SuperSAINT

Spot on about Villa & Leeds. It seems such a sensible idea to me that (if the budget stretches) signing young players for 500k-£1m. When you consider the numbers we poured into somebody like Wesley Hoedt. The Athletic had a good piece on Leeds from around a year ago - Their plan after they got promoted was to completely re-vamp their U23's. They even have a "Head of Emerging talent". I know it's only just happened, but the Simeu & the Abdul trial represent a potential move forward to how we could possibly approach things post-brexit : Slightly older players from big-clubs with a blocked pathway and/or lower-league players who have been missed but have peaked slightly older.

Doh. This stuff happens anyway, but Brexit has ramped this stuff up to the max. Was a good article in the Athletic about City’s academy, if you haven’t seen it, @Dusic.

Depends if they were any good or not

Is it belated Wan-Bissaka money? Or has Parrish got shares in Pfizer?

Spurs possibly out of Ings race?

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Not 100% sure, but think #7 was the Millwall forward, mate.

Think one was Ethan Ross. The other was the lad from Millwall who was on trial at Watford recently, Abdul Abdulmalik.

All absolutely true. He’s still a very West Ham signing, though. 😄

A very West Ham signing.

This is absolutely a recurring thing… & we haven’t made enough in sales to get enough of them, you would imagine.

The “ #6 “ is an interesting one as we knew with: 1) Janewitz likely leaving 2) The likelihood of Lemina leaving That we would probably need one. But it never seemed to feature in Ralph’s previous interviews as he often mentioned that Stuey can fill in there.

Ralph confirmed he wanted him to stay. On one hand, it's good management to keep the option open... But on the other, I'm amazed it was remotely an option.

I know this will be incredibly unpopular, but IF Moi is sticking around, I suppose it takes up Minamino's role.

That's what he said. Didn't mention an attacker (?!) Also confirms he wanted to keep Lemina (!)