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Record in Portugal now running the story too https://x.com/record_portugal/status/1824897812074512658?s=46&t=f0hgNyKSvvOD5qjGLJhsXQ

A Bola in Portugal reporting that we’ve agreed a €19m deal for Sporting midfielder Mateus Fernandes https://x.com/sporting_cpadep/status/1824895441445834952?s=46&t=f0hgNyKSvvOD5qjGLJhsXQ

Giving McCarthy the contract to cover for this season wasn't the mistake. It's the fact he's starting. I guess we are playing the long game with getting the GK we want before the window shuts

Played well there. Tough defeat, would've taken a 1-0 beforehand for sure but with the way the game went, that's grating

Honestly think he's another who needs to just go on loan to a middle of the road team, nothing to play for, and just start every week. Like a Bristol City or a Stoke type side

Downes for me. KWP and Aribo also very, very good so far

Not sure how he decided this was the guy to try and pass to in this situation

Yuki looks class

About time we got better at the dark arts. We'll need it. Fuck them

Every single stream I open seems to be awful?

If, in our ideal world, we get O'Riley and then have three midfield spots for six central players: O'Riley, Downes, Ugochukwu, Smallbone, Aribo, Lallana - then like you, I'd feel more comfortable and still think Smallbone would get enough minutes for us to figure out if he's viable in the PL beyond this season. Would definitely still look to bring in another crafty attacking midfielder as I share some of the same reservations here, much as I'd love to see him rise to it and prove he's capable

I thought this might be an unusual transfer window but a Sekou Mara bidding war takes the biscuit

Wait until Liverpool find out that Adam Lallana got relegated to League 1 at the same age

Cameron Archer's contract runs to the summer of 2028

Russell Martin says everything was completed in time for him to be available for selection immediately

Official:

Contract is until 2028.

Strange. A lot of what I saw was saying he worked really hard, pressed a lot, didn't have the best all-round game but was a quick and twitchy finisher who gets a lot of power in tight spaces

Think this will get clamped down on now. With digital tickets, the club will be able to work out who has purchased for them and is getting them into the ground and it'll be faster/easier to issue warnings and potentially block purchases moving forward for people who are found to not be using their season ticket / match ticket and giving it to oppo fans. They have also said that for certain big games they even have the possibility of disabling ticket transfers to emails that aren't already in the system or just disabling ticket transfers and the ticket exchange altogether for those types of fixtures

Che and Archer are both just under 6ft