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That's a key observation for me too. The irony is that the constant churn of players, to avoid contracts running down, has actually served us well since we returned to the premier league. The goal to have more players on longer term contracts has possibly backfired. The aim was to achieve stability but stability could actually be our enemy... For 'stability' read 'complacency'... (Cue the "told you so" brigade...) The previous churn of players actually keeps everyone on their toes (from the boardroom to the players) and keeps things fresh rather than stale. Les, Krueger and co obviously see stability as a good thing....but perhaps it was the 'instability' that was keeping us competitive all along...? (Caveat: just thinking out loud so I could be talking a load of old tosh )

2pm tomorrow I would guess

It's almost like 2012 all over again.... https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?39463-Transfer-window-bump-back-to-earth#.WmBnSqhl_dM

Hacked off that he's not been getting many chances at Chelsea this season and pushing for a loan move, so probably not in the best state of mind and/or match fit state? Similar demeanor to Gabbiadini recently I guess.

Yep... And he's just scored vs Norwich.... Let's do this Mr Reed....

This

Interesting first post in 3 years... #ITKwatch

Indeed, which is why I caveated my somewhat tongue-in-cheek post

[MLG mode]At the end of October we were top half of the table and 3 points behind 6th place Liverpool... [/MLG mode] (I know, I know.... stats blah blah stats...)

Fair point. Maybe they'll hang fire on rubber stamping the Carrillo deal until just after the Spurs game. Who knows (certainly not me!)

If that's a club-fed line then it signals to me that they'll wield the axe after the Spurs game, assuming that ends in a heavy defeat...

Any idea when in March? Could be the difference between him missing 6 more games or 10 more. Cheers

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42715223

I've actually cut down.... ....from 783 visits a day to 496

Wasn't that 'Morph'? https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/member.php?1485-Morph

With his good friend "Dalian Wanda"? Where's Richmond Saint when we need him?

Chomp chomp chomp

Thinking out loud..... If Theo is definitely keener to come here than Everton (in principle), is there not scope for coming up with some kind of deal whereby he comes here on loan until the end of the season and then automatically becomes a permenant deal if/when we stay up. Isn't that a win-win for both us and Theo? (I also can't see it being a 'bad' deal for Arsenal either as they can still sell him elesewhere in the summer if we get relegated.... unless his value drops in the meantime but can't see how it would do so significantly)

So he doesn't think he's good enough to help turn our season around....?* (*asked rhetorically with tongue firmly in cheek as I know the response to the question is: "yeah, but it doesn't matter how good the players are when we've got a manager who doesn't exploit their strengths")

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/theo-walcott-undergo-everton-medical-11859888

Agree that it would have to be Hojbjerg as things stand

It might work a bit like this...? (benefit of the doubt and all that malarkey )

Do we know why he's only played one game for Celtic this season?

McCarthy Cedric - Hoedt - Stephens - Bertrand Romeu - Lemina - Hojbjerg Boufal - Tadic Long Bench: Forster, Bednarek, Pied, JWP, Davis, Sims, Gabbiadini (assumes Yoshida is still injured) Result 2-2 (Long, Sims) Meanwhile, back on planet Earth....