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I know some may consider it unrealistic, but does anyone else think we might have a good shot at getting Graham Potter? His stock is lower than it was and his philosophy and style would fit in perfectly here. You would hope we would have at least sounded him out about the possibility (I bet he would have come here had we stayed up.)

Which is why loaning him out would make no sense. Selling him I could understand unless we don't think anyone would want to pay what we are asking, but that's something you would determine at the end of the window.

I don't think we can be too harsh on Sports Republic. They have put in a lot of money into the club but have clearly made some bad mistakes this year. I'd like to see how much they have learnt from the experience and that will be shown by how much they allow Wilcox to run the club rather than Rasmus getting involved himself.

I didn't really understand that bit of the article. Recruitment sources say he may go out on loan but then say how important he could be for us in the championship? Would it be due to wages? Would seem very odd to loan him out.

I'd say Edozie wasn't bad and should be a hit next year if he stays. Was inexplicably dropped from the squad entirely for more boring yet supposedly reliable players that have done nothing.

I consider it likely we will be keeping Bree and Livramento and probably at least one of our centre backs (at this point probably Bednarek.) but I agree the rest of the defence will go.

Personally I found the article quite interesting. It contained a few bits of inside info and I liked to see it laid out simply as it makes it easier to deduce who is likely to be off and what sort of team we will have next year.

There's a very small amount of players I think we could realistically keep that I would be disappointed to lose. Looking above the ones I'd want us to keep that are realistic are: Livramento Alcaraz Smallbone Edozie That's about it!

If we are to believe the Athletic article, a possible team for next year would be this: Bazunu/ new experienced GK Livramento/Bree Bednarek New CB New LB/Larios New RM Smallbone/Alcaraz New CM Sulemana/Edozie Armstrong/Walcott Onuachu/New striker Looking at that, I'd say we'd new decent players all over the pitch. A new GK ideally to compete with Bazunu, a solid championship CB, badly need a decent defensive midfielder and a pacy goalscorer up front. When it's laid out in black and white I'm less confident about the team. I'd make that five first team players required, probably 7 to have a few as backup. We could have as many as 18 leaving but I suspect the likes of Djenepo and and Diallo will be hard to get rid of so they might stay. I wonder if Joe Aribo will be given a chance too. It seems we are going to have a mass exodus at CB with ABK set to leave. Someone like Caleta Carr might stay though and I think he'd do a decent job in the championship if we could persuade him. JWP, Tella, Lavia and ABK leaving may give us close to 150 million. If you imagine we would keep some of that to make up for the drop in income, you'd hope we would have a decent sized war chest of about 100 million for those 7 signings. Lets hope we get the new manager in early and start our business as soon as possible.

Personally I'd rather sack off the vast majority and get a load of money in for them. We need a complete change of mindset and a lot of that will come from a totally different set of players with a new mentality.

What few things? I know you've said you're not really interested, but the reason I ask is because she's routinely characterised by a certain group of people online as transphobic, racist, far-right etc when I've yet to see any evidence for any of those things. Considering she could have just stayed silent and continued to rake in billions, I think she's very brave to speak out for what she believes in, even if I disagree with her on almost everything else.

Lol you absolute loser going to those lengths to show who you had on ignore. I'm supposedly on ignore yet you responded directly to one of my posts just a couple of weeks ago. Either you were lying and you didn't have me on ignore then or you did have me on ignore and decided to show my post and read it anyway before replying. I'm not sure which one is more pathetic.

I don't think you've really looked into it. Her primary concern is keeping sex segregated spaces which is a goal that everyone should be supporting.

I expect that's because you've on;ly really received a distorted picture from weirdos on twitter. There was a very balanced and interesting podcast on her recently by one of the Roper children of Westboro Baptist infamy. Worth a listen to discover some of her views on the subject.

I don't think the cartoon was intentionally anti-semitic. I think once it was pointed out they removed it and apologised which is all good as far as I'm concerned. I'm not so sure the same courtesy would be extended to more right leaning publications had they done something similar though. I think that both sides can be as bad as each other.

Is jk Rowling an anti woke hero? She's a pretty radical feminist who believes in most woke stuff, she just doesn't want men in women's spaces.

Never go back.

To be fair, there was a substantial period of time (months) where he was ignored by almost everyone a few years back. It made absolutely no difference to the frequency or inanity of his posts. I suspect that he mostly believes what he posts but exaggerates it for his own amusement. I don't really think anyone is getting particularly angry at anything he writes- other than when he tries to slur people. Most of his posts are rightly ridiculed so it's mildly entertaining if anything. I believe him when he says he's retired and he probably writes what he does on here to get a reaction or to while away the hours. I know his wife had left him so maybe he's retired and alone who knows? Those are the most likely motivations though I reckon.

"you nutter" asking everyone for the time. I saw him on a train once in London and it felt wrong that he wasn't in Southampton.

It's a win win for us. If for some reason we stays then we have an exciting player with championship experience. If we sell him then we are going to get a relative bucket load of cash for someone that we didn't really rate a year ago. If he had flopped at Burnley we would probably have had to have kept him when we wouldn't want to. I reckon we will sell and hopefully we can utilise the cash well.

My interest has been on who is coming down with us. I am hoping for Forest and Leeds because I think we could beat them next year.

I'm not sure if that isn't just a weird Selles quirk rather than the players themselves. The likes of Alcaraz should really be playing every minute of every game that they are fit. Someone like Sulemana it makes a bit more sense to use more tactically.

I think you have a low bar if you think he's been brilliant. Personally I'd try to get Stephens back and make him captain. Stephens, Smallbone and Tella (if by some miracle he stayed) is a nice British spine of players who know the league.

Top championship players I would say are Livramento, Sulemana, Alcaraz, Smallbone maybe?, Edozie maybe?

Personally I'd prefer to not have Bednarek but that's just me.