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If only this was happening in the days where everyone had a camera on their phone which enabled them to take quick snapshots for posting on internet football forums...

What if we break the bank but still end up being relegated?

Maybe we don't have a spare £35m sitting in the bank and we'd have to break our 'living within our means' operating model to make this deal happen?

What would be the point of protesting before we know what the impact of a quiet window will be on our ability to avoid relegation? We won't know the impact of this window on our fortunes for several weeks. I'd rather protest if/when relegation becomes a certainly rather than make an arbitrary guess that a quiet window = certain relegation. I accept that not adding more quality to the team doesn't increase our chances of survival on paper, but fans creating a volatile and negative atmosphere at matches isn't exactly going to improve our chances, I would venture.

Welcome to the only internet forum that doesn't have any trolls or wind up merchants. It's a veritable haven of pragmatism and non-reactionary thinking.

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Source? Interesting first post btw....

Source? Cheers

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?)