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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.

Can’t wait for the meltdown when the first lineup of pre season is announced!

Regarding Edozie, he went on loan to Belgium to get regular minutes and to show what he can do in a lesser league. he didn’t exactly excel so why is he all of a sudden going to perform in the Championship? As long as he’s replaced I’m happy to take a chance on someone new tbh

Any incomings now gonna be effected by who we can shift and getting the squad numbers down. although didn’t Spoors say 3 players would be coming in regards, defender in, forward on his way, so just the creative mid to go?

Imagine it’ll be roughly in line with this: so club and manufacturer just making huge profits on something that costs minimal amount. Hence why the companies in Asia can sell for $15 and still make a profit on it

What about those out on loan last season who are now back, surely their wages were part funded

It’s ok. It’s a shame the sleeves and shoulders seem to be a different design to the mail body, would have been better with the stripes on the shoulder down onto the sleeve. doesnt look to be any pattern or texture on the shirt either and just solid red and white.

Oh so insightful, worth the sharing for sure 🙄

What did you hear?

Hope this isn’t a repeat of signing players who could become good rather than players who improve our starting XI now.

Given he played 29 games I’d be surprised to see him drop down a league. Do wba have cash to splash now then?!

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Yeah looks like both u21 and u18 are having a bit of a reshuffle

According to Secret Scout on Twitter it appears we are about to lose Mcfarlane to Chelsea. Odd timing given we just let Rusk go when McFarlane took his job when Rusk stepped up to help out.