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About time we got some of them fit! From what I can see, the following players didn't feature for various reasons: Bazunu (played the last friendly instead of McCarthy, who came in for this one) Bednarek - no news? On his way? Harwood-Bellis - injured Edwards - yet to be seen pre-season(?) - more time off after Euros? Bella-Kotchap - almost certain to leave Fernandes - As Edwards, but seen in various club photos Dibling - played in the other matches, but not today Matsuki - As Dibling Downs - Not yet back after Gold Cup

This guy makes Sulemana look prolific.

In a recent interview, Paris St Germain's Joao Neves was asked about who has inspired him in his footballing journey. He gave an interesting answer "Being a fan of English football, one player who has particularly stood out to me for his passion and dedication is Southampton's Jack Stephens. Talking with the gaffer, we wanted to bring him over to Paris, but as he's settled on the South coast, Southampton didn't want to let him go, and I believe he's just signed a new contract". It's been noted that Neves has recently been showing certain traits of Stephens's in his game.

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Actually confirmed? Would've thought anyone from mid table down would've given him a contract and that'd be much more appealing than moving to Turkey. He Operates well on both sides and would be a very useful squad player, particularly if teams are serious about Europe and cups. Someone like Palace, West Ham, Brentford etc all relatively local and would give him a good contract.

Sounds like a good appointment - might lead to bringing in some other good youth players? Are we renaming the thread back to the u21s?

Who was the last?! Tierney, McTominay or Robertson I guess, but then fairly slim pickings!

Bet the club are thinking Robinson will be the next one. I do think he looks very promising but don’t want to put too much pressure on him.

Got a good feeling about this guy, think he could be a very decent signing for us, and finally an athletic powerful frontman that we probably havent had since Pelle left.

Very random news to offset what should be a good new signing for us... I guess this news is to keep us grounded?! I dont dislike Stephens and like all our players, hope he plays very well every time he puts on the shirt, but not sure what use he's going to be in 2 or 3 years time when I'd say he's barely good enough now. I guess it does allow us to get a fee, but are say Plymouth really going to pay much more than a couple of million anyway?

How did the medical go today?

If you're talking about Sargent the only British team he's played for are Norwich. He did play a season in the prem when he was quite young and they got relegated.

Edozie is a difficult one - he's got obvious talent, but has often beaten 2 men he shouldn't have and then put a disappointing ball in or weaker shot once he's done that - if he could get that right he'd be being hunted by much bigger clubs. His Belgium stint was interrupted by a few niggles but seemed to be fairly well liked by their fans. He was looking good for us in the Championship until that horror tackle (which I dont know how it didnt end up in a sending off!) so I'd persevere only as we currently don't have anyone better. The real issue is the mis-management of Amo-Ameyaw, who would be the obvious replacement, but now looks like we're back down to the forgotten man Ryan Fraser.

It just makes a farce of the whole thing doesn’t it?! Do Birmingham have one of these dodgy sponsor deals too like Wrexham?

So how are Birmingham able to spend all this money? They signed a very average young striker last year for well over £10 million and now all this. Wouldn’t their revenue be quite low from the season in League One? Bit like Ipswich buying the league a few years back, seemed to have spent miles more than anyone else but not at risk of PSR?

6 goals in 16 MLS matches is probably around equal or slightly worse than what Downs has done in Bundesliga 2 (at a younger age), but 5 goals in 9 caps for USA is pretty decent (against mostly rubbish opponents). Let’s see!

Ryan Fraser to Rangers would be very believable. A manager who likes him, a big club in an easier league that will suit his ability - he could be a good player for them, rather than a bit part for us.

Sounded to me like "Here's a random Japanese player - he's left footed". Not really a glowing endorsement of who he is or that he was excited to have him there!

Zeneli looks pretty good and a realistic target. Just started getting caps for Sweden too, so must be pretty decent.

Didnt we sign Harwood-Bellis for around £20 million, not £15 million? If we were to sell (which we might if he says he wants to play Champions League!) then I think around £25-30 mill would allow us to sell. It would be leaving us pretty short at Centre Back though, especially with Bedders likely to leave along with ABK (and Stephens hopefully finally found out). Would we sign a replacement?

He already did a few times (in the premier league) before he got badly injured. Shame that happened and he hasn’t worked out

That was truly awful. As were some of the skills. A couple of good headers there though!

We'd want our money back if we were to sell. Was that article by any chance written by the chairman of Trabzonspor?

Took me a while to work out this was Jay Robinson. I would say the attacking midfielders / wingers currently are weaker without Sulemana and with one of Dibling or Fernandes almost certain to leave, along with possibly Fraser? Brooks was very good for championship level (and is doing it in the premier league) so we're a bit far off where we should be.

Weren't we linked with Luis Guilherme from West Ham? Hasn't done much since moving there at a young age, but was seen as a bit of a coup when they got him.