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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.

Odds on Dalek still predicting a 17th place finish?

Look at the size of the relegated wage bills compared with the rest of the league. Coventry did very well last season didn’t they!

I remember when Fab just told us things were done and they were. Now he just fuels the rumour mill with nothing updates like this. Still waiting for Gvardiol to city who he ‘here we goed’ some time ago.

Ipswich are the promotion momentum team, if the bookies are anything to go by.

Listening to Total Saints Pod, the Wednesday special guest was quick to kill any chance of momentum due to manager leaving and time to get their replacement manager in. They’ve not added any quality to their team and ticket prices have shot up too. He reckoned it’s the type of crowd that will get on their own teams back if things aren’t going well. I’m more concerned about our momentum. We are not used to winning games and if we go behind, do we yet have the character and efficiency in the final third to turn it around? Could very much be a tight affair but anything less than 3 points should be a disappointment against one of the favourites to finish dead last. Very much looking forward to visiting Hillsborough for the first time and hopefully seeing a win!

Loving the optimism here. It will all come down to how well we reinvest our sales money to build the best team possible to challenge for promotion. Asset value, we are the biggest but we have had the least movement. The financial size of the three relegated teams makes promotion harder than normal and that could leave the lottery of the playoffs which saw one of the lower budget teams promoted last time. Burnley were lucky the rest of their relegation cohort were mid table. I doubt we will have that luxury but agree it should be an easier task next season, should we fail. Obviously we are all hoping we do it at the first time of asking! Most frustrating is teaching this new system to half a team that likely won’t be here and the impact that may have on points gained in the early weeks of this season. This could ultimately undermine us in the end.

I would have been before all this free Tella bollocks, we shouldn’t be entertaining offers for a player than can be so crucial to our promotion push.

I’m not sure… Hopefully they are right this time, I’d take 2nd this season in a heartbeat!