goodymatt

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13419169/summer-transfer-spending-premier-league-efl-wsl-scottish-premiership-laliga-ligue-1-serie-a-and-bundesliga-breakdowns interesting read, scroll down to the Championship section to see us win the net spend trophy. I’d like to thank everyone else for playing.

They’ve lost Hermansen, McAteer, Justin, Ndidi, Coady, Vardy, Iversen (GK), Ward (GK), Coulibaly, El Khannouss. Buonanotte and Eduard returned to parent clubs following PL loans.

Depth wise I think it’s us and Ipswich. Leicester do still have some great players though (and a pending points deduction).

Interesting amount of change from the team that got Ipswich up last time.

I think this will be a proper under the radar signing, all the fans of our promotion rivals will be thinking “who?”, until he plays them. I’m really excited to watch Scienza - Azaz - Fellows, there’s a bit of everything in that trio.

Here’s another one

Watching his highlights it seems that he has decent pace and agility. The main thing I noticed is how much power he gets on shots and crosses without having to lift his foot back much. Set pieces seem to be another strength. Remains to be seen if he can do it in England but he didn’t seem a fish out of water in the Bundesliga, which is very encouraging. Rickie Lambert style long journey to get to a club like Saints and his personality did come across well in the welcome interview. I’m hopeful he will be successful with us.

Very true, fair comments.

As it stands Bree returns in January Taylor walks on a free next summer Smallbone walks on a free next summer. Wrexham’s £7.5m bid they didn’t move forward with irks. ABK we have an option to extend but will we? Unlikely! So you’re probably right, all most likely walk free after this season. Sad indictment of our recruitment in recent times?

Hope this guy is worth all this excitement, we are hooked!

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Seems a bit wasteful to let him go on a free next summer.

So I assume this means Smallbone leaves for free at the end of this loan?

Hopefully his finishing is more like it was in the Ipswich away game in 2 weeks time then. Local lad going back to start off playing the derby, has a worrying inevitability about him scoring, doesn’t it?

Could he have not just got on the lunchtime flight to London Heathrow from Stuttgart?

THB when he’s fully back up to speed and playing in a back 4 that suits him best, will no doubt be one of the best CBs in the league. Recency bias from him playing in a 5 in the premier league with suicide tactics and then no pre-season is really affecting people’s views. For me 100% the first CB on the team sheet.

On Smallbone to Brum, that is a better fit than Wrexham, a much more possession heavy team where his one touch passing can actually be used effectively, as we did in our last promotion campaign. As he’s in his last year of contract, are we going to extend to try and get a fee or are we going to lose a player valued at £7.5m for nothing?

Agree we have depth all over the pitch, just GK that’s the weak spot. Perhaps if Bazunu fails to deliver and Ramsdale sits on the bench until end of January, we can do something about it? Wishful thinking, I know.

Has to be a reason why 4 managers haven’t picked him. Still was speaking positively about ‘Chas’ in pressers though. Must be player decision?

Just called the ticket office to check in. Ticket office advised they are sending tickets as a late as possible, I assume to make it harder to sell them on. Tickets will start to be posted this week so should arrive early next week.

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