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On the face of it Archer doesn't have the kind of profile I was hoping for and very similar to Armstrong. I guess BBD could play the more physical role in a two or be the focal point in a three. We'll have to see on that. Haven't really seen enough of Archer to make any kind of judgement. Hopefully has good movement and striker instincts which we've really lacked. Adams definitely didn't have it and lost count of the number of times no one gambled on a near post run to nick in front of the defender. Rest of the proposed deals look reasonable - getting shot of Mara and big Les if it means allowing Charles to go out on loan (especially if it helps with getting a deal done for MOR).

That don't seem right to me. Their transfer record is 17.5M euros. I can see him going there but not for anywhere near that kind of money.

My niece getting into Oxford University.

No, that's not true at all. We would scout someone really good that looks fantastic, chuck a few hopelessly low bids in, wait a bit, see some big clubs come in once we get close, fail to sign the player AND then buy Mara and Onuachu.

I honestly don't see the attraction of Rutter, he's looked pretty rubbish whenever I've seen him.

Yeah, Asa Hartford was the fella David Coleman called a “whole hearted player”

More inane drivel. How about debating and answering questions as you always say?

You first. How about answering why someone who has denied the results of a legitimate election and caused an insurrection should ever be president again?

So this thread is LAST player to be excited about? Or simply an excuse to list the best player you were excited about? I'm not sure I'd carry on supporting Saints if the last signing I was genuinely excited about was decades ago. Anyway, BBD for me at the moment and I'm hoping the next one, whoever it is, is even better. I particularly like the foreign links to players I've never heard of and never seen play. In the absence of prior knowledge you can build them up into unknown gems that will set the world on fire. Course it hardly ever works out like that but it's a harmless pleasure.

That was my first thought too. Could be coincidence but since Charles got linked with a loan move we seem to have been linked with a few DMs - Skipp, Sheaf and mandela Keita.

I've watched the first Sunderland season, the Wrexham one and the Burnley one. Burnley was by far the worst one - seemed to concentrate on the owners far too much and almost felt like a vanity project for them. That was my impression anyway.

Dunno, it's not a situation that has occurred before.

Has anyone mentioned we turned down the chance to get Drogba as he was deemed too similar to Beattie? TBH most of the nearly transfers were probably pretty tenuous and unless we got to the stage where we made a bid then they're pretty irrelevant and you could replace Saints with any other similar placed club at the time.

It’ll be interesting to see how valuations change over the window. Leeds have bid 7m for Jonathan Rowe which won’t be accepted but indicates there might be a correction in prices this summer. No one has come close to Sunderland’s 25M valuation of Jack Clarke either.

Chelsea Flower Show?

I saw a video last night where Marc Guiu was saying that he didn't know if he would go immediately out on loan so I'm pretty sure he could be loaned out if that's what they wanted to do. Edit: here's a link about it: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/chelsea-marc-guiu-loan-transfer-33395303

Would you put it above a striker, a goalkeeper, a box to box midfielder capable of scoring goals? I don't think anyone would mind getting another option for defensive midfield but it's not as high on the list of priorities as you would seem to put it. Ideal world we loan out Charles and get someone like Skipp in.

As long as it leaves us some cash to spend on players for Goztepe then I'd be happy with that.

Yeah, would be good if we could. So far the only indications about loans have been right wingers who would be squad options rather than first team starters.

Not so sure, we've been linked with loan moves for Rak-Sakyi and the Brighton lad. I know they're unlikely now but I think that could give an indication of what we're looking for in the loan market and it ain't exactly stealing a march on the rest of the league.

Who knows? To be honest I don't really look at the figures of supposed bids - they're probably way off and the things are complicated by so many clauses, percentage up front etc etc. I doubt actual specific details get leaked anyway so about the only thing I take away is that we probably have made a bid. You'd like to think that things wouldn't progress to an actual bid unless the purchasing club figured they could get in the same ballpark.

27M is their starting position and they'll come down from that (can't see anyone else meeting that valuation). My guess is he'll probably go for around 22 - 24M which is probably about right for the current market and it's not much more than we paid for Sulemana. Whether he's worth that, or more importantly worth spending the bulk of our money on (if that ends up being the case) is another question.

Loan Charles to Celtic, get Skipp in on loan.

Carvalho played in an advanced midfield role for Fulham and Hull fairly often (not sure about Liverpool as I haven't seen him play for them). They're not the same type of player but can play in the same position.

Don't know anything about him but good stats in the Jupiler Pro Europe Play Offs - 7 goals in 10 games and two assists.