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Other than them both being Chinese, is there any tangible connection between Gao and the owners of Espanyol (Chen Yansheng / Rastor Group)? Maybe that's the key to understanding who or what LD Sports are/were...?

Question: Why haven't there been any official photos of Salisu published yet? Even if he's training on his own, why no photoshoot? In days gone by, we'd have been inudated with new signing photos. Maybe they've been waiting for the kit sponsor debacle to be sorted before snapping him all kitted out? Surely if the club have got time to come up with a glossy "oops, new sponsor" video then they've got time to take a few photos of our new signing, even if that's only some photos of him "doing fitness training away from the squad"? Yours ponderously....

Was just about to post this. I can only guess that Bertrand's age has counted against him. He must be gutted not to make the squad though, especially given Southgate hasn't picked an orthodox left back.

I'm not seeing any squirrels on the sportsbet.io website. Make of that what you will.

Source?

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This is what was said when Salisu was announced on Wednesday 12th August: So, the club we're happy that all the formalities had concluded and Salisu was anticipating coming out of quarantine and start training with the squad "next week" (i.e. last week).

This. If our subscriptions are paying for / contributing to the custodians of this software / platform then why are we continuing to do so if the software / platform isn't fit for purpose? Surely we should be moving to another platform if this one isn't fit for purpose? (P.s. for avoidance of doubt, this isn't a pop at Steve, this is a pop at the software / platform provider that's he's using )

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Would be interesting to see a list of previous 'scholars of the year'. I wonder how many go onto regular first team football vs obscurity...?

I inadvertently scuppered the Dell deal by putting all my research on here only for some scumbag to pedal it as their own on twitter... Once bitten, twice shy. Keeping my cards close to my chest on this one.

Tart (No offence)

Redmond the only 'starting 11' player from last season not there...? Edit: actually, couldn't see JWP either Edit #2: actually, this might be JWP...

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Cheers - was just wondering how convinced he/she was about Friday being the day, given the info he/she had at his/her disposal. But no worries, just me being my usual over-thinking self

I know things can change, but how convinced was your source this time yesterday that something would happen today?

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Fair enough. I just don't see why the reporter wouldn't list the full line up given it wouldn't do any harm to do so. No big deal though.

IIRC, our U23s have never worn sponsored shirts?

Still time

Bit of a bizarre report on the OS... https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2020-08-21/u23s-report-southampton-fc-vs-wycombe-wanderers-friendly-20-21 7 ot the starting 11 get a mention (Jones, Sims, O'Connor, Ferry, N'Lundulu, Slattery & Hesketh) but no definitive line-up summary. Couldn't see any mention of Jankewitz though... Make of that what you will...

Could that simply be down to how McKennie has been told to play by his current manager/coach, rather than him being weaker in that aspect per se? Also, Hojbjerg has a relatively poor pass completion score (although not much lower than McKennie to be fair) so does that mean that most of those 'final 3rd passes' went astray...? Having a relatively high final 3rd passing ranking isn't much cop if said passes don't reach their intended destination (unless I'm mis-reading the stats, which is entirely plausible )

Anyone know if Jankewitz is playing in today's game? Might be something to read between the lines, as far as his senior squad aspirations/credentials are concerned, if he's not been picked for an U23s game...