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His attempts at winning headers were absolutely abysmal too. Twice he half challenged, ducked out of it and the ball hit him on the back.

Skates gonna be in the stadium for a long time. Was there any confirmation if we’re serving them beer?

Anyone know of other pubs opening at 9? Also wondering what time the fan zone etc will be open and serving beers.

Very true. Still think you’d get a lot smaller walk up.

The club would obviously prefer both Aribo and Edozie to leave in the next few days but if they don’t I would like to see them both challenging for a place in the first team squad. As far as we know, neither have ever caused any issues so we might as well use them if they don’t go.

Eastleigh is a pain in the arse to get to, especially if you want a beer before or after. If the women’s team played there I’m fairly sure they’d get significantly smaller attendances than they do at St Mary’s.

Robinson looking good for England U19s.

Gotta get the deadwood shifted early to give us a chance to get one or two more in by the 7 o’clock deadline tomorrow. Hopefully we will have news of a couple of outgoings today.

Like others have said, I’d have Mccarthy in there. Manning is a weird one- on the one hand his set pieces have been really good but I still think he’s very suspect defensively, particularly in a 4. Depends how good this new lad from Galatasaray is at left back.

I’m just holding out hope that, from the Pompey game onwards, we will see a completely different set up with 4 at the back and much more control of games and chance creation. If that happens I can forget about this month where he’s had to be more ‘pragmatic’. If it doesn’t or we continue to look so disjointed I’ll be a bit worried.

Nice of Downes to give up his place for him.

Jelert and Roerslev both Danes. It's about time we went back to signing nationalities in pairs. Though hope they are both good, Delgado and Chala/ Pahars and Bleidelis etc.

Last season, Fellows got 4 goals and 14 assists, Azaz got 12 goals and 11 assists. So that is a combined 41 'goal contributions'. Should help us going forward!

Fabrizio Romano

Source?

CB is a weird one. Edwards has had a very shaky start but when we hopefully go to a back 4 I think I’d give him another go over Wood or Quarshie.

Quick look on a Nurnberg forum and they are all gutted that Jander is going, with some describing him as their best player and lots wondering how they’ll replace him. That’s usually a good sign.

These seem like two very reliable sources

I thought that watching Mads yesterday tbf.

Maybe right for his development but he’d have been in the last year of his contract so we would have ended up selling him for a lot less.

I’d say that far more often than not, looking at fans’ views of a player is a pretty good barometer of how they’re going to work out.

Bazunu spent most of last season out with a serious injury. That happens again and we’re left with 35yo McCarthy playing and our 3rd keeper on the bench. It’s hardly against the realms of possibility we could need him to play.

It seems to me, from what Still said the other day and from the German article, that we would’ve probably kept Sugawara if it wasn’t for the Japan manager insisting that he needed to be in one of the top 5 European leagues to get a call up. Glad he’s going though as he’s terrible.

When was their first bid? Surely not until after Fabrizio says the personal terms were agreed…

Really not sure this bloke knows much. If they’re not in a hurry then why would they make a decision by the end of the day?