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Absolutely this. Next season the manager will plenty of choice. We have CBs coming out of our ears: Stephens, Bednarek, THB, Wood, Edwards, ABK, Sanda, Taylor, Bree...Aribo!

Championship Cardiff got pretty close in in 2008. We wont mention the victors. Some pretty poor PL teams have made the final since then...Watford, Hull City, Wigan and the Skates (both of whome were relegated that same season). We are shite, but it's football, so you can dream. What's the worst that can happen? Don't answer that.

I've been saying it on here for many many years that it's a sham to call it a "club". Southampton Football Business is a much better fit. You are their customers, and they know the exact price point that gets the best return for a game like this. They also know there is no need to `give something back to fans' as fans will all be back next year in the championship whether they got a £10 ticket in the cup or not. All I can suggest is if you don't like the price and don't like your stand being closed, then vote with your feet. The only time a change is ever made is if the company has been hit in the pocket.

just for context, I went to see Worthing vs Torquay in the FA Trophy 4th round a few weeks ago and it was £17.

Good point. Brum have spent big and perhaps will have funds to do so again. Boro have made good money on Lath, but doubt they will spend more than half of it on the next guy, the rest will be swallowed up covering annual losses. The more championship clubs with money the more chance we can offload a few, however that also means more competition for us next season.

The best we have played this season, by miles, is at Old Trafford, with no striker. So, I guess we effectively have three options, rather than just two.

Putting to one side the players that could get Prem gigs like Ramsdale and Dibling, my concern is about the championship-level players. There are two markets in the championship: the relegated sides (who have parachute money) and the rest. The biggest transfer fees for `the rest' was £5m or less - often quite a bit less. So, unless the offer is from a relegated side, don't expect much.

Probably didn't fancy a championship relegation thretened side. Watford have an small chance of the play offs and that seemed an option. He could end up playing for us on Saturday.

IN Wellington Gronbaek Sanda Udoh OUT BBD Armstrong Baz Edwards Charles Amo-Ameyaw Cornet It would have been good if Taylor, Fraser and ABK had gone out on loan too, but perhaps that will turn out to be a blessing

I thought Charlie Taylor would depart on loan. Maybe hes going to play left centre back? If you cant get rid of an unwanted player now, as a cheap loan, us getting rid of that sort next summer on a permanent deal will be equally tough.

I wonder if there is a hefty promotion bonus (to SFC) in the loan deal? Probably not.

By that you mean: accept any offers we receive, even if they are below our valuation, then use those `lower-than-hoped-funds' to buy someone else?

and Onuachu will have one year left on his contract. I dont want to make excuses for those runinng things, but there sure will be a lot of balls to juggle.

Delap will be in demand, so they will likely be after a striker nerxt summer. Whether they will be interested now is to be seen.

Got to agree. What a great signing for WBA - a player that scored 24 goals in the league last season - for nothing. With their budget, it's a great bit of business.

Possibly, but once up, a side like WBA has a little more choice and fiancial power (not a huge amount as we found out) than they do now.

Who? WBA's most expensive singing last summer was aboitu £3m. Go through the Championship signings last summer and there is no money at all being spent. Burnley, Norwich, Leeds and Luton made one siging each that was close to £10m. If Leicester went down would they sign him? Ipswich, possibly?

Will another championship side be able afford him in the summer? If WBA went up (or any of the other promoted sides), would they spend £15m on him know how he has fared previously at PL level?

It's a strange situation - loaning out a guy that only seems to score goals in the division you will be next season. Quite simply, he has not performed since Juric got here, so it's hardly surprising that Juric has dropped him. Having gone with Onuachu (or no striker), Armstrong's opportunties in the second half of the season were going to be limited. Him being overlooked is hardly going to foster a great relationship, so the idea that allowing him out on loan is going to `piss AA off' seems a mute point. Next season, if Juric is still here, AA is still going to be behind Onuachu, so him not wanting to come back also seems mute. if on the other hand Juric departs, the new manager can welcome him back into the fold, should he want him.

On first glance Standard Leige feels like very left field, but then I read that Fergal Harkin was previously player loan manager at Man City and now Director of Football at Leige. I guess that shows just how much personal relationships come into affect with a lot of football transfers. Interesting that the Standard Leige goalkeeping coach was done for match fixing when a player at Bari in 2009.

Maybe we don't want him back next season too, but him departing depends on there being a buyer.

What happened with Charlie Taylor? Did he ever decide against a move to Hull or Watford?

if he isn't going to get a game here, someone else paying his wages is no bad thing, right?

first team squad has 31 players still (not including Edozie, Edwards, Charles and BBD). Larios and Stewart both injured, so no way we could offload them, but nine senior players don't even make the squad every week. If Baz goes out on loan, that will be 8 twiddling their thumbs, but a shame we could not shift ABK and perhaps Taylor, Fraser...

The money we save will come in handy when we want to loan a guy to get us over the hump next season.