Matthew Le God

We do the same at academy level to clubs below us in the football 'food chain'.

Eckert confirmed in the press conference there is a January recall clause for Nick Oyekunle in his loan to Leyton Orient.

Saints mentioned as expressing an interest in him in this article... https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/football/wolverhampton-wanderers/wolves-working-on-deal-for-new-midfielder-8919822

We'd probably need to shift on transfer/loans all of Downs, Brereton Díaz and Archer for another striker to come in.

To Bournemouth?

He also didn't rule out another striker

How many games have they seen him play?

Why is that clear? Signing players like Jander and Scienza shows the current recruitment team is capable of spotting good players (even if they have mistakes like Downs).

That would give us a lot more money than Coventry used to get up

Point being... they did it without parachute payments

Because teams without parachute payments never get promoted?

"Juan Larios will leave Southampton this summer. The possibility that the promising 22-year-old left-back leaves without a transfer fee is accelerating some of the operations of the teams interested in signing him. His future could be resolved in the coming days."

Not if the rumour is made up! The rumour is for less than Saints paid for him. What is the incentive for Saints to agree to that? Hard to take such a rumour seriously and that journalist has a track record of bullshit!

We play a system with only one striker. Only one of our strikers can be the regular starter and that'll be Larin. What we need are backups to Larin who pose a threat. Downs and Archer so far don't look like they will be, so we need someone else.

Since then he has had a season in the Championship and is the 1st choice striker for England under 21s

It wasn't. He scored 4 goals for Waterford's 1st team in Ireland in competitive games.

He destroyed our under 18s team a few years ago. We couldn't cope with his strength and speed.

He had had quite a lot of minutes this summer for Man City's 1st team. Scoring 2 goals, one vs a Korean League select team and one vs Inter Milan.

The Daily Mail say we are in talks for Mubama

...or I was joking (So it is in fact you who was taking the other person literally, not me!)

We'd be arrested for indecent exposure