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It was because the Chinese government changed the rules on taking money out of the country so it no longer was attractive to the Chinese owners

 

Sure. Companies/individuals are allowed to take money out of China if they are willing to play by the rules. Everything now has to be above aboard and recorded. This is to stop corruption. It's not like the Chinese government is flat out refusing to let their citizens invest/do business abroad.

 

Meh.

 

Bugger off Wolfsburg. That wouldn't be good.

 

Really? Personally I think it will be a big loss.

 

Would be a huge loss. Brought Tonda to the club, and has been behind our best and most coordinated transfer window in as long as I can think. Yes, Downs was a miss, and Still didn't work out, but overall a massive net positive.

 

Completely agree. I know his critics/doubters will point to the Downs signing and Still's appointment but not every signing will work out and Scienza and Jander were his signings too. Plus Tonda was brought in with the view to succeed Still and the early signs are extremely positive there.

 

Still too early to know how good or bad Spors is. But it would be bad in that we need stability.

 

Tonda, Scienza, Jander, Fellows, Azaz, (to a lesser extent Roerslev, Quarshie and Jelert) - I mean, it's a big net positive, and it was co-ordinated recruitment.

 

Yeah the stability thing is the biggest issue for me. Having high turnover in multiple areas of the club is never good.

 

Also there's every chance that Tonda is Spors' man, so we could be left with the Poch/Cortese issue.

 

Asked my German Saints supporting pal to read the Kicker article. He says:

They want Mann from Hannover. Spors is also a potential candidate but there has been no approach, no discussions and it’s most likely that Saints wouldn’t let him go anyway.

 

Here we go again.

 

I mean, that's twice now in a matter of months his name has been linked; planning an exit strategy?

 

Granted, they're Bundesliga and he's German ... but are Wolfsburg that big a draw over us? If we were PL I would say no. I also suspect we are able to pay more.

I was more worried by the earlier link with Juventus (at least, I think it was Juventus?)

 

They’re not, no. It’s the equivalent of Leicester saying they’re interested, or me saying I’m interested in Margot Robbie “but no contact has been made yet”.

 

I saw her first

 

I made contact and she got a court order, so you are free to go.