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Exclusive from Independent - Fulham in for JWP: https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/southampton-james-ward-declan-rice-fulham-manchester-city-b2362372.html - JWP prefers to sign for Fulham than West Ham - He sees them and Marco Silva as a better fit for him - He's already knocked back Brentford, who made an enquiry

Gillingham v Saints

Well, they're giving it a much-needed clean up

I can see them signing both. Pretty sure they've got quite a hefty budget this summer and if they're letting two or three of Xhaka/Lokonga/Elneny/Partey go then they'll need two new faces.

Incredible work from the Valenciennes fans

It's not even worse than the white shirt we've been playing in this past season, which I'd rank as my least favourite in a long while. I really disliked the 2019 kit with the big black block at the top too. Dishonourable mentions for the reverse sash in 2020 and the red and gold effort under Cortese.

Arsenal also played in an Ajax type kit pretty recently with weird navy bits on it too. Liverpool played in a kit with diagonal orange stripes/flashes. United played in a red and black fading kit, City whacked a maroon collar in and centralised the badges. Clubs tweak things, it happens everywhere and it’s nothing to do with destroying tradition. Such melodramatic nonsense. Clubs like to mix it up and it makes commercial sense. If you churn out the same design every single year then you see more sales drop off because people who are in the target markets go ‘looks just like the one I have already, I’ll just wear this instead’. If it looks good in person/on pitch and we play well in it, then it’ll sell. That’s how it goes.

It has literally got red and white stripes on it.

Reading are a League One side nowadays but the point probably still stands 😂

But she didn’t pull the funding, did she? The funding continued pretty strongly with her until she sold 80% to Gao, that’s when the funding got pulled. Also to answer the bit in bold: quite a bit if he was a competent executive? We still had a top half wage bill for our time under her ownership. It was only once Gao became the majority shareholder that Semmens was tasked with wrestling the wage bill down. At one point it was the biggest wage bill outside the top 6, from memory,

Thank fuck. That’ll do, get rid.