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Imagine if Stewart is actually good!

Would Ipswich not be in a bit of trouble with finances? Spent net ~£130million this year and were in League One the season before last so potentially need to sell a bit more than just Delap and Davis? That said, seeing as barely anything ever happens, they will probably spend another net £50million and be fine!

I think that was Fatawu, who was on loan from Sporting and they signed him permanently in the summer. He picked up a bad injury earlier in the season and has been out for quite a while now.

And Kayne Ramsay is a mainstay at right back and getting good reviews. Charlton have done very well this season with both of these playing most matches

We were very interested previously, wonder if we'll go back. Not ready for prem yet, but would be worth doing it at a top level in the Championship again. If Sheffield Utd dont go up I imagine he'd go there for another season.

RB Leipzig's record transfer is 50 million Euros for the much better known and more established Xavi Simons from PSG, so doubt we'd get near that for Dibling if he goes to them (which is currently the strongest link). I think we'll get £30-35 million

Looks like a 0-0 draw last night. These guys seem to score even less than us!

Sadly you've listed the 5 most likely players to leave as the ones to retain. I think we'll finally see Bella-Kotchap and Larios go, both to have good careers elsewhere. I doubt Downes will leave unless we get our money back, and would like to see Edozie and Archer given another chance in the Championship. Cornet left in January and now plays in Italy I think.

Last season he was incredible for them and saved them from a very bleak situation. This season they've also done well, having splashed a massive £4.75 million on transfers and the club having constant off the field issues (including not being paid) and sit comfortably mid-table. I think he deserves a shot at a something a bit bigger.

Afraid we're stuck with him (and Stewart) until next summer. As we know, Walker-Peters' contract is up this season but at least we finally get rid of Lumley. Of the youth players, I'd expect we'd offer new deals to one of Derrick Abu or Lewis Payne, Will Merry and possibly Princewill Ehibhatiomham?

I liked his honesty and thought the switch was good to at least mean that we weren't playing favourites with certain players (and completely alienating others). Obviously some like Downes, Armstrong, Fraser and perhaps one or two others didn't like not being besties with their boss anymore, but bringing back in Sulemana and Onuachu were decent moves as two of our better players. However, the damage was already done and you could see the lack of confidence in some of the players since only getting 5 points in 16 matches from Martin's reign of arrogance which completely killed us. Would've taken a superstar to save us from that point.

The great escape begins tomorrow night!

Larios is actually playing regularly with the under 21s at the mo!

He was actually pretty good for the first few games, until he settled into the Southampton way...

"Southampton Football Club are pleased to confirm the signing of Japanese youth international Rento Takaoka on an initial pre-contract agreement. The 17-year-old forward will remain in Japan with his current side, Nissho Gakuen High School, until he turns 18 in March and will officially join the club." Havent seen anything more from the club on this - is he here now?

Good luck tonight. Any more impressions on Traore? Still only 18 and playing regularly, so hopefully good for his development, even if I doubt we'll see much if any of him at Saints.

Who's it been better for, Exempt or Saints?

Problem for me is his fearless style has evaporated a bit in a losing side. On Saturday his confidence seemed to massively increase later in the second half, but only when we started playing better as a team - he doesn't have the confidence to do it on his own at this stage in his career. It could well of been that he started playing better and the rest followed (we were obviously trying to attack more at that point, so probably goes hand in hand). The difference between him and say Fernandes, is that Fernandes continually looks good (or at least more positive), whereas Dibling can disappear a bit. Tyler is a very talented prospect but think he's been hyped a bit too early which may have gotten to him. We'll miss him when he's gone.

I noticed that we've only had 2 penalties all season, but Liverpool have had 9. I wonder how many of those would be deemed 'soft'?

Fernandes? However, I could see him doing an "Alcaraz" 🤣 Remember Archer did a really poor one earlier in the season which threw him off a bit, but is probably the best finisher we have. Not sure if I'd trust Onuachu personally. Not sure why, just doesnt strike me as someone who'd be good at penalties (cue someone bringing up stats of him scoring all 30 of his taken penalties or something).

Any streams? For better or worse have really struggled to find this season. I don’t have IPTV or know how to sort that sadly

Is it not a back 4? Can’t see who the 5th defender might be

I'm not sure anyone's giving us serious money for these guys. You'd take them on a free, but the only one highlighted who might get some money from is Smallbone and possibly Wood (who has looked awful as often has he's looked good). I'd be pretty confident that Sugawara, Bednarek, Downes, Charles, Sulemana and Archer would comfortably get into most of the top 6 starting 11s.

We've gone Quantity over Quality, with the hope that players like Fernandes, Kayi Sanda, Edwards, Takaoka, Matsuki and Juan would become established premier league stars over the next few years, when we really needed more than just Fernandes to be ready this season.

Larios played another 65 mins on Fri night so that's at least promising. Stewart nowhere to be seen. 🙄