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Would be a good opportunity for the new owners to have one of their own in a key position. No idea if Glover is doing a good job or not but just adds to the importance of getting the summer trading right.

Any chance of this getting back on topic?!

From those likely to go down. Norwich, will ditch Krul and play Gunn next season. So nothing there. Watford, Foster is too old now and probably stay with Watford. Burnley, Pope will want to play premier league football for sure, but depends if Burnley put a silly price on him.

Kieran Maguire has done a good summary of the main points here in this twitter thread.

The good thing from recent games are the partnerships and understandings that have developed across the pitch KWP and Armstrong Perraud and Moi JWP and Romeu Broja and Adams

£8M rumoured price. No real chance when competing against Liverpool. I expect they will look to loan him out next season or two to a premier league to build up his experience as still so young.

If Alli is to go on loan to PL side a few possible clubs about to max out. Everton - if they get VDB then that’s their two filled. Newcastle - likely to use one on Henderson or Lingard. Targett appears to be their second option.

Thought Harry Hickford was his best mate and someone who sees as a brother since he lived with him growing up?!

But if a player wants to leave and won’t sign a new contract I’d still rather sell them than let them go for nothing. Don’t expect much to change there as most of our sales recently have been due to players running down their contracts.

Who the 2nd club In the group will be will be very interesting. You would expect some player linkup with maybe players going to this club to develop, “sold” onto Saints for us to develop more? Wonder if it’ll be used as a way to get round work permits for younger players to.

Will be interesting to see the value of players we go for. I like the idea of targeting young players, play them and develop them for a few years then hopefully sell on for big profits. But will we be looking at £5-£10M 18-21yr olds or £10-£20M ones. more of a gamble on someone’s ability at cheaper end. Dortmund go to the other end and buy high value youngsters and sell for £50M+ Sancho, Haaland shortly etc

Hopefully the purchase includes either settlement of the loan or money aside to pay off the loan as and when due.

A source that claimed to know the amount of the deal and when it will be done but nothing about those who were buying the club. Always was going to be an attention seeking post.

Someone just photoshopped our badge over another brand instead.

Interesting they know the price being paid but not a thing about the person/persons involved 🤔

Top 15 richest owners in the NFL 1. David Tepper, Panthers: $14.5 billion (142nd-richest person in the world) 2. Jerry Jones, Cowboys: $8.9 billion 3. Stan Kroenke, Rams: $8.2 billion 4. Shahid Khan, Jaguars: $8 billion 5. Stephen Ross, Dolphins: $7 billion 6. Robert Kraft, Patriots: $6.9 billion 7. Arthur Blank, Falcons: $6.2 billion 8. Terry Pegula, Bills: $5.4 billion 9. Stephen Bisciotti, Ravens: $4.9 billion 10. Janice McNair, Texans: $4.1 billion 11. Denise York, 49ers: $3.5 billion 12. Gayle Benson, Saints: $3.4 billion T-13. Jimmy Haslam, Browns: $3 billion T-13. Jim Irsay, Colts: $3 billion T-13. Jeffrey Lurie, Eagles: $3 billion

He’s DOF at Brentford though?!

Get Heaton for a month then go get Johnstone in January window

Emergency loan keeper time?

Bit of a non story imo, nothing new in there. Also if he knows there are 2 interested parties why not go into detail of them? I suspect it’s cos he doesn’t know who they are but then how does he know there are 2 parties?!

What about Kabak? Available for under £10M

I’d like to think we will also start moving on a bid for his replacement. Wonder who we will be linked with….

It goes against other reports but Alan Nixon is reporting that it’s effectively £15M plus Obafemi and if Obafemi doesn’t decide to join Rovers then we have to pay more than £15M for Armstrong. Seems unlikely tbh as fee has been agreed but he’s normally pretty accurate I thought ??

“Southampton remain confident of adding two forwards to the squad, one of whom could be another cheap deal for an academy player from a top side — similar to full-back Tino Livramento’s recent transfer from Chelsea.” So what promising forwards do the big clubs have that we might look to??