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Is Ross Wilson looking to throw Rangers back under? No way Ramsey’s wages are sustainable up there. It would take a large portion of our wage bill, even.

I'd be disappointed if we signed Dan Burn. Every time I've seen him he's reminded me of Vestergaard without the diagonal balls... So you're left wondering what he does actually do. Easy signing for Newcastle, as he's from that way, but a bit of a comedown from the centre-backs they were linked to at the beginning of the window.

Why's everyone blaming Mourinho? I think his man management and methods are outdated and no longer work, but Alli's form dropped off under Pochettino, which is the main worry.

Perhaps Tim Sherwood was right. 😂 He needs to concentrate on scoring some non-penalty goals up here, looks like a bit of a dick in the video. Meanwhile, the winter break consists of Newcastle playing Al-Ittihad in Saudi Arabia. Ciaran Clark was sent off for hitting someone. It's another window to play money friendlies around the world and then managers will come back moaning that their players are tired again. 🤷‍♂️

Cheltenham get Dan N'Lundulu, we get their academy.

According to this article from September, his father is his agent: https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/loan-watch/chelsea-teenagers-father-hints-at-his-sons-potential-permanent-stay-at-loan-club/

Newcastle, West Ham, Staying at Chelsea, you can justify, even if they are non-footballing reasons with Newcastle. Everton, Leeds, Wolves, we'd have dropped a clanger if he goes to one of those.

The Sporting Lisbon manager - Ruben Amorim is the man you want if you're exploring the Portuguese managerial market. They play great football, he has a +100 GD there from 65 matches, a 74.71% win percentage and took them to their first league title in 20 years last season. They're currently second and finished second in their CL group, above Dortmund and have Man City next month. Surprised he hasn't gained more attention.

Romano’s become the most reliable for all transfer news over the past year. Although, he hasn’t used his cringey little phrase this time… Hopefully it isn’t another “Ings is signing a new contract…” situation. Some people are rewriting history with Alli. He didn’t become bad under Mourinho’s management. It started when Pochettino was there. He was one of a number of Tottenham players who were playing well below par, leading to his sacking. Although, he wasn’t the only one blamed. He’s also been given a chance by each of Mourinho, Nuno and Conte since, but hasn’t rediscovered his form. But, if he wasn’t a risk, then he wouldn’t be linked here. Newcastle have played their wealth card very poorly. If they were smart, they would have given Ashley an extra few million to stay in charge until the end of the window and then making signings through him. Instead, they’ve told the world they’re the richest club and now any player/club they go to will add an extra premium of say £20million for their star players to go there, especially given their position in the table takes away some negotiation power. Dan Burn is one of the worst defenders in this league, worse than all ours.

According to the Cheltenham website, Armitage was born in 1901, so might be a bit too old for us! https://www.ctfc.com/teams/first-team/defender/will-armitage/ Reminds me of when we signed Jack Stephens and Harlee Dean back in the Liebherr days. Both have forged good professional careers, but hopefully Armitage can go further. Alli's a strange one. Something's not quite right with him at Spurs, and hasn't been for a long while, it started as far back as Pochettino. He plays in the lower profile Spurs matches, like the early FA Cup rounds and the Europa Conference matches and he looks well below par. However, he is still only 25 and only five years ago did he score 18 league goals from an attacking midfield position. So, if he can rediscover whatever it was when he initially hit the scene from MK Dons then he'd be a really good player for us. Or, he could be one of those who has just stopped loving the game and is on a slow downward spiral. Who knows.

Neil Warnock’s retired about 20 times and Sam Allardyce “retired” after leaving Palace too, before taking the Everton and West Brom jobs.

Much better than players walking off the pitch with their arms around each other after they’ve been a dick all game. You see it in most Sky matches, which they promote as big rivalries. United and Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham, their players are all mates, whereas the end of Derby and Forest at the weekend, you can see the rivalry is still there and still matters.

Broja would unfortunately be a wet dream for Moyes. He likes a big powerful forward upfront, be it Cahill, Fellaini, Lukaku, Saha, Arnautovic and now Antonio. Broja has the attributes he loves and has a bit more than the others as a striker, other than Lukaku when he was at Everton. And of course Broja was game changing in both West Ham matches this season. When we got Puncheon in the January window when he was on loan at MK Dons, I believe that we also had to pay a fee to MK Dons to end the loan, so could be possible this month, but we would receive a fee.

