Baird of the land

I'm somewhat hopeful that better levels of fitness from pre-season will help improve in that regard, in the worst case scenario where we have to work with what we've got.

Is Hesketh not another one of the 34?

One disaster off the books at least. Few more to go.

They have a tendency of giving large amounts of money to Liverpool in return for taking tripe. So at least we beat them in that regard.

Wonder if Hesketh is close to sorting out a move. Also wonder if Adams going is a PR exercise for the chinese audience, showing off the new signing.

Saints goal was a complete gift. Nice movement by preston’s Bodin but then it was the useless hoedt he breezed past.

I’m hopeful proper pre-season intensity will be a help.

Can’t see it, he’s been woeful with us and then woeful on loan.

Confused why we should keep an underperforming player who wants to leave at all costs. Personally i'd happily take a decent fee for him and invest it in a player that wants to be here.

Yeah the other day i was astounded looking at Wikipedia at the number of goals he has scored given how poor he's been.

"I will be 39 in January but I am physically fit and could have carried on. What I didn't want to be was someone who was thrown on to have balls smashed up to them." This line amused me. So basically going to Burnley made him want to retire.

Decent move for Sam & money for Saints. Hope he can kick on with first team football for them.

The reality is that we are never going to get that sort of fee for someone who is on the fringes of our squad, who while talented has never performed with any sort of consistency. I'll be happy just to escape from this one unscathed and invest that money elsewhere in someone committed to Ralph's project.

Seems fine. Hopefully we can get it sorted quickly.

Ming’s was worth 25m to villa because he did so well for them. Nobody else was going to pay near that. Same way saints got stitched up for saganowski back in the day There’s a good article on foo5ball365 about exactly this.

We've done more business than many so far. Now we need to hope we can move some on, so we can make further improvements.

He deserved panning, signing a new contract in January with a release clause till the end of June that no one activated. Then his agent starts acting like he's being treated abominably. West Ham have done well to be shot of him.

Even if they are interested he may he's alternative choice if they can't get their first choice target.

Giving we bought him for was it 18m i'd be happy enough with 20m

Final Nail in the coffin of the previous crop of youngsters who’s development had been mucked about with during previous incumbents reign. Hope the likes of reed/hesketh can get decent permanent moves sorted. No clue how the useless hoedt made the cut, hopefully it’s just to get him in the shop window due to his sheer ineptitude leading to no current interest.

Hopefully someone is going to come in with a real bid shortly. Seems a situation where this dragging on his hardly going to be helpful to us.

VAR once again showing off how awful it is.

They sold Grigg in Jan to Sunderland didn’t they.

7m million for long would be great. Can’t see them bidding it though.

Given white’s finishing it is bizarre she isn’t the penalty taker