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Only option to buy not obligation. We don’t have to accept the offer because they made it.

Apparently the option to buy is £25M (assuming it’ll be £21M plus £4M loan) so a good move all round I would say.

Guess we’ll find out based on who the 3rd keeper is. Personally I would go for a new number one with the aim of getting us promoted, who would then be number two next season if Ramsdale returned, Macca is out of contract next year so we would be back to 3keepers again

Think Ramsdale loan needs to be put into context, wages being covered in full and £4M for one year. I’m not sure what people really expected from a loan deal?! I’m happy with that. i just hope given we knew the likelihood of Ramsdale leaving that we know what keeper we want to bring in (be it a number 1 or 3) and push that deal through quickly now.

Fine with wages being covered and receiving a loan fee. If we go up we have a PL ready keeper again, if not then hopefully Newcastle take up the option to buy. go get a keeper who will be good enough for our promotion push, if we go up he can be number 2 next season. Then gives us a new keeper with Baz and McCarthy as back ups .

It was on the Twitter broadcast that Alfie shared

I get that they might have had to say it was behind closed doors as looks like it’s being played at a training complex, but then why are Espanyol fans allowed to be there. also, why charge saints fans £5 to watch it?? The club might make a grand or two from people paying but is that really worth it? Let fans watch for free it’s only a friendly, poor PR from the club too, especially as Espanyol are showing it for free (wonder who told them mid first half to turn off access to uk watches too!)

I had that problem too, way round it that worked for me what use the link for discount tickets then do auto select seats when when allocated you change them to the ones you want. I found if I tried to select my own they would be full price but auto select applied the discount.

4-2-3-1? Edwards playing right back?

The more pressing issue is getting players out. We need to get the squad size down otherwise players are going to be on the books and training with the u21’s Sadly the rumours of outgoings is very quiet currently, but we have too many left backs, centre backs and attackers currently so until some leave we can’t fill the areas we are short in

So had Ramsdale but he still travelled with the squad today

Those not travelled today and aren’t on extended leave so ABK Bednarek Aribo and Manning too?

Maybe he wanted to play abroad? He seems best mates with Dele so assume he spoke to him about Turkey and sold it to him.

First friendly of the season. Who’s likely not to feature? Ramsdale, Fernandes, Edwards- later back Bednarek, ABK - wanting out Downs - not ready who else do you think will be missing today?

I think it’s important now we start to shift some of those not needed. If we can move Bednarek Aribo on for starters then maybe we can then look to add someone else to the squad.