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great football and a lovely pass from Azaz. When we are on it we are pretty good.

kinell, losing the ball cheaply in midfield... great save

one link up pass.

I guess that's why you look for 'footballing' centre backs. Hope he can do his job at the other end. Moving to four at the back seems to be more to his liking.

Lovely. Fellows knows how to square the ball. Have a word with Leo mate.

Leo has Talovierov on toast. Two good defensive headers won by Leo there or we might be in trouble. Nice work.

square both and we might be 2-0. Stewart doing his nut

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it was, but it was about 5 against 2...we got away with it. At the the end Leo does him for pace but should square it. They got away with it.

He probably didn't even turn up for training. Used the old 'ill' line as he waited for the transfer to happen. Oyekunle has something abut him.

ha. I fancy us to win. When Stewart plays we usually look alright. Maybe we can get 70 minutes from him this week.

maybe, but Charles is not really a 10.

noticeable that THB starts. His move is dead in the water perhaps, or maybe he wants to play today?

putting to one side Armstrong and Archer, it's our strongest side in the right formation. No reason we cant win today.

perhaps he's one for three years time too.

was thinking the same. All we had to do was offload Archer, get a proper number nine and the balance of the squad is much better for that formation.

We obviously are willing to sell at the right price and the rejected offers for both must have been genuine. I guess the club anticipate improved offers coming in and are ensuring the players don't get injured...or it might be that the players don't want to play to ruin their moves. If both might depart, we must have someone coming in, probably on loan.

Agree about Lascelles. Offload THB and Wood, get Lascelles and Lawlor in. They've signed the odd player to do the job now such as Orsic, Brooks, Rothwell, Fraser, Taylor, Ugochuckwu, Lallana, Cornet and Romeu. Hmmm.

It's bizarre. I assume Mike McGrath is getting his info from Edozie's agent Derek Thompson, but it doesn't add up. My guess is Millwall and Derby haven't offered enough money and we had a better offer from abroad, probably Turkey, but Edozie didn't fancy it - which then amounts to "saints turn down championship sides as they want him to go abroad" story. If that's it, then who the fuck knows.

no chance. he plays well, we maybe get a fee for him in the summer from someone. thats what matters. it's about money. millwall will be offering to pay buttons and we will want a signifcant part of his wages paid.

Bollocks. Why would we give a fuck where he is loaned to so long as the club were paying whatever percentage of his wages we wanted?

Possibly suffered from us not playing two wingers, but you'd have him on the bench to replace Leo. Feels like a proper falling out. Maybe the club prevented his move happening by asking for too much and he was pissed off...?

For what its worth, transfermarkt says net transfer income: 24/25 -EUR81.46m 25/26 +EUR73.46m But transfer fees are only a part of the financial story. The parachute payment is a lot less than the PL money. Wages are less, to help offset that. But the long and short of it is that the club loses money and transfers have had to make up the shortfall to the tune of about £25m-35m over the last few years. We shall see what the 2025 accounts say in a few months, but I doubt we are flush.

I'd of thought Dragon would want to be in the PL before selling, otherwise he will lose money. I would guess its pretty tough selling championship sides for good money too. Getting to the PL is not beyond the realms of imagination this or next season. With one more parachute payment year left, SR will think they have a decent chance of promotion. We may struggle to see that happening right now, but they probably don't.

I still chuckle at them taking Vestergaard and Bertrand. Before that, offloading McGoldrick (and getting Sir Rickie using the funds), Fox and Harding to Forest.