trousers

We won't know the impact of a 'quiet' window until March/April time. So I'll wait until then rather than making an arbitrary "glad to have been proven wrong in hindsight" or "told you so" guess now. Call me old fashioned.

According to reports, we HAVEN'T met the release clause. Rather, we've supposedly negotiated a lower fee that Spartak are happy with but on the condition they get a replacement. Hence the stalemate.

Or perhaps we could sign this Hanni fella instead, if he's any good?

Sounds like Spartak are simply holding out for Saints to meet the terms of the buy out clause... i.e. all the dosh up front. The fact they appear to have negotiated a more palatable deal (from Saints perspective) looks like a smokescreen to me. In other words, looks like Spartak wanted to lead Saints to believe that a compromise deal could be reached but all along knew they could hold out for the full whack knowing how keen/desperate we are to sign him. Just reading between the lines. The question is.... Do we have a 'spare' £35m sitting in the bank that would allow us to go down the buy out clause route. We didn't get £75m up front for VvD, did we?

And I thought my maths was bad....

Ah... My memory is well and truly shot to pieces in that case! Ignore me

Feels a bit weird having a match on the evening of transfer deadline day. Has that ever happened before?

Yep, 17th March... Quarter Finals weekend

Tonight we're 2 points off the bottom, but tomorrow we could be 2 points off the top half of the table. Funny old game.

3-1 Flippin eck

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Get in Liverpool!

Have we not started with Tadic-Boufal-Redmond in the same line up before? (No, I'm not for one moment suggesting Redmond is as good as Promes, just highlighting that it may not be unprecedented us starting with 3 attacking midfielders?)

I've fluctuated between both 'stick' and 'twist' over the last few months. I'm currently in a 'stick' frame of mind, as I think there are signs that we *may* have turned the corner in recent games. Of course, that may all change if we fail to pick up at least 4 points in the next two games....

The very same game where a point each contributed to us being promoted and the now extinct Football Club that used to play at Fratton Park being relegated. Happy days indeed

Just watching those.... can't believe its nearly 10 years ago.... must be getting old

Source?

Can't the club take out a 36 month 0% credit card, pay Spartak up-front and pay the balance back to the CC company over 3 years. Well, that's what I did for my new boiler a couple of years ago....

WTF? There's a release clause? Who knew?!!

Hasn't it been suggested he has a release clause in his contract? So, if we satisfy the release clause then it doesn't matter how keen they are to keep him, does it? (Edit: Trousers....read previous posts before asking the same question that several others have already asked, you clot!)

What if he gets knocked down by a bus walking to the gym?

That period of the game where we seem to concede most goals...?