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Sabbath

Not seen that, but you can't blame the agent using the interest as leverage. If we end up chucking the lad much more than we want to, it's still good business if we can tie him down to a new deal, and ideally get a chunky release clause in there. I think he'll sign, but on the understanding that we won't stand in his way if a big club comes in or we get relegated.

Lolly

Carrot

Sure, I get that there's no antagonism from you, I just hadn't appreciated that there was history. Leave him to live with his resentment, it'll do him more harm than you.

So the beef here is about a disagreement over the running of a community centre?

Terror

Hmm. It depends what we offered him. If it was derisory or for too short a term, then we essentially did 'let' him leave.

Yep. He's not a solo CF. He needs to play with someone around him. People can defend RM as much as they like, and he was let down by poor finishing, but he's the one who sets us up and manages us during the game, and what he's doing just isn't working.

This irritates me. Any two strikers in that Sheffield United team would have looked shit, and Sheffield United would have gone down regardless.

7 mins for them and us. They managed them better than us.

Yep. Martin's tactics are as much of an issue as the players doing their jobs properly.

Che Archer 😂 You're not wrong.

Yep. Beautiful take as well, and the ball in from Lallana was lovely. Honourable mention to Archer for his part too.

So Lallana or Fernandes down the left? Neither of them are tracking back and covering. You're solving one problem and creating more.

https://www.nbcsports.com/watch/soccer/premier-league/tyler-dibling-drills-southampton-in-front-of-ipswich-town The goal. Not sure if it'll work without a Vpn set to the states.

In place of who? You take Lallana or Ferndandes out, we don't score that goal - Lesley wouldn't have taken up Fernandes position in the box to feed Lallana, and nobody other than Lallana is playing that ball into Dibling.

Correct boots. Wrong tactics. Boot the bloody ball clear.

Surely you ain't wanting him to start ahead of Suga or at LB?

He was, and he's been unbalancing us. Taylor is the correct pick today, as is Fraser ahead of him.

I'm not sure that's his game. If we lose midfield, we lose the game imo. Selection is brave or silly - we'll know later this afternoon.

That's a lot of responsibility on Downes today, but much more creativity in there. Some decent balance down the left should help us massively.

Yep, he's got enormous talent. For me the mystery is they perseverance with Larios. For me Meghoma has much more of chance in English football. Taylor I get to be fair. He's a PL player (just) and I think he'll play if KWP goes in January. It's the back up to Taylor on that situation that becomes an issue for me.

I'm not drawing an equivalence. I'm saying there is none.

I'm not sure whether it was the environment at Chelsea that he didn't like, or the realisation that he may play football here rather than have to go on loan to Belgium or wherever if he stayed there. Regardless, the decision to come back has worked our brilliantly for the lad and us. Jimmy Jay seems to be doing well at Chelsea to be fair, and I still can't blame the lad for going given where the club were at the time and the money thrown at him. Who's the kid who went to Brighton and ain't done anything? Meghoma will do well at Brentford and may feature today apparently.