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Yeah, the squad is mediocre and bar Ramsdale Fernandes and Dibling I’d be fine with selling any of them to be honest.

That’s like not breaking up with a bad girlfriend because you’re worried you’ll never find better. Edozie is mediocre, he has had 3 years to find form and never really did. We should take all the cash we can get for these middling squad players

He had a very good chance of moving upwards towards another Premier League side after the relegation season if he had just put his head down and done his best. I can’t fathom why he acts the way he does.

Ipswich, Leicester (I don't believe they'll suffer as much as others do), Sheffield United, Birmingham and ourselves are all contenders for automatics. I also think that Norwich will be up there if they somehow keep their best players. Bristol City I believe will fall away this year.

He was loaned to a Premier League team in West Ham last year, what makes you think Brighton would 1) loan him to a weaker league 2) just give him away if we got promoted? He's a pretty hot prospect still at age 20.

I mean, nitpicking, we shouldn't be pushing for the Premier League at all costs. We need to do so in a financially stable way whilst avoiding purchasing players that could easily become deadwood later. We already have a decent core to push for promotion, even if it does require a bit of downsizing. Also, he's had 2 seasons of senior football. Even if it was only one, is he really 'untried'? 'Untried' was Shea Charles with literally one league appearance as a sub for Man City at the time of us purchasing him. A good scouting team is one that can identify players ready to make the step up. We don't have the status or finances to grab players just after they've exploded with success. We have to get them one step earlier.

Linden Kemkaran of Reform has decided that trans books are to be removed from children’s libraries in Kent. This is a sad day. I was an early pioneer of trans books back in my school days, where my progressive mates and I used to read them regularly. On the outside there was a thick encyclopedia hardcover, and on the inside scantily clad women.

The league is much stronger at the top end than when we were promoted.

He's a good kid. I don't know if he'll ever be suitable for the physicality of the English leagues, so I believe the best case scenario is that he absolutely smashes it this season and a La Liga side picks him up next summer.

Only the version of Armstrong who isn't a centre striker. I think our wings could do with a bit of fluffing up perhaps but I think we'll be okay in the middle.

That Olympiakos strip is lovely.

I always wonder if our poor recent history gives a bit of a smokescreen for young players who have underperformed to get decent moves out. We've finished 20th, 4th, 20th in the last three years so I wonder if that makes clubs think "he's not gotten good service from teammates", "suffered from a lack of stability", "not given a good environment to develop" etc. leading to them taking a chance on players like Mara. Players that although they are still young have not shown anything special whilst here.

Potential Armstrong replacement?

Ah, I forgot that all these preseason (or postseason?) competitions kicked off basicially straight away... Well, hope he doesn't relax too much!

Puma’s quality hasn’t really impressed me thus far. I don’t tend to buy kits though except for special seasons where we win something. It’s been quite a while…

That is horrific news, he was a star. Condolences to his family.

Hopefully he’ll get a run out for the Eastleigh game. Maybe at 80 minutes when we’re 6-0 up? 😁

Thanks Eni Aluko

Cheers Juric. That's everyone from that disastrous January 2023 window gone now. (Well, except Bree, but he was relatively cheap.)

Fair enough, £7 million is a lot less than it used to be. Hopeful that Downs can start well then, Bundesliga 2 is a good league to be blooded in. Also hopeful that BBD can be shipped out. Archer, don’t mind giving him a crack this season, I think he will get a decent return.

The last few years have been fraught with forward deals especially falling through at the end of the window. He may not be the 15 goals per season in the Championship striker a lot of us were hoping for, but yep, credit for getting it done as soon as possible.

That's a considerable amount of money at this level. Let's hope he kicks on relatively quickly.

Wonder if Ramsdale would be more likely to stay if his mate was here? (Conpletely delusional)

Am I correct in saying that players will be able to walk away from the club now? Combined with their transfer embargo, dire times lie ahead for them.

Saints app has just sent me a notification. I open it and a video of a magic 8 ball shaking plays. At the end it says “No Doubt About It” with a date of 3/7. So we’re signing Errol Brown’s ghost on Thursday?