HarvSFC

https://x.com/AvispaF/status/2076607820019950061 Romeu's gone to Japan

Preston fans don't have a bad word to say about him, which is always encouraging: https://pne-online.net/forum/threads/lewis-dobbin-signs-on-loan.3442473/page-11 Guess a promotion chasing side is now the natural next step for him and hopefully he's able to make that step up with us. With Larin, Scienza, Azaz and looking soon to be Dobbin we have a lot of players with a proven record in this league, while you'd hope Fellows can also kick on this season with a full pre-season and having an actual manager who won't kill his confidence this time around. Gibson's lover Shaw was reporting the Middlesbrough interest as well, which makes it a bit sweeter. Although, they're the one's who dob sides in.

Showcasing the weird narrative from the media in prolonging and dragging this story out, as Dragan Solak said we've offered him a position at the club in his interview a month ago.

I personally think we're owed a World Cup victory after the shambles at the end of last season.

Never seen VAR pull the play that far back before. There has been some dodgy decisions going on for the North and South American sides recently.

I think his wages are too high to make anything other than a loan feasible. West Ham gave him a pay increase from us when he was our highest paid player and he'll still be on a hefty wage despite the relegation percentage drop, as McCarthy, Aribo, Ramsdale etc. were here. As stated above as well, JWP isn't good enough in this current state to play regularly in a midfield two in the Premier League. Yes, we do have a squad full of players who aren't quite able to make the step up to being consistent Premier League performers. However, we can upgrade those, as their wages won't be taking out too much of our budget. It will be like the goalkeeper situation again where we couldn't upgrade for years because we were already paying top dollar for players that were inadequate for our situation. So, yeah, loan I'm fine with and test to see what kind of player he brings to the team now. But, a permanent transfer would be reckless.

It's why they extended the group stages to three teams qualifying. Not that any of the host nations needed it, but when the decision was made USA and Canada had very little hope of finishing in the top two spots.

So does that mean all red cards within this tournament will now get suspended for a year?

The women's game needs to separate itself from the men's and become self sufficient for it to grow naturally and provide stability. They were basically handed a top level stadium and state of the art training facilities while also taking finances away from the side we all grew up supporting because it became trendy to have a women's team. It wasn't how the men's game grew all those hundreds of years ago and it took our club 100+ years to have the facilities that we have today. It feels like the women's game ran before it could walk and it just hasn't generated the interest that the all knowing Semmens thought it would.

BWP a pundit on ITV. His Dad must have put in a word.

Stoke going for the simple stripes front and back, rather than a blank back.

Smart signing, especially on a free. Good age as well, not like a Charlie Taylor, Lallana or Romeu who joined on frees at the end of their careers. A midfield depth of Downes, Jander, Neil and Bragg is still more than good enough to win promotion. Weird us signing players early and before the player they're replacing has gone. Now lets get it done.

The dangers always were that after his form in the second half of last season that he'd have a good World Cup and as a result more suitors. However, we got it done early, what a joy.

Good player when fit. However, 9 league goals over three years is more than replaceable. Larin was one behind Stewart's three year output after half a season. Also agree with the club's stance that he maybe isn't good enough for the Premier League. We've seen him up there and he seemed a bit lost at times, bullied. Isn't your archetypal tall striker in that he'll battle with and occupy centre-backs like Larin does, nor does he have amazing pace, so a more physical striker would also be of benefit to us going forward. If the recruitment team can get this one right. Good moments this season, but his Saints career has ultimately been very frustrating. Seeing his name on the bench in a lineup graphic, only for it to be announced 20 minutes later that he's had to pull out of the squad due to injury, or that Stewart's "two weeks away" every week for four months.