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I missed your response, but this was exactly my thinking!

I thought the whole thing of Stewart leaving was that he had a very high salary for someone who was only available half the season and can't complete 90mins, and that ditching him, and potentially selling Archer would allow us to buy a star fit starting striker (in addition to Larin). I like Ross as a player and a person, but there'll always be a big question mark as to whether he's fit enough. The other way to think is that we really need Downs to come good - maybe with someone like Larin around helping him, he might have a chance if he's kept around?! I'm assuming Brereton-Diaz is off and that Oyekunle and Dipepa aren't really ready for regular first team football.

How have they not concluded and just said "they've been punished, case closed" sort of thing? Is this just dragging on due to relentless pressure from Gibbo / Boro again?! Just seems crazy when there's so much wrong with the world that something silly like a team (getting caught!) spying on opponents for a game is made to be the worst thing ever...

I was going to say he's good from 6 yards, but no evidence of much else (including his miss against us last season), and then he scored that screamer for the last goal!

Are you sure you dont mean Justin Devanny from Crystal Palace (who we were linked with last week)? If not, that feels like a bit of a come down from a semi-regular at Palace to some kids who's played 13 games for St Mirren.

Plus he plays international football, which our other central midfielders don't so doesn't get a "rest" then.

He's barely been given a chance, but probably needs regular game time. I thought he looked pretty decent (quick and obviously good in the air), but not quite good enough to be a starter. What's happened to Kayi-Sanda (sold to us as France's best upcoming centre back...)? Thought he also did look promising.

Or we've got someone better lined up? It's not like we don't have a manager or won't be one of the biggest clubs in the Championship next season. I'm sure Neil would be a good player in Scotland, but was decidely average last season for Ipswich (worse than any of our current midfield options) so not sure we should feel we've particularly missed out.

Big money for Stoke - around the same as their total outlay the past couple of seasons. They've also signed a couple of other players for fees, so either expecting some big departures (do they have anyone worth a lot?) or the new financial regulations are helping them a bit.

Don't worry, as a Saints fan I'm used to being disappointed! I'm expecting quite a few sales, but following Dragan's comments, was thinking the team would be of a similar quality to this year with a bunch of sales, but retaining most of the core team and some key signings. I'm expecting us to also get fees for Ramsdale (probably £15mil+) and Sugawara, and probably look to move on Bazunu as well. If we can't get £20 million for those we'll have done pretty badly I'd say, but imagine at least one of them will be loaned again.

I'm expecting one of Jander or Charles to go, was hoping the sale of Charles would mean we get another season of Jander. I'm also expecting Harwood-Bellis to go for a similar fee to Charles, and also a few rotation players like Edozie and Archer. How much do we need to sell? That's probably a good £60 million there along with big savings on salaries for McCarthy, Stewart, Taylor, Aribo and Smallbone.

I'd be pretty disappointed with that. Jander especially has the ability to be better than JWP ever was, and Neil is not close to how good JWP was at the same age when he was regularly playing well in the Premier League. Charles has also performed well at this level for the last couple of years hence bigger clubs wanting him, whilst Neil was in and out of Ipswich's team and has got quite poor reviews. I'm not against JWP coming back due to the leadership he'd bring, along with reliability to actually be fit and available, and that he has been a proven quality player at the level above. Whilst those days might be behind him following his stupid move to West Ham (and subsequent various loans), he'd still be a quality player at this level. Overall, getting rid of Charles and Jander along with Harwood-Bellis would make us significantly weaker unless the funds are put to unearthing an excellent centre back and centre forward. A long way to go so let's see where we are in 6-8 weeks' time.

Why would anything further happen? Nothing further happened before and it's not really got anything to do with anyone else if the league have already dished out a ridiculously harsh punishment.

Just watched the BBC highlights to make sure I wasn't making it up and Madueke featured in the first 15 seconds, cutting back on his man and sliding through a ball to James in the area who squared it but was just cleared. He also beat his man to whip in a cross to Rice who headed over. Maybe not the best, but did have a bit more joy than Gordon. Saka and Rashford would be better options than both of them though.

I've never seen him have a particularly impressive game, but last night was embarrasingly poor. Reece James also pretty poor, and Madueke only slightly better than Gordon (he did at least beat his man a few times, but generally ran into dead ends). Is Konsa particularly good? Always looks decent but not amazing, I'd probably go Stones and Guehi (or even Maguire if he was there)!