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30 Jan 2026 15:25:46
Was only a matter of time before we were linked to Harwood-Bellis.
I know we were linked to the Coventry CB but no chance they would sell in the position they were in after quoting silly money for their strikers.
Bellis statically been one of the best CBs in the championship for multiple seasons and Southampton currently sit in 15th so could be a chance of getting him, also would be someome that can stay and help us get back into the prem if we do go down, makes sense to me.
Also a salthouse client.
1.) 30 Jan 2026 16:50:00
Happy Birthday, to Harwood Bellis, will he celebrate by joining WH?,
Truth of the matter, for me he was a hot prospect Couple of years back, but now seems very average, bit of an odd choice for me, but who knows?
2.) 30 Jan 2026 16:50:01
Sounds a good shout Al. A lot better than many I’ve heard
3.) 31 Jan 2026 08:55:21
Harwood Bellis has his Father in Law Roy Keane to tout him about, would WH want him interfering? ⚒⚒⚒
27 Jan 2026 15:43:39
JWP to Burnley on loan no option to buy. Shame we couldn't get an obligation just kicking the can down the road.
So Paqueta, Irving, Rodrigues, JWP all gone, we must have a midfielder or 2 lined up?
1.) 27 Jan 2026 16:56:52
WH had a massive job just to get all of his wages paid in full, this is still not confirmed, Burnley are likely to be relegated irregardless, they would be in no position, whatsoever, to pay those mad wages, WH wouldn’t ask much for him certainly sub £10 m, Ward Prowse will be back at seasons end
Problem with him, is ….as an older. Transfer, I’m not sure, he has a relegation clause in his contract? Probably has, but can’t confirm
My guess is if we drop, he will stay on with vastly reduced wages, or May lead to a contract rip up, and a pay off, Cornet-will be back too, let’s hope Fulkrug isn’t
2.) 27 Jan 2026 17:08:01
Just us guaranteeing Burnley get relegated! ?
3.) 27 Jan 2026 18:30:52
Hi Joyful I know nothing about all these contract stuff but is that legal that they just massively drop their wages because of relegation or would it have been written in the contract when originally signed. Because I’m thinking if they can just do this then why haven’t they done it already in relation to players like Ings and Cornet?
4.) 27 Jan 2026 18:49:03
Hi mate, that’s what I’m implying, all the latest contracts have relegation clauses in them, they are not all worded the same way, the respective agents, put their clients wishes in the original contracts, it’s then up to WH to agree or not, for Example, Fernandes. Has a 25 m euro buyout price in his contract, never mind WH paid near 40 m euro for him,
Just don’t know wether. older contracts, have these clauses, but I suspect they do
Many do this to avoid a straight 50% reduction in wages, on the drop
TBH, WH will not be able to afford, half the present wages paid, when and if they go to the championship, therefore a fire sale of almost everybody, who will fetch decent money, will have to take place, very sad, but inevitable
5.) 27 Jan 2026 19:37:22
Agreeing to 25m buy out on fernandes is stupid. Shows why we are we are, run by absolute clowns.
Were not coming back up under this ownership they are probably that delusional they think we will.
6.) 27 Jan 2026 19:42:12
That’s great thanks for clarifying ?
7.) 28 Jan 2026 05:36:03
There's no £25 m get out . transfer clause in Fernandes deal . I wish supporters would stop believing everything they read.
8.) 28 Jan 2026 09:30:25
What you know my friend you can write on the back of a postage stamp, your comments, have made that clear
Your obviously a man iof great knowledge, in regard to WH
Perhaps you would like to tell us all, base line buyout price for Wan BISSAKA, in relegation clause?
Oh and by the way I thought the editors, had gone to great lengths, so you can skip my posts, but you are still coming on here with silly comments
31 Dec 2025 17:28:17
Apprently talks are close to a conclusion on Gil Vicente striker - Pablo. 10 goals in 13 games. Only 21.
Jorge Mendes involved hopefully he can bring in Ruben Neves as well.
