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Interesting snippet from Reading's Ballard announcement - Set to make the reverse move is talented 16-year-old midfielder Thierry Rohart-Brown who we can confirm we have accepted an offer for in exchange for an undisclosed fee from Southampton.

Arsenal is a good move for Lavia, would've hated to see him rot away at Chelsea or United - should get a decent fee and hopefully a substantial sell on clause!

Makes a move for JWP very unlikely

The players should probably start focusing on doing their own jobs with some degree of competency before weighing in on managerial appointments

Has he gone yet?

The board have relegated us with an appointment that every man and his dog could see was wrong. Utter incompetence.

Thought it was quite in keeping with the usual standard of posting on this site tbh

Knew it was the bad appointment as soon as he was described as a devout Christian. We need someone who lives in the real world, his imaginary friend won't be scoring any goals

Welcome, Paul!

Scott Parker's exact words to their board minutes before he was sacked.

Or they could pay an actual fee...

Quincy Promes 2.0 I guess. Funny how we seem to get 'close' to spending big money but it never actually happens eh

Is the Gakpo transfer a saga yet?

I thought he did a pretty good job of beating his man a number of times against Leeds. Remains to be seen whether that's a one off or not but he certainly seems to have improved in my eyes

Was about to say this. Unfortunately it doesn't fit the narrative

Nothing like seeing the hot tag on a transfer target thread and getting your hopes up only to find its a completely unrelated argument about a player that left the club 6 years ago!

Must be off to Spurs

Brojas 18 from last season still available...

Don't think KWP will be heading back to Spurs anyway

Completely forgot about Small taking no. 16! Good spot! I like 15 on Lavia and think ABK wore 37 at Bochum so that makes sense. Doesn't look like Aribo has a number yet?

Anyone fancy taking a stab at the numbers assigned to the new players? Last seasons numbers below: 1. Alex McCarthy 2. Kyle Walker-Peters 4. Lyanco 5. Jack Stephens 6. Oriol Romeu 8. James Ward-Prowse 9. Adam Armstrong 10. Ché Adams 11. Nathan Redmond 13. Willy Caballero 15. Romain Perraud 17. Stuart Armstrong 19. Moussa Djenepo 20. Will Smallbone 21. Tino Livramento 22. Mohammed Salisu 23. Nathan Tella 24. Mohamed Elyounoussi 27. Ibrahima Diallo 32. Theo Walcott 35. Jan Bednarek 43. Yan Valery I reckon: Bazunu: 25 Lis: 26 ABK: 3 Lavia: 16 Aribo: 18 7 to be reserved for a striker/winger (hopefully)

I think Crook might actually have lied his way into a position where he now has actual sources. Fake it till you make it type of thing - he's obviously a clown but seems to have been right about Svanberg at least and working at talkshite probably does come with some sort of inside info

No one thinks they're saving the world. Imagine being so small minded you think a bit of basic human decency and respect foe others is pointless if it's not changing the world.