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Bit of a kick in the nuts, that. Come on against Norwich, score a worldie, then get shipped off elsewhere He'd be a capable backup to Azaz from what I've seen in preseason. Would rather have him around than not.

Careful, or this will be hailed as another "10/10 window" - we're only just shifting the last of the previous 10/10 purchases

To get an assist, someone has to put it in the net... on the current showing from our strikers, we're more than likely about to ruin these new guys' stats. Jokes aside, this transfer window has finally got interesting.

Incomings notwithstanding, if we actually manage to bin all of those players, when you consider which personnel we've already ditched, it'd be a pretty successful attempt at "getting rid of the dead wood" Just need to replace all those players with fewer, better quality players and we'll be golden. Piece of piss.

Did I miss the "monumental" part of that article? It's lots of words to say his agents are talking with West Ham (who'd have thought it given they'd made a bid) and nothing more as far as I could see, and I'm not re-reading that tripe to verify.

Yeah my immediate thought was Boufal 2.0 - a load of spins and tricks w/ very little to show for it. I notice most of the clips show him beating his man (fair play, he looked pretty good at this) but the clips cut after that, so one can only assume he ended up passing it to nowhere.

Massive deja vu for a second when talking about last year's "trauma" - If he'd mentioned "scar tissue" I might have lost it

iirc, Still likes a lot of crosses into the box too. And for all Sugawara's obvious shortcomings defensively, he did seem to put a decent ball into the box consistently. Nothing against Bree, but I'd be surprised to see Sugawara be the one that goes

agreed. Although thinking of it another way, it's not much more than what we've sold Tall Paul for, and I'd wager this guy looks better suited to the systems we expect to be seeing from Still (and Spors) guess we'll have to wait and see

I'd just written out the exact same thing, but longer, without checking the replies. I like the simplicity of the original suggestion, but there's no way to know how these guys will perform until they actually start playing. So it's all just a guess for me Would be nice to see someone close to a dead certainty for goals coming in - like we've not really had since Lambert joined - but I don't see that happening, and since we're apparently shopping in the unknown section for now, I suspect "on paper" most of us will end up thinking we look worse than our rivals.

I've seen a few tenuous Piroe -> Saints links floating around, but none of them looked particularly reliable - do you know something that others dont?

The comparison of the two players, based purely on "time spent at medical" should be at least one reason to prefer to hold onto Armstrong. The guy is almost always available and always gives his all. I appreciate the numerous arguments others have made for him to go, but I can't see him going anywhere other than to another Champ team because that's his level. And likely the only people to afford him will be in direct competition with us. So it just doesn't seem worth it to me. He's about as reliable at this level as you can get, so if we're keen to offload I just can't agree that it should be this summer. I don't care for the "motivation" argument myself, I think he'd give it all regardless.

I'm always nervous when old names come out of the woodwork, but having looked at his stats... https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dusan-tadic/leistungsdatendetails/spieler/36139 He's 36.... but he's still playing ~45 games a season (across all comp's) and contributing 10-15 goals, and 15-20 assists. Fine, the Superlig isn't great, and I guess those stats don't really show how good he is at "pressing" these days, but I'm confident that Still would be pragmatic enough to make him work I'd have him back.

Final day performance. Wasn't the 4-4 Liverpool game the last of the season too? Looked decent in that one as well iirc

Happy if that's the case, as long as we end up with a manager who prefers even the most half-hearted of presses... 6 points incoming.