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If that’s the case then so be it, but his replacement really shouldn’t be this year’s, "great lad in the dressing room," nostalgia option, which seems to crop up every transfer window.

Romeu is 34 next month and was mostly used as a late sub in the second half of last season. I’ve no idea why some people are so keen on repeating the Walcott/Lallana mistake time after time. He did well for us but he’s the past, move on. We’re fine in CM with Downes, Charles, Smallbone and whoever replaces MF.

Smart motorways which seem to just pick random speed limits for no reason. I was coming around the M25 last night - 50 40 60 40 40 50 60 40 50 and not so much as a traffic cone or a single car on the hard shoulder or anywhere else.

Adams and Mara scored 19 between them. I am fairly sure Downs, Archer and Stewart are capable of that, combined, and I'm not even expecting BBD to stick around.

Adams scored 16 goals, which is hardly Mitrovic territory, and we should comfortably be able to replace. In spite of that we still got promoted scoring 91 goals. Our problem last time was defence. If you're expecting better strikers than we have, you're going to be disappointed. We have neither the need nor the budget.

We got promoted last time with Adams and Mara as our strikers and the problem was defence. There're more than enough goals in the collection of strikers we have.

The BIB we've already agreeed on. We have smallbone in CM, I doubt we'll be getting an extra option as well as a MF replacement. Likewise I can't see us replacing Dibling AND getting another winger, let alone two. We have Fraser and Robinson already, plus supporting strikers who can play deeper and wider. We aren't getting another forward either, unless about three of our current options leave. We have Stewart, Archer, Downs, BBD and AA, which is probably the strongest collection of forwards in the league.

I know Farmer was joking but we genuinely did build a pretty solid Championship squad last summer. We need a creative midfielder, a RB and a replacement for MF if he leaves. Apart from that our squad looks in pretty good shape. I'm not sure what else you expect the club to have done. We've clearly identified the likes of Rudoni and Spertsyan and are working on deals for them. Don't foget our best period in the last forty years began with Mane and Toby both being signed on deadline day.

What make you think we're unprepared? We seem to be doing fairly well for our part, having identified targets in key areas and targets and brought in a couple of decent-ish looking prospects. No amount of preparation is going to hurry other clubs, players and their agents into the deals we want, when either buying or selling.

Guys, this is all my fault. I tried to order a new Bearsy from Temu.

Hopefully he brings creative talents to the table but his career scoring record is underwhelming.

I’ll never understand grown men acting like teenagers who’ve just broken up with Jenny in year 9.

This is all built on assumption and impatience. The clubs clearly feel there is a worthwhile deal to pursue and that an acceptable price is within reach. There're still two weeks of the transfer window to go, you've no idea what deadlines the club have imposed on this deal and whether or not they'll go to the final day.

I remember a significant number of people saying the same about Orsic. We’ll have an acceptable fee in mind, if Krasnodar won’t accept it then we move on. I wouldn’t expect Everton to ‘just pay whatever it takes to get Dibling’ and neither should we.

Proper kick off time at St Mary’s, got to make the most of them.

Every used car I've ever bought, looked at or test driven had, "two more people coming to look at it this afternoon." I'm not saying we're definitely getting Spertsyan but these stories are hardly unexpected.

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He's a ‘wide’ player but not a ‘wide’ player.

I just can’t fathom how Sunderland have managed to do that. They didn’t sign a bottom half Championship defender for £3m or a 37 year old cripple who’s ’great in the dressing room’, how can they possibly succeed?!

Spurs are really going to have to go all out to lose this 4-3.

Win - win for both of them really. Putin gets to look like he has forced the west, and the US in particular, to the negotiating table with his 'military operation'. Trump gets to tell his gimp supporters that he's a master negotiator and will be the one to smooth over a peace deal in Ukraine. Of course none of that has any basis in reality but if enough of their supporters believe it, they wont care.

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Which tree do you think Downes, THB, Quarshie, Stewart and the rest of one of the best squads in the Championship grew on? We clearly didn’t get recruitment right in the PL but there’s no doubt we’re spending money trying to improve the first team. Parkinson my have been hypocritical in pointing out that we brought £30m of talent off the bench but he’s not wrong.

He’s not going to be signing a contract with us on the off chance he gets a career ending injury aged 19. He will be no different to any of the many, many other players who’ve done the same thing.