Harvey Vale only has one more year left on his deal at Chelsea, apparently teams were sniffing about him last summer. Wonder if we try and being him in this season. Would be a decent signing I'd think.
I bought 2 pairs of Levi’s the other day. Sadly the shop assistant left one of the security tags on it, so now I need to find time to go back to the shop and get it taken off. Annoying. It’s an interesting story.
I didn'r realise he was from Southampton until just now. According to wiki, 3 of his uncles actually played for Sholing.
He's related to the Boatmen's legendary Mason brothers! They won the FA Vase trophy at Wembley and he was their mascot on the day apparently. Dan Mason still plays and he is Sholing's SRL, a real goal machine. https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/sport/football/news/levi-colwill-wembley-huddersfield-town-22683462 The Echo reporting the interest as well... https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/20243127.southampton-retain-interest-chelsea-starlet-levi-colwill/
Expect to see a lot more poaching of 16 year old players, because it's now functionally impossible to sign u-18 players from outside the UK. I'd imagine we'll get in on the action, too.
Played in the same Tyro-league team as Jamal Musiala, the Bayern Munich wonderkid. We need to scout the Southampton area a bit better!
For me, if we were playing all the youngsters in one go, it would be a very risky strategy. I don't believe Ralph will be doing that though. I'm thinking we will be starting the season with the following: Bazuna KWP, ???, Salisu, Perraud JWP, Romeu Armstrong, ??? Adams, ??? I'd like to see ... An experienced CB come in (not necessarily from the Premier League - any of the big leagues, an international perhaps, possibly on the fringes of a top club or a first-teamer from a middle club) - Someone like Rugani from Juve perhaps? I don't know how realistic that might be. A number 10. Can we unearth another Dusan Tadic? A striker that we believe would be getting 10-15 goals. Can we unearth another Pelle? Sprinkle that with the youngsters coming in getting 15-20 games this year each and I think we'll be getting it right. I'm happy to wait out the rest of the window before laying judgement on it but I like what I see so far! I'm a firm believer that if you have a strong spine, the youth will complement it. That United team that 'weren't going to win anything with kids' still had the likes of Schmeichel, Pallister, Irwin, Keane, McClair, Cantona etc.
The defender will be ABK or Colwill if we sign him. So I wouldn’t be holding out for the experienced defender you are talking about. Those other two slots do appear to be on the agenda as well. No idea who they will be though
What on earth is this 'sense' that you're writing. You'll not last long on Twitter with this kind of actual reasonableness. (Suspect Rugani would be out of our price range, in fairness).
A positive I can spot is that we are being linked with Colwill despite having already signed a defender and not moved any out yet. We will need to but clearly don’t have to do it first
