Lighthouse

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.

He'll be able to leave next summer to any number of clubs for about £15-20m, which means his agent can demand a sizeable signing on fee and shop around for whoever offers him the best deal.

Not a chance.

You can't just forget money from a year ago because you want to spend more. It doesn't work like that. Nobody is celebrating selling players. If we did stop making a profit on the likes of Lavia, that wouldn't stop us from signing substandard players. We've been relegated twice because we've recruited poorly and the odds are now heavily stacked against us with regards to finances and PSR. The majority of the ground work was done by the Gao takeover and his complete lack of investment.

Players very, very rarely stick around at clubs which are beneath their level. It's neither recent nor exclusive to Saints. You can complain about selling MF if you like but we only bought him in the first place because we sold Lavia and Livramento.

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Not a happy return for Dutchy.

Maybe if they sell him Juve will finally activate that €50m release clause we’ve got for Alcaraz.

I’m not convinced by that midfield combo of Fred Dibnah and Scatman Crothers.

TBF, they do need to start cutting costs. The recent VPN laws have seriously affected their owners' income.

There's clearly absolutely no sense in playing Dibling until the transfer issue is resolved. Not only do we not want him injured, he really wont want to get injured. He wont be busting a gut risking muscle injuries and forget 50:50s, he wont be going in for any 90:10 challenges. If he's still here when the window closes it's a different matter but he wont be playing against Ipswich or Stoke.

He'll go when Everton offer an amount that we consider acceptable.