Nordic Saint

It looks a bit desperate to pick Alderweireld when he was only here on loan for a few months from his club, Atletico Madrid. Admittedly, he is now a good Spurs player. Forster Clyne - Fonte - van Dijk - Shaw Wanyama - Schneiderlin - Lallana - Tadić Mané - Pellè

Thank God we had Charlie Austin in the 2 games this week as he is our only reliable goal scorer. His fitness to play 90 minutes regularly is a real concern though because without him we're toothless up front until we can buy a new striker in January.

The turnover of staff at the club nowadays seems to be phenomenal as they are constantly advertising for new staff in all departments.

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I think you were conned. He'll almost certainly be sold in under 2 years if he's any good.

The only songs that annoy me are the ones about Pomepy. Why do the Northam have to spend so much time singing about a League Two team during a European game FFS??? There's obessseion, then there's shooting yourself in the foot. They must love us obsessing over them on national TV during one of our biggest games. Liverpool fans wouldn't even bother singing about Everton during European games, let alone Tranmere.

I love these European nights. What was that about losing interest?

I agree: Martina and Austin should start. They were outstanding tonight. It was just about a perfect game with a very good atmosphere too. The Europa League should be our priority this season, and judging from tonight's results we could even win it.

There are only one hero allowed at St Mary's and he's not a player or a manager. Fan worship of players and managers is therefore discouraged.

Maybe it's the only way they can circumvent the police restrictions on the maximum away allocation, and they want to sell the tickets as they know the stadium is going to be half empty.

Leicester bought some very good players too - Mendy, Kapustka, Musa, Slimani etc - so their squad has clearly been strengthened. The equivalent for us would have beeen only sellling Wanyama but keeping Mane and Pelle and bringing in the 3 new players as well as 1 or 2 more.

I believe you're going with someone who goes to no more than 6 games a season and really isn't that bothered whether we win or lose, just as long as he can take the p!ss out of the fans who do go to all the games and actually do care whether we win or lose.

He sounds like an accounts man to me. He just doesn't care whether we win or lose, has no real interest in the team and his idols are probably Kat and Les for giving him a business model to follow.

On May 15 this year I was feeling the best I've felt as a Saints fan since the 1980s. The feeling that weekend was one of pure joy and there was certainly nothing wrong with the Premier League then because we were 5th in it *****il Man Utd won their rearranged game) and in Europe on merit. In Mane we had one of the most exciting Saints players I'd ever seen and several of our players were going to feature in the European Championship finals. I couldn't wait for this season to start. Then the usual manager and player exodus started and I felt as low as I felt when Pochettino, Lambert, Shaw and Lallana left 2 years earlier: the highs and the lows of being a football fan. Maybe I take it all too seriously. The ones on here who don't seem to care whether we sell our best players or not, and seem to take more interest in the club's accounts, just don't get it as far as I'm concerned. I just wish we would keep the players and managers longer, build team spirit, kick on and actually win something. The revolving door policy means that the team are largely strangers and it becomes increasingly difficult to relate to the players, knowing they are going to be sold to our rivals in a couple of years' time. I was beginning to identify with Mane as a potential all-time great Saints player and was looking forward to seeing him score 20+ goals for us this season but I just view Boufal now as some injured player I don't know who will be sold to Liverpool or Spurs in less than 2 years if he gets fit and turns out to be any good. It seems more about the business nowadays and less about the team so it does get harder to care. But, I still care enough that every time we lose I feel depressed and every time we win I feel great.

Ha. ha. I knew that post would flush you out. I had a bet with a friend about how long it would be before you replied. I said 5 minutes; he said half an hour so he was closest.

Dennis Wise, who went on to play 322 games for Chelsea and 21 for England. I don't know if we could call Mikhail Antonio a reject as he was only here on loan but how we could do with him now. Boruc hasn't done badly at Bournemouth either.

To be frank, hte U18s have been cr@p since Dodd and Williams were sacked. Dodd is coaching at Winchester College and Williams is coaching the England U16s. They'd probably be happy to come back here once Les Reed has gone. The turnover of staff in all departments has been phenomenal since Reed assumed control. He just dossn't seem to get on with anyone. There is very little continuity at any level.

I bet Liverpool wouldn't sell Mane for 50 million + Long. They know his value. Clyne, Lallana and Mane must be worth at least 50% more than we sold them for. We poroably got about the right price for Lambert and Lovren. But, it's the big deals, like Bale and Mane, that we really miss out on. What Spurs got for Bale helped pay for their new stadium and when Liverpool sell Mane, he will pay for the Anfield stadium expansion.

Our U18s lost 3-0 to Arsenal today. It's not about the buildings, it's about the coaches, and the best ones, Dodd and Williams, were sacked.

We can hope.

So that's why Ward-Prowse never scores any goals for us.

We keep players 2 years before selling them so he won't be sold next summer.

You don't see them out so much because they work so quickly and finish the buildings much faster than we do. I always think it would be great if we could get a bunch of workers over here from the Far East to sort out our road and rail maintenace work. In fact that's what the Victorians and Americans used to do and what the Arabs do now to get their skyscrapers built.

There are lots of exciting sponsorship opportunities out there: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/greek-club-voukefala-get-sponsored-by-local-1346802

The ITK leaks are interesting and highly sought after when they are discussing incoming transfer rumours but when they refer to possible and planned outgoing transfers they seem to have a very negative effect on our support for the team. Ultimately, they turn some of us against just about every one of our players and managers, with the exception of those that have been bought recently who are talked up as their purchase reinforces the cult of Les and the black box. Jose Fonte is in his 8th year with us. Not many top class international players stay here that long. He has done nothing wrong but the finger of suspicion is being pointed at him the same as it is at all of our player who are sought after by top clubs. How do we know that certain players told Les they would refuse to play for the club, threw trantrums, threatened to go on strike or that certain managers were lazy, disliked by players etc etc??? For me anyway, the best thing to do is support the team out there on the pitch and to be grateful to those top players who gave us many years good service. That,as I recall, is how it used to, before all of these 'leaks' about tantrums, sulking, laziness and strikes started.