Dusic

Bring the lad home. He is better than anything we have.

Where do you reckon they will finish?

In an ideal world we should have shipped out Long, Austin, Carillo and Gallagher this summer and had a complete revamp forward wise. Will settle for getting rid of Long in addition to Carillo and Gallagher, which would allow for some change, although Carillo will probably need loaning out for three years whilst we pay his transfer off which shows what a cluster**** of a signing it was. Need to sign one high class striker though as Gabbi is flaky as **** and Austin an unfit carthorse.

If we play with wing backs they are so important in an attacking sense. If Cedric missed a few months with injury, is Reed really good enough, at PL level?

Davis still not fit? Didnt feature today.

Which is obviously not the case as his and McCarthy's best form also coincided with working with Dave Watson.

Who plays ahead of him for Denmark?

None of Hoedt, Yoshida, Bednarek or Stephens will be happy not playing so will be interesting to see what the plan is. Also need a back up RB/RWB, could Stephens possibly do that, or does it really need a specialist? As an aside, if only the likes of Targett and McQueen (and many other full backs) weren't so one footed they would have a far greater chance of playing regularly.

Get shot. Ditto Long. Ditto Carillo. Forward line badly in need of shaking up.

ericb?

Is VFFT a verified ITK?

He is ****e.

He doesn't have the technical ability to be a wide player and isnt good enough generally to be bothered about shoe horning into another position. In hindsight we shouldn't have given him a new contract after the 6month spell in his career when he was above average. If he starts more than 10 PL games next season we will be having another poor campaign.

Carrillo surely our worst ever signing?

Daily Echo says we are interested in Jannik Vestergaard. Totally different player from Marlon. I'm not convinced by the accuracy of the Marlon stuff. Sport is one of the least reliable Spanish football outlets. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/16323811.mohamed-elyounoussi-is-not-direct-tadic-replacement/

Worth poiting out an article earlier today on the same site said he was going to West Ham, not the most credible source. https://www.sport.es/es/noticias/barca/ultimos-flecos-del-traspaso-marlon-6914841

Giving him a new contract is one of the worst decisions the Saints hierarchy have made in the last two years. Didn't need one. Didn't deserve one. No chance a club will maych his wages, let alone pay a fee so we will have to let him out on a subsidised loan for a bit, like with Ramirez and Osvaldo.

Apart from the bit where Wilson introduces Armstrong to Les (off camera but you can hear Reed's name mentioned).

Great signing, really good player..from game one with the Clyne backheel assist, to the last game. Teammates trusted him with the ball and he rarely lost possession when in control. I think he genuinely cared too. Kept himself fit for a very high proportion of games, so very professional attitude (Austin could learn a thing or two about physical prep of a PL footballer). Will take some replacing IMO. Easily our best creator and also the best at combining with the full backs, an important element of our game. Yes, inconsistent, although tended to deliver in big moments. If he did it all the time then he would never have played for us. Will miss watching him, he has a lot of what is good about football.

Good business in theory, but with Tadic leaving he will have to hit the ground running and have a similar impact to what Tadic had at first. If he is another Boufal who doesn't adapt then we are in trouble.

Top pro. Great signing for Saints and when on form an excellent player to watch. Will miss him waving at the crowd even when the ball is in play.

Austin scores goals but is one of the least creative players I can think of. (We are selling our most creative player)

LOL how Armstrong is questioned about missing a handful of games for Celtic and Ings absolutely woeful injury record is glossed over. Also not what we need IMO.

Who are they?

Boufal should be sold and Sims sent out on loan. Tadic is miles better than any of our other wide players. Seeing as our strikes are awful at creating chamces for themselves we are hugely reliant on Tadic's creativity at the moment. Sell him and replace badly and it would be a horrendous move, he kept us up last season.