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According to football insider Lavia has verbal agreement with Arsenal https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-romeo-lavia-reaches-verbal-agreement-to-join-arsenal/

Phantom

Source... Well placed source...

Gamer

I'm glad Martin has a recruitment team around him. I'd worry about him stepping up to squander funds at the level we've managed to do. 🙂

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Renewal

Cautionary tale there. Can only hope that he gets support to address them enough to get to a better place, and be better able to deal with things. I hope he has a really good season back in the Premier League.

Good. If any deal includes a clause like that, we will be done. We'd need an actual commitment to buy. Besides, isn't that less than what we paid for him, and he's got time on his contract. I'd have thought Salisu, ABK, Bednarek would all go (nothing ever certain with clubs looking to lowball us), leaving us DCC, Lyanco and possibly Stephens, and him really due to B'Mouth changes.

So saintsy for this to go into the last week of preseason and Rasmus pretending that the unveiling of Nadine Dorries as our new manager, with a point to prove over the Honours list, is a left field masterstroke. 🙂

SR's model rests on maximising the sell on value of, not just young players but, young players on the verge of making the break through, with us giving them their first season or so. Lavia is the poster boy for that model. So, it's a test for SR. It's got the wrinkle of Man City's clauses, but it's a great test of their model, with Lavia on a long contract. We're going to get lots of bid rumours, leaks to test the waters in addition to a shed load of expectations, rumour and clickbait, from all sides of people ITK and mainly not. If nothing else, it's going to show our owner the outcome of that model. If we accept too low an offer, say based on getting some relegation offset money, then that's going to have a knock on later. Other clubs will be quick to use that as leverage for other deals. A bit of resolve may be a good thing at this stage, bit it's all part of the usual window brinkmanship.

Torrential rain in the Scotland game. The commentary team were saying that the game should be stopped, before it was. One pointing out that it should be done, before a team scored. Scotland promptly got a goal, and the ref took them off. Georgia did not fancy it at all, and are seemingly refusing to come out to restart the match. They weren't that bothered during the warm up, looking for puddles (not hard) for reasons to not play. So, it should be played tomorrow, but some questions on whether it will be resumed at 1-0, or restarted. Edit: Ref came out with the match ball, and seemed happy enough. Georgia's FA head seemingly reluctant. 21:30 resumption, at the moment. But they have dragged their heels, as fans have had to leave. Looks like they have been told they will face a forfeit, if they don't play. Georgia back out, but were made to. They may be waiting on the pitch being unplayable as it goes.

Assurance

While we all hold out some hope, I was reminded of an older incident I'd heard about a while back on a podcast. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/20/1183249112/missing-titanic-submarine-rescue-pisces-iii So, even if it's looking bleak, there can be successful outcomes.

My source is tight lipped ... well, tight lidded, anyway.

Star

Grimes or Jones? 🙂

A fine line between front footed aggression and attempted manslaughter.

Great. Like we needed something else on Bazunu that a ball could smash through. 🙂

Previous target Quincy Primes continues to be unavailable. He got away from us, but not the law, as he's sentenced to 18 months. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65948357

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