1.) 01 Jan 2026 09:57:26
Had a quick look. He’s busy. Reasonably powerful and decent pace. Seems very right footed, which will be easier to defend in the PL. Looks to have the habit of being in the right place at the right time for efforts on goal. Didn’t look exceptional to me, but he’s only 21. I can’t see him being the immediate answer for this season, but what do I know?
2.) 01 Jan 2026 13:33:38
I bet he sits on the bench whilst paq or bowen play upfront
3.) 01 Jan 2026 15:23:26
I’m not going to put a downer on this, as it is refreshing to get a deal over the line quickly for a change and not announcing to the world beforehand that we are interested. Like Markro I looked at some YouTube footage but the clips I saw, he looked like he was good at getting in the right place at the right time but he hardly ever seemed to get the ball in the net most efforts were saved or missed
4.) 01 Jan 2026 16:25:25
Only thing I know about him is that he's injured and has been since the 27th November.
5.) 01 Jan 2026 17:00:37
I bet he plays traore on the right and Bowen as a striker to start with
6.) 01 Jan 2026 17:02:52
@Hammer D, not sure what video you watched but his stats would suggest he is very clinical, 0.38 goals for every shot. Which isn't sustainable for comparison harlands is 0.25
His defensive stats are very good also, looks aggresive and works hard.
@billy, he played 2 games end of December and scored in both doesn't seem injured?
Apparently we are in for taty castellanos and traore is meant to have been agreed but fulham might hold on to him until after afcon.
Just shows we can move quickly when sullivan wants to. Maybe if we signed fernandes and magassa at the start of the summer window we might not be in as much of a mess as we are now.
7.) 01 Jan 2026 17:33:19
Ahh I've just done a deeper dive. Seems he came back from injury on the 20th December, played 32 minutes, scored and is now injured again.
8.) 01 Jan 2026 18:01:58
No you are right @ironAl I was looking a completely the wrong thing I was looking at something linked to Gil Vincent’s not the actual player ???
Always read the label
I have seen the footage he doesn’t look too bad but we will see ?
9.) 01 Jan 2026 19:38:12
Billy he is meant to be having a medical today so doubt that would happen if he is injured
10.) 02 Jan 2026 15:56:43
@Hammer-D Andy Carroll, Kieron Dyer, Niklaus Fullkrug all had medicals as well. Apparently. ?
11.) 02 Jan 2026 19:31:12
True mate ?
12.) 04 Jan 2026 18:03:26
I've heard we are interested in HOUDINI not from Liga but la la land
30 Dec 2025 18:06:24
Apparently we are after Eddie Nketiah.
We need at least 2 strikers, out of all the domestic based strikers we've been linked to he has the most experience in the prem and good age at 26.
Then we take a gamble on foreign based player like Durosinmi
1.) 30 Dec 2025 21:05:39
Like Nketiah, we should have had him Arsenal ???⚒⚒⚒⚒
2.) 31 Dec 2025 13:08:23
just blown his hamstring
3.) 31 Dec 2025 13:09:42
just injured his hamstring
4.) 31 Dec 2025 14:41:28
Nailed on to get a 5 year deal.if he's injured then
30 Aug 2025 23:50:37
Emerson to Marseille 1m euros total. Terrible business once again.
1.) 31 Aug 2025 11:01:06
We discussed yesterday, another ridiculous deal
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31 Jan 2026 19:33:12
Ref sh*t all game. Nuno lost this bringing Kilman on negative invite pressure.
1.) 31 Jan 2026 19:46:57
We are a team full of bottle jobs, yes we played well in first half but that counts for nothing and now todibo the best of our terrible cbs is banned for 3 games
2.) 31 Jan 2026 19:51:57
It's now called the Kilman effect. Nuno s substitution have been poor since he became mamanagee
3.) 31 Jan 2026 20:11:14
Dont think the players bottle it, that 442 works until you run out of legs. Nuno invited pressure its mentality you go 3 at the back and bring on a player like Kilman, suddenly your backs to the wall defending panick stations that's the message it sends to the team.
