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Whatever JWP's attributes I don't think you can consider him an adequate replacement for Charles.

So we got good money for Charles and didn't replace him and good money for THB and look like replacing him with a young inexperienced lad with potential. The money situation must be dire.

Stephens is our captain. It will not be long before he is back in the starting eleven. You've been a fan for a while, surely you realise that. Like night follows day Stephens ends up a regular in our side.

Let's see.

I guess we can safely say Capn Jack is back in contention and likely to start lots of games.

We may well do but what is worrying some of us is that we started off looking as though we planned to splash some cash and buy someone decent but these deals fell through and we now seem to be aiming much lower. I get that everything is rumour and clickbait at this end of the window but we've seen many of these disappointments before as Saints fans.

Well he said he booked the holiday assuming the international break would be this week 🙂

He's on holiday. Already announced it on yesterday's Goin Home with Adam and Jo 🙂

Depends how the club view it and how much they trust Stephens and Wood to share the main duties with Schlotterbeck. If they are happy with them (which they were last season) then we only need to replace Quarshie.

I have been concerned that this might happen in terms of our centre backs. We've lost THB and Quarshie and brought in Schlotterbeck so the club are possibly taking the view that we only need a replacement for Quarshie and they see Luca Reggiani as an upgrade which few would dispute.

I guess it's swings and roundabouts - no system can be perfect with differing start dates. Personally I think our window should close before the season starts so it's then up to all clubs to get their business done within the time. Not ideal but neither is starting games while the window remains open.

I think most sensible people would agree with you on that. Never heard anyone explain logically why the window can't be set up to close before the first game although I get that the Premier League starts a week later than the EFL.

Didn't really affect us much considering we lost the one match he played in and won the two he missed. He was never going to play in the West Ham cup game.

You're right - the 4 million was his market value at the time.

Well he joined Elche CF in August 2024 for 4 million euros so not sure his value will have gone up that much in 2 years.