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Very sad. Not listened to much of her later stuff but I do not want what I haven’t got is a great album.

Exactly, 9M doesn’t even get you a kid from Man City. It’s a bit of an insult to Tella as well. In fact if they’re going in with unrealistic bids then they might as well chuck the same in for Mbappe.

That’s the kind of bid that results in people not taking your calls. Good news from our perspective cos it shows Burnley aren’t serious about Tella.

TBF if "they" did the opposite and said they wanted to play in the mens game then there would be an equal reaction from those getting worked up about them playing in the womens game so they can't really win. Seems like they're taking the view that in this context it's right to play in the womens game because biologically that's what they are. All those people complaining about biological men competing as women should be applauding this move. I don't really understand how you can be both transgender and non-binary either. It's a strange concept but I doubt there's enough of them to have much of a World Cup on their own.

I hope they do some retro replica shirts again. Not a fan of any of the new kits.

Thanks, nice read. I predict you will fall in love with Southampton and our sexy football. You'll also have a poster of Will Smallbone on your bedroom wall.

He could be but I think it's pretty clear he's not in our plans. In a way I feel sorry for the lad - he's not had much of a chance at all and would have hoped for at least the opportunity to make a difference. Suspect it'll be a loan back to Genk that's more likely than anything else.

The irony is that in two years half the players we're now clamouring to sign will be the ones we're clamouring to just get rid of even if it means taking a financial hit.

On the face of it you've got a bloke who didn't really have an exceptional scoring record in Scotland (albeit apparently used out on the wing for some of that time) who had a purple patch in L1 and seemed to do OK in the championship until his injury. It's not the most exciting link we could have had although it's probably one of the cheapest options.

I think it'll be Baz Tino Bednarek Stephens Manning Charles Smallbone Alcaraz Tella Mbappe

Does sound a bit bizarre at first but ultimately it's a biological female playing in a female competition. Whatever they identify as is irrelevant. It's all a bit click baity really.

Ideal pre season friendly - decent opposition and both players and manager should have learnt a fair bit. My thoughts: Bit harsh on Charles to play at CB - it's obviously not his position and he'll not be playing it unless absolutely necessary Edozie needs to knuckle down a bit - talented kid but needs to work a bit harder. Seemed to lose the ball far too much. Neither Livramento or KWP look comfortable with an inverted fullback role. Bree didn't even look like he fancied it enough to try it. Lavia is phoning it in. Sam AA looks awesome. We'll need to manage him but great prospect and deserves quite a lot of first team minutes. Will Smallbone should start against Sheff Weds. Links up play well, good first touch, great vision and more than capable of providing key passes. Out of everyone so far he's been the standout for me. Defensively still a few question marks but RM should be looking at a formation that means we can cover that. Seems like we'll be playing it out from the back most of the time - don't really mind that but he needs to be pragmatic enough to put less emphasis on that all the time we don't have a defence capable of it.

Think you're being overly pessimistic there - at the most 15M? We should be getting our money back or thereabouts otherwise it's not worth selling January window wasn't great in the context of getting us out of relegation but we ended up with Alcaraz, Sulemana and Bree - all of whom could be important players for us. Tall Paul and Orsic weren't great though.

I saw two clubs were interested, forget who, but that wasn't a very concrete link. You seem quite sure - where did you hear that? I hope we get our money back on him.

TBH if it's to bring a striker in then Tella is already proven at this level so wouldn't really make sense. I know Tella isn't an out and out striker so not quite apples and oranges but you get the drift. Not much point in swapping someone who knows the club and has a proven record at this level for someone who doesn't (and obviously depends who we would bring in but unless it's Piroe then they're unlikely to have the same a similar or better scoring record). I guess keeping Sulemana is understandable but if we lost both of them then I'd be gutted. Would have expected Sulemana to have featured by this stage so I'm half expecting him to go as well.

JWP is made of glass. He's on the physio table more than the pitch. Need to shift ASAP.

RIP. Bit of a shock. Didn't Lawrie want to sign him the year we finished second but ended up with Fashanu instead?

Except it isn't really greeted with "phew, it's not JWP" is it?

He's only got two years left on his contract - they'll be desperate to shift him on now while they still can but I reckon 18M + add ons would probably do it. Hopefully he doesn't block any pathway to the first team though.

From what I can tell it doesn’t look as if he’ll be fully fit for start of the season so not sure I would risk it after a bad injury.

Agreed, I thought he was good too. Good vision and moves the ball quickly - for a side that's going to be possession based I think he'll do well.

Possibly if we sold KWP but can't see it otherwise. Apparently West Ham want him as well. There does seem to be a glut of decent right backs around.

They did say at the time he signed that there was a fair bit of competition for his signature and obviously offering terms like this gave us a bit of an advantage. Have to remember we did get him for only 5M which is a steal. Would we have felt happier paying anything up to 15M but kept more of the profit? Probably. At the time we were still owned by Gao and money was a bit tighter than it was last year. I'd really hoped he would stay but nevermind.

Brilliant, this feels like a new signing in itself.

I keep forgetting about Larios. He's certainly not going to be an option for midweek games when he's got school the next day. I'd probably buy another one.