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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.

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 ?

Seems like a very good plan for our best players. Lavia is the benchmark. We would be mad to take a penny under £50m net for him, and I think we can get more. He is the finished article.

We’d be out of our minds to take £30m. With a 4 year contract and at his age the bidding starts at £50m I would say. And he can get an established PL slot as a starter, and likely a top 6 ( or whatever it is now) and European football. He has a lot of admirers. The only issue would be a low release clause and no bidding war, but can’t see that happening.

I agree We should fight tooth and nail to keep him, which we are going to have to with any of our better players. He'll be pretty much the best CM in the Championship, and we will be very lucky to get anything like his quality for much short of £10m I should think. And we really don't want him going to a rival club either.I wouldn't be surprised if some lower end PL clubs come in for him. The new manager needs to get him onside as a top priority.

The lesson of this season is surely that in order to get back to and thrive in the PL we have to win promotion with a much stronger structure and squad in place. We can't afford to gamble next season away, and in any case , who knows how the league will shape up next season. ( could be another 2X 100 point teams other than us) but if getting things restructured from the current shambles takes more than one year, then that is how it needs to be. Some decisions will need to be taken with a two year view, EG getting some younger players experience at top end Championship level