hypochondriac

All that's speculation at the moment isnt it. We don't know the extent of his ASD.

You realise that's at best 80 million? Even if Ramsdale is a loan?

At least she's not going to moan about the amount of time he spends at work.

I got a kiss from pinder and a signed football at a charity quiz at St Mary's many years ago. Admittedly it was on the cheek but it counts and Martin is now having my sloppy seconds. Enjoy Russ.

Hopefully he has more faith in himself. SAA has already been told that if he stays with us this year he will be backup and will have opportunities to maybe work his way into the team. That won't change with someone else coming in.

Disagree. Plenty of opportunities for lots of games for both players at this stage of their careers. We need a strong group of players not just a good starting 11. There's no sign that SAA and sibling are going to have their. Pathway blocked and actually a fair bit of evidence this preseason to suggest the opposite.

Bizarre comment. As I said previously, bringing in an established an experienced winger in SAA's position would make it less likely that he gets a game than if we bring this bloke in. Bringing in someone equally inexperienced would be seen by them as a good thing because they will be more likely to get on the pitch and compete with someone of similar age and experience.

No positive updates on any of them for ages. I was hoping for a bit of business this week beyond Diaz who we knew about a while ago.

It's felt like an age since we had a credible link. Come on saints pull your fingers out.

Like Harry kane at the same age you mean?

What makes you think we'd be able to sign someone considered one of the hottest young strikers in Europe who doesn't have some issues? That's why we'd have any sort of chance.

That's how Martin describes loads of these injuries. Sometimes he will say it's a bad one but otherwise he downplays it and then you end up not seeing the player for weeks.

Fair enough I'd forgotten. Even weirder then that we aren't seeing any sight of him at all.

Will it be getting onto 7 months since we last saw Stewart kick a football?

Maybe he wanted to see if they could resolve things on their own?

Potentially just three changes from last year and no real certainty that they are significantly better than the players they have replaced other than maybe Taylor. Not great.

That's actually mental. He wasn't great but he was a million times better than Mara.

If that is the team we go with then the only place we could possibly be stronger than last year is in attack and at left back. You could argue we are actually weaker on the wings.

I don't think the two things were entirely unrelated were they.

Not sure that's going to be enough to see us survive. New recruits will be necessarily eased in due to the complexity of Martin's system. We might not be seeing our strongest starting eleven until mid October.

Do you agree that's at least close to the lineup we go with?

McCarthy Bednarek THB Stephens Sugawara Downes Smallbone Taylor Aribo Armstrong Bereton Diaz May be close to the team we put out for Newcastle. In my opinion that's nowhere near good enough and we could get spanked.

I'm not going to argue but Taylor is not a centre back and Stephens is not an adequate replacement for bednarek imo. I'm just saying that my view is that we needed another experienced centre back rather than two young inexperienced centre backs with potential. I hope we don't come to regret that choice.

Personally I'm not convinced that anyone else we sign now will make the lineup for Newcastle (other than maybe a keeper or possibly a striker.) potential for a rude awakening in a couple of weeks.

The fact remains we signed two young inexperienced centre backs to deputise Bednarek. It's a gamble and I'm not convinced it will pay off.