goodymatt

If they spend £60m on our players this season, they’ll have gone Fulhampton.

We aren’t being unreasonable asking for £25m with add ons up to £30m, in this market. He was bought for £20m plus you’d assume we paid a loan fee for the first season. Since then played for England and scored, has some (questionable) PL experience but has developed into a better player with potential still to realise. I hope you’re right and THB understands we aren’t blocking his move for a silly fee but he’s very likely to be fuming if this doesn’t go through. From CL football to sticking in the championship. The players motivation will be a concern if he stays. Of course as a Saints fan, you want him to stay and help get us up.

It’s good to finally see a bit of noise around potential departures of unwanted players: Ramsdale - interest in ‘Europe’ BBD - Derby Sugawara - Celtic, Werder Bremen and ‘other Bundesliga clubs’, PSV and ‘Italian clubs’ Archer - WBA and Wrexham Downs - MLS Quarshie - Paderborn Bazunu - Celtic and Dinamo Zagreb The key will be whether or not we can shift permanently or if it will be loans.

Shame, his form pre-Lazio was encouraging and the profile is the type we are missing. I wonder if there’s another option we are exploring.

The Birmingham Mail reporter seems to suggest they are progressing with Ordonez due to our valuation of THB. It would be interesting to see if they do try for both, especially with the loan an obligation for Ordonez leaving funds available. From a Saints perspective it would be great it a move doesn’t materialise for him but fail to go up and it will be a big problem as his value next summer will be much less.

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Would be a very decent set of options if we manage to get him.

As Alfie says, an interesting one for Tonda to navigate

More opinion than a link but Fabio Carvalho would still be a good signing for us, can he play RW?

I guess the main question is whether they will sign more than 1 CB or if they are moving on from THB?

I see Stewart made his Swans debut at the weekend, 9 mins off the bench. His numbers for us last season (excluding playoffs) were 25 apps, 8G 2A. Only started 11 games, playing 980 mins total. Although he was scoring every 122.5 mins, he only played less than 24% of our league minutes last season. Mubama might not be as clinical (he might be for all we know) but I bet he plays more mins and with 1 goal already, he only needs to score 7 in the 44 remaining games to match Stewart’s contribution. Meanwhile Larin is scoring a goal every 100 mins during his 1,001 championship minutes so far, very impressive. If we can offload enough attacking players then a third option is welcome but I’m not really concerned about the number 9 position. We can all see the CM problem without Charles and if THB leaves we need a big signing there. Those 2 signings will dictate how competitive we are over the course of the season for me.

All 3 goals we have conceded this season have been very poor. It’s too easy to score against us at the moment.

Awful goal to concede, far too easy.