Matthew Le God

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

We won 2-0, had 74% possession and 25 shots. The 1st half looked a little rusty but it was the first competitive game and we looked a lot better as the game went on. Hardly a disaster!

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He effectively has 2 years left on his contract, as the club has a one year extension option.

Pre-season is about building fitness. A high quality opponent isn't required. Most pre seasons we only play one or two top league European teams and we did that this summer when we played a Bundesliga team.

We signed him for €500,000. Some of that money will be due this window. Seemingly a bargain at that price!

Traore has left on loan with Le Mans having an option to buy. So Saints aren't keen on keeping him.