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It's going to be two-nil.

Thanks for the PM. I won't tell anyone that you are Craig Maskell.

John Gittens. I have it on 100% authority that I cannot reveal that he left and re-signed for us. If anyone wants to PM me then I will tell them that Kevin Davies also did.

This is it - there is no abuse. Just a couple of people posting up a couple of rumours on a message board thinking that means that everyone should treat them like flipping Moses coming down from Mount Sinai. Post up info, or don't. Do what you like. Just don't expect instant hero worship because you're not going to get it.

Literally he's gone from "here's a snippet" to the classic ITK "I don't know why I bother" temper tantrum within TWO pi ssy little posts. If he never posts again he won't be missed if his entire contribution thus far is " we've signed a player who will be announced one day soon but I won't name him". Effing genius. There are some good ITK on here - nice to see a line from VFTT on here today - and the secret is to just not be a bellend about it. There's been a couple of wannabes recently who have comprehensively failed this test.

Jesus wept.

Ekambi is a new one on me.

I do agree with this - we have strayed a little too much into Eric Djemba-Djemba territory, where just because a player is not good enough for x big club, it doesn't mean they are good enough for us, it might be they just ain't no good. However, our Djemba-Djembas are at least young. We haven't gone the full Sunderland yet. Now VVD is gone and Davis is aging we do miss some authority especially with the mess we're in. We need a bit of experience and steel. Walcott, the oldest young prospect in the world, may at least provide some experience. Not sure about steel though.

So just to recap, you post about you do want/you don't want/you do want/you don't want us to pay "overs" by listing a great big list of players but you weren't talking about players after all but managers. Clear. And now we learn that Lazio and Napoli, CL and Europa League regulars are clubs beneath us and Watford and Burnley and Leicester because mid table Premier League towers over 4th place Serie A and we shouldn't lower ourselves to sign their dreadful players from Napoli and Lazio who are the same level as relegated Norwich. Its an opinion. Clear. And I must respect your right to drag up Adam Lallana and Luke Shaw because you were, like, assessing Les Reed's entire SFC career so how dare I suggest they're not really relevent now. But not relevant to the discussion are Mario Lemina or P-E Hojberg because they are merely players that we actually signed, are actually in the squad and will actually play for Southampton Football Club tomorrow. How dare I bring them into the debate without your permission. Shaw/Lallana: relevant to discussion. Lemina/Hojberg: not relevant. Clear. And lastly you have now described Gabbiadini, Hoedt and Shane Long as "bargain bin" signings. We've already covered the other two as our record signings for their positions for us so let's move on but hey, you're right about Shane Long because I distinctly remember the outrage at the tiny little fee we paid for bargain bin cheapo Shane Long And how everyone reacted to that tiny fee we paid for Shane Long. I'll try and help you out. All I can see is you don't like the fact we signed Nathan Redmond and based on that premise you are trying build some bullsh it manifesto/magic formula that guarantees we only ever sign brilliant players and never sign bad players and we do and don't and do and don't pay "overs". Because all other football clubs have cracked that formula and only Les Reed gets it wrong. But I can see you're struggling because you don't seem to have got much further than "don't sign Nathan Redmond". I'd turn it in if I were you. Happy New Year.

Why do we always leave it so late?

Please please please can you go out of your way and spare some precious time to give us some inside info please. Please can you do that. Please can you please can you please.

Tricky if true. Everton can and will pay more but he wouldnt have to uproot himself to sign for us and there's a nice symmetry to his career if he comes to us. Get the feeling our Arsenal twitter genius was taking a punt and hoping he was right. I'd like to see him here so fingers crossed.

Indeed, especially as we would want to announce it as soon as possible. "End of next week" is classic ITK tactics. If it falls through then, well, some things changed but I was right at the time etc.

Being that Arsenal ITK went so big on his Walcott story (hes already signed, he's a Southampton player, bet my account on it etc) I'm surprised none of the Sunday papers have taken the story on. Its almost like he could be full of it. Let's see.

Being that he hasn't even established himself in our team yet fu ck knows who you think is going to come in with a big fee for him in the summer. We've got him this season and next bare minimum. If he goes for a big fee after that, then that means he's been brilliant for us so fingers crossed. He's clearly stepped up since he's come back into the side and personally think he is currently outshining our supposed best midfielder Romeu and our big signing Lemina. Agree with the OP - he can be s big player for us, eventually another good un we've brought in.

Let's just work through this. So, when did you say you wanted us to pay "overs"? Well, there is the post I replied to in the first place- remember, this one: So apologies I obviously misread this, I thought you were complaining but obviously now I see you were praising the club because you don't want us to pay "overs" and you've never said you wanted us to. Great, we agree, Les pays good prices for the players we get in. The rest of the post is drivel. Why are you describing Gabbiadini and Hoedt as "not good enough for other mid/lower table teams" when we signed them from the 4th and 5th placed teams in Serie A? We also signed Lemina from the Champions of Italy, is that high enough above mid table for you? Hojberg came from middle ranking minnows Bayern Munich but fair enough he had been at Shalke in the depths of mid table middleness in 5th place. In the world rankings of teams I reckon Lazio and Napoli easily outrank Celtic and Red Bull Saltzberg but what you're saying is you want us to only sign players from sh it leagues. Fair enough, it's an opinion. And you are describing Gabbiadini, Hoedt and Lemina as "cheap nonsense" when two of them represent our record signing at the time and they all represent our record for their positions: you really ain't so bright. Also, they all cost much more than Austin, Pelle, Mane and VVD, the four players you have singled out as our best signings. All signed in the Reed era as well. Frankly you're all over the shop. Keep blubbering about Adam Lallana though.

That Instagram thing made my blood run cold. Seriously we're not actually going to sign him? Next weeks rumours: Joey Barton, Ched Evans.

Never in doubt. Good job everyone.

Pellegrino is three minutes away from two more months in the job.

We're holding on like a third division side in an FA Cup tie.

I thought you weren't making any judgement on Puel until he had completed 25-35 games?

AMBITION.

So the pundit you relied on as the go-to guy for your "all the pundits are saying Pellegrino has the safest job in football and won't be sacked" claim is now saying, about two days later, that he thinks he will be sacked this season. So much for the safest job in football. That pretty much sums up the pair of you, the idiot gifts that keep on giving.