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Named in the Ireland squad for their WC qualifiers so won't spend more than a couple of days on the training ground before the south coast derby, annoyingly

Hopefully one of the three bloody centre backs

Boro correspondent for Northern Echo

I think it's a bit like us with Dibling and Fernandes (obviously Azaz's output vs Dibling's output is incomparable) but in terms of, selling Azaz is giving them hope re: Hackney staying Sounds like they also need a few more players but didn't have much in the coffers to get the deals done with, but now they will have

Here's the Boro forum reacting to the news as it broke - see midway on page 4558: https://www.oneboro.co.uk/forum/topic/13565-the-official-summer-transfer-window-202526-season-aka-azaz-a-saint/page/4558/#comments

...seriously?

Azaz is a central player. Guilavogui plays across the front three, primarily off the right

So we've had Damion Downs compared to Sekou Mara having not even played a full game yet and now we're onto comparing Guilavogui to Guly and Lemina before he's even signed for the club

Just getting in before MLG comes in here and tells you that Guilavogui is not a world-beater on FM because his current ability and potential ability statistics are not in the world-beating numerical bands

That's the spirit!

Morgan Guilavogui has agreed personal terms with Saints and didn't participate in Lens training today according to L'Equipe Looks like he is coming in, Lens are just lining up a new signing in parallel by the sounds of the French reports

Yeah, you can certainly tell he spent last season having a good crack with Goztepe rather than being coached by RM and drained of all independent thinking

Come on mate that's no way to talk about BBD on the counter

I'm not sure he is, but what he does do, is play with the intent to drive forward and create opening for others or himself. We have such an absence of that, he stands out like a sore thumb for actually doing it. Need more of that, as WS has said

Bloody hell, is he sending pervy Snapchats to Hampshire school girls too?!

Because they support another team and can see the handballs coming

Head of Recruitment is responsible for organising the heads of scouting, the scouting logistics, arranging and managing the processes and approaches we take, a lot of operational management and presenting options and profiles of interest - the final decision is still taken by the Sporting Director, in accordance with the manager and the exec board to sign off, so I guess that's why Spors was responsible for hiring Lederer, knew he was coming, they've worked together before and they will have been in contact with him before his official start date too, so I'm sure it was pretty joined up in reality

Had quite high hopes for him. He was absolutely hopeless