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But what’s his Xg rating, and is he in the upper quartile, or better ? Let’s get serious about this ffs.

Interesting possibility. Although it’ll give him good experience in a better league, will it help Saints secure a work permit the following year ?

No great surprise as many clubs have had a pink kit in recent years, we’re just catching up on the trend, and fashion.

Quite by chance, this is how your post first appeared to me on my phone (with ads showing);

6’4” according to Wikipedia. The South Korean Peter Crouch. Wouldn’t a work permit be a problem though ?

Wok do you mean ?

I don’t think our supporters demand a ‘top keeper, blah, blah’ , but most would expect and like to see one that is competent for the level we play at. That doesn’t seem unreasonable, but it’s an area the club have failed to adequately address for a number of seasons.

Why not ? He played for them before Swansea, and it’s closer to his Essex roots.

Taylor was unfortunate in losing Gascoigne for a large part of his time in charge (although did drop him at one point as well). But seeing those names it really was an era of journeymen playing, despite MLT being available.

Not sure how prudent it is extending the contract* of a manager unproven at this level. Same might have been said about the second contract extension agreed with Forster, in ‘protecting the value of our asset’. *(not that we know the terms of it of course)

Agree, might be a bit premature for a new contract as we might need to consider a change after 10 games or so. I’d have preferred the review at some point before Christmas, possibly October international break. Strangely though I’ve a hunch RM might do quite well and attract a fair bit of praise (from the media anyway) at this level.

Wasn’t that the great England era with Geoff Thomas in midfield as well ?

Better than Graham Taylor’s England who didn’t make it to a USA World Cup.

Headline : Bree-turn of the Prodigal Son.

Had to do a double take on that, thought it said Atletico Madrid !

Hope they pick up at Chievely for us ‘out of towners’.

The Peterborough LB is meant to be quite decent as well. Probably not a target for EPL but questionable if any worse than what we’ll have next season out of Manning & Bree if that’s what we’re left with.

Could this be a three way contest ? Perhaps it’s the Mara Trophy, and the team finishing bottom has him - and pays his wages - for the season ahead.

Not signing a decent GK for the season ahead (as opposed to one mainly for the future) will be on par with not signing a striker for Ralph in 2022 in terms of the club’s failure.

Plain white back will ruin it in my book. Not difficult surely.

Ditto

Were linked with him earlier in the summer, although at that time they were talking £20m, and the player wanted to return to Mainz where he spent last season. Question whether we’re better off buying big club squad players (cast offs perhaps) rather than from the Championship( Bertrand and Romeu worked out well but that was over ten years ago). We hope he could be a ginger Van Dyke, but going on recent years scouting we’ll end up with a ginger Hoedt.

Saints were meant to be watching him at one stage before he joined Napoli. Suggested fee was £10m. No idea whether any truth in the link or if just randomly made up by one of the sites.

Opportunity to find out how shit our defence is to go with our blunt attack.

You forgot Forster.