He always did show a lack of heart to be fair.

Played against Frankfurt on BT on Friday night, winning 2-0 and receiving the plaudits in what was seen as an upset and a match Frankfurt dominated. Was the first time I had seen him play and wasn’t sure if it was a one off, as they are 14th in the Bundesliga with 21 points from 20 matches, but he definitely looked good on Friday! To add to the articles, the commentators said him and Neur were the standout Bundesliga goalkeepers, which again, I wasn’t sure if it was just hyperbole.

Wolves replaced Patricio with Sa in the summer for £8m, despite initial question marks he’s now one of the better goalkeepers in the league. We just need to be more adventurous/better with our scouting, rather than strictly sticking to the domestic market when to comes to goalkeepers. As I’ve said previously, Boruc and Niemi are the two best goalkeepers I’ve seen here and neither had Premier League experience.

With the next league fixtures over two weeks away, not a single Premier League match was postponed this weekend. Strange coincidence, considering there's usually 2-3 matches called off every week.

Enjoyed that. Could've been 3-0 up at half time had Broja not been offside twice. I don't know how close they were, but VAR didn't seem to take a look at either, so I'm guessing both calls were fairly concrete. We didn't seem to be able to pass the ball too well today, seemed to try hitting it into space, but a Man City player usually found the ball first, but we defended very well and after his mistake last week Forster was very good, think that was up their with his performance against Arsenal away (I believe, where we won 1-0?). In the stadium and from behind the goal, the De Bruyne penalty check looked clearly outside the box and even as though he took a dive, but they sure did have a good look at it. Will have to watch it back on the highlights. I thought the red card check was a bit of a surprise at the time too, though, and going from the posts on here we may have got away with one. In recent weeks clubs (Leeds and Arsenal from what I've noticed) have been posting up stricter rules for pitch invaders, kids in particular. Today a kid gets on the pitch and gets Grealish's shirt, which possibly incited a number of muppets to then run on the pitch individually. In my time following Saints I've never seen so many individual pitch invaders, for a match of this stature. It wasn't a good showing from the stewards and it looked like the Man City fans were kicking off at the end, throwing punches. So, we'll see what happens from that. But, going back to the players, we gave the runaway league leaders a game (again), taken two points from them this season. Maybe we should just play them every week to stop them walking to the title. Hats off to all at the club once more.

Even this winter break crept in slyly. It used to be half the teams played one weekend, giving the other half a break and then the other half played the following weekend, giving those who played the previous week a break. That was okay, as there was still football played. Now, it's everyone's off for a mini-break, jet around the world and play money friendlies. Taking away the key element of a "break". What's noticeable is that the Football League doesn't stop playing.

Try to say something positive about Norwich! Errrrr.... Argos? H&M? I wonder if he said the same in his Middlesbrough/Birmingham interviews.

Agree with all that is said. KWP is the better all round right-back currently, but Livramento is clearly a Premier League player already and possibly/probably has a higher ceiling. I don’t think Livramento should’ve been the automatic starter that he became straight away and think we could have rotated better, rather than playing KWP in an unfavoured position. We were crying out for one of these during the Cedric years following a very good right-back in Clyne and it is almost a shame that we have both at the same time. However, Hasenhuttl does need to be cleverer in how he’s using the two to ensure we don’t risk losing a very good player who would no doubt improve one of our close rivals.

One of the posts from the second page is good... "Vestergaard and Bertrand, in their departure messages to Southampton, were quoted as saying 'if you can't beat them, join them. Enjoy the relegation battle suckers!'" ... As we sit one point behind them...

Brentford's early season momentum has completely gone. Toney hasn't stepped up either, only two non-penalty goals. Ronaldo throwing a tantrum and sitting on the naughty step after being subbed off.

Djed Spence is living off the Arsenal cup game hype at the minute, where he bossed Martinelli, but Forest are on Sky quite a lot and in the Championship matches he hasn't really stood out for them and then you have the fact that Middlesbrough loaned him out to a divisional rival, rather thank keeping him for their own promotion push. They don't have the squad of a Chelsea/City/Any of the top six, so it's not really comparable to a deal like Broja. He'd be a good backup to have, probably a bit better than Pied's level, but you don't spend £15m on a backup and I really hope KWP doesn't leave. That would be poor squad management.