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Glad Martí gets to see how shite Vestergaard and Coady are first hand before the season starts

Exactly why I'm not worried about Mads going - Jakub is going to be great for us

Is Kristiansen injured or has Martí been cutthroat?

Either still recovering from his injury or he's off to West Ham. I'm at peace with it either way frankly - Stolarczyk is a more than capable keeper for the championship.

Could we maybe try and reunite Jusef Erabi with Marti? Was linked with Sassuolo for around £5m earlier in the window.

Is a Winks - BEK - Alves midfield too lightweight?

I have to give the club some credit, getting Monga locked down is going to be so, so important moving forward. He's going to be a superstar

Would be great but the club is looking for 20m+ and have already turned down a bid from Fulham, no chance he comes here even in the dream world where we can afford him.

Comes across well but wearing two watches is an ick

Yeah I've also had no luck with "IK Bet" or "IV Bet" or any other way that you might conceivably read their logo. Embarrassing stuff as usual.

Hate the shade of "gold" that all our kits have to have now. I feel like a yellow or orange gold closer to the fox on the crest would be a fine compromise for trim if he insists on gold but this ugly muddy gold just looks cheap and nasty.

Not sure a Sunderland is the move if you don't want to end up back in the championship, but if he doesn't want to be here then sell and move on

I might have the wrong end of the stick here, but isn't the situation that he was owed money by QPR so long as he wasn't hired by another club - at that point, he would either choose to forego it or have the buying club pay it?

Was recently at Union Berlin, where he was relatively forgettable. Was at Mainz before that where he kept them up and was well liked by their fans afaik. If he comes up again as a serious target I can find out more as I know many Union Berlin supporters and my best mate here in Germany is a season ticket holder for Mainz

Varane and Saito are very tidy players imo.

"In his time at Hammarby, he brought the side’s average age down from 28 to 24, showing he would be a great fit for #SAFC model" LOVE that

Who's his agent? Curious to see what players might be on the cards.

Say what you want about Dyche but he's clearly got a good head on his shoulders - for him to not want the job should tell you what a ****ing shitshow we are right now.

Would anybody take Callum Wilson on a free as a stopgap striker for 2 years?

Gary O'Neil has such a weird mouth

So horrible, he got married less than a fortnight ago. Three kids. Just unthinkably tragic.

Coady I think I saw in some photos, although maybe I'm mistaken. The rest + Woyo were on international duty at some point in the break and so have a later start date I think.

I'm for it if only to piss off everybody I know up by over-pronouncing the ö in his name every time

What a brilliant response - if only the rest of the club was so transparent and forthright.

Carsley coming in off a winning the U21 euros, I wouldn't hate it