SaintBobby

A worthy cause, but can someone tell me how much money they need to edit about 40 videos a year? I took a look at Patreon and they are up to 60+ supporters - meaning an annual budget of over £7,000. Is any further support needed? How will excess funds be deployed?

It’s surely oven ready by now?

Looks like great business if these numbers are right. KWP and 8m+ for PEH was at the high end of my hopes. Good job on not folding like a house of cards.

Really dire today. Such a shame, i know Steve has worked hard to keep the site going, but this could kill it off entirely.

As reported, looks an okay deal especially if there are add-ons for PEH. I would have hoped for KWP+6 or 7m. This seems about there. If, as other reports indicate, Saints playing hardball, we might get there or above it. Reasonable business overall it seems. Not stunning, but reasonable.

Not disagreeing. We held firm before eventually bowing to the inevitable and getting a good price. Dropped VVD from a number of matches too. No reason to think we should act much differently on PEH.

We got £75m for him. A very fair price at the time.

I confess though that it’s great having you as a regular poster. Any lively forum always needs a chap like you. The one who brilliantly proves that their ignorance is no barrier at all to expressing an opinion. You do bring a smile to our faces, sweetie.

Well, good of you to put your hand in the air. Given I negotiate for a pretty good living (albeit not sales of football players), I’ll keep my hands down thanks.

I’m sceptical about that tbh. The idea that the negotiation involves Hojbjerg and Spurs agreeing a package that is perfect for the former and Saints then just need to accept almost any offer Levy makes is not how any negotiation works.

His apparent determination to only go to Spurs might make our negotiating position trickier, but it surely makes his salary negotiation harder too? Why would they offer him a bumper salary if he isn’t willing to sign for Everton no matter what? Why not offer him a more modest salary and add the savings to the transfer offer to Saints to get the deal over the line?

I don’t know if they’re also waiting to see who progresses and doesn’t in the later parts of Europa League and Champions League as I think these teams won’t start their games until after Sept 12th

Anyone know when fixture list comes out? Are they just waiting for the play-off final?

Totally agree. I'm also amazed that ponderous referees don't lean on VAR more.

Eddie Howe....He went to Burnley....and then you went down. A sad tale.

They seem very persistent about this!

Penalties is a weird one. Would be odd to win the golden boot if your team somehow got 15 or so penalties and you scored them all with just a handful of goals from open play. But you can't just discount penalties scored. If Vardy scores 2 out of 2 and Ings 1 out of 2, you would have to give the award to Vardy if they were otherwise tied for goals.

I find it's usually mentioned as part of a turnaround..."they lost 9-0, but now they're pretty damned good" sort of thing.

Most likely mid-table for us...somewhere between 8th and 14th. Requires a near miracle to break into the top sixth. Something would have to go very, very badly wrong to be bottom three. That said, if I can get 1000/1 on Betfair for us to win the league, I'll have £100 on it. Not because we have a realistic chance of doing so, but we might just get off to a good start and then I can cash out at 125/1 or 80/1 after six or seven games. Made a tidy profit on that a few years back, we had a chance of going top, I think, when we went and lost 2-0 at Arsenal after 5 or 6 games. Our odds had come in about sixfold in the meantime.

We can’t easily compensate for losing Ings, that’s obvious. Sure, Obafemi and Long up front doesn’t look like a goal rush, but we’d probably just need to provide better support from attacking midfield - Armstrong, Redmond and Djenepo all have goals in them. I also think Redmond can play as a striker if needed.

What’s the academy looking like for centre backs? Anyone who can feasibly be 4th choice? Also, are any of the first team remotely feasible makeshift centre backs? I know Bertrand has played on the left of a back three, but has he ever played in the middle of a back four? Could Romeu slot in there if we got desperate? I’m agreeing with those who say that spending millions on a fourth choice centre back seems like over-insurance, but am struggling to think up any credible options at all if we lost 2 of the main three. Maybe we need to go for a Danso-style loan deal? What’s the position with Yoshida? Out of contract? Was he sold or loaned to Sampdoria? Not 100% against him returning for a year, but I guess that bird has flown.

Thanks. I didn’t realise he didn’t use his actual surname as the name he goes by!

Thanks for this. What’s the situation with Romeu - can’t see him listed. He has one year left?

New contract for Bertrand. Sign up KWP or another suitable right back. Get in this Weston guy or some other CM. Get Salisu over the line plus a back-up CB. Sell PEH to the highest bidder. That’d do, no?

There’s always going to be a slice of luck one way or another and it can be decisive, of course. The aim has to be that you’re skilful enough that a slice of bad luck doesn’t matter. Bournemouth & Watford weren’t.