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Players develop and change positions all the time. As a wide player or an 8 we know he has an eye for goal. He's not exactly blessed with pace but for anyone playing up top without it, it's movement, anticipation and finishing that's key. I reckon he has the mentality and the willingness to learn and develop to succeed as a 9 or 10. It would be remarkable and incredibly enjoyable as a fan if he were able to do it.

1. Current one 2. The one above 3. Running fox I like all of them though. And even growing up in the 90s I like the current one more than the previous iterations of it. I'd like to see away kits incorporate the one above and the running fox tbh (obviously on different kits)

Annoying that the PL's ban on gambling sponsors on the front of shirts from 2026-2027 isn't going to be extended to the EFL. Allowing them to continue as sleeve sponsors and in-stadium advertising in the PL is not great either really but it's a step in the right direction to ban them from the front of shirts. I guess the EFL being sponsored by SkyBet will have influenced the decision not to extend that to Championship, L1 and L2.

I'm hesitant to suggest this with our dodgy financial behaviour, and I'm generally of the opinion that we need to take our medicine and accept that we're not going to be back in the Premier League for a few seasons. However, is there anything stopping us from employing Monga's parents as 'consultants' as a way of circumventing the rule on giving Monga a professional contract? I suspect there is. But if we could actually give them some sort of role in youth player liaison, something that's provable and can survive an external audit, maybe that could help? Plus, is there anything against telling the parents this is what we will pay your son when he turns 17 without actually signing anything?

Bit of a coup that for Roma.

I remember as a kid running around my grandparents' dining room table like a maniac when the goal went in

Having not read anything in the preceding 13 pages of this thread yet, my initial feeling is that I wouldn't be too against this. He's still relatively early in his managerial career and has tasted a decent amount of success in that time. Southampton were, at times, excellent in the Championship under his leadership. But being so wedded to a specific style of play did hamper them at times and make them quite inconsistent. Plus we battered them twice. But let's not beat about the bush here. We're absolutely fvcked right now. With the PL.and EFL out for blood, we may aspire to be in the Premier League but the chances of us bouncing back straight away are quite slim, I'd say. Our better players may go and we need our not so good ones replaced as well. If Russell Martin comes here and can establish a squad over a number of years that know his football inside-out, well, that might be something to be excited about in a few seasons.

Tear it down and start again. Take our punishment, live within our means, take more relegations if we need to and rebuild again. Sell Seagrave to King Power and rent it back until the club can buy it again. We'll be back. We always are. And when we are we fly high and proud and bloody the noses of the clubs who have commandeered the game to work in their favour. And every so often we'll remind them that they're not the be all and end all in this game. But for God's sake, build the statue.

Totally forgot about Amani Richards. Does anyone who's seen a lot of him play think he's got the ingredients to make it here? It seems he's gone off the boil a bit and not had the best loan spell away, which usually signifies not. But Kasey McAteer surprised everyone after indifferent loans at Forest Green and Wimbledon and came straight into the side and hit the ground running. Could we be thinking of Richards as a decent first-team squad member in two or three years time?

Sorry, I was just making a joke about how the bit I highlighted in your quote could have read as though Mads is an alien 👽 Absolutely understand at the time that Mads was young and unproven in the division

Some of Hermansen's saves have been out of this world to be fair

He's young enough to give us a year in the Championship. Same with Fatawu. If we go up again, maybe we can convince both of them to give it another shot, providing we have a much better pre-season next time around. I presume wages won't be too much of a problem with them but they do remain two of our most sellable assets. It'll be sad if we do have to sell them, and I'm sure they'd jump at the chance to play in the Premier League again, but I can see them both helping us next season.

The amount of guff we sign for fees higher than that, this would really hurt. It's true that we don't know how he's going to turn out. But we've been pinning our hopes on Braybrooke and Alves for a few seasons now but lads like Monga and Evans have stormed onto the scene in the last year or so and have quite possibly overtaken them already. We do need to sort our finances out. But these lads could become worth multiple times that amount in a few seasons. They could become part of our next cycle of success or they could help to really fund it properly. Selling them to balance the books after blowing more in each deal on Souttar, Faes, Kristiansen, Ward, Okoli, Soumare and Skipp would really stick in the craw.

Absolutely insane that we didn't accept money for him. Also criminal that he's been allowed to rot here until he's 27. Hope he has a good 10 years or more establishing himself. A really top shot-stopper who could have a good career in the Premier League at the right club.

Genuinely if he, Evans and the other really talented youngsters he's been giving bench time and minutes to stay and become genuine options for us over the next few seasons, that could be bigger than surviving the drop would have been this season and could set us up for future success and get our finances back on track either by selling a few of these lads for big sums down the line or if they stay here and propel us towards our next period of success. Maybe that could be RVN's legacy at this club.

Without wanting to divert attention from the gravity of the post above... Cars that give a little beep of their horn whenever they're locked or unlocked. Heinous.

Start him every game. Get as much as we can for him if he's going. I'd rather he stayed, of course. His rise is meteoric. Considering Alves was just appearing in young baller YouTube videos and BBC segments and not getting anywhere near the first team at 15, I think it's reasonable to say that Monga would trouble the first-team squad next year and get quite a number of appearances.

I'd take Farke if he were sacked. Proven at Championship level and plays exciting football. Whether he's good enough for the Prem is kind of irrelevant as we're likely to be in the Championship for a couple of seasons or more anyway because of potential EFL penalties and because we need a massive overhaul. Also, if he gets us up at some point, he'd surely be motivated to prove Leeds wrong if they do sack him.

I agree Ange could be horrific. We'd start well but his style and methods has been known to produce injuries not just with Spurs but also with Celtic too. In a 46-game Championship season, we'd have no players left.

Could've been Buonanotte if he hadn't have been dropped like a stone by RVN. Probably should be Mads or El Khannous on performances but will actually probably be Vardy.

For a player not born in the city or county nor come through the academy to stay here for 13 years, win the Premier League and FA Cup for the first time in the club's history, to reach the Champions League quarter finals and also play in the Europa League and Europa Conference League with us, is just remarkable. The loyalty he's shown this club when he could have moved on multiple times is absolutely staggering. If the club aren't going to do it, someone please put a statue in town, on Vicky Park or Abbey Park, please.

The club has existed for 141 years and we have seen its greatest ever player achieve the greatest things this club has ever achieved. In 141 years' time, it's likely that he will still be our greatest ever player. What a privilege to witness. Thank you, Jamie, for everything.

Build the statue.

I thought it looked weird at a distance but close up looked the same. Glad I wasn't going mad though!

Rudkin, Top, Ruud and the crowd's reactions are all telling in their own way. Rudkin and Top looked far too blasé. Ruud smiling. The crowd just silent until a few boos at the end. Apathy all round. And I feel it too. We need a proper reset and I don't think we'll get it with the financial issues hanging around our necks. What a long summer this is going to be.