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In financial terms it's a pretty shrewd signing too. For £7m and the sort of salary he is on, if he has one good scoring season he becomes great value and would sell for 2/3 times that amount - and if things go the other way and we go down, he's the sort of player (like Arma) who can help get you back up without too much threat of losing him (unless he has a great season)

Agree, I expect we’ll sign five more. There’s enough rumours and positions being discussed at the moment to hit that mark, especially with the loan market given we’ve not used any loan slots yet

FT: Montpellier 1-3 Saints

He threw himself down because he didn't get the throw-in, incredibly

To be fair to Sekou, he scored a penalty the other day and the other club folded so he was probably feeling guilty about doing it again

Sekou Mara with one of the worst penalties I have ever seen

Penalty to Saints again, Sam Amo taken down this time

Another set of subs on Saints team - 63 mins: McCarthy; Bree, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Manning; Alcaraz, Charles, O'Brien-Whitmash; Amo-Ameyaw, Mara, Robinson

3-1 THB

Flynn Downes booked, meaning he has now been shown a yellow card in both of the training camp games

Saints - second half: McCarthy; Sugawara, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Taylor; Smallbone, Downes, Aribo; Amo-Ameyaw, Mara, Edozie

I remember when they put that out at the time. Usually I watch that sort of thing with a new coach and sell myself on them, even if I didn't love the appointment. After that I just thought the guy made me think of a school PE teacher. Pretty surprised they actually put it out

Ronnie Edwards with a THB style ball over the top

HT: Montpellier 0-2 Saints

2-0 Dibling

Smallbone, Downes, Aribo all playing well, some really nice stuff. Unfortunately the wide forwards seem to kill the moves as soon as they get involved and there’s no natural striker

Sounded like Matt Gill was gonna give himself an aneurysm with the way he was shouting at Kamaldeen about his positioning

Fucking hell, McCarthy

How's Edozie managed that

I knew Sulemana was gonna miss the initial penalty

Penalty to Saints, Edozie brought down

Ha, yeah. I guess there will be a late rush of people to the Saints stream when they realise they can't actually see the FB stream from Montpellier I actually don't mind paying £5 for a good quality stream of a game. I've worked in this space before and it's not free to fly a media team out there, buy and maintain good quality camera equipment, cover the overheads on the tech side and pay the freelance commentator etc A fiver is not much for two hours of any sort of entertainment (please nobody send Alex Le Tissier's OnlyFans again)