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Ironically, that's probably the thing they've prioritised most - it truly has become the best away day for fans!

Hope this works out better than Daouda Traore who seems to have gone missing.

There's a quiz on the OS about minutes in pre-season. Pretty embarrassingly the two with the most minutes are Fraser and Stephens! I think most were hoping they'd be two of the first out the door. I missed Smallbone and Taylor (and Bragg and Bipepa), but got all the rest fairly easily. Must've been wishing a few away.

I think you may be forgetting the root cause here! 🤣 (but yes, world beaters they were not)!

I think whether that will happen is the major concern!!

Jamie Donley. Is he ready for Championship? Does he play centrally? We were also linked with Guilherme from West Ham and the Swedish guy Zeneli who looks good.

He always seems like a bit of a grumpy tw*t anyway whenever they do those training ground questions etc 🤣

I think he’s the young Irish guy, Romeo, was fairly highly rated when we signed him. The squad does look particularly weak from this though. Welington surely over Manning next week though

Terrible management more attributed to being bottom by miles rather than quality of squad. We would've still gone down, but wouldnt have been as embarrassing!

I'm not so sure about Sugawara - if Matsuki is genuinely going to be part of the first team squad (and there was that other young Japanese striker Takoaka who seems to have gone AWOL?!) then I think the club may want to keep him around.

I'm hoping Harwood-Bellis and Dibling will stay, whilst we move on players like Aribo, Wood, Stewart & Fraser who shouldn't really be starting and probably taking up decent wages. Some of the latest links (real or not) are a bit more promising with players who would genuinely be starters, whilst Quarshie and Downs look like they could and should be regulars, albeit some of the players they're replacing are not exactly world beaters. Will we see any surprise players leaving? Armstrong or Archer perhaps? Edwards?

If we go for this guy (unless Stephens is off) seems pointless to have signed Quarshie, or more likely would mean we're also expecting to lose Harwood-Bellis and at least one of Wood or Edwards.

This is quite interesting, as I thought they might be in a bit of trouble. By most accounts of fans of other clubs I know, it seems they 'bought' League One a few seasons back (although mostly on free transfers and loans), then spent comfortably (again on loans) to go up to Prem, then had a net spend of around £130 million last season failing to stay up. Their income over the past 3 years must be less than half ours with TV money and gate revenue etc, but guess they're not (yet) stuck with no hopers on long contracts for far too much money... Just feels like last season was a big step that means they might be needing to sell more than just Delap to be spending out much.

I dont think we really need a buyer for Fraser, just someone to take him! Sadly it also seems most of our better players (no matter how good they may actually be!) are the ones that are going and we're left with a lot of very average players (Manning, Stephens, Bree, Smallbone, Stewart, BBD, McCarthy). Ideally need to shift some of those and bring in one or two new automatic starters.

Would hope for around £8-10 million for Edozie - a decent player who will likely do well elsewhere. Shame as I'd much rather get rid of Fraser and Brereton-Diaz before him.

Definitely better than Stephens, but it’s a low bar having to put up with those 2 for so long. Would’ve been good if he remained the 4th choice like when he was brought in but became a bit of an embarrassment having him and Stephens most weeks (as proven last year)! Which player is now going to blame everyone else?!

According to Transfermarkt he played 3 games for the u18 last season (possibly as part of a prolonged trial)? Hopefully he’s more Livramento than Simeu (who did seem fairly decent too tbf)

Stephens was awful, Quashie very good, Robinson and (out of nowhere) Sesay both looking promising, and Downs with a great run and finish on the only(?) time he was put through. Doubt Stewart would’ve got there. Unless Fernandes is staying and going to play there we desperately need a creative number 10

Also could be to give Edwards minutes as didn’t play at the Euros and only just back with the squad

Have I missed something with Edozie?

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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