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Apparently he hasn't been a starter for parts of the season, so £20m a good price for them.

Shame it would be a loan but thats PL wages for you. Hasn't worked out for Clasie and never will in the PL. Clearly physically unsuited to the PL, suprised the scouting dept didn't overide Koeman on this one - poor replacement for Schneiderlin.

Imagine we make contact with a large number. Be amazed if Tuchel or Emery gave us a second thought to be honest. If you aren't in European competition and have little prospect of being so then its a tough sell.

Genuine question: why would the likes of Tuchel or Emery want to join Saints when its quite obvious that there is a an ever growing divide between the PL teams who have lot of spending power and those who don't? They would very likely be able to achieve 8th as the best possible attainable position (perhaps 7th if Everton don't spend well) and will have a very slim chance of managing in Europe here. Imagine the only chance of attracting those level of Manager's would be with a hefty transfer budget which we almost certainly won't have (expecting another net profit in the summer window assuming VVD goes).

Seems like the wee lad is sunning himself in Portugal at the moment. Very questionable record (and suits) yet gained a big promotion recently.

Letting Tadic go to a direct rival would be stupid.

If City are paying £45m for an uncapped goalkeeper from the Portuguese league (Ederson) then is £50m really a good price for a proven class PL defender? IMO no. Prices will be mental this summer so selling for £50m would be very poor business for such a sought after player with many years left on his contract.

http://www.espnfc.com/paris-saint-germain/story/3135140/nasser-al-khelaifi-unai-emery-200-percent-certain-to-remain-at-psg 200% certain to stay at PSG according to their CEO. Assume Emery is who people have referred to (not sure why the person cannot be named)? If it is him then our chance of getting him must be very slim so hopefully we have a backup plan.

Surely its obvious enough by now that Caceres was a required panic signing due to a rather substantial defensive cock up in the transfer window, and equally obvious that he has and probably never had much of a future beyond the length of his short term deal?

Iheanacho is an excellent buy at the sort of figures quoted. Would be a bit gutted if he signed permanently for a rival.

Why? He has been nothing but professional at Saints and utterly superb. If he went to Liverpool he would be moving to a far bigger team with better players, a better Manager, more chances of winning trophies, ability to play in the Champions League next season as well as a lot more money. Why would you boo him when from his point of view it would be a good move on many levels?

#quietsummer

Surely Spurs wouldn't allow Walker and Rose to go to Man City?

Talks for Arsenal to sign Henry Onyekuru going well. Top scorer in Belgium. £6.8m release clause. 1st Nigeria call up http://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAlF4POXUAA_SyE.jpg Bit of a blow to miss out on this guy as we have been watching him for ages it seems. Low fee too for such potential.

If so, it won't be a prosperous one. He would be one of the weakest starting full backs in the league.

If Bertrand left, not replacing him would be quite frankly ludicrous. McQueen has been promising but also quite green at times. Targett has played quite a number of games now and clearly hasn't got that extra yard of pace you need at PL level. He is hesitant in attack and poor one v one defensively. Really hope this is bull****.

Hughes is well aware his own position is being scrutinised by Stoke fans. If he said he expected Saints to be doing better in any particular facet then he would pretty much be labelling that against his own job as well. Its clear to anyone who has followed us this season that the 8th position finish (and cup final to an extent) is a misnomer in terms of how the season has felt and what we have watched.

Can't see any conclusion other than Puel leaving - a change is needed, there is no rapport between Puel and the fans and never will be. Also need to return to a more physical, higher tempo game allied to being good in possession. Hopefully the club also realise their errors: 1. Appointing Puel when surely there were better candidates available 2. Ultimately failing in both transfer windows to provide him with a balanced squad. Perhaps trying to always be clever with recruitment rather than bringing in the odd PL proven player. Ultimately though it hasnt worked out and failure to make a change will be bottling it.

Easy to say get rid but he is a semi reliable creator of chances, certainly our best. Would only sell if we had someone coming in who perhaps offered creativity in a different sort of style, but there are players we woulf benefit from selling far more: Clasie and Long to name two.

We aren't going to be a top 6 side anytime soon but its a fair point. Already recently the likes of Hojbjerg, Clasie, Long, Rodriguez etc haven't had much game time and next season we will mostly have one game a week and won't need to rotate much. That should help achieve more consistency than we managed this time but clearly players will be frustrated. We might need to loan a few out for regular game time, someone like Josh Sims for example. Answer for me is in this summer's recruitment: we only need to sign players who come into the team and start in our best XI. We don't need squad players. I would be happy with 3 really good signings.

Second half of West Ham away is still the best we have played in a winning cause all season IMO. Ages ago...

Led to believe games are being played by all. All IMHO of course.

(Sad) reality is most PL players would just laugh at Adkins if he became Manager. #pressuremakesdiamonds

Gareth Barry may well have played there.

Spurs score - 4 players in the 6 yard box when Kane heads in.