Potts, magassa, traore, wilson all would have been better options than Kilman.
Mavro getting smashed in the face to the ground for their equaliser should have been a freekick.
Mental that slighest touch on their player they get a free kick ours get wiped out nothing. Clear shirt pull by fofana when taty would of been through, one of many yellow cards that were not given.
4.) 31 Jan 2026 20:14:46
The Kilman effect?, their subs changed the game but ours lost it. Fofana given far too much space, but the change to 5 at the back really killed us, trying to defend a lead for 45 mins and removing any attackers who can hold the ball up was tactical ineptitude of the highest order, on a par with Loopy and Potter.
5.) 31 Jan 2026 20:22:40
Robbo, bottle jobs is harsh ….take the positives that the performance and team spirit is so much better. They had quality players they could take off the bench. There was very little difference to the 2nd half here than at Tottenham, Chelsea just have better players man for man.
6.) 31 Jan 2026 20:28:51
Amazes me we continue with kilman. Sorry everyone, but he is a disaster.
Take nothing away from Chelsea because they are flying under the new manager. Tobidos effort goes in, its game over, so no disgrace today.
Any other day this would be 3 points in the bag. Nuno has got us playing better but if he doesn't have the players on the bench what can he do?
Yes we lost, but let's look at the bright side. We could easily have won against a good Chelsea side
7.) 31 Jan 2026 20:45:16
I have flip flopped with regards to my opinion of Nuno through his time here. Yes I think he should the blame tonight. We were comfortable until their first goal came against the run of play, and his change was possibly the worst he could make, and it so proved. Losing Todibo for 3 games is a massive blow.
But having said all that the last 2 matches and the first half today does give me hope that there is a chance. I didn’t see the first half last week but thought we were really good the first half today the way we played the first half was a far cry from what we saw v Fulham, Wolves and Brighton not so long ago.
8.) 31 Jan 2026 23:07:11
18 points we have lost this season from winning positions tells me that bottle jobs is not a harsh comment Dabber, it repeats itself again and again
9.) 01 Feb 2026 01:20:00
Robbo, so true. ‘Bottle job’ is being polite.
10.) 01 Feb 2026 01:54:24
The players didn’t bottle it today, the manager made us take our foot off Chelseas neck by replacing Pablo with Kilman. He should have put on Potts or Magassa to enable Fernandes to link up with the attackers and keep us on the front foot.
11.) 01 Feb 2026 09:44:14
Yes, it was Nuno who bottled it, but where was the defiant fight on the pitch when it became obvious that he’d cocked it up yet again? We rolled over far too easily.
From a commanding position of 2 nil up, it took just 50 mins to dismantle us. Not everyone was at fault, but we gave up too easily. However, you’re right — Nuno was the main culprit.
12.) 01 Feb 2026 13:50:42
REDROB, It’s not the players that are the bottle jobs, they don’t deliberately go out to lose, it’s this effing Manager that’s is the BOTTLE JOB, tries to be bloody clever taking off the players that have put us in front bringing on those in most cases not good enough to start, injuries yes, obviously sub if needed! I think this Manager isn’t fit to manage a PL club! ⚒⚒⚒
13.) 01 Feb 2026 23:56:19
Nuno is certainly to blame aswell, but who took the game by the scruff of the neck? Who put thier body on the line? Who kicked players up the ass when they scored thier first goal? Who got stuck in and made it hard for Chelsea? The answer is nobody did
03 Jan 2026 16:38:25
Soft pen. Then soucek not getting a pen for what paqueta done last week. Poor offciating as usual.
1.) 03 Jan 2026 17:00:57
No heart, no fight, no chance.
03 Jan 2026 16:28:42
Awful. We look awful without Paqueta and todibo. Kilman awful everyweek. Bowen having a poor game
07 Dec 2025 14:57:33
Robbed of 2 points, at least we might get a PGMOL apology.
