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Agree with that. Navy shorts, and we're on to a winner.

Will keep an eye on results. I lived in France for a period and enjoyed a fair bit of French football, I'm surprised to see the likes of Amiens & Bastia dropping down in to National. I was just reading about the switch to professionalism at that level, it seems the financial rules laid down by the football association are pretty tight. Wage to revenue being only 60% from 2027 and then 40% in 2029? Surely that will result in teams operating on a semi professional level rather than fully pro.

Exactly this. He'll be banned for the season, no doubt the EFL will find some more points to take off us too.

That deal is mental. Can see why so many clubs didn't bother coming back to the table...

Not fussed about Ballard. Really can't see him making the step up to Championship standard yet, personally if he has another good season then maybe he's worth a look at but even then I can't see a top 10 side buying him. I watched him a few times in those loan spells before the Orient move and he was gash.

Wouldn't want to emulate the blue few who managed to lose to...ahem...Aldershot a few days ago.

Castore has the marketing & distribution rights for Umbro though, which allows them to manage the designs etc and judging by the amount of complaints they receive for poor service. I don't think that's a good thing..

Doesn't really matter with SCR, the owners can only put in a certain amount over X amount of years. What benefits the most to clubs is additional revenue, so St Mary's being used for concerts and events helps along with the Dell bar and Level 1.

I still think they'll be in the market for Charles, like you said, they are slowly moving towards a midtable side and even a player like Charles will offer some worth to achieve that.

I can see it being us vs Middlesbrough first game as 'spygate' is still reasonably fresh in the minds. Skates will be the usual early autumn and then towards the spring....Cardiff away Boxing Day.

Nailed it, but it's been going on for years and even we've been guilty of it. If a club promises to pay off the parent's mortgage and some, certainly they are going to push for the lad to end up in West London rather than the south coast..

Back to Scotland I assume. He’ll be able to carve out a few more seasons in the top flight there.

Wright had a solid year with Stanley and one could argue he could make the step up. I'd say Moody needs a season or two out on loan to be suitably assessed.

For me it sounds like something has been agreed in the background for Ramsdale already, probably announced a day or two after the window opens. Long makes sense, has experience at this level and it happy to serve as a back up. The question for me is whether Moody gets promoted into the ranks or heads out on loan.

They should, but if you look at Leeds when they first dropped down. Every club is going to want to do a number on them, and a half empty London Stadium isn't going to help...