Badger

Unless the player creates a fuss I'd like to see us stick to our valuation. He's worth more to us staying and helping to get us back up than the value they're putting on him.

Expect the cunts to offer us £32m, plus a couple of 'promising' duds from their youth set up (they must have another one rated as highly as Adam Hamill we loaned off them last time down). Just hope the club don't fall for it.

Tell them they can Salisu instead, for a 'knockdown' price of £35m.

Be surprised if there wasn't PL interest in him. Palace were linked last summer, and you'd have thought newly promoted teams especially Luton might be keen to add a player with some (limited) experience at this level.

There will have to be lot of humble pie to go round when he also joins Barcelona.

I believe Russell Martin is an advocate of conserving energy.

I wonder if this could be an area that will come under increased scrutiny by football bodies (and who knows, possibly Tax Authorities at some point) rather like the Chelsea loaning out system. But we can predict how it pans out. Chelsea and Man City a suspended punishment, and warning over future conduct. Southampton as head of their group, demoted two divisions.

Is that to replace Fonte when he leaves for the Portugal job ?

Was fitness a key feature under him at Swansea ?

Don’t think it’ll be easy prising Piroe or Grimes from Swansea. Relationship must be bad. Perhaps their chairman will give an interview on local tv calling us English south coast yobboes . (Wonder what that is in Welsh)

Interesting point, and the early absence has never really been explained. It may of course be a personal issue, or just not getting his head right on joining. If it was not getting’his head right’ then calls it raises questions that our background checks weren’t as good as we’ve always been told they are. If I remember he was rumoured along with another CB, Axel Disasi at the same time, who then went to Monaco (and now valued at c£34-40m). Botman went to Lille for less than we paid for Salisu. Great scouting and recruitment by us once again.

Seems like all links to Salisu have gone quiet. Not the in demand CB that he believes he is perhaps.

Shame they stopped the film when they did as Adams and AA approached the entrance. Would have been interesting to see which one hit the door frame, and which one went face first into the glass screen next to it.

Then a well trumpeted last minute scramble for an unrealistic target .. who drops out on the last day.

I'd suggest his 'value' to us would be greater if he helps see us promoted again, irrespective of what we might sell him for in twelve months. The danger of course is we don't make it for promotion, or if he has a crap/injury plagued season.

Just to think, Maddison chose Leicester over us. So we simply moved on, and signed Elyonoussi. That's some leap. Can't believe there wasn't something better between the two of them.

Wonder if he'll take his wife with him. He might be able to trade her in for a couple of camels.

Not just him though , lost Elyonoussi as well. We're going to be fucked 'without the ball'. Think I'm seeing why we've opted for a manager who plays a possession based game.

We’ll need that especially in the spine of the team. Just hope we don’t rely on Man City U21’s and providing a full scale yop scheme again. (But let’s be careful we don’t set another five page, define “experience” debate in motion).

Agree on both counts.

Suspect they planned it with a view to quietly tapping them up about signing Ramos.

Could be a good signing for the Championship.

Not sure where he’d fit in. Also reading up about Warburton he left Brentford and there seemed to be a bit of difference of opinion about the data driven approach. But nothing would surprise me with our recruitment.

Before being too critical let’s remember Cortese was a banker. And Rupert chairman of a chain of granny farms.

Wonder if he’ll adapt the technology to watch over the Itchen North corner.