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We could extend the contract unilaterally up to a certain age but IIRC that stops next summer?

They’d probably be unrelated transactions other than Saints accepting Spurs bid as the highest presuming Tyler wanted to go there. *MLG mode deactivated

Big risk though. With 12 months left, even with a strong season this year, his value would be £20m tops. Whether SR buy a lot of pet project garbage with some of the £45m is another story…

Donley on loan, although someone said Mason at WBA is in for him.

The reason I suspect Newcastle is that Everton are getting pushed higher and higher - and that’s not Levy’s style. Newcastle are also frustrated at missing out in several ‘name’ creative players and forwards, so they might opt to buy their own. They’ve liked Tyler ever since that youth cup game up there. Spurs have just lost Maddison and Son in one weekend so Levy might do something rash.

My prediction is based on whether Flynn is fit and can give us at least an hour. If he can, we will win (which will feel weird after the void season of 24/25). Him and Charles combined should dominate midfield. If not, a nervy 1-1.

Could it be an Everton or Spurs logo stealing Dibling away from them? Or maybe it’s their turn to nick in ahead of Everton? In the 1980s, it was the scousers who did the nicking.

Yeah, I reckon there’s other clubs in play. Possibly Spurs after Maddison’s injury which looked very bad and ACL-like. But others as well which is good if Levy is in the picture. Newcastle wouldn’t surprise me.

Curtis Davies a glaring reminder of what we hadn’t bought and the need for a takeover. Hajto king of the yellow card in the Bundesliga didn’t cut it by comparison.

Mid-table and then around March and a hammering at Sheff Utd we looked set for consecutive relegations. Fuller then returned from loan with a brace v Cardiff (won the game but several landlords left with the evidence of a Soul Crew visit - they were beered up and well up for trouble) and under George Beerley we finished top half with a strong finish and some good loan players eg Chaplow.

Quite - I can’t see it. And he won’t be PL-ready until October having missed pre-season. Might get away with it by Sept in the Champ. If you’re spending that fee, for most PL clubs bar 3 or 4, that’s a starter.

The bowling is a quandry for the Ashes. I’d be tempted to use Archer lightly in the SA white ball series, Wood will have recovered but at 35 can he still bowl mid-90s? Woakes may retire if that’s a broken shoulder which it looks like. Overton looked rusty after little cricket for Surrey. Tongue looked both Dog and Duck and world class in his spells. Did a job on their tail more than once though. Cook looked 5-10mph short of troubling Test players. Atkinson taking the new ball in Perth barring a mishap is a certainty. How much can Stokes bowl in the winter? Dawson didn’t help himself not switching out of white ball mode at OT and then fielding at the Oval. Bashir probably starts but looked innocuous this summer.

Of those clubs, only Everton or West Ham could stump up around £35m for what Saints would want, because the Dibling and Fernandes sales will relieve any financial pressure. Palace can afford it and European football, but is CB a priority to strengthen for them?

Wouldn’t surprise me if Donley ends up being a very late loan although the Maddison suspected ACL and Son might put paid to that.

He’s only been there a season and I mean no disrespect to them, but it’s also Brentford… Mind you, they will actually invest in players, but then you can with the Man U money burning a hole in their pocket. Wissa was having a meltdown last I saw about Newcastle’s £25m turned down. Big test for a very green manager.

Incorrect https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/farage-reform-zia-yusuf-party-b2765699.html I accept your apology for being a prick. Zia Yusuf isn’t perfect himself either https://nation.cymru/news/robert-jenrick-accuses-zia-yusuf-in-antisemitic-tweet-row/

Depends what the clubs aim is. If it’s stability finishing 8th-14th on the fringes of the play-offs, if Gavin has improved, then yes, he probably is. But to go from the worst keeper at this level to being good enough for top 2, at worst top 6, that would be a huge risk for the club to take. They are daft enough to take it going on SR’s track record.

That is one of most shocking business decisions, let alone a football one, I’ve ever seen. Dragan really should have sacked both the member of staff who pushed for it and the one who signed it off without proper or any due diligence. In total with the promotion clause it cost £10m plus whatever the wages and bonuses have been. Who lets their employees throw away £15m+ wantonly like that? They were incredibly lucky Che’s move to Wolves didn’t get over the line.

That’s more like it, the summer injury on his ankle is an irritating factor for buying clubs as he’d be playing catch up at PL level and he didn’t have a very good campaign last year in spite of what his potential might be thought to be. So if their first choice centre half does their ACL opening day of the season, THB isn’t going to be able to step in and hit the ground running as an immediate replacement. Throw in that we already paid £20m and City have sell on, length of contract, so right now, buying clubs don’t think he’s worth north of £30m. And they are probably right.

They’ll look at how it’s healed but yes, essentially medical have proportional risk built into them. Hence Ross Stewart and Sofaine Boufal were signed but in both cases their time at Saints never really got going because they’d effectively missed pre-seasons so that risk element comes in again. You’d have to look at their overall fitness pattern over a few years to work out what is one-off injury and what is a body not able to cope with the demands of the Premier League.

https://www.twtd.co.uk/ipswich-town-news/49966/mckenna-hutchinson-not-mentally-in-right-place-for-france-trip

I agree but without that ton England would be nowhere near.

It would seem so https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/25360763.middlesbrough-midfielder-hayden-hackney-turns-move-ipswich/

If he stops breaking fingers on the eve of Tests. In fact, he was the original choice for the NZ at #3.

Lots of broken TV sets when an ethnic minority face comes on screen.