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Except the advice he received from Saints would be biased, and he would be receiving equally biased information from Chelsea. He’s an asset that both clubs wanted and he will be well aware of that when considering the offers, so no surprise he wouldn’t be sure whose version of ‘what's best for him’ would be correct. Also, plenty of players have made the move to Chelsea at a similar age and made the grade, or City. Lavia moved to them at 16 and two years later had a bid for his services of £50m! And of course you can be patronising to a 16 year old… I get told off by my even younger kids for being patronising to them on occasions! anyway, my point is not that Ralph’s comments are incorrect, just that they are better made in private conversations with the next player who thinks to leave the club like this, not for the entire public to read how a 16 year old made a mistake

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised anymore by this team…. Beat both Gloucestershire & the weather! Huge to get maximum points from that game, and pressure on Surrey now!

Well I was right that many would disagree with me 😂 I guess I'm most aligned with Badgers point about whether it needed to be said publically in the first place. Strikes me very much "I told you so", which for me is not necessary. The example Tyler has set though will be beneficial the next time the big teams come calling for one of our youngsters

Ralph has been commenting on Tyler today it seems https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/21116748.hasenhuttl-addresses-lessons-youngsters-shock-southampton-return-chelsea/ I suspect many will disagree, but his comments annoy me a bit. Quite patronising to say Tyler should have listened to the club more and I also don’t understand the comment about the club doing everything for its youth players. Tyler did what he thought was best, and then brave enough to say when he realised he’d made a mistake. I’m not sure Ralph’s comments will exactly help Tyler’s reintroduction into the club

Given the weather forecast earlier this week i probably would have snapped your hand off if offered max batting/bowling points and a draw. Here’s hoping we can do even better from here.

£4m according to the Echo

What is all this about him being disruptive?? Never heard this before good luck redmond. Solid but unspectacular for us, but did give us many great moments over the years

Looks like it's going to be a dead match given the weather forecast... Hopefully we can squeeze as many bonus points as possible in the time we do have, albeit we really need a win to stand any chance of overtaking Surrey

I’ve made this point already… but why on Earth would any player agree to this? What’s in it for them? City say, we’ll buy you back, give you £5m as a signing bonus, and then sell you on for £80m. Whereas the club that is willing to pay £80m could just offer Saints £70m direct (which you have to think we’d accept if the alternative is to lose him for £40m) and the end club could give the £10m saving direct to the player. The scenario makes no sense…. Financially it will always be better for Lavia to go straight to the end club Only way City activate their buy back clause is if they want the player for their squad, and that tbf is a distinct possibility in a couple of years time

Little surprised we turned it down tbh!! Guessing it wasn’t anything like £50m upfront though. Probably heavy on the add ons

Definite 9 for me, just the striker piece missing but the way we have strengthened the spine of the team is huge imo, should mean we concede less, and in turn get away with having a few fewer goals than we would like. That said Che should get 8-10 a year, which is about standard as a leading goalscorer for teams outside of top 6. Aribo could well contribute similar, and we have JWP as well so think we have enough. If A Armstrong continues on his resurgence as well he should get at least 5. As others have pointed out, the way the club has been transformed this summer, both in players and back room staff, is very promising indeed! I’m the most positive I’ve been about Saints since Koeman

Who doesn’t love a good poll. Summary of business (taken from Sky Sports so if anything is missing blame them) In Armel Bella-Kotchap - VfL Bochum, £9.5m Romeo Lavia - Man City, £12m Joe Aribo - Rangers, £10m Gavin Bazunu - Man City, £15m Mateusz Lis - Altay, free Sekou Mara - Bordeaux, undisclosed Ainsley Maitland-Niles - Arsenal, loan Sam Edozie - Manchester City, £10m Juan Larios - Manchester City, £6m Duje Caleta-Car - Marseille, £8.6m Out Oriol Romeu - Girona, undisclosed Nathan Tella - Burnley, loan Fraser Forster - Tottenham, free Harry Lewis - Bradford, free Ramello Mitchell - West Brom, free Dan N'Lundulu - Cheltenham, loan Kazeem Olaigbe - Ross County, loan Caleb Watts - Morecambe, loan Ethan Burnett - released Shane Long - Reading, free Oludare Olufunwa - released Benni Smales-Brathwaite - released Jayden Smith - released Will Smallbone - Stoke, loan Will Ferry - Cheltenham, undisclosed Jack Stephens - Bournemouth, loan Oriol Romeu - Girona, undisclosed Dynel Simeu - Tranmere Rovers, loan Yan Valery - Angers, £500k Jan Bednarek - Aston Villa, loan

Confirmed by Tanswell as well https://twitter.com/J_Tanswell/status/1565415149032415233

What player would agree to that though? You’re not going to sign for your previous club and then immediately sign for another one just so your previous club can make a few quid.

PSV are clearly trying to get more money for him. Still think he’ll go, but maybe Leeds more likely at this stage

Hopefully the buy out only kicks in after a certain period of time

He’s been playing so long he’s basically every other counties nemesis by this point… We probably were a little short with the bat given the position we got ourselves in, but could have bowled better as well. Shame, but hopefully we can keep up the pressure in the CC

They’ve sorted the audio on the live feed now

Agreed. Same goes to the idiots saying the club are leaking stories so they can claim “they tried”…. We’ve signed several players and, crucially, got them in early. If that means a quieter end to the window then that’s still a positive overall

Looking very much like we’ll be playing Kent in the Semis on Tuesday. Shame they couldn’t schedule it on the BH to get a better crowd…

Has he actually been linked away? Or is all the comments here speculation?

Great innings by a few, but Donald in particular has given us a great chance. Seems like all the players have made important contributions at some point in the group stages On commentary they were saying that Hants are missing 11 1st teamers for this comp (8 to the Hundred, and 3 more who are red ball only). Quite incredible how they’ve performed to date!

Or he’s requested to leave? We have no clue what’s going on, and we are only 3 games into the season so a little soon for such statements

Not sure if it's been said already in this thread but Alisha Ware has moved to play College Football in the US. Guessing that's a scholarship? https://nusports.com/sports/womens-soccer/roster/alisha-ware/10480

This is my view. You can’t just parachute players in for a single game. Some people were moaning about this after finals day, saying they were missing England players. When I asked whether those players played much in getting their team to finals day though they were curiously silent 😂