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I'm sorry but have you just put Pele, Shearer and Chris Wood in the same list?

Fulham striker Jay Stansfield to Birmingham City for £12m

Telegraph saying Crystal Palace have made Odsonne Edouard available to loan at very late notice, obviously signing Cornet means we are out of the running

I don't think Cornet's camp would want to fuck us over, tbh. They currently represent Archer, Edozie, Lumley and they'll know that Cornet's signing facilitates getting Edozie out on loan (presumably)

Apparently our new U21 manager (Simon Rusk) was his England U19 head coach, so guessing that's where it came from

Bloody hell are we still going on about this? It's almost 2025 now (looked tidy the other night, good to have him in the group)

Signing both of them

Fraser as a squad option is fine. He’s better than Edozie right now and enables him to go and play regularly in the Championship, which he really needs to do. He’s totally ineffectual at PL level right now sadly Puts more experience and character in the dressing room too, which it definitely seems Russ values

Asked a friend who lives in the States and watches a tonne of MLS for his reaction: He's good. Like really good. England youth international but speaks with a real strong American accent, which is pretty funny. Says he isn't anything flashy but he stands out as a very mature, composed centre mid. Good range of passing, plays some great deep passes for wide players and forwards, just very tidy and high IQ for his age. Worth a trial for an English side to see how he stacks up against their own young players.

New England's season is likely to end in two games (too far off to make MLS playoffs, I think) so they will be in their off-season until March time. So this is a glorified trial for the lad and we just have to make a decision by the end of January as to whether we're going to buy him or send him back

Being reported that an unnamed Premier League club (understood to be Nottingham Forest) came in for Ramsdale after seeing Saints agree the deal with Arsenal, but Ramsdale's agent told them he wasn't interested because he'd already spoken to Russell Martin and said he was coming

Ramsdale: "I’m delighted. The way the manager was when I spoke to him. I’d never met the manager before but he made me feel about eight feet tall."

Official.

Our club record signing has signed the contract dressed as Hagrid

This should be imminent

Just seen Ornstein correcting that it's not £40m for Toney, it's £33m - considering the talk of what they'd get for Toney if/when they sold him... that's low (granted contracted situation and they got 1yr of extra PL status by keeping him longer)

Chelsea and United making progress on a deal for Jadon Sancho, apparently. Will require Raheem Sterling to go somewhere... Arsenal? I'd take him on loan if I were them, can't see them buying him though

Ornstein / The Athletic: Arsenal reach agreement with Bournemouth to sign Neto on loan, medical on Friday morning - which will allow Ramsdale to complete permanent move to Southampton

Cornet really likes cutting in and shooting from outside the box, heaven help him