Farmer Saint

As I said previously, no PL teams are willing to trigger Ramsdale's release clause - Ramsdale is obviously aware of this. However, a loan may be a clever way of doing this - Ramsdale then gets a year to try to get himself past Pope (which I don't think he will personally), and if he does Newcastle will pony up. If not he comes back to us, most likely in the PL.

Blur's last album shows they can always be relevant, instead of Oasis's trick of releasing variations of the same track for 12 years.

Your guess is as good as ours. I'm going for about the same. The problem is, greedy people are always going to find a way around these issues. There is no real solution to this unless you go the China route.

Agreed, Blur were far superior in every way. Preferred OCS as well TBF.

Clearly wasn't, as I called you out on it...

I was being sarcastic. Clearly lost on you.

Calm yourself, it's pre-season FFS.

I thought all the howlers were due to Martin's tactics?

A lot were the same team that got promoted under RM though, and quite a few of them got relegated nearly as pathetically the year before that.

Dibling can.

As I've been told, unless one of these teams is utterly desperate, no PL team is interested in Ramsdale. PL clubs do not seem to rate him. I think he will have to go abroad on loan, which means we'll have to pony up a lot of his wages as well. Not an ideal situation.

Who'd have thought, with all the shit that we gave him when he was here, that the answer to any question about us being a better team would be Che fucking Adams.

I think Archer is the embodiment of a clinical striker ie. a great finisher.

We're no worse now (in fact I would say we're far better) than the team we had under Martin, and he managed to get us promoted.

I'm giving you the reasons that PL clubs aren't interested in signing him, that's all.

Rock in peace Iron Man, you were one of the greatest. So pleased he got to do his gig in Birmingham, he must have been holding on for that one.

This is not my opinion, this is what I have been told, and I'm sure those clubs have had people, with a better eye than you or me, watching him.

It's fine - it's come from someone that works with PL clubs day in, day out, but as is the arrogance of football fans (not just Saints), they know better than PL teams.

@sadoldgitSo I am the only one that has mentioned wincing so I presume you are referring to me - have you actually read my posts about Israel? If not, here is a flavour.

That's fine, I get all of that, it's just what I've been told.

You notice it's only the promoted teams interested. PL teams think he's too erratic to be a decent PL GK. TBF, he wasn't great for us last season - too many lapses in concentration. Brilliant shot-stopper - one of the best, but the rest is lacking.

That's fine, but make sure you read and interpret my post correctly.

Exactly 💯 There was a good reason that Kompany did not want to purchase THB.

I will continue to say, and you guys can believe me or not, but clubs aren't interested in Dibling anywhere near the price we want. His sojourn to Chelsea has flashed up too many red flags. He will still be owned by Southampton next year.

I am not a fan of THB, and I have made that very clear over the last year. I was also not bothered about KWP leaving. Bednarek needs to fuck off, as does ABK. Stephens needs to go but wont, as does Baz and McCarthy. Defence has been a problem since Hass was here, and all of these players have contributed to that. Fucking losers the lot of them.