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See Mara play much last season ? Adams was perpetual motion compared to Mara at times last season.

Imagine that in stripes ! Bit psychedelic

Be even more fucked off splashing out that sort of money on a permanent deal...

Are the goals twice as wide in Italy ?

Exactly. There'd be a bit more interest in that transaction, and more than the FA, or EPL to worry about in scrutinising it.

I read an article saying we wouldn’t be able to sign him as he is currently playing for a Russian club. Article states we’d be unable to make the transaction due to financial embargoes in place.

Exactly. Suggested £7m could be better spent on GK, or CF for the season ahead. Not another ‘young prospect for the future’. We’ve already got SAA for that title in the same position.

IF we sign him I suspect the Milton Keynes connection with Russell Martin will be a greater influence. I’d hold off on any excitement as I suspect we’ll be priced out of this one.

I note RM's comments of easing him in. Does that mean perhaps three games this season, and possibly playing double figures in 2025/26 ?

Lets start the season with Stewart, Ings AND Callum Wilson. Great idea. Good job we signed Nivea for his experience.

Move on ffs. Don't know anything about the bloke really, but for me a winger with either lightning pace or fancy footwork isn't the priority, and don't we have a couple already ? More important is a CF, some fucker to put the ball in the net when it arrives.

Top man Yoshida. There's a good feeling to this signing, that brings early optimism, hope he lives up to all the hopes we have for him.

Interesting that of the three SR clubs, the suppliers are different, Puma, Umbro and Hummel. Good to see some autonomy allowed between them, would have expected a single supplier to be imposed.

Shouldn't it be a third, and third and third scarf : Saints, Goztepe, Valencienes ? Perhaps that should only be on one side of the scarf though. The other should just have the name Rasmus Ankersen on it.

Where does that idea come from, any leaks on it ? Not a bad suggestion but with a yellow second shirt the y/b combination won’t happen this season. Yellow shorts maybe the answer, or the third strip. Personally I prefer the yellow/navy blue combination (even allowing for the 1976 nostalgia).

Agree, it emphasises a bit of a disconnect between the club and the decision makers in my view. Should be rejecting any notion of a plain back for starters.

Not surprised it’s been held back. How much disappointment can you handle in one go?

Here's what might have been. Should have stayed with Hummel.

Who has the more stylish kit, us or Brackley Town ?

Agreed.

What an abortion. Really have to wonder about the people in charge of our club, and the commercial dept. How do other clubs manage it.

Until this season ..

But we should be capable of being at the top table with resources, and players at our disposal. Fact we’re not is quite an indictment of our game and how it’s run. Agree we should scrap the ‘it’s coming home’ bollocks’ , until we actually win something . Annoys the hell out of me every time, when the news features a group of pissed up teenage saps and mongs shouting it into the camera when we beat Columbia or whoever … If we want to focus on that song, then the Jimmy Hill excerpt is more relevant , “ we’ll go on getting bad results ..” Why ?

No immediate thoughts as to his replacements. Whilst has had limitations as shown in the Euros with squad selection and tactics, credit where due Southgate has always tried conducting things with dignity and deserves respect for that. I felt sorry for him becoming an early target for the media ‘luvvies’ on the box (Lineacre, Neville etc) and once that happened nothing other than winning the tournament was going to put the genie back in the bottle. Very little confidence in the FA to get it right. So the Southgate years will probably be looked back on favourably (certainly better record of achievement than his predecessors over 50 years). Good luck to him, but the acid test, would I want him at Saints, answer would be ‘no’.

I first heard it on the wireless (there’s an old term) in the kitchen. For younger readers, this was a small transistor radio, sometimes referred to as a “tranny” , when you could use the word without anyone knowing the term ‘hate speech’ .