CB Fry

Nice to see we continue to be efficient at getting players put of the door. Less so in signing anyone, at all, who will actually improve the first team. Tick tock.

😂 OK then.

No-one has written him off. No one.

The point is, as covered by benjii above, is that he isn't so hard done by, the squad is not that "deficient" as you're making out.

A manager has inherited a squad of players signed before he arrived? Fuck me. You mean like every single football manager since the dawn of time?

They will beat Celtic.

Why doesn't Man City or PSG or Real or Barcelona just hire Russell Martin then? He'd be cheaper than whoever they have now and he'll get success "simple as that really". Or, maybe, just work with me here, it is not as simple as that really.

You missed the part where he achieved two consecutive promotions and made a better fist of Premier League promotion than we did. But yeah great point

Well, no one will know the exact terms between the clubs but it is typically there on profits from future onward sale. That's why sell-on clauses are on deals for young players with future value expected. They don't generally go on transfer deals for 29 year olds.

Derby's transfer strategy is clueless. The #saintsway is to make sure they're injured before we sign them.

He can chat as much as you like about tailoring a system to fit the players but it is absolute bullshit if you are picking Adam Armstrong as your front line forward. Over and over again.

It's difficult to disagree. The two players that Spors was taking a victory lap about signing nice and early have so far proved to be wasted effort and money and neither would have been coveted by any of our rivals. In fact someone else (Ipswich?) actually signed the striker ahead of Downs in the USA pecking order. I'm not writing either off, sure both could be great eventually but those are signings that could have waited until August 31st. Spors has not unearthed anything of note for us. Signing a good winger from Middlesbrough or a handy attacker from Cov or WBA would be great but is not evidence of wonder scouting either. They are signings that any Championship club with coin can make happen. Big week for Spors, this.

At least Ipswich and Sheffield United both lost as well.

I'm going to say we don't deserve a point here.

Eduard Spertsyan absolutely licking his lips watching this.

Looking forward to a weekend on here of people drooling about bloody Frank Lampard.

We have never ever ever scored against ten men ever.

All I've seen is a load of bollocks about "he's been badly advised" when would you believe it, the advice they wanted him to take was to stay at Saints. The club they support.

I get the feeling that our sell-on clause will never be troubled. I don't think Everton will ever make a profit on him.

We all know he's not coming but just to prove it more he's off to play another Russian Premier League match this weekend.

You've seen it. It is obviously utter bullshit from the Russian side who are trying to make out we are too small time for their golden boy. We will be paying names like Aribo more than the Armenian is on now.

There was an old man called Sadoldgit Everyone thought he was a bit of a twit She thought it was a snake So she hit it with a rake Sadoldgit is a fucking twat

To raise his profile Sugawara needs to sign for one of those gigantic Champions League level mega clubs like FC Krasnodar.

I've been Googling this striker Tom Bola for the last twenty minutes and can't find any details on him. Has anyone got a link to a YouTube highlights reel pls?

That does seem to be the situation. Feels like a "struggles to settle" type of player to me. WE MARCH ON