CB Fry

It's on BT Sport Europe so very good chances.

Which may be true but is definitely why we won't sell him this window. He'll go next year for a bit less than that, but to go for £16m still feels a bit light It's the same as the headline fee for Chambers so I don't think acceptable.

Gutless more like. Or something.

Sterling and Bale are better than anything we've sold and Liverpool and Spurs are bigger, richer clubs and were sold to even bigger, even richer clubs. If Everton get £30m for Stones good luck them but it doesn't make the deal we did on Lallana a poor one. I wonder how many Liverpool fans think they mugged us? How about zero Liverpool fans.

Fair enough. You forgot to mention solid gold seats in the stadium.

You forgot to mention free hot dogs.

Markus Leibherr would not have been pumping money in to turn us into a Chelsea/Man City. Really strange to see someone equate "love and affection for the club" with a desire to "pump huge sums of cash" into it to pi ss away on fees and wages. I am delighted we don't do that, and delighted we never will under our current ownership.

It's a brilliant reason for players to sign. Anyone thinking Clasie, Mane and Co haven't considered this is nuts. If Mane ends up at Manchester United next year it's because he's been brilliant for us. Ditto Clasie in two years time.

We don't need Celtic to lose. He's leaving whatever. I'd like them to win, personally.

Your energy would be much better spent not on this thread but by single handedly saving Southampton Football Club again. Many of us will never forget what you did for us last year and we need you so bad right now.

I don't see three of those clubs as particular rivals anyway - the only time I have ever cared about Brighton or Reading was when we directly competed with them for promotion. Other than I have no particular interest what they do (exception being when Nigel was at Reading I wanted them to do well). Bournemouth I hope they stay up and do well. South Coast BBC South Today area as a hotbed of fierce football rivalry? Nah. All feels a little bit tin pot to me. With Pompey I take satisfaction from their current reduced state. Them not playing us hurts them so very much more than us not playing them.

I don't want Portsmouth. I'd rather not play them for a decade. Don't give them the oxygen.

Everton's twitter feed is brilliant.

It corresponds with international break pretty much every season.

It's an intolerable situation.

Fair play that is an atrocious article.

You seem concerned about us making a "backward step". It might help the rest of us if you define what wouldn't be a backward step in your view.

Two thirds of those games featuring the players we've seen move on.

During the election campaign I think I must have missed all those occasions when Ed Miliband and the rest of the shadow cabinet "supported whatever the Tories say". You've got upset by Liz Kendall which has turned you into shouting "Tory" at every single person that doesn't support Jeremy Corbyn. Fine.

Absolutely.

Yes. People are moaning about what happened at the club a year ago. Not moaning about what happened on this forum a year ago. They are moaning about what happened at Southampton football club a year ago.

What?

You win the sweepstake. When I sent that post I thought the obvious reply would come within about three posts and it did. Well done.

I knew you'd hate that. Looks pretty delicious to me. We're really good at recruiting players aren't we? We finished seventh last year. It was brilliant.

It's got nothing to do with an internet forum, though, has it. We've started poorly and people are moaning about stuff that happened at the club a year ago. Not on this forum. At Southampton Football Club. The stuff that happened a year ago at Southampton Football Club really hasn't got any relevance to now, for most normal people look at the success we've had at our most successful season for nigh on thirty years, the fact that the two players we've sold were obviously going and look ahead to go again with a manager we trust at a club that is built on the finest of foundations. You can blather on about web forums if you like, but don't really see why you would.