penny spent on youth back then has realised a similar profit. Some you win, some you don't I suppose. I wonder how much we have spent on his wages the last two years. Do Spurs get a percentage? Some off that eat into the profit, but still looks a decent chunk of change.

Looks like an AI-generated photo of a man jogging towards a mountain range. Man...running...Manning. Too easy? Or how about a long distance runner. Let's say Samuel Wanjiru, the Kenyan Olympic marathon gold medalist. He shares a first name with our friend Edozie. I wonder if I can create a link for every Saints player that might depart? Let's try Jaydon Meghoma, as he is probably on his way having turned down a contract. The mountains could be the Pyranees, which the commune Ade is located in. Megahoma's middle name is Ade. Good clue this one. Might need to circle back.

Might well be. Spending a £1m in League 1 on Lambert was a pretty big statement, as was paying Fonte an absolutely massive championship wage to get him to drop down a division and similar to retain Lallana. I honestly don't how good Ramsdale is, but I hope he lives up to our sky high expectations.

about as much as I am about a yoghurt in my fridge going past its' sell by date.

That's `De Blob' in Eindhoven. If it's another "born just around the corner" type clue, like you used to link Rooney Mara to Sekou Mara's departure (Bedford is nowhere near Shea stadium by the way), then the player could share the name of almost anyone from anywhere in the Netherlands. De Blog was designed by Massimiliano Fuksas, who has designed buildings in pretty much every city, so that opens the field a lot. Tough one. How about, Eindhoven is in Holland, there is a pastor called Maxwell Holland and that links you to Maxwell Cornet?

Maybe McCarthy on the rumoured £90k+ a week prevented that?

they rate Pope?

Makes sense. He couldn't get in the side toward the end of last season. Anyone with that kind of description would have been available all summer.

They already broke the league 1 transfer record, twice, when they spent £4m each on Klara and Willumson. Spending £10m at that level would be monstrous. At least they would be spending it on proven talent. It's been a very tough few years for bluenoses, so personally I hope they do well.

Trabzonspor President seems pretty confident they have us over a barrel and will get a deal done at the price they want or a loan. It's going to be a game of chicken. They need him, we want to get rid, but they don't have a lot funds and we don't want to let him go cheaply. Their advantage is that they know what their maximum budget is and nothing is going to change that. They may have something like £8m available, but they won't find another £5m down the back of a sofa. They also may have other options, although Weghorst joining Ajax certainly ain't one of them. That said they seem all in on Onuachu...and I think they probably are. A deal will get done at some point.

Why do they get two extra weeks. Their season didn't start later than ours did it? Or does each nation just choose whatever date they like?

Signed last minute, but who knows how long we were working on those deals.

Looks pretty impressive. Better than Alberto that's for sure.

Ha. If we have that sort of money then a cheeky try for Santiago Gimenez...

Did they play for a Brazilian side?

Those deals take a while to sort out, so we'd have been in discussion for some time...and we'd of heard about it earlier.

To who? Sounds like the interested clubs like West Ham, who will have enquired/talked to his agent decided to spend on alternatives, perhaps partly because we wouldn't let him go on the cheap and partly because they got their preferred option. I know deals do happen on the last day, but how many 'start' on the last day? Won't there have been some prior communication? It sounds like there is none, hence Russ saying he's staying. I've jinxed it now haven't I?

I remember two days ago that Russ said we won't be spending £30m on a player.

if he wont sign a new deal, as rumoured, then its more a case of him being likely to go rather than us wanting him to.

Ah. That's not good. I thought it was just down to Moyes discovering he wasn't 6'3 so couldn't find a spot in his land of giants.

Decent player. Plenty of games under his belt. Reasonably tall and rangey. Has the ability on the ball we need, and drop his shoulder, come inside and get out of trouble (like KWP does). Very right footed. Can't see us signing him while we have three right backs at the club.

He thought he'd get first team games last season, didn't, and therefore wants to move to get game time now rather than in two years time. I think the words "unlikely to sign a new contract" were bandied around, so maybe we will try to see rather than pick up the compensation, which won't be huge.

If you move BBD out the left where he has played and Onuachu and Stewart actually depart (as your spreadsheet suggests) then the CF position is the `weak spot'.