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You would think Man Utd might have come in for a cheeky loan at £3.5m…they’ve been doing lots of loan deals this window.

Mind blown. Apparently Salah offered £1.5m PER WEEK to join the Saudi club. Insane.

Err, sorry Manji, but you’ve lost me?

Nowt about definitive about ABK yet - seemed very close to completing earlier. Wouldn’t be disappointed if Sully stays - think his head is ok as he’s been training with the seniors I believe.

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Just in case there was any need to demonstrate the difference between Saints and top Prem teams, Bindippers reject £150m bid for Salah from Saudi! Madness!

With THB coming in, I wonder if that signals Bednarek moving out?

Let’s hope so…pointless him stinking the pace out any longer.

Very good signing. Just need a striker or two now…please Jason, don’t screw this up.

Of course it’s humiliating if only for the player…one of those I suspect RM tagged as thinking they’re better than they actually are. I notice there’s very little talk of a contract deal between any club and the player…suggests he and his agent are not easy people to deal with.

Absolutely - a swing from 8m to 3.5m is humiliating to say the least. There must be something very unappealing about ABK for him to find himself without a deal on the last day of the window.

Every bit of ‘evidence’ points to Che going. He seems to want out and SR will accommodate that in anyway they can providing they don’t lose money.

In or out?

Wonder why they’re talking to Saints…are they expecting some sort of refund or something?! 😉🤣🤣

Must be shot away going there. #getscoat

Whoosh!

The office runner is lacing his plimsoles as we speak.

Mowbrays one for the future.

Depends how ‘bad’ the injury was - a medical will determine that no doubt.

Che loan makes no sense, particularly if we’re definitely after Roberts. Not unless the clubs finances are in a much more dire state than anyone envisaged. As others have said relying on just Roberts is a huge gamble.

Don’t go questioning stuff like that - there are many on here who seem to think any signing is a good signing irrespective of quality, style or fitness! 😉🤣

OK that’s a fair point, although I would argue Mara has shown little to suggest he’s capable to be a target man either and we were comparing the two.

Maybe, but it’s not stopped other talented 18 year olds from from breaking into the 1st team.

I agree and I’m perplexed how Ballard has not managed to gain a foothold and ousted Mara from having that opportunity.

Good post. Serves to show where the strategic priority exists for SR. Promotion is of secondary importance and Wilcox has been charged with moving as many players out as possible irrespective of their ability to influence the success of this season. The bloated squad had to be thinned out, so if an asset has a heartbeat they’ll be sold/loaned if there’s an opportunity to do so. And that’s ok…most of them collectively were very poor last season, even against lower ranked teams. Where Wilcox really earns his corn is knowing how to re-build the squad back to a level of quality that can do well this season. Martin is probably providing a lot of input to this, given his time in the Championship, hence the incomings being ex-Martin men he can trust. But to be promoted you need to better than the Championship, so the question is…are we seeing any evidence that the work is being done to achieve this? My concern is we’re still hearing of possible loss of influential players - Tella gone and Che closely following and there’s not much time left to repair these what have become gaping holes. Even if we manage to hold on to Che, we urgently need another very good, mobile striker/AM.