CB Fry

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

You know what goal it was because I commented about it at the time. League goal cup goal whatever it was you were on it.

The fact that the selling club seems to be desperately trying to work up a bidding war (rather then there actually being one) is setting off alarm bells for me. At least with Gakpo it was clear there were other clubs in the running.

*because they're not doing very well so my opportunity to be smug as fuck has not materialised. We all know you're just desperate for some four nil win against St Mirren to give it the I told you so treatment. You were on this thread within 2 minutes of Rangers scoring their first league goal FFS 😂

It's entirely possible this guy is not quite the world beater we think he is. Tall Paul was banging goals in for fun in Belgium or whatever and would undoubtedly bang them in for fun in the bloody Russian League. Guess what? Krasnodor couldn't afford him.

.......aaaaand now we're going to get a load of posts from furious idiots on this forum who are going to believe that we can't afford or haven't offered a pay rise from some player from the Russian League that none of us had ever heard of three weeks ago. We are paying players like Aribo fifty odd k a week. We can out-pay bloody Krasnador.

I think none of the promoted teams last season got a win until October, and now two in the first bloody game. Maybe the three of us were in a different dimension of shitness.

You are massively overthinking that. Players generally don’t start chatting away about other clubs when they are literally wearing their current club's kit having just walked off the pitch for them. Honestly the whole world does not revolve around what Saints fans want to hear.

Hopefully they give him the full Alex-Ferguson-had-three-years treatment and keep him in place because MANAGERS NEED TIME