1.) 07 Dec 2025 15:19:23
Whats PGMOL?
2.) 07 Dec 2025 15:53:34
An apology, why? If the ball is deflected on to the arm from the body it’s accidental.
3.) 07 Dec 2025 18:41:42
I feel like I've seen soo many goals disallowed for handballs in the build up accidental or not, they gained a clear advantage,
Apparently the rule is a lot stricter for attackers, i remember a few going against us similar. Remember when bowen running through the player went to tackle nd it deflected up to his arm we went on to score but got it pulled back. His arm was even across his body.
4.) 07 Dec 2025 18:49:55
Have a read here, in short it says accidental or not any player handles it in the build up to a goal the goal should be chalked off. That also applies to if it hits any part of the body then the hand.
It's different for defenders.
07 Dec 2025 11:48:21
3 at the back today,
In
Kilman
Paq.
Rodriguez
Summerville
Out
Soucek
Magassa
Potts
Wilson
01 Feb 2026 15:51:28
With an option as well for about 6-7m, he's better than that polish fella and the nigerian we were linked to, he'd actually add something different to our midfield and could provide creativity if fernandes was to get injured. We are ran by clowns though so not surprised we aren't all over this
Apparently they are close on Adam Armstrong, good striker for the championship, preparing to come straight back up while we stagnate and leave things to the last minute.
30 Jan 2026 10:45:54
Zalewski seems to have played his best games at left wing back this season.
Rather us go all out for louza or hackney in the championship or similar types of players that can progress the ball foward, Fernandes is the only one we have that can do that right now.
28 Jan 2026 13:14:46
Why would they help us? Maybe they have an eye on someone like Fernandes be a lot easier to get him if we go down.
27 Jan 2026 19:46:54
Apparently Sullivan was offering out Paqueta to Chelsea, Spurs, villa early on in the window he refused and said he'd only go back to Flamengo.
Of course then the sh*t chucking starts.
Sullivan is said to have pretty much given up and the Paqueta money is there to balance the books not reinvest.
As many suggested he will drag it out until the end of the window and leave it too late to get a replacement.
Hope its all rubbish but you can't put it past that little weasel.
27 Jan 2026 19:37:22
Agreeing to 25m buy out on fernandes is stupid. Shows why we are we are, run by absolute clowns.
Were not coming back up under this ownership they are probably that delusional they think we will.
01 Feb 2026 11:13:01
He said the same about Morgan Rogers, remember we were linked with him about 12m, remember when he scuppered the Alex Scott deal, he also didn't want Duran in the Jan before he left. Long list of players he got so wrong and ended up with rubbish instead like, jwp, cornet, vlasic, augerd, ings, phillips.
The 2 Daves made a real mess of this club every step of the way they got things wrong.
01 Feb 2026 11:01:02
As poorly as our squad has been built, there were 4 subs that would have been a better option than Kilman.
We had chances to make it 3, even at 2-2 Todibo could have scored the winner. Fine margins went against us.
How has Mavro not been awared a free kick with their second goal? Clear forearm elbow to this face? Why do these decisions go against us but not for us? Bored of it, and now we get to watch the ref cam to see up close how sh*t they are. Summerville tackled clean right infront of the ref and he gave a free kick in a dangerous position.
01 Feb 2026 10:51:03
Think the negotiations just got a bit harder. Now we've been linked to 33 year old John Egan.
01 Feb 2026 09:03:10
Moyes said he didn't want him.
31 Jan 2026 21:59:40
For the first time? Starting irving and soucek in midfield against brentford and leeds? Taking wilson off while on a hatrick against Bournemouth, then dropping him for 3-4 games playing Paqueta up top? Lost count of how many games he's made negative subs that have cost us points.
JCT is guna miss the next 3 games, even if we play as well as we have Kilman will mess it up, players lose confidence when he comes on, useless, 45m and 20m+ wages over a 6 year deal. I wouldn't pay 4.5m for him.