Baird of the land

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

I can see why they’d be interested. He’s clearly talented, he’s just far too prone too switching off in terms of concentration for my liking.

At 21 being sent on loan to a league one probably is not indicative of breaking into first team at saints.

Don't see any point in loaning him out. If he's going to leave its because its going to generate significant funds.

At 26 you'd really feel Zaha needs his big move this summer if it is going to happen.

If we get big money for someone that erratic and not in our first choice center mid pair it seems pretty obvious to take it. Think we’d need some sort of midfielder to come in though not at anywhere near the price level of lemina.

Guessing some of the add ons are to cover ourselves in case he suddenly blooms into an england international. 11 m seems a decent fee anyway for both sides.

A cb probably next priority. Ideally someone bids for Stephens first. Lots of questions beyond that in terms of if get bids for players on fringe of xi/shift completely unwanted if someone like lemina is moved on we’d need a center mid If boufal is off we might need another wide option in Ralph’s preferred 4222 At full back the question is does Ralph like Ramsay/Vokins given we do move Cedric/targett on For keeper if we somehow sell both Forster/McCarthy is Lewis considered backup quality.

Makes sense, freeing up room for Vikings to develop. Ideally you’d hope we’d get them up closer to 10m.

It’s not going to be sorted. The big teams will get even more decisions with var.

Hate those there’s barest of contact and ergo it’s a penalty decisions. Current var was never going to do anything but rubber stamp that poor decision which makes one wonder why the need for another delay. Looking forward to ad companies buying var break ad space on sky/but etc.

That’s how I see. By simple fact of having more possession the big teams will benefit more. Man city struggling to break down a team, here’s var with some marginal call. Then you’ll see the same marginal call half the time during the season be nothing.

Fifa getting more laughable. It’s ok for keepers to get sent off as part of their stupid penalty rule for 120 minutes but not ok to do so for them for same offense in penalty shoot out.

While it is positive that premier league won’t be using var for goalkeepers positioning it’s still unclear if that means referees will effectively continue with the previous convention/tolerance despite adopting the rule or whether referees will be attempting to strictly apply it just without var. i’d Hope it’s the former and that fifa will quietly back away from their crime scene after wc.

I'm very anti VAR but Also the whole added delay of the referee on the ground having to go view the incident is idiotic. If you are going to have some idiot in the sky reviewing an incident. Just have them the power to make the call.