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Saw this one! Barnes has looked brilliant 2nd half I love how direct he is.

but actually? Can’t find a stream

How are people watching this?

Southampton fans replying to the rumours of him not in squad tonight for Saints saying it was purely due to injury

Quiet old place

Atrocious website isn't it!

Just keep clicking in and out of memberships and eventually it goes into your basked rather than a queue.

Was queue position 1,200 got to the website loading and then 'rejected queue position, please click to find a new queue position'. 52,000 now. Shambolic system, hope these aren't limited if they are the club is getting an almighty Karen email as i have screenshots of it all.

Caulkin being out there made me realise how little he actually tweets about us nowadays. Mandy must have him on a tight leash regarding exclusives.

Chelsea have Chilwell, Hall and Maatsen for LB. You'd imagine something got to give there

Agree. Compare this to RCB and we're an injury away from Lascelles playing at the Bernabau

Feels like things have really kicked into gear this week. Hard to see us not adding 2-3 more after Barnes before summer is out?

Yeah he's not falling into the world class bracket lets be honest. He gets bums off seats when he beats a man but doesn't offer a lot else. We kept him for a few years under Ashley which says it all. Nobody wanted to spend any decent amount of money on him.

Razor sharp 2nd half. Be interesting to see if he plays majority of his games LW or RW this coming season. I think he's a lot more comfortable at LW receiving the ball back to goal and then drifting across the pitch. Seems to beat players for fun that way.

At only 17 as well. Bright future for him and Anderson

45 mins last night and I could see why those inside the club felt so lucky to land him. He fit into that RCM role like a glove, already seeing those channel runs into the box with Trippier constantly looking for that ball down the side of the box for him. But the quality of his touch/passing looks a level above what we already have. Appreciation for where the receiving player wants the ball at such a consistently high level and he seems to have a knack to move the ball out of tight areas with one touch passing at ease. Also loves a tackle and doesn't mind giving a foul away when needs must, we've got a complete gem of an all round midfielder on our hands.

Amongst us lot no, but the world and his dog would jump on PIF selling to PIF for £50m

Exactly this. Take stock of where we are and i think the owners/recruitment/coaching staff have enough credit in the bank to do whatever they please. We've just finished 4th in the prem with Maxi playing an arguably minor part in that? We will be fine. I'd guess the fee being reported as what we consider low at 25-30 but with a '+bonus' in there. That bonus will be so easily achievable its part of the fee but won't be disclosed.

Wonder how long he's known, seems the cryptic stuff was the beginning of this

'The only thing Barnes does better is score goals'

Pizza Rob the only genuine ITK we have. Eddie played a PR blinder after Gateshead at the weekend saying he wants to keep Maxi - he knows Maxi is a fan fave.

ITK status on the line. We'll know by the time we see the travelling squad.

Livra?

He's back with another update saying he's away to Saudi