Midfield_General

Quite. It's really not that complicated is it.

Positives: Proper striker's goal from BBD; some lovely flashes from Sam Amo; Charles and Dibling did well; Charly Drago's sweet right hand combo Less positive: Macca; Not good enough to play out against proper opposition; Mara... no surprises really. If nothing else I hope that we will now pull out all the stops to get a starting keeper in before Newcastle. The rest of what we need can go to the wire on deadline day if it has to, but that absolutely can't.

Good from Edozie, very good save. FT. Drew the game but won the punch up. Happy with that.

Subbed off at HT

Starting to think Alcaraz might have a slightly suspect temperament

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!!

Another massive let off. He had to score that but hit the bar

That looked in

Missed the three keepy-uppies he did facing away from goal before overhead volleying it into the top corner! Outrageous

Good stuff from Sam Amo

Macca is all over the place

Fuck me what a goal

Lovely finish 👌

Fair enough mate, agree to disagree 👍

Glad to see that Mara has been given yet another chance to really put a shift in and bust a gut to help the team, he deserves it

What an absolute joke

For the right price he could be a good fit for us. Young but not a kid, English which we know Russ likes, played 74 times for Spurs so has decent top-level experience, and in a position we need to strengthen. Also flexible as he's a proper DM but is also very comfortable at LB. Probably considered not quite good enough to be a regular for Spurs first team, but then neither was Winks, and he's gone on to do very well. Not sure how good he is on the ball, but Spurs fans seem to think he's tidy if unspectacular and generally speak pretty well of him. Quite hope that this one has legs, as he feels like the sort of signing that is realistic, probably not ridiculous money in terms of either transfer fee or wages, has some potential upside in terms of future value, and would actually improve our first team.

PT

Best get working on that Molotov cocktail then because a fair percentage of this site still can’t get the six letters of ‘Bazunu’ right, and that’s after two years

Sorry - you saw him sign some shirts once and now you think you have more insight into his personality and impact behind the scenes than the guy who reports on Saints for a living, has done forever and knows most people inside the club? Is that right?

What has Mara contributed since then?

Absolutely spot on

So if you can see with your own eyes that Mara is absolute dogshit and not worth wasting anymore time on, you’re supporting the wrong level of team? Because we could never, ever expect to do better than him, and it’s only fair that we should wait until he’s at least 24 before we can expect any sort of meaningful return? Righto 👍

Spaffing great chunks of our limited wage bill on wastes of space like Lallana doesn’t really help either. What a contribution he’s made to our pre-season. Start as you mean to go on eh ‘Adz’. Bet he’s a really really great lad to have around the dressing room though, and that’s a great reason to pay him £60k a week or whatever the fuck we’re wasting on him that could have gone towards paying the going rate for a striker who can actually walk or a proper PL keeper.

"Now you're talking"