Lighthouse

As much as I’d like to be nice, I can’t help but feel that the number of PL appearances he made was a pretty tragic indicator of how poorly we’ve recruited goalkeepers over the years. Gunn and Bazunu aren’t PL players and he only got on the pitch at all because of Forster’s personal issues. Giving him a new contract two years ago really just showed how rudderless our recruitment was after Wilcox left. Still, on the upside he was once PotS and helped keep us up in 2018, so we can always be grateful for that. Good luck in the future Alex.

It was always a slightly fanciful signing if we’re being honest. The guy had been retired for six months and been playing in a league which was much less intense, so some of the suggestions that he’d be our fittest player and should go straight into the starting XI as captain were a tad optimistic. Having said that, I had hoped he might be good for 20 minutes here and there, so it was a bit sad to see what he actually produced on the pitch. I’ve never subscribed to the ‘great lad to have in the dressing room’ philosophy, especially after recent ‘contributions’ from Lallana and Walcott but I’ve no doubt he was at least a small positive influence on our squad. Good luck in your retirement Rom!

Good luck to him. We knew it was a risk when we signed him, if he had been fit in that first season he’d have been a hell of a player for us. Ultimately though, he has been here three years and even now he looks gassed after 60 minutes and can’t start two games in a week. I doubt that’s going to change after he turns 30 in a couple of weeks. People wishing him injury need to grow us, that really is just sad. His contract expired, he’s well within his rights to leave. It’s like reading Liverpool fans whinge about Trent, all over again.

I believe Ghana had to fight for their right to Partey.

Another senior Russian general gets his tits blown off in Moscow. How sad.

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.