Baird of the land

Guess I’ll be cheering on Canada, with current saint larin and former saint Alfie jones.

The option to extend the existing deal by a year would surely be at a set contractual rate.

Players are going to back themselves. Barring a serious injury he’s likely to get at worst a similar 1 year deal based on this season’s performances.

It’s completely imprudent. If we got promoted we’d have a tonne of money to improve the team and Stewart has shown ability to produce at that level(when he’s been fit). Not extending him means we’ve now down a key player when our finances are very constrained.

Hope the idiots didn’t screw up the Charles extension option too.

There was no reason to wait that long to trigger the extension.

Quite sensible approach by Ross. Will probably get a premier league opportunity, especially if he does anything in the World Cup. utterly stupid by saints to take a situation where we had control to extend at least a year, instead were either going to in a bad negotiating position to get him back or more likely having to stump up yet more money to buy a replacement.

Really amateur by the club. Guess we can all expect him to do something at the World Cup too now that we’ve wet the bed spectacularly.

If it’s true it’s another mess made by the club. Another hole to fill.

Don't know if he'll develop into more than he is but seems to me there's a lot of recency bias rather than season long view. His strength is as a DM and we've got a number of CM with that trait at the club, whereas Charles is our only CM who offers more of a threat.

I'm hoping we keep hold of Charles. If we have to sell a midfielder i'd hope it would be Jander.

No I rate both types of midfielder and think the variety is important. For much of the unbeaten run him and Shea were rotating starts.

For such a complete cm, I seem to have missed his goals/assists in that game i certainly remember the Leicester where he was dragged off after 45 minutes for actively playing for Leicester.

Sounds a far better description of jander honestly

Personally I'd swap order of jander and charles in that list.