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I still think Baz got more stick than he deserved... But Christ Almighty, it just feels different to have a shotstopper in goal. My anus is 50% less puckered at all times.

On the face of it SR are doing exactly what I’ve been predicting they’ll do - reduce overall squad quality by selling AA and brining this guy Larin in. If true it would be to form and the likely outcome is not particularly pleasing. However, there may be more complexity at play - perhaps AA wanted out and/or didn’t see eye to eye with Eckhert…perhaps Larin could be a good alternative to Stewart…perhaps we keep Archer who is given a more wing based role per Fellows? And perhaps this guy brings a new approach that we need. He’s certainly more experienced relative to other younger players which is something we’ve been missing. His video clips show he knows where to be in the box to score goals. Let’s hope he comes good.

his stats aint shit bro, he's 77 rated, Bro plays like he's on cheat mode for jumping and heading, he's gonna get bare head conversions.

People said exactly the same thing about Downs. Of course people will give this striker a chance and if he is successful and scores goals everyone will be very pleased. It's totally fine to look at his stats and what other supporters are saying and conclude that he looks shit though. Nothing wrong with that initial response at all. No fans were on Downs' back from day dot that's made up.

Hopefully people are digesting the fact that we got a win away and are looking a bit more progressive and might go out and buy a ticket..

Give this Larin bloke a chance... might be underwhelming but it looks like he's the man. Hopefully we see sense and at least keep Archer around (for the rest of the season anyway). Can definitely see the sense in parting with AA, even if I would've done it in the summer. Downs was obviously shit but having the fanbase on his back from day dot won't have helped any. Hopefully we won't do that again with Larin.

Now that I've had a bit longer to think about it, selling our top scorer midway through the season is a pretty big risk/gamble. As with all gambles it can go one way or the other. But, given SR have lost a lot of the support after the shitshow of last season and this one you'd think they'd be playing a few less risks and taking a more sensible approach to managing us. If this one also goes wrong and our season squanders into nothingness as we sit 7 points off the play-offs right now then there isn't a chance season tickets sell out next season and St. Mary's will start looking like Stoke's did at the weekend. Only leaves McCarthy and Stephens as the pre-SR players in the squad now, not including Romeu after his return and surely McCarthy goes this summer. Lascelles is a good get for Leicester. Leadership and physicality. Stephens and THB have been playing well since moving back to a back four, but I don't want to see Wood in the team for a long while.

Quite. It's easy to say "we can do better than him", but not so easy to say who. The January window is not a great time to be in the window for a CF when you're mid table, and have been through more managers than we care to remember. Clubs will want to offload shite to shift wages - that's the pond we're fishing in.

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If he's been told he's getting lots of game time, the forward position will be shared between him and Stewart. The SR smokescreen has the same player behind it, as there is in front of it. 🙂

I'm saying there will definitely be alternative players available to replace our top scorer than one who hasn't scored this year, has a deeply unimpressive scoring record and whose prospective signing is met with laughter from the fans of clubs who have first hand experience of the player. The idea that a professional football club with an extensive scouting network can only find one player to sign is obviously bollocks. We know this because of players we got turned down by in the summer where we then went and signed alternatives. We also know this because we know how transfers work. Such an odd thing to say.

Are we all hoping this is the biggest smokescreen ever? 😂

You can't have it both ways of saying you can't be expected to know what players are on the market, and then say there definitely must be better players on the market.

Yes.

And yet you assume that such a player exists, that they would want to come, we could afford them, etc. Maybe running a football club is harder than you think?

Maybe not in term of Prem quality, but many of them are solid players in our league. Armstrong is obviously seen as being worth a punt on if Middlesbrough and Wrexham want him. Edwards is considered quality by many and I don’t think we used him properly, but then you could say the same for many of the players on that list. My point is that if you let the likes of Armstrong and Archer go and either replace them with inferior players or no one at all, surely the club becomes less attractive to potential buyers. We were seen as a decent shout for promotion before the season started with these players. Are they rubbish or have we been playing a rubbish system and not got the best out of them?

Problem is, you've watched him with eyes. We're told not to watch with eyes and look at data. Both eyes and data say this guy is shit, so wtf are they playing at??

Who is better this bloke or downs?

I’m probably one of Adam Armstrong biggest critics, but as someone who has lived in Canada for 14 years and watched a few Canadian national team matches over the years, got to say I’d hands down keep AA over bringing in Larin. Another preposterous signing.

Obviously things might not work out like this and we may have another player lined up but if the remainder of the window ends up being Aribo, Armstrong, Archer and possibly Edozie out and this bloke in then I expect fans to be pretty upset and if we have any further performances like Hull or if Stewart gets injured again for a period then it's just further along the road to mediocrity.

In fairness to them. The likes of AA, Aribo, Bazunu, Macca, Edozie, Edwards, BBD, Archer are not "the family jewles". Scienza, Fellows, THB, Charles, Jander, and Azaz are - and we seem to be keeping them at least. So with the departures, it does allow a better restructuring in the summer and a chance to more efficiently allocate money where its most needed. Unfortunately we'll also be on our last year of parachute payments and facing a far harder championship next season.

I we do sign this guy can we at least see him on the pitch for us until we decide that he is rubbish?

And here was me thinking we couldn't sign anything worse than Downs..... What a club.

It’s the Sport Republic model. As long as we’re trading players it doesn’t matter what league we’re in, the model works!! We have utter clowns running the show. Sell yours and the leagues top scorer mid season when you’re “aiming for promotion”. Make it make sense.

As someone said previously, if they want to sell the club they get a better price if they sell it as proper going concern - a club that could get into the EPL without a huge investment. Sell off the family jewels and it becomes less attractive.