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Can anybody clarify about purchases using friends and family ? Once your membership number has been used by a linked account to buy for the pompey game, the tickets then become unavailable to you. But does that ticket eventually show as a purchase on your account if it was actually bought by a linked family/friend account ?

And they might think that if all else fails they will be adequate at least. Makes you wonder why they didn't offer Lumley a new deal, as AR was likely to go, and Baz can likely be loaned out again if we do get a new first choice in , and JL is a perfectly good 3rd keeper at this level.

Can’t be right, he loves the ( our ) club. I’m sure I read that. Anyway, £4m sounds like one year of repayments of the fee we paid, so just getting him off the books really ? Which was as good as it was going to get I suppose.

David Brooks would look a good fit , esp if AA goes which he seems to want to . At least he did in the Jan window. I suspect that AA is one of those that the manager referred to as wanting away . Others on the “ want away” list might be Ramsdale ( obviously) Aribo, Janny B , Sugawara given his lack of involvement , THB ? anybody got a decent quesstimate of how much cash we still need to raise this summer ? We must still need a decent chunk of cash inwards, maybe £30m ? We must have reckoned on a big fee for one of Dibling or MF, plus recouping the fees and wages for Ramsdale and THB ?

Yes, but the difference is that Downs is less of a known quantity at this stage. Hopefully Downs will be great , and better than Adams. but either way, Adams would significantly improve the attack right now.

Che Adams would improve this side immediately, and significantly. we looked disjointed and badly lacking in confidence up front today.

He moved to RB during the game against Liverpool at home and did a decent job I thought

or Stephens at RB ? ( where he might do a decent job IMO, at least as cover.)

I thought I saw a comment from somebody authoritative that he wanted to go out on loan for the second half of last season.

Thought he did quite well in very difficult circumstances at the back end of last season, but we’d be mad to turn this sort of money down when half of the fee should he able to secure a top championship quality replacement.

Beth Gibbons was very good I thought.

With Mbeumo seemingly valued at around £60/65 m, I wonder if transfer fees may be at a bit of a ( possibly temporary) plateau. I would have thought that he might have been valued somewhat higher ?

A couple of properly senior pros ( late 20's early 30s) are always useful for younger players to learn from. Fraser might be useful for this as I think he want to go into coaching (?) but I would say we are a bit lacking in that regard. But doubtless the priority will be the three new players they want to bring in and shifting surplus squad players.

I was at the jnfamous “Tear Gassed in Turin” game against Belgium in 1980 My only trip abroad to watch England.Got out of Turin the following day. We were used to trouble at games in those days, but I had seen enough. Great goal by Ray Wilkins though.

When we bought him back we blew a big chunk of money that we received as an option on potential building land Jackson’s Farm at Hedge End I think. I wonder what happened to that land as a Saints asset ?