Saint Scott

I don't see Palace as anymore attractive than us to be honest. They've already lost Olise and potentially 2 of their starting 3 CB's in Anderson (Fulham) and Guehi (Newcastle) are likely off in the next 10 days.

https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/saints-swoop-for-fernandes

JWP was on £100k at Saints, i'm pretty sure that increased to £115k when he joined West Ham.

He's still got 3 years on his contract so I doubt that highly. I'm sure Celtic would love to keep him for another 6 months at the least, if he has a good start his value will only increase.

We've been linked with O'Riley for 2 or 3 windows

How is it baseless? We need to sell to buy clearly. We won't be dropping £40m on two new midfielders.

We clearly needed to sell first to fund any move as Martin stated too. I can't see us being in for him at all now though with Fernandes coming. A poor decision if so at €18m if O'Riley is available for €25m

Yes, quoting him incorrectly. It seems crook can't even get that right. As hypo said he's neglected to mention the "right now" which changes the comment entirely

Alex Crook. lol

"The striker returned to the Midlands in June, featuring heavily in pre-season, and now joins up with the Saints squad in time to travel with the team for the season opener at Newcastle."

As long as the paperwork was submitted to the PL they can be. I imagine the media department will be doing their bit this afternoon

Yeah, I picked up on that too. It does feel like the dominos are falling in to place, other suitors have moved on to other targets and having Shea as a make weight is a big bonus chip in our pocket. 12/1 on bet365 at the moment if you're feeling lucky

I am optimistic about O'Riley. Atalanta have seemingly turned their attentions to Lazar Samardzić as per Fabrizio Romano last night, with further updates this morning that a deal is progressing.

I'm personally hoping Archer is a Mara replacement and we're still looking for another forward to replace Che

French media reporting Strasbourg are in advanced talks with us for Mara

Interesting...

Thank goodness for that. Deals off

4 goals in 30 games last season at Sheffield United. I was hoping for somebody more exciting tbh

Will have played with Sully at Rennes. Can't say I know too much about him. My father-in-law's opinion: (Chelsea ST holder) "He's a big unit, can't really say what he's like as he's another sick note from last year, when he did play looked ok on the ball and tried to get forward" He'll be best buds with Stewart and Lallana then

He clearly doesn't fit RM system which is a shame because there is a player in there. However, at this moment in time I'd swap him for O'Riley if this sale funded it