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Alex Crook from The Mirror talking a £10m fee for Pope.

Love the fact Southampton have signed him and Lee Ryder missed the memo, saying they want Pope. Thicker than whale spunk is wor Lee.

Darlow plus a bit of cash, keeps overheads down. Or could flog Wood back to them and they could sell Weighorst to bridge the tv money drop off.

Quick scan has articles quoting his likely saleable value as £10m to £20m. No release clause like Cornet. £40m is what fat tongued moron Merson said we should pay for him. Pope’s contract is up next summer so realistically it’s sell now or for buttons in January.

Fuck that for a game of soldiers.

More pissed that this might mean Lascelles doesn’t go back there in a big money move.

Liverpool supposed to have completed their business now with a £6.5m (£4m up front and £2.5m in bonuses) move for Calvin Ramsey from Aberdeen.

Does he have a cheap-ish relegation release clause? Sure somewhere mentioned in the region of £12m.

Whenever I hear prices quoted I just think Everton. Having spunked £50m on Sigurdsson who has now been released (might be another long term “arrangement” in the offing), it would be so them to plough the same into JWP. Frankie the Tory would love him.

Fair enough, I’ve got nothing against him and was desperate for SBR to sign him as a player. Enjoyed the WC and Euros runs but Italy in the final felt like watching a re-run of the Croatia game so started to suspect some capability limitations at that point.

Gone all posh, like some horsey student in Jizmond.

Barca or Chelsea. Fuck all chance he comes here.

Completely agree. But using Southgate’s time at the Beasts as a barometer carries limited relevance. Massimo Maccarone isn’t Harry Kane.

Rafa had 10 games to keep us up, got us straight back up and kept us up. Southgate relegated them after 3 seasons which shows a negative trend.

Relegation?

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-target-hungarian-van-dijk-24230721 Newcastle United may have already found their perfect Sven Botman alternative in the shape of Attila Szalai, nicknamed the 'Hungarian van Dijk'. The 24-year-old Fenerbahce man helped the Magyars keep two clean sheets against England during the last 11 days and has attracted attention in the past.

⚫⚪ After signing Bruno Guimarães, Newcastle have their eyes on another Brazilian. This is striker Ângelo, from Santos. ?? The 17-year-old has a contract with Santos until 2024 and is seen as one of Santos' main jewels. ? [ @geglobo ]

Lots of people responding to the TalkShite queation below. See also Michae Chopra, Cameron Jerome and Mitrovic.

Pubescent Peterlee Predators

Right on cue an alternative LCB gets linked: https://www.claretandhugh.info/aguerd-shock-hits-the-hammers/

I think a decade is fair. Adam looks like he could be your dad.

“He lives in house, he talks like a Scouse, Danny Guthrie; in the middle or the right, in the black and white, Danny Guthrie…” Any excuse to reel off a bit of Blur, although we’ll have to change the lyrics, I can’t get ‘Damac Towers apartment’ to scan into the current version.