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I mentioned his xG recently and wouldn’t say it’s great but at Preston he scored roughly equivalent to what was expected which isn’t too bad in a side that didn’t actually create much. I was only making the point when comparing him against Azon though who is the complete opposite and scores roughly half the amount of goals he should be getting and last season missed more big chances than anyone else in the division. I can’t see us going big on someone like Vipotnik so I think whoever we do sign is going to be a big gamble.

Another right back. Could provide much needed cover for Bree. Roerslev and Sugawara. Fingers crossed 🤞

There was the potential to link the city centre to the docks which would have created so much investment into the area. Ocean village is literally high rises stacked onto high rises, the area is so poor in comparison to other waterfront cities. it’s painful to admit but Portsmouth waterfront is so much better. The council and its developers have done a great job there. The new development at Southsea is clean, tidy and well designed (ignoring Clarence parade!). It links Gunwharf Quays, there’s a vast range of pubs, shops and restaurants and a constant footfall along the way. It actually feels decent and there’s good transport links. Liverpool is similar- they have maximised their biggest asset (the waterfront) and turned this into their main hub which attracts lots and lots of investment. To get anywhere near to that level, we’d need billions of pounds pumped in. But there’s no investment, no vision and the council has sold off half the land anyway. We are years and years behind Portsmouth and Liverpool’s waterfront. And in the current economic climate, there’s limited chances of anything improving.

Traore is a box-to-box, box, box player, good at corners, though he did flag in the second half, always looked tyred - reminded me a bit of Chicane George from back in the day.

On balance the rest of what you say is the more compelling case.

I think 'whoosh' is the only suitable word for this post. Edit : Verbal was fastest off the line.

Can't wait for the new season to start 😊 opening with a cup game - 3-0 to us - Scienza, Dobbin and BBD to score 😊 COYR 😊

Radio 5 Live building it up as the second big match of the day (behind W Ham v Pompey) as it's our "first game since Spygate". As if that makes a difference.

I think our unbeaten run in championship will continue throughout this season.

I suspect you are right that there wasn't really an option for him to stay when we went down. He was our biggest signing when got to Premier League and would have been on big wages, so suspect we were keen to offload those wages once we were a Championship club again. I certainly don't remember any noises about him demanding a move or that Saints were reluctant to let him leave.

Our arse is on the line this season and we don't want a cock up.

It’s on sky so there’ll definitely be streams around.

Unsurprising, Mbappe has sunk a lot of money into the Stade Malherbe and his mum basically runs it, weeding out all those who've contributed to the disaster of the last few seasons. Valenciennes are basically rubbish, long gone are the Glory days of yesteryear. Might go and have a look when they play Le Puy, depends when it is because Massot on a midwinter saturday evening isn't an agreeable experience as a rule.

Think the issue is more ..... 20 match ?!

His goal record in general is pretty poor. No goals at Watford, 6 at Preston (although someone on here said his xG was good so either he’s not getting in positions to score or Preston don’t create any chances).

Hope that’s not the case. Need to nail the CF position, his time at Preston seemed pretty underwhelming in terms of goals.

Feels like we’ve moved away from loans now, in the summer window anyway.

L difference, Xg’s etc Why do I feel a disconnect with the modern game ? (Yes, I’m aware of the serious point you make…, but what a load of bollocks)

I am pretty sure the striker signing is going to be Jebbison on loan with an option. No intel, just feels like the kind of thing we’d be into.

miss with his left, miss with his right and miss with his header

right is this bollocks going to be on a stream later ? as I know the willy Wonka cup was a problem previously for streams

The design is mmmmmm ok not too bad, bold, shame not a yellow in with the blue but it’s the back of the shirt, it just looks awful and cheap, when u think of how many of these are not having numbers on, same with the home the block part is just awful. Surely on both kits for the actual team they cd just put a black number over a white rectanglular shape. In the old days when floodlights weren’t so good and cameras weren’t everywhere it seemed easy to spot who was who. I wd love to go back to numbers 1-11, things were so simple! Do we actually need a players name on the back?

sounds like sexual assualt

I could quite easily see him getting a last minute loan to Bournemouth. Not sure if Fraser Forster is the right man to be keeping pressure on the number one keeper there.