InvictaSaint

So breaking our own transfer fee record isn't ambition? If not, what is?

Will Harry be around?

Over 6K followers on Twitter and writes for at least 2 Dutch football magazines. More credible than most I would say, but that's not to say that this is gospel.

Very good post. About sums it up for me.

We are not Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool or Spurs. They have more money and whether we like it or not, bigger names with bigger histories. If they come calling players will leave. It really is that simple. Nothing to do with there being anything wrong with the environment at SFC. Even Leicester - who are current Champions - lost one of their best players to Chelsea. We are no different. Until we win something big and/or have a good few years of challenging for a champions league place behind us, players whom we develop and who become very good are going to attract the Liverpools and Utds of this world. No amount of "looking at the management through to the directors involved" is going to obscure or change that fact.

Multiple sources on Twitter mentioning that Boufal will be fit to play by 7/8 September. Can't vouch for veracity of these comments; just passing them on.

Sunderland have T Robson, J Robson and E Robson on the bench tonight....

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Quite so. And, lest we forget, he is speaking in a language which is not his first. As somebody who speaks French fluently and has lived in France for some years, I know how tiring it can be, at first, to think, process information and speak in somebody else's language. You are constantly focussing on conveying meaning - not emotion - and on avoiding mistakes. I remember too that an esteemed French football journalist wrote at the time of CP's appointment that he was not a media person and did not do well in front of the cameras but that this was at complete variance with the enthusiastic, passionate man you see on the training pitch and touchlines. I for one am quite happy to have a manager who does his talking on and around the pitch.

Source?

Joe Hart has been told he will be sold in this transfer window according to SSN...

Anybody else think Deeney looked rather....portly? Looked like he had piled on the pounds rather than shedding them over the summer.

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Wow. Hope you're not a lawyer.....

I love this. When it's bad news, it must be true; but when it's good news, then there is no way it will be true.....

From Landford Saint on the contracts thread:

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I don't think any rational person would say we should blindly agree with anything. However, what they would also say is that it would be wholly unreasonable to disagree with something on the basis of no evidence whatsoever. We won't know how well the club has done in replacing RK or any of the players who move on until we start kicking a ball in anger. More sensible, in my view, to have a little patience - the club has earned that for its year on year improvement since our L1 days - and reserve judgement until we are a few games into the campaign.

Tout à fait, Thierry, tout à fait.

Youth speak (so my students tell me) for somebody who is weak, moans and gives up at the first sign of trouble. The very definition of a number of posters on this site, it would appear.....

Interesting....care to elaborate?

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Neither MP nor RK had experience of the PL either. Didn't do them much harm.

Come on S-Clarke; you know rational, considered thought has no place here. We wouldn't have had Brexit otherwise [emoji6][emoji6]