Sol thewall Bamba

Based on what?

It was basically the only song that got sung at Bournemouth at the end of last season that wasn't abuse of the players or the board

Big pay cut to get 4 years I should think. Along the lines of what Hamza signed a couple of years back.

People downplaying this, what do you get from it? Ignoring the local bragging rights (huge for anyone based in the West/South of the county), tomorrow could really set the tone for the season ffs. Lose it and the feeling in the camp and more importantly the fans will change dramatically. Things are starting to improve on that front but it will look very different if we lose to our biggest rivals in the league at home and sink down to upper mid table. Win it and we're right in the pack after 15% of the season gone and wind in our sails after a derby win, the whole thing galvanises. It's huge ffs.

Cannon was never going to make it here, and his stats for Sheff United back that up completely. Ayew is crap but Cannon's return in that side last season would have been even more pitiful.

Another language, probably German for personal and work purposes.

Crazy that @Bob Hazels shorts thought Mavididi was a better player.

I'm sure if a politician you liked signed that deal you'd be delighted with it, but that's politics in a nutshell.

What would you have done differently?

"Join our new Captain on a dog walk". What's next lads "join Harry Winks on his commute from Muswell Hill"?

At the end of the day they always win!

Needs to pull his finger out frankly.

Shame about the political connotations of him because this seems like it would be a right laugh at a gig.

Properly buggered my ankle at 5 a side last week, so I'm out for a good while. Pretty gutted tbh as I was making some decent progress.

If they're looking to sell I hope they don't do the expansion. Don't want the ground modelled on a duty free office 10 thousand miles away.

1 goal in 5 after playing every minute in the league so far haha.

Another game in "the best league in the world". 0-0 with 1 shot on target.

Got mates on both sides of this derby, hope Pompey win on balance. They've dragged themselves back from the wilderness and their a better supported club than Southampton from my experience.

Wilder will get them going but a double digit deficit to make up will be near impossible. They'll basically have to go unbeaten the rest of the season to get autos.

Concerned tbh. They ping a huge amount of shots in and we're not scoring many.

There seems to be very little predictability in the games so far.

Realistically at the point of getting that red card the goalposts shift considerably. It's not a good point out of context but also fighting back from a goal down away from home with 10 men is decent regardless of the relative position of the two teams. Will have to be a lot lot better against Cov though.

Think a lot of people need to jack in following the club. You're going to be perennially disappointed.

Throw Monga on with 20 mins to go and tell him to win it by himself if we're still level by then.

Could you argue that bench is stronger than benches we had 2 season ago?