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Tyler Dibling great goal 2-0 Edward’s assist.

Charlie Taylor looking good. Tyler quieter than has been. KS apart from the goal done nothing., Jan being Jan. Sam earned the pen. Suga quiet.

Will is going to get so many yellow cards this year. Three fouls already in 22 minutes..

Aribo looking dominant in cmf.

Love hearing the pass by pass instructions from RM!

Omg Alex…..

The Point of reference for Celtics’ valuation on O’Reilly is Dewsbury-Hall. Chelsea paid LCFC £30m and he’s now on £100k pw. If Celtic are holding out for £25M it’s about right. The romantic saints fan in me though thinks that IF Tyler Dibling gets a chance to play -regularly, Scores some, Assists Some and gets noticed running away from top EPL players -with the ball at his feet - at his age - then he’s a £40m-£50m player by end of season. The next Jude. Or the replacement Stu actually as far as driving runs for Saints are concerned 😁

Preface this by saying I 100% don’t want KWP or Jan to leave. BUT if they are not sold then they must get a contract extension. That includes a big pay rise also. Cos what’s the point of resigning on then? Both are starters for Saints - both, I hope, will be keen to make amends for last time around in the EPL - but neither can do that, IMO, without extended contracts. Why? Because fully-committed-to -our-club players prepared to go into potentially career threatening challenges for us - without hesitation - are what we want. And will NEED. Not defenders increasingly concerned about keeping healthy for the next club deal as season progresses. I hope, like with AA and AM we hear about new contracts for those two. But if not. Sell them now.

Interesting stats- and for the punters out there might explain ( and justify) why they are more favoured than us for instant relegation.

I appreciate Will may not currently seem impressive top EPL quality as an attacking midfielder because he’s never done it before at that level but he clearly has had an excellent championship season and developed a great understanding with fellow first team starters like Flynn, AA and THB. I’d find it incredible if he was not a starter v Newcastle and given the opportunity to show he is that EPL quality. Writing “ one of our own” off before he’s even kicked a ball in the EPL is wind up stuff.

They are. Liverpool are having a look. I reckon Saints gonna end up buying someone for £20m - probably o’reilly ( Amf) and renting two other quality £20M+ players for the year ( a GK and a CF ) plus pick up BBD on a loan to buy. At least two/three out of those will be automatic starters.

Great ball - And shows what might be if we had an authentic #9…

This match shows why we need another keeper- for me.

Tyler with the assist. If he is trying to show why we should not send him out on loan he’s made his point for me.

Jeez. We need him on a longer contract. The guy is gold dust.

Tyler’s driving powerful run before that was brilliant…went past I think five of their players.. Maybe six! laid it on to score and we almost scored several times in that move

Tyler is everywhere. Good engine. But B have cottoned on that when he gets ball he will turn and look to run with it. He cannot do that edge of our box as they already sussed him twice on that front putting us in danger. Cut that out and we got an amazing player there.

Nonsense equaliser from fucking around in penalty area. 1-1.

Dibling deflected goal. 1-0 saints.

You are very probably right in that PO (necessarily) gets sold To help pay for a more RM friendly type of player. I’m still dissatisfied with the common judgement on him though. PO is a proven goal scorer. Are we really so blessed with those that we can unload him easily? I guess we will - but I still hope RM plays him today and I still hope he does well. Maybe the narrative will change thereafter.

Che Adams just received a €1.5 Million signing on fee. Info C/O football Italia. He wanted €2M. He’s 28 and got a 3 year contract at €1.8M per season. Which is about what he was on at saints. Plus performance related bonuses. Saints “ offer” would surely have been the same salary or more likely better than his championship salary. Only issue I can see is : length of contract - we may have offered only one or max two years extension, the €1.5M bung and the “ performance bonuses”. We prob did not want to give him €2M, or even €1.5m. And maybe we were a bit tight on perf bonuses. BUT : In other words Saints offer could not have been all that generous as was made out. Because if the figures I’ve seen quoted is what he accepted at Torino then we could easily have done that if we really wanted him. Apparently his transfermkt value as a Torino player on 3 year deal is now €15M. My ( cynical) guess is Torino hope he scores a few goals early doors then sell him back to the EPL for a nice profit at Xmas.

Interesting. I’d say that it’s probably a coincidence that SR arrange this friendly but then again it may not be. Bordeaux nice connection to have 😎🍷

Collectors item. PO & JL and a football. In Saints gear. Holding hands and Running at same time. ❤️ Some people might think RM has gone a bit too far with the squad love and super-caring for each other thing but I think it’s refreshing. 😍😇

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A week in Spain training and playing with the rest of the squad should be plenty long enough to confirm what RM thinks of him. If there’s one player to whom you ought to be able to launch the ball and hope it sticks it’s him. I hope this season it’s not going to be 80 minutes of backs against the wall defending for saints but if it is- he’s probably not the worst out ball to have. IF he can control it and hold it up of course. 😁