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Think that tended to be more of a feature under Semmens when we identified players like Gakpo and Ramos despite never really having much of a chance to sign either. Sports Republic seem to have the opposite problem in that they've often signed the players they've identified - I'm not sure anyone would really have minded missing out on BBD, Archer or Downs. To be fair Spors hasn't really had too many misses though.

What I meant was get the ball and give it to someone else, just like JWP did. I think the term - modern though it is - 'recycle' actually describes that quite well: prime pointless football, just like RM used to ensure we played.

" We really hoped he would join but in the end we couldn't quite get the deal across the line. The tightness of the remaining time meant moving on alternatives was not possible ".

Unfortunately we see it on this site enough - the British people are disgusting as a race.

Fine for the Scottish League, yes?

Could THB be on the list to replace Konsa at Villa, or are we expecting them to sign someone more established at European level.

Mostly positive news, except no mention of BBD.

FFS, the state of some people.

Portsmouth makes sense for Bazunu 🙂

Definitely unlikely all the time we've got Archer, BBD and Downs still hanging around and probably not the best idea to try and convince someone who's already apparently rejected you once. Shame though as he does look to be exactly the kind of player we should have been signing to replace Stewart.

Hadn’t heard of the bloke until about a week ago, so open minded about it. Pros: seemed promising from time in Salzburg. And matches the profile for a Stewart replacement (Dobbin and Muamba don’t) Cons: pretty unimpressive time at Lazio to now be surplus. Has already rejected the option of the move. (Last signing from Lazio I think was poor - surely he’s not the Wesley Hoedt of strikers). Can’t see this happening the more I think about it. Having declined us once it seems an unlikely u-turn. Gut feeling is that having not made it in Italy he’ll look to head back to Serbia (perhaps seeing it as a safer option). Aren’t Red Star Belgrade the glamour team for most Serbs (unless you support Partizan)? Hope Saints don’t wait on this too long. (Having said this, watch the fucker being announced this evening).

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cqp9el2ml339t There'll be celebrations up and down the UK now... The downvotes say it all:

But where would their illegal immigrants come from? They've shut the border to Belarus, Ukraine is a huge border for them, and I'm not sure whether Africans can make it that way particularly easily. I would guess they get them from Syria and Iran, possibly, but why would they go to Poland rather than Germany?

How many though, I guess that is the question, and yes we need to be better at weeding out those that are economic migrants.

I can’t speak for the poster you are responding to, but personally my jitters are based on Dragan’s apparent over promising and the belief that we didn’t have time to faff about given our starting league position and the seemingly more competitive nature of the championship this season.

Couple of linked articles further up the thread

I think the only way they have of shifting a few more tickets for this now is by putting in an outstanding performance and result Saturday that leaves fans desperate for more. £27+ still rules me out though. Should never have been over £15 with 3 home games in a week,

Wonder if the poor sod had been trapped in from the end of last season.

I like Archer and would prefer him to stay over the other less favoured players rumoured to go, I have no idea about Dobbin, can’t say I’d really heard of him before we signed him and he hasn’t done much so far. Let’s hope he delivers.

The Expos moved and became the Washington Nationals. ( The last player playing in professional sport who had been drafted by the Expos was Tom Brady, who they picked as a catcher in the MLB draft straight out of High School, but Brady preferred to play college football. The rest, as they say, is history. )

You really should not have used a highly selective quote from my earlier post to illustrate your anger, promoted by you in more than one post this week alone, that others are judging new signings too early. You quoted the first six words of one of my sentences, which continued as below. In the context of the rest of my post, any sensible reader could discern that I was being positive for him to improve on the form of his first two properly competitive games for us and that I hoped he would do so. This is a football forum and posters share their varied opinions. Thankfully we do not all have the same beliefs and ways of expressing them.

Pogba on the move. (MLS probably)

Sounds like Bazunu could be on the move soon. Ramsdale most likely a loan sadly.

From the stories I've heard and video snippets I've seen from Polish people I know, their border police are particularly ruthless! There is no survival blanket, cup of tea and plate of biscuits on offer and those that manage to get over some pretty large fences are then escorted back to the top of the fence and unceremoniously dumped over it. Meanwhile, the land borders are patrolled by equally ruthless police and potentially some vigilantes who aren't very pleasant when they find people crossing illegally. I guess they've made the country not very inviting so have seriously limited the number wanting to go there. They have, though, taken a very large number of genuine Ukranian refugees.

The keeping situation is such a mess at the moment, three big earners on the books and we can't shift two of them. Ties up a decent amount of finances.