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Which is why I thanked him for posting. He may well have posted it in good faith and his mate is having him on. That's happened to me in the past.

This is how boring the transfer window has been - our biggest rumour since singing Downs weeks ago is a random bloke on the forum saying his mate has seen Romeu at the training ground. Thinking about it more, given that he was with the club last week, there really is no need for him to be at Staplewood at all, so I'm calling bullshit until we get some independent verification.

Well if there's any chance that it's a choice then I agree sell DIbling immediately. Very unlikely we can hold onto either though so given that I can see why we are holding out for top dollar. We better hope we can bring the top drawer replacements in in time though.

Think you may be misremembering as I haven't heard anything from the usual reliable sources and you'd think it would be all over this forum if that were the case.

If you're a PR man then that would be the way to do it.

You're getting me confused with someone who had an agenda supporting the Tories. I didn't and don't. The Tories are responsible for their actions in government - mostly terrible - and Labour now have to own their own mess. I don't care if the Tories wanted to keep blaming Labour after 14 years in power, they would be wrong to do so and clearly thr public didn't buy it because they were rightly removed from power.

He's going anyway.

Grealish stayed. Newcastle managed to keep most of their stars when they went down. No reason he couldn't be this season's Grealish.

Doing well arent they. Can't blame the Tories anymore, this is their own doing.

Interesting. Thanks for posting even if it's bollocks. I love a good rumour and this would really please the fans. If it were ever a possibility no doubt we would have discussed it out in Spain.

Not that I disagree, but if that were true surely he would have signed a new contract?

When was this rumour? I've seen most of what Alfie has written this summer and I haven't seen that.

Rudoni? I haven't seen a link.

Own up - do you know for a fact he was at Staplewood yesterday or is that some randomer on twitter claiming that to be the case?

I know it's all speculation but a midfield to choose between Charles, Downes and even an old Romeu would surely be the best cm in the division.

Source?

Depends what you mean by new. The likes of Robinson, Edwards, Charles aren't technically new but are mostly untainted by last year.

That's the gamble and the key question isn't it. If we lose a load of games at the start and then bring in some quality it could be a terrible error.

Or far more likely, we want a certain calibre of player and would prefer to go or the best we can once we have the room in the squad and even more money.

Did someone say that? Or was it some Chinese whispers thing from an itk on here? I lose track.

I think removing windows would be awful for a club like saints. At least with them we know that when they shut we have some certainty and can keep our players for a period of time. Without transfer windows we'd have lost Dibling and Fernandes already - probably earlier in the year.

Exactly. Is the suggestion by some of these people seriously that we aren't going to sign anyone? We signed loads of people last time we got relegated and by all accounts we are in a better financial position. Why would we do that?

You'd imagine they'd make initial inquiries at the very least to ensure they would get one so they don't waste a load of effort.

Not signing other people at this point of the window is not evidence that we won't sign more before the window closes.

Right but we have new people doing the transfer negotiations plus we are in a lower league so there's less attention. The idea that we are just sat their with our thumbs up our arses counting down to the end of the window is for the birds.