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Wasn't Niasse player of the year in Russia when Everton spaffed a fortune on his useless ass? Perhaps the standard in Russia isn't all that clever... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Can we make a move on Angus Gunn? England u21 keeper. Top banana. Shouldn't be too difficult to persuade him that he'll never be number one at Man City for as long as Ederson's about. Maybe Pep can be tempted by a straight swap for Redmond... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Might have been a better idea to have held contingency meetings about Premier League football last summer... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Maybe they're coached to not use their hands. More innovative thinking. The Southampton Way. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

As with the home game earlier in the season, once Watford upped the pace and physicality, we were gutless and feeble. Arsenal-lite. The only difference between the two games is Watford took the first half to wake up properly. Clearly the manager has learned nothing in 23 games. Or maybe he's just an idiot. Flagrant handball for the equaliser, though. The referee's incompetence somewhat matched by McCarthy's over-polite challenge to a situation that was about 60/40 in his his favour if his heart had been in it. Beautiful scenes of tactical genius Pellegrino finally deciding that the 91st minute was the optimum moment to make a double attacking substitution... We're down. Might as well just enjoy the ride as the club are either powerless, indifferent or too delusional to do anything to reverse the trend. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

They absolutely ran amok against our feeble midfield in the reverse fixture. Watford had pace and power, which horribly exposed the limitations of Davis and Ward-Prowse on the day, and their speed on the counter attack left Romeu slowly chugging after shadows. It was embarrassing at times. If the manager goes with that combination in the middle of the park again, he should be sacked before kick off. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

The five pledges of relegation are on Ralph's desk ready for a final pass through his Asinine Business Cliches thesaurus and a spell checker before roll out. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

To be fair, he mostly played in midfield by that point in his career. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Good to know for future reference that we can grind out a result in the Championship... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Push pineapple, shake a tree. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Wish he would. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Then we undersold Van Dijk by about £60m. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

If we've blown £30m on Walcott, we've been absolutely mugged. We only sold Mane for about £35m. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Well deserved point, at least. We didn't even park the bus and went relatively toe to toe with United. McCarthy was perfectly competent - saved the ones you'd expect a keeper to save, came and caught the crosses you'd expect a keeper to catch. What a difference it makes. I doubt he's the long term solution, but he did his job today. Stephens was gutsy out of position at right back against much faster wingers, but I don't fancy him getting isolated 1 v 1 against Zaha against Palace. We need a proper RB, I think. All the defence did well, though. McQueen is a very decent all round football, in my opinion. Hoedt had his best game. But for me Hojbjerg was again the outstanding player. So much drive and energy. How has he played so little? If he doesn't start against Palace, Pellegrino should be sacked regardless of the result. We're obviously not going to score many with Long up front, and Gabbiadini seems like he's off, so reinforcements are desperately needed at that end of the pitch asap. Anyway, a good result. And more importantly, a team performance where everyone at least gave it everything. Onwards. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

H/t 0-0. Not been too bad. Defence doesn't exactly look watertight, but we're in the game - and not even by parking the bus. Of course we again almost conceded from our own corner - there's a real problem with the mobility of the likes of Romeu against quick counter attacks. Boufal, Hojbjerg, Long playing pretty well. Hoedt has looked decent, but marks thin air an awful lot when the ball is crossed in. Can't see us scoring, though. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Sturridge is injured again. Sessegnon is off to Spurs (for more than we'd ever pay in any case). West Ham were supposed to be all over Mawson - and they'd be welcome to him. He's not even an upgrade on Stephens. We won't sign any of them. This is just the club's mouthpiece selling a puff piece on Les' behalf to try and appease the disillusioned supporters still gullible enough to believe that the powers that be have the foggiest idea what they're playing at. I think we'll sign Walcott and a really underwhelming squad player, Elia type of loan, and that'll be the Van Dijk funds "reinvested". Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Well, obviously. More a none too subtle dig at how easily the club can burn through the "war chest" on total crap (replace the above examples with Redmond, McCarthy, Gardos and Long if you can't work it out) and have nothing to show for it. There's no way we're "reinvesting" £75m. It'll be in the 30s, which as shown doesn't get you much, especially given our extremely mixed record in the transfer market in recent years. There's no room for errors. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Josh Murphy. Young Norwich substitute winger. £11m Wayne Hennessy. Crystal Palace reserve keeper. £4m Mihai Balasa. Young Steaua Bucharest centre back. £6m Daryl Murphy. Experienced Irish striker. £12m. Every penny of the REAL transfer fee reinvested. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Implying that we couldn't buy reinforcements without selling first? How have we managed to sell all our best players for huge profits over the past few years, replaced them with cheap knock offs, and ended up with not only a garbage squad, but barely a penny to show for our wonderful strategy? What happened to the Premier League riches and prize money that everyone else seems to have in the bank? Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I think it was about 8 this season before today. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I'm not on board with booing our own players, but the fans' frustration with Redmond is understandable. In his mind, in his demeanor, he's something special - he's doing us a favour by slumming it at Southampton. And yet his performances are absolutely shocking. Not like early-days Mane, where he would spend all game weighing up the most over elaborate option possible before falling over his own feet - but at least striving to do something positive in his erratic decision making. No, where Mane was a headless chicken, Redmond's problem is he's just a chicken. He shrinks away from responsibility. Why try something when you can pass the buck to someone else? Attack the space? Run at the defence? Be proactive in any capacity? Nah, just turn inside and pass backwards. Then if it goes wrong it's someone else's fault (which Redmond is only to eager to pipe up about). His fearful attitude has cost us many a promising attacking position, and today it even cost a goal at the other end, inexplicably passing backwards from a shooting/crossing position on the edge of Spurs' box leading to a punishing counter attack. It's not his fault that Les Reed signed him as a thoroughly inadequate replacement for one of the league's best attackers, but there's very little for the fans to get behind with Redmond. He's a poor player with a poor attitude whose presence makes a poor side poorer. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Forster must be the most expensive wheelie bin in history. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He's won 4 games. I think literally any manager/coach/trainee tea lady in the world could've won 4 out of 20 games with us. He's bringing nothing to an already rubbish party. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

20 games (12 at home), 4 wins. Are we going to wait for his win percentage to drop into the teens (Boxing Day) before something is done, or are single figures the cut off point? It hasn't worked. There's been no signs that it will work. He should be out of work. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Oh well, that's one way to nullify the incoming ban... Bloke's made of glass. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk