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The commentator for the u18 game at St Mary's a few days ago said that it was the Kingsland

Indeed, although Arsenal couldn't have given him more time and space if they'd tried

Highest we can finish this game week now is 5th

Yep, I was just editing my post with the same sentiments

Bugger #vardy p.s. surely the defender has to take one for the team there given how close it was to the end of the game?

One suspects Dave might go with his often used shortened name...

Well, that's the table starting to look more 'normal' then... Although can't remember the top 10 ever looking that condensed before after 10 games

Booing players that 'take the knee'...?

This fella or the other one?

Have seen a fair few people raving about him in social media land over the last few months. An outside bet for a place on the first team bench sometime this season perhaps?

Romance

Fair point 👍

So, N'Lundulu in the B team confirms that Ings will be in the first team squad...?

Ings on the bench I reckon

Interesting theory!

Wow, a haunting and enthrawling interview. A very lucky chap.

Yep...I don't think there's any coincidence that the club have upped the stakes just before the January transfer window as that's when his value will be at his peak in his current contract cycle. Wait until the summer and we'd get significantly less I reckon. In other words, I wouldn't be overly surprised if we let him go in January to maximise the profit. Of course, the downside of that is that a replacement will be much harder to secure in January compared to the summer.... (having said all that, now cue Ings new contract accouncement next week!) edit: actually, has he got one or two years left on his contract next summer? If two years then maybe there won't be such a differential between January and August. (I was thinking maybe he only had a year to go after next summer)

Agree. The fact that Ralph / the club have gone high-profile public with this suggests to me that we're in last-throw-of-the-dice territory. If Ings really wanted to stay then I'm pretty convinced that a deal would have been done and dusted before it got to this stage.