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As if on cue Armenie football reporting Athletico Madrid have enquired about Spertsyan. Think we can officially file this in the Gakpo transfer realm.

Sadly reckon this deal is deader than a dead thing. Krasnador seem to have no interest in selling to us and I suspect assume they will be able to convince him to sign a new contract if they can hold on to him before the end of the month. Sure I've seen it mentioned that we've actually offered him a salary less than his current wage albeit with a pay rise if we go up. Shame looks a real talent!

Pretty sure this guy is where Armenie football gets his information from. If the guy wants the transfer he’s going to have to fight for it. Have strong doubts that will happen.

Read an account last night which suggested the Russians won’t want to sell to a “lesser” / not top division side as it makes losing their best player look worse to their fans. Sounds as though they will likely not sell to us regardless of our offer and the player will not push the transfer out of loyalty to the side. If so what a complete mess surely we find this sort of info out before spending so much time on one player. As others have suggested a deadline seems like the best solution.

Another utterly awful game vs Surrey tonight. Never really in the game. Fuller going for loads of runs again and still feel like we’re a batter short in that line up.

Met Tahar El Khalej in sports soccer buying the new boots he used to kick Nathan Dyer. Probably everyone of a certain vintage met Le Tissier, Fernandes, Lundekvam and Tessem in Jumping jaks! 😜

Would be a bit disappointing if true, seemingly more evidence of Goztepe getting the best out of our current set up. https://sportwitness.co.uk/player-could-leave-just-after-signing-for-southampton-arrived-on-friday-exit-possible/

Worst link story of the summer? Haha Fernandes, Sule and Tall Paul linked to Goztepe hahahahaha https://sportwitness.co.uk/sport-republic-could-look-to-get-deal-done-for-three-southampton-players/

Aren’t Brighton getting rid of their scouts to be replaced by AI? Perhaps we should just employ them? Seem to find a fair few decent players in the price bracket we seem tied to.

Absolutely agree with this. We don’t play a style that aids any of our players. Juric is no better than Martin in that he plays a style that he obviously likes even when we play worse with it. Aribo and Smallbone as a starting CM pairing in the prem was the end of the afternoon for me.

Arguably we did. We left an in form player at Burnley who subsequently decided he didn’t fancy coming back to us. If he could have carried that form into our side perhaps we’d have seen a different outcome.

Said similar about KS and how he hadn’t been fit. Think we’ve all thought the same about this squad under RM. Perhaps we feel we were burned letting Tella stay the whole season when perhaps we should have recalled him in Jan and used him in our last relegation season?

Judging by how Stewart defended crosses against Ipswich I don’t think he’d add a lot. its time for the tower. Give the people what they want. We can hardly get any worse.

BBD and Archer as your first and 2nd choice strikers stinks of relegation. How BBD didn’t even hit the target with his late chance I do not know. Dibling again excellent and we seem to have the start of playing ok but the divving about at the back and lack of quality up front will kill us.

But for being able to bowl out Kent last week and , was it Warks? Earlier in the year we could be celebrating a Championship today despite not really getting started until about 4 games in!

“We don’t need to score we’ve got your back four!”?

Think he has been worse than poor so far. No threat to the goal. Poor weight of pass and limited quality of first touch. Not helped by the tactics but his shithousery levels need to be backed up by being actually half decent.

Looks like Ipswich have probably brought themselves a little PSR issue in the next two seasons if they don’t stay up. Not sure how sellable their buys will be.

Youth teamer by the sounds of it.

Did anything come of the two Brazilian strikers or did that die off early? Hypothetically if we were to go back in Jan is either worth signing? Is the Brazilian league much good?

Feels like the perfect time for HR to start typing up their 11:15 lament about how difficult it is to conclude transfers during the summer window and how we’ve tried really hard but we’re fully behind Russell and feel like we will be ultra competitive with our bestest squad ever TM.

Perhaps but he went up a level from Sunderland not from top to bottom with us haha! Hopefully a deal can be done ✔️

Surely Ramsdale isn’t up for setting his career back as much as coming to us?! Arsenal 1st choice 40 games ago to relegation fighter?!

The only worry I have with this wait and consolidate business is that if in two years we’ve squeaked by staying up just about it’s a hell of a hard sell to get anyone decent to sign for us! hopefully a few sales this week will see us being able to spend a bit!

Lot of dross in amongst that, far too much for a club of our size to continually cope with. So long as we stay in the “punt/bargain” bucket we’ll struggle to do well over any period of time in the premier league.