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Yep, but hardly surprising. Other than the defenders we just had Charles, Sesay, Fraser (out of position) and a bunch of strikers. Wingers and a creative midfielder sorely needed before the window closes

I get the impression that WS sees Sugawara and Welington as wing backs, who offer more offensively but less defensively, compared to Bree and Manning, who he seems to see much more as RB/LB types. I get the feeling he doesn't trust Sugawara and Welington when it comes to working back towards their own goal Just basing that off how he has used those four players during pre-season and the change of formation since Yuki and Welington came on in this one

Saints 2-2 Brighton Arma from the penalty spot

Penalty to Saints

Just maximise the video player and go full screen?

Smallbone and Taylor both injured, according to Alfie House. No reasons given for BBD and Aribo being left out

Missing from both of today's games: Ben Brereton-Diaz (no reason yet given) Joe Aribo (no reason yet given) Will Smallbone (injured) Charlie Taylor (injured) Mateus Fernandes (illness) Flynn Downes (recovering from injury) Taylor Harwood-Bellis (recovering from injury)

Fron the Brighton OS Albion: McGill; Veltman, Coppola, Simmonds, Kadioglu (Slater 47); Milner ©, Yalcouye; Buonanotte, Gruda, Sarmiento; Welbeck Subs not used: Ramming, Oriola, Moran, Tasker, Nti.

Saints team in this morning’s training game with Brighton: 3-4-3 McCarthy; Kayi Sanda, Edwards, Wood; Sugawara, Matsuki (Akachukwu 47’), Bragg, Welington; Dibling, Stewart, Robinson

Did Dewsbury-Hall have that much interest? Genuinely can't remember I know Gnonto effectively went on strike for a while to try and force a move to Everton but that was under Moshiri ownership and I don't think they could've stumped up the cash even if they'd wanted to, given how much of a mess they were in terms of PSR compliance

Erm, that doesn't make the club stupid. Tyler Dibling was 17 when he signed that contract and you're literally not allowed, under FA rules, to sign a 17yo to a contract longer than three years: https://playerstatus.thefa.com/support/solutions/articles/80001135188-process-to-contract-or-loan-a-player If Saints could've got him signed up for more years on a lower pay deal, they absolutely would have

I had the same thought too, so we can be nerds together at least. Clubs usually have to declare 'alternate' shorts up front and I guess you wouldn't swap the lighter blue away shorts in with our home kit! Home and third being interchangeable makes sense

https://twitter.com/saintsextra/status/1950814667170848937?s=46&t=f0hgNyKSvvOD5qjGLJhsXQ

£4m loan fee and 100% salary picked up, apparently

Kind of, but it speaks to a point someone made on here too where you can almost get your money back on young talent if you sign them and they don't work out, because somebody else will take a punt on realising the potential. I think we paid £10m in 2022, so we're three years down the line, he's not what the manager wants and we're getting somewhere around £7.5m back for him, with another two years left on the contract In terms of book value, amortisation and PSR (which there will be someone else on here who can explain far better than my pretty basic understanding) that isn't damaging. So when you mix these sales with the likes of Lavia, Livramento, Dibling (soon, presumably) then it does work out financially Won't catch me disagreeing with this bit!

Good return, I think

Little to no loss, he just isn't good enough. Glad to see us clearing a forward/wide player out, hopefully we can get a new pair of wingers in