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£40m of pure PSR profit for Aston Villa. Could they come in for Dibling now? Know they've scouted him a lot

Fair enough, think it's not difficult to understand the excitement around the prospect of signing him. We desperately need a 10 who can give us goals and assists, he is that sort of player. I would strongly contest against the idea that we don't need a player like him Not only that, it looks like we might, for once, just be going for the known quantity, the more expensive option and someone who already has a track record in our division and would see us trying to take a promotion rival's best player in the process. I'm not surprised people are excited about it I haven't watched tonnes of him but he has impressed me plenty. Reading through the Coventry forums also reinforces that for me, given they are talking about kicking off if he is sold and that they think it would be a disastrous end to the window and kill their season almost immediately Tactically, I have the perception that he plays far closer to the strikers than a midfielder like Fernandes (or anyone else we have, frankly) - but I'll need to take a closer look

Genuine question: What would it take to impress you if a 24yo attacking midfielder - with 10 goals and 13 assists in our division last season, for a team that didn’t even get promoted - can’t impress you?

Does it? If he woke up this morning and felt queasy then it's totally fair for WS to say 'see how you are later' and then after getting to the ground RS has reported feeling shitty still and he's pulled him out of the side, seems fair enough to me? The group and BBD would've known that Plan B was that he would step in if RS wasn't able to make it They obviously both wanted him to play and take the opportunity, so I just feel disappointed for Ross tbh

Guessing he felt okay to play before he went out and warmed up and then his sickness returned. Been mentioned that he was ill in the past 48hrs but wanted to play

Ross Stewart out with sickness, has been ill during the week. Brereton Diaz to start

On the morning of the Wrexham game he posted a photo of himself participating in a 'Park Run' type running group who were going along a road in Dusseldorf. That's all I've seen of him, that and a couple of videos of him with a German PT. Don't think he's even been in the country for a good while

Opening offer in £20m range

Lol that's a 'yeah sure, we'll agree to the buy clause because we've got no intention of ever activating it' if ever I've seen one

We had 10 shots on goal tbf, we did get a hatful of openings

Jack Rudoni is represented by the same agents as Will Still, Quarshie, Edozie, Harwood-Bellis and Archer - so they're well known to the club and Spors has already done business with them twice this summer... Not sure Coventry fans have picked up on that, as I'm currently seeing Cov fans denying he'd be interested in coming to Saints. Can't imagine we haven't checked in with him and his representatives based on the above

Dibling deal is too expensive for us so we're going for Jack Grealish who is almost 30 years old, on mammoth wages and will cost us more overall? Interesting claim from Everton

No; it’s just deductible against future ticket/hospitality purchases

THB, Downes, Fernandes, Smallbone and BBD all now in full training, as per footage on Saints app

Our start point is undeniably higher than theirs, we're coming down with a bad PL squad but a good CH one, they are coming up with a good L1 squad. Even with upheaval on both ends, we should be the better side (yes I know... should is a dangerous word!)

She would say that, tbf

How do they seem to be unstoppable at the moment? Their last three games they've lost to Sydney FC, Wellington Phoenix and FC Groningen I think we a more likely to benefit from playing them early before they finish their transfer business and get their new faces settled in and used to playing together, if anything

David Ornstein update this morning:

To be fair, Spors never said that. Dragan Solak said that Spors had presented a list of transfer targets to the group and that he [Solak] had signed off on going after three of them straight away, regardless of sales. And in fairness, we then signed two of the three: Quarshie and Downs With the third - the creative player - maybe they turned us down, maybe they are yet to move and are weighing up their options, maybe the move is on the cards and is just protracted or a knock-on to another move WS has spoken about how he wants to wait and go after the players and people he really wants, so it might just be that we're in a chain or working on persuading a player to sign rather than just moving on

Udoh’s been playing in the 21s group

Will Still on Aribo: “There's been interest around Joe. I've just tried to give him a bit of headspace, a bit of breathing space to do the right things. We'll just see how that develops over the next few days”

Downes returning to training this week and THB is about 10 days away from playing, according to WS