goodymatt

People saying we will struggle to create against better teams, I think better teams will leave us more spaces to attack. Wednesday were low block counter last night, pretty much every man behind the ball, all styles of football can be frustrated playing against such a defensive team. We are still so early on in our journey with this new style. I saw a lot of control, so much composure playing out from the back and just a lot of nearly moments in the final third, which will likely improve with each game. We looked like a PL team playing a L1 team last night, don’t think I’ve ever seen us dominate/control a game like that. It would have been very hard to take had we not scored that late winner. What a way to manage the injury time. Much less stressful, although I somehow still harboured an expectation we would give a chance away, it’s just what we normally do - see Leicester at home last season as an example.

No, free agent

Is it ok so shout “Charlie Charlie Charlie” instead?

He broke the Manning signing first, so does have contacts.

So won’t show as much of a loss on our accounts but still not a great investment. Felt like a bargain price, as did Orsic. Alongside Onuachu some really poor buys.

Assume he had sizeable wages. It’s mad he was nearly signing for Liverpool for a big fee a couple of years ago when they had a CB crisis. Now he’s worth €5m.

He’s already changed his Instagram bio to Lyon 👀

Also looks like Marseille are due €500k of the fee.

Think it’s safe to say DCC is gone given he’s pictured here wearing a Lyon tee Not a great fee, I thought £8m was cheap when we bought him but we have somehow managed to only get half of that back.

It was an odd period, but nobody forced him to sign the contract! Would be a bit odd if he immediately wanted out.

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!