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Wait until the Ryder Cup starts in a few weeks and there’s morons in MAGA hats shouting ‘Get in the Hole!’ at De Chambreau teeing off on a par 5.

The agent is encouraging Tyler seemingly to hit the roof (boom boom).

Robins is doing some good business, top 10 this year, not quite play offs.

I was responding to Nic’s post starting with ‘Surely you meant’ who was responding to yours.

There’s certainly a keenness at the club to recover some money on Gavin as an asset, but also there’s a practical risk element around how much budget Still has to bring in another central midfielder, two/three wide players and a couple of #10s. Working on the basis there of THB staying and TD/MF both leaving. If he wants a couple of standout £8-15m bracket players as replacements to re-invest, assuming we get top coin for those two above, rather than SR £5m kiddie projects, then he might opt to take more of a risk in the keeping department if THB stays to get his higher shortlist wide player/midfield targets. That’s the trade he may have made with Spors and Dragan. Time will tell if it pays off. We’ve all done it at work when we’ve got a budget, you prioritise where to re-invest with most impact. His comments suggest someone like Ryan coming in as competition to me on a free and medium wages so Gavin won’t have the untouchable status he enjoyed under Martin. Ditto Smallbone and others. Jack Stephens - don’t know. Had the feel of a Chairman decision to me.

Nic is the ex-pat in SE Asia I thought. Soggy is in Kent, was Maidstone but now Romney Marsh?

Donley going to Stoke on loan https://www.spurs-web.com/spurs-news/jamie-donley-is-set-to-join-a-tottenham-teammate-on-loan-in-the-championship

Quite, the guy was a lethal mental health timebomb who should have been cuddling a pineapple in a padded secure unit somewhere and would have been if the bark hadn’t been stripped from the trees in terms of mental health care and monitoring potentially dangerous patients. True of Nottingham too. And in the Southport case, the killer was born here anyway!

I suppose the phrase ‘When in Rome’ can be extended to ‘When in Thailand’…

I come off the M5 regularly to go to Malvern and see their stadium (Worcester’s) just off that junction. They’ve re-started the rugby club in the Championship but a tortuous process to get there even with new owners. Quite a big stadium too and weird to see it there not used. EFL and PL are a shambles with due diligence - witness the mess with Saints and Gao - and much stronger powers to take clubs into admin and out of the hands of shysters to preserve them even if they drop a division or so in the process. Wednesday are another case in point. Call me cynical, but I can’t see a football regulator being a panacea.

Typical Rupert, I remember that quote, what a cunt that man (Lowe) is. Enjoyed watching him, direct and good change of pace. Not sure why it didn’t work out at Villa, on paper should have been a Graham Taylor player. Bit of a hot reception in one of the early SMS games, IIRC Delap got sent off for us after an incident with Hassan and Dion Dublin was then sent off for them for barely touching heads with one of our players. Another game that fat little Steve Dunn lost control of.

Fine for PL back up, less so for regular starter.

Yeah, at least one more box to box midfielder as well as a #10 and couple of wide players needed. Smallbone can’t cut it physically in a two and I have a feeling Still is quicker on the uptake than Martin about this. Aribo in the Champ a bit more but he’s off.

Still there https://mill-inn-withington.co.uk Northleach isn’t far from there which is also very nice. Didn’t buy there as most of the houses had oil-powered heating.

Assuming the club don’t sign Ryan or someone to compete with him, the derby is an acid test. If he fucks up in that, even the supportive posts dry up. It’ll be like Steve Baker was after the 1988 game, shipped down the leagues paid off at the first opportunity. If he gets through that unscathed, and no major bloopers by October, we can probably say that he’s turned a corner. LONG way to go yet though.

KWP worked out alright though. And however Spors turns out, he can’t be as much of a mug as *Rupert Lowe *aside from the residents of Great Yarmouth He doesn’t live that far from either of us if you know where Withington is?

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.