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I believe so, even though he’s only played 10 mins at CDM all preseason.

Fab saying €15m, Sky saying €20m. Blackmore saying €20m total. Could be €15m plus €5 in add ons. Either way it’s more than the €12 we paid for him.

Bazunu Tino (or replacement) Bednarek Stephens Manning Charles/Smallbone JWP (or replacement) Alcaraz Tella (or replacement) Sulemana/Edozie NEW We should be signing 2x CBs, GK competition and a striker, based on squad to date. Surely any more will be replacing our prized assets: JWP, Lavia and Tino. Martin has played 3 at the back in the past too so he might want 5 on the books, that 5th one should be Zach Awe, stepping up when needed.

Are Hillsborough Park or Owlerton Greyhound stadium worth parking in?

Hard to argue, however I’m hopeful (perhaps blindly) he will be more consistent at this level. He has only had little patches of good form in the past. I recall he was making a starting place his own (keeping Sali on the bench) and went of injured in our 0-0 draw at City (robbed a pen that day weren’t we!). I think that spell up to then was his best in a saints shirt. Plenty of comments at the time it was because he had finally been given a run in the team. Over his time here though I can’t think of any other decent enough runs.

Say we don’t get the fees we are holding out for on JWP and Lavia, do they stay? If so, do we need to sell other players we would rather have kept like Tella and Kamaldeen? I think 3 of those 4 leave, unfortunately. Tella being most likely to stay as the transfer value doesn’t get us the quality required IMO.

Must be why we’ve partnered with Draper? Something needed doing!

We should be letting Tella know that he’s key to our plans and can’t leave at any price. We won’t be getting a value for him that allows us to buy in a player that just performed in the league at the level we need. £20m would be a good fee for a player with one decent season for example, but so much risk on how that money is spent and what that gives us on the pitch.

Not sure on the source but first mention of KWP in a while.

Why would we loan him to Everton?

THAT goal by Tadanari Lee was a rocket.

I mean sky are just a rehash news channel now aren’t they. Absolutely no sources. These two tweets are an hour apart: Laughable.

Holgate has struggled to get into the underperforming Everton team, 8 apps last season. I’m unconvinced if he’s the best option for us but perhaps at this level he would be a decent signing. I’ve not really seen him enough but comments from others on him not being so great on the ball are a tad worrying. CB is a big area of concern, lots of sales going to happen there and Bazunu needs a decent defence in front of him.

That record article has Prowsey as Moyes number one signing. Sadly, I expect they will get to an acceptable fee and he’ll go. I don’t know if it’s just because I expect him to leave but he looks more serious than usual in the pics/vids the Saints Twitter account puts up. Bracing myself for the #FreeProwsey campaign…

I’d say Borges who has since done a u-turn on WHU to go to Ajax is one of the only links that we have missed out on. Expect our relegation killed that one though. Would we have been interested in Doyle who went to Leicester had we sold our CBs faster perhaps? No links to him for us I don’t think. Market has been pretty slow but will heat up a little now the PL is starting next week. As always lots of business will happen late on.

3,006 tickets sold so far. 94 left if anyone is still thinking about it. Considering it’s up north, on sky and immediately following relegation, great effort from our fans!

Liverpool use Paul Joyce as their most trusted journalist I think. Melissa Reddy if Sky Sports News also has strong links from her roles before Sky with them. She’s written books for them too I think. Probably where the excessive line came from. Modern football hey.