Ex Lion Tamer

The whole point of our system is to draw the opposition out of position and then hit them fast on the break. If we don't try to do that then we're back to Pellegrino/Hughes football

Chelsea were good when they spent lots of money. Then Abramovic decided he wanted the club to be self sustaining and concocted this idea about developing youth instead. Regardless of the mistakes they made with certain players, it was never going to work for a team with aspirations of winning titles

I haven't really watched him enough to judge, but isn't King more of an Adams-style player than an Ings?

Our top fees tend to be around the £20m mark. This was half that

Sounds like a negotiating position on both sides. Expect him to go for £25m

It's never a sure thing but all those clubs clearly have a better chance of Champions League football than us. It's totally legitimate to want to take that chance and see what he can achieve. Remember he watched his Liverpool team mates play in a champions League final. That must have been hard to miss out on

People making out it's about money, but any footballer with an ounce of ambition and the quality that Ings has would want to test themselves in the Champions League. He will have given us a good three seasons so fair play to him. Given his injury problems, I also wonder if we may look back and think that he left at the right time. We're fortunate to have had him in the prime of his career

As I understand it, the reason we got him is that he has this issue and that put off bigger clubs. We took a punt that we could sort it because the reward would be a top quality player. If it doesn't work out then those are the breaks, £10m isn't the biggest fee in the world

I'm baffled by this reaction. We've been told by an ITK that there is something pretty serious in his life which means he came to the club seriously unfit and which appears to be causing ongoing problems. We're not going to be told what the issue is, we can only assume it is ongoing, so just be patient and move on!

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1240911/Southampton-news-Danny-Ings-Shane-Long-new-contract-Premier-League

Were expectations high when we signed him? He wasn't setting the world alight at Norwich. He turned out to be a first team player which was pretty good

I agree that the UK is one of the most tolerant countries in the world. But that doesn't mean there aren't problems. Why do you think so many people of colour think there is a problem? Are they making it up? Deluded? Why does BLM exist as a movement in the UK if the UK is so perfect? Do you really think it really been cooked up by Marxist lefties in order to overthrow capitalism? And that they've been so successful they've managed to hoodwink the entire football establishment and many of the players? The movement has clearly hit on something real and powerful

I assume you are white? Maybe you didn't see division and injustice but black and other communities certainly felt it

I'm on the "woke" side but i think we have to say there's a fair chance this was a misunderstanding, and we won't know the truth until there's a proper inquiry

Calling people "coloured" hasn't been acceptable for at least 20 years. Someone in Greg Clarke's position, with a degree of responsibility for overseeing policies on race, really has to do better. It's not that hard to keep up if you take the time to learn

It may well have just been a big misunderstanding but I do think officials have a responsibility to understand the nuances of language and how they might be interpreted. They all probably ought to receive training. Similar to Greg Clark, on the face of it he just made a mistake but he has a responsibility to understand this stuff and get his terms right.

People have been very quick to jump in with their views on this one but this footage suggested he called him a negro, not just a black guy Even if you take the quote that Reuters reported, it's racist if you all me: “The black one over there. Go and check who he is. The black one over there, it’s not possible to act like that."

Hypo told us players are just going through the motions when taking the knee, so I guess these players did so after scoring against Millwall because they were told to by the authorities

I used to find the brass band they always had at halftime at the Dell extremely tedious. But I didn't boo them because really, who cares that much? Just let them get on with it

The only reason BLM has increased racial tension is that white people are being forced to face up to things that people of colour have always known to be true

That's like saying we haven't cured cancer so all research thus far has been meaningless. This is a process of changing and opening people's minds through discussion

Going back to stop and search, because it is an important part of this issue, here's an example of why it is causing such resentment: https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/race-britain/stop-and-think For anyone willing to learn rather than stay in entrenched positions, the report also looked at whether people of colour really get stop and searched more because their is more crime in their communities (P54). It is very hard to get definitive evidence so we'll never be able to solve the issue, but ‘self-report’ studies have shown consistently that rates of involvement in offending and drug use are similar among white and black respondents and significantly lower among Asian respondents. At the very least we can't say for sure that stop and search isn't being misused.

None of what you've just said invalidates what I've said

The very fact that we are having this important discussion is proof that taking the knee is having an effect and is not just a meaningless gesture

I can't see that gambling advertising benefits anyone except the bookies,the television companies and the clubs, and they're already raking it in anyway. If it's banned then we're all still free to gamble if we want to