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Awful weather didn’t help.nobody anywhere near me on the Milton . I think it had rained all afternoon. Looking at the team sheet, we seem to have started with Matty as a lone striker, until Moody replaced Terry Hurlock at HT !!!! Those were the days……..

The game v United in 1974 had 30789 , so not sure why that isn’t on the list. I was there . It was very unpleasantly overcrowded.

For those who were there in the happy days of the mid 70s and our four consecutive league wins over the skates We had joy we had fun we had pompey on the run But the fun didn’t last cos the bastards ran too fast. to the tune of Terry Jacks ( and Brel’s) Seasons in the Sun .

The loan fee looks very reasonable indeed compared to the option to buy , assuming he is even half decent. Or is the “option “ to buy binding in some way, making the loan payment effectively a downpayment ?

Alfie is very good, worth following, as is George Rees-Julian

Not sure if he is the " right kind of winger", and of course the recruitment people know better than me (!!) but I'd choose Edozie over him right now. Of course he may be of similar quality and save us some money, which seems the likely reason for this to happen. Hopefully he'll be great for us......

You'd have to assume that any 4th/5th choice CM isn't going to be much better that Smallbone, so we'll only sell him if we can make good money and replace with a cheap loan. Either that or they will buy a quality CM to add competition for Charles/Downes and hopefully MF , which seems a bit unlikely, but I suppose you never know.

Think Everton will be very pleased with him and the fee. incidentally, what happens to the add ons if Everton sell him before they are triggered ?

So if Matty F, Smallbone and Aribo all leave that leaves us with Matsuki and Sesay as cover for two MF slots. I’d make an assumption that we may want to play 3 in MF at times so we need 5 minimum, and would need at least one , probably 2 senior midfielders to come in ?

And if the other forwards don’t learn from him, there is no hope for them. if he wants to come back it is a no brainer. We have plenty of options to do the running around, but we simply will not find anybody else of his quality.

I bet if we were offered David Brooks on a season loan at a sensible price we’d be happy to take him . Not that he is likely to be available , just as an example.

What we need is a little less conversation....since he clearly isn't way down our hit list.

Looks like replacing Edozie , maybe similar level but making a few million ?

Which might mean having to sell MF at a discount in a hurry unless we can get a great prices for THB . We must have to raise a good chunk of cash this summer .

Re the skates, I doubt we have all that many members for this season, and nobody except members who satisfy the criteria can buy ATM. I'd imagine they will go to season ticket holders and a few other groups ( non members with an away ticket purchase history ?) next. At a guess, the cost of buying pompey, ( not cheap) one of the home games and a membership all together may be putting a few people off.

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.