revolution saint

Edozie?

Yeah, his work off the ball was his (apparent) strength. My favourite damned by faint praise phrase is "does the simple things well". Yep, that's what we need - someone so limited they manage to turn basic competency into an achievement.

If you look at what I actually wrote, I didn't say there would definitely be motivation issues. I said I'd be concerned there could be. I was pretty clear that I wasn't being definitive about that. Fuck me there's some dense people around.

So he didn't initially turn us down then?

Classic Saintsweb strawman argument. At least about the motivation issue - people expressed concern over his potential motivation. They haven't moaned about it and you've just made that up. Presume you said the same when we signed Lemina?

Isn't the choice between good footballers who want to be here and good footballers who don't though?

Which is why I said I'd be a bit concerned about motivation rather than making a categorical judgement. Could be great, could be crap but definitely something that would need to be looked at carefully.

The point was you could end up with a player who has aspirations above the championship who joins because he doesn't have any better options and then goes through the motions. Off the top of my head some examples of players who joined but couldn't really give much of a toss about being here except for the money are ABK, Maitland Niles, Orsic, Salisu, Lemina. If you believe the initial reports then his first reaction was fuck off. Doesn't exactly scream come and get me, does it? Not all players will react in the same way but definitely need to do their homework on attitude and whether he'd be worth it after 6 months and the reality of championship football kicks in.

He looks quite good. Bit concerned about motivation though - sounds like the guy wants more than just a move to the championship.

I reckon it'd be really funny to kid Eddie Howe into thinking he's signing Ramsdale only to swap him out for Ryan Fraser at the last minute.

We were linked back in May with Daniel Peretz. He's joined Hamburg on loan now but wouldn't surprise me if we found someone similar on loan.

Definitely don't see us signing another CB even if THB also goes. Presume you're expecting THB to go for 28.5 - 33.5M now? Good work if we get that.

Chat GPT can fuck off.

I definitely see the argument in having some cover because, as we've seen this week, no one has stepped up into either the AM or right wing role in their absence. It would be cover though because I can't see us having the luxury of bringing someone in that would be a better first choice. Interesting that we're complaining about creativity this pre-season when neither have played much in the roles we're talking about. This argument is predicated on the assumption both stay which is probably unlikely. So, in that case, yeah, we need to get some players in that are better than the understudies we currently have. That's a fair argument. Better than Fernandes and Dibling just doesn't seem either likely or feasible.

Robinson left, Dibling right - both seem to be their natural positions.