Lighthouse

Somebody commented that Bayern fans were unanimously happy to see the back of Peretz and thought it was strange. I don't think it is, for reasons I've already explained. If you think Bayern fans are all wrong, you're welcome to sign up to their forum and tell them that the goals he conceded against Mainz or Kaiserslauten or whoever, "would have been six with Bazunu in goal FFS!" then you crack on. So far, all we know about Peretz is that he's decent at this level. So were Vydra, Armstrong, Rasiak, Kelvin, Akinbeye, Holt, Bednarek, Fox, Hooiveld and countless other players I CBA listing. Hopefully we get to find out in 15 months or so that he can make the step up better than the other players I mentioned.

He hasn't been 'cancelled' he has stepped down after some pretty serious allegations from multiple different sources. It's clearly in everybody's interest for him to step away from running a football club whilst this is investigated. I'm not sure what's, "holier than thou pearl clutching," here either, what he's been accused of is pretty serious. Guilty or not, I'd like to think that 99% of people would never do the things these women are claiming.

The books are going to have to be balanced somewhere, I’d much rather do this and keep players like Scienza. We got promoted before with Aribo, Smallbone and Downes, we can get promoted next year with JWP, Bragg and Downes. There would probably be a fourth option too, for a reasonable price or on loan.

It’s a plausible rumour. He’s basically finished at West Ham, one year left on his contract and Nuno obviously doesn’t think much of him. We probably wouldn’t be able to afford his wages, but I doubt the Hammers would get 100%from anyone else. Selling Jander and Charles whilst getting JWP on loan for 75% wages makes a lot of sense financially, we probably make £40m net profit out of it.

Breaking news: Bayern Munich fans opinions don't pivot around an Irish GK who has never played for them. Peretz has only ever made four appearances in any top division in his life, conceding five goals. It's perfectly understandable that Bayern fans don't rate him up with Neuer and Ulreich. They are used to seeing one of the best goalkeepers in history, week in, week out. Their standards will be sky high. If someone inexperienced came in and made the mistakes Peretz did against Charlton, Preston, Ipswich and Doncaster, they aren't going to be as forgiving as Saints fans.

They support Bayern Munich, one of the biggest clubs in world football, with expectations of winning the Bundesliga and aspirations of winning the Champions League. Peretz is a decent Championship player but then so were Jan Bednarek, Adam Armstrong and Danny Fox. If by some miracle one of those three ended up at Bayern, the fans would almost unanimously agree that they were sh*t.

Was it Taylor the club made a really elaborate, special forces action thriller style video, just to announce he’d signed a one year extension? I’m pretty sure it was for one of our reserve keepers round about the Koeman/Puel era and was quite laughably OTT.

Makes sense keeping him as back up. I can imagine we're paying him a fair bit less than Baz and McC, which is something which we'll have to factor in this season. A decent amount of experience at this level which will be useful, should Peretz pick up a knock.

The F1 coverage’s obsession with Kim f**king Kardashian, like it’s somehow a privilege for the sport to have her there.

I'd say that was true of Larin and perhaps Matsuki but the two you've mentioned have performed better in previous seasons. Archer scored 11 in half a season previously and Edozie scored 6 and looked dangerous before getting clobbered at Norwich two years ago.

There is absolutely no way we can afford to have Peretz, Baz and Ramsdale on the books next year. I’ll say with near certainty that the latter two won’t be here one way or another. We’re going to need back up keepers and Long fits the bill, having been here half a season already he’s a known quantity and has nearly 300 league appearances.

I don’t edit the BBC sports page, so I’ve no idea what you’re asking.

I’ll pass thanks. Looked poor in the Championship last time and has done nothing at Juve or Everton to suggest any improvement. His whole reputation is propped up by four goals in 2023.

A Championship club being kicked out of the playoffs for cheating is ‘front page’ news. A Championship club signing a goalkeeper isn’t.

I don’t think a 6’1" 24 year old with 23 league goals is going to be either of those things, at least for another Championship team. He’ll most likely end up at one of the promoted teams or somewhere like Leeds or Forest. We have to balance the books this summer, I don’t think we’re going to be seeing £15m+ signings, especially a striker when we’ve just signed Larin.