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City’s recruitment operation is sufficiently advanced to prepare for most eventualities, such as the idea of acquiring two new forwards. If that materialises, their options are understood to include Danny Ings of Southampton. The 28-year-old England international is into the last 18 months of his terms at St Mary’s and there has still been no breakthrough in negotiations over a fresh deal. Scorer of 32 goals in 61 appearances since joining Southampton from Liverpool for £20 million in 2019, Ings also got off the mark for his country in October. He appears to have fully recovered from knee problems that hampered him on Merseyside and his homegrown status is another benefit. In scenarios like these, especially in a pandemic-affected environment, City could well look to propose creative solutions — sending players in the opposite direction as part of the package, for instance — although conversations of this nature are only thought to be at a preliminary stage.

1-1 @ FT. Got to be a good result considering the young side we played & the fact they are 2nd in the table.

1-1

Is he eligible for the cup?

Pretty young team!

This won’t happen, but I’d be tempted to give him 45-60mins of the B team match today.

Playing Spurs today at 2pm. Should be an interesting team.

Starts up top for Bournemouth. Valery on the bench for Birmingham.

Possible. Or Stephens could switch across.

One player who deserves a mention is Ryan Finnigan. Impressive for a 1st year scholar has been around the B-team, training with the first team, FA cup appearance & been on bench in the prem.

Salisu & Tella back in training...

That makes it sound like DaGrosa successfully raised £200m, which is doubtful.

I have a vague memory of Ralph saying that Stu not being one of the players ideally suited to 3 games in a week.

Praise the lord.... I was hoping something like this was coming...

Lems Life is on at half time. Do we know if cup appearances count towards his total? #Lemina20AppearancesWatch

Check 1st post on 1st page of this thread.

Re: Valery & Vokins Whilst I get the whole "they won't play under Ralph, so better to loan them out" point of view, I find it interesting that, effectively, the players to replace them as back-up basically become Will Ferry & Kayne Ramsay. - Will Ferry has been an experimental left-back for the B-Team this season (yet he's probably the best attacking wide player we have down there). - Ramsay plays at primarily at centre-back for the B's (with Agbontohoma being preferred at right-back). I know we have a ridiculous injury list, but it shows how disjointed things are at the moment.

Any prospective buyer that uses Matterface & Crook as it's media mouth-piece probably shouldn't be considered as serious

I can’t imagine that’s the case.

I’m not even sure the exclusivity period was even real?

It’ll have to be tchaptchet.

http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2021/02/02/dagrosa-changes-tack-saints-deal-dead-kfg-focuses-player-development/

I think we need to be more aggressive in recruiting 15-16 year olds in this country, post-Brexit. But the problem is everyone is going to do that. Arsenal & Chelsea seem to have monopolised the hoovering up of local talent.