Matthew Le God

Perhaps they intend to invest to raise the value. We simply don't know, so it is sensible to sit of the fence before writing it off as a disaster before anything has even happened.

He isn't, it is a Premier League rule for all loans.

Not sure why you think that, always comes across as quite bright.

@Turkish I'm puzzled what you think was incorrect in that post. Yet again you are reading things that aren't there. 🙄

Of course you are 🙄

Not by either club it hasn't (yet)

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Why are you surprised that he is?

I agree that is true, but it is irrelevant to my point that him being on the bench shows any off field issues are not preventing him from being used in the squad.

Innocent until proven guilty. Plus given the length of time since the accusations it appears nothing is happening on that front and it may even have been fabricated.

Couldn't the same be applied to any player?

Valery has been on the bench throughout this season and was so again today.

He is going to have a long wait!

Nor does anything Wayne Veysey writes in an article. Football Insider is a click bait website.

How would Williams benefit from being backup at one club to going on loan and being back up at another club? Loans for young players work if there is a good chance of playing, being second fiddle to Ryan Bertrand won't help Man Utd or Williams and blocks Vokins development at Saints.

On what is that based? We haven't got a wage bill as big as ours without players on that kind of salary and bigger. Plus some look to be shifted from the wage bill soon.

1) He hasn't 2) They don't play the same role 3) Hard to see the captain being dropped any time soon, let alone only 4 league games into a season

You are right they should try to sign them if that was the case. But if an improvement on Redmond & Armstrong isn't available then we still need a replacement for Boufal in the squad.

Mick Channon

Redmond and Armstrong are fine for that, they don't particularly need replacing as 1st choice. If Walcott were to rejoin it would be to replace Boufal and join Djenepo as an alternative option.

As a 3rd/4th choice attacking midfielder is it really that bad?