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Or is it money well spent?

Some good old fashioned CC scouting suggestions! Our sort of player, but Leicester were linked for around £30m last summer, so probably out of our range. I vaguely recall Sangare being linked with Palace recently. He fit the bill for us, IMO. Not seen much of Gakpo.

Do you think our keepers are like mutants who send out magnetic pulses to disrupt our analysis equipment?

I’d prefer a playmaker in the Robbie Savage mould.

Unless we buy the postmodern versions of Hoedt/Lemina/Carrillo.

If he's going to go, I hope it's not to Spurs. Prolonged low-ball bids & constant media briefing incoming.

Worth noting the Rep Ireland have been playing possession based football — Ralph likes his keepers to be good on the deck.

Let’s get the band back together with Bale & Ox to have the best physio room we’ve ever had.

He’s class… but doesn’t he still get injured a lot?

He sounds perfect 😄 Never realistic, IMO. Too many teams can blow us away.

Whatever happened to @The9 who used to post all the new shirt pics?

Would be a massive shame to lose him: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10840451/Southampton-youngster-Diamond-Edwards-attracting-number-clubs.html

I’d probably take an inconsistent goal scorer over ones who consistently don’t score

We do go around-the-houses a little bit. I’m sure I remember Ralph (ages ago) being really blunt and clear in a press conference that 1 keeper would get a new deal & 1 wouldn’t & would leave. Very blunt & honest, but after that, we’ve kind’ve tried to pretend that wasn’t the case (when it was always the case!)

Every season there’s a few of these moves for English keepers to “The Big Six” to sit in the bench. Got to credit him for getting back to the sort of form to put him on the radar, though. A really interesting spell he had here when you look at it.

‘Look at Southampton, we have a tremendous amount of respect for what they did with their academy. Yet over the last five years, under the current owner, they have destroyed that’.

Has announced he’s leaving on Instagram.

Karma…

He finally got fit towards the end of the season and really started to hit form. Great to see.

This is true. Interested to see how this plays out. We know there’s going to be a mini striker exodus this summer. I wonder how bad the rumoured fallout has been with Ralph?