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A loan, but surely Mason Holgate deserves a mention

Christ mention the name Orsic and perhaps give this bloke a wide berth.

Any GK will make a mistake from time to time, Sprake threw the ball into his own net once, Shilton “could have done better” - to use the current phrase - v Poland in a WC qualifier (as he later admitted) and at Saints there was Boruc and his attempted Cruyff turn v Arsenal But when a GK is regularly MOM and in teams of the season etc I think supporters accept the occasional mistake. Not a GK who is regularly deemed to be at fault, and makes the occasional save.

Think we’ve dodged a bullet if there was anything in this at all. And I doubt it. Another one in the potential Deadwood2026# club.

Good servant to the club but I thought the consensus was that Romeu had slowed down and no longer up to the rigours of English football. What’s changed ? Nostalgia aside.

Yes, pretty appalled by that from the precocious little prick. It sounded as if he thought he’d be back at West Ham and with a new manager there he’d be a part of their great new future. Reports suggest it was a close thing whether he came back or went to Ipswich, and only the prospect of cuddles from Lego swayed his decision. At the time we were pleased for him to be back as he’d been in important to our style of play. Clearly not EPL standard, although in a crap team. No fight in him now it seems. Would be a shame to sell him to a rival though, unless we recoup our outlay, and have someone else lined up Can hope Casper is an improvement but might be a big ask in his first year in a new country.

Scuffy cunt. Mind you Brendan could be lapsing into Rab C Nesbitt as well.

Over an hour before the first booking so not the most fiercely fought match they’ve ever had. Saw another comment on the BBC site before the game which amused me saying this was expected to be more of a battle between the infirm rather than Old Firm.

Will he wear a suit for the occasion?

That would be beyond good.

It wouldn’t have been a great surprise if Downes had joined Lego at Ibrox. But I suspect this might have been dependent on Rangers getting into the Champions League to fund it. Without that and uncertainty over Martin’s position it now seems unlikely

This remains a missing part of the jigsaw. (And a GK ! - but that won't happen this window).

I think we can discount Spertsyan happening. Surely we only need one of the last three mentioned ?

I think the Miovski rumour was fan led because our then Hd of Recruitment ( Darren Mowbray) had scouted him for Aberdeen.

Great but we need someone to take advantage of that.

Brilliant if true, and if it comes off (But with Saints prepare for disappointment ... deal falls through, usurped by Spanish club at last minute ..... injury in training ... )

Hope not. With the £ coming in for Fernandes we should be more ambitious.

Perhaps this is also our preferred method of scouting and decision making at the club.

Okay he's got the Alice band, but has some work to do on the socks to go 'full Grealish':

Very disappointing to sell for that amount. And poor choice of club as well. I thought he'd hol;d out for another year for something more ambitious.

Not encouraged by this potential signing. The fact that he was loaned out from Lens whilst Still was manager there doesn’t look good either. But someone at Sports Republic think they know better. The only positive is that he might be cheaper than Rak-Sakyi who was pretty average at Sheff Utd.

Hasn’t that been the case for many years though, even going back to when Saints qualified for Europe in 2003 ?

And yet when they do get to play their sympathetically arranged fixture the likelihood is they’ll use a load of fringe players and U21’s. Load of bollocks.

Ridiculous. Makes a farce of the whole thing which is designed as a fop to the big clubs to stop the threat of them walking away from the competition. Can’t believe thr clubs playing in Europe don’t have big enough squads to take an extra match in their stride.

I still think he’s worth pursuing given the options we have. But he probably needs a run in a settled side. Whether he gets that is debatable