Saint Keef

SAINTS LEGEND! You can only ever ask that a player gives 100% for the club and he gave it in bucket loads. Very best wishes to him.

I don't particularly dislike Forest, but part of me is now starting to wish that they do fail. Seems like a complete "scattergun" approach. Someone above mentioned that some of the new signings won't make match day squads. Some of of them will be lucky if they can get into the stadium on match days at this rate.

The bidding war will go something like this: Villa: "We'll give you £20 million for Bednarek" West Ham "We'll lower that offer to £18 million" Villa "Okay then, we'll go to £16 million" West Ham "How about £14 million?" Villa "Nice try,....but we can lower that to £12 million?" West Ham "Alright then, £10 million and not a penny less" Villa "£8 million and that's our final offer" Leicester "We'll have him for £6 million" Saints "DONE!"

Yeah - happy with that one. Seven all prem ties. Four ties with no prem clubs. Five ties with one prem team (all at home). Liverpool and Man City drawn at home.....of course, but can't complain drawing Sheff Wed at home. Full draw: Leicester v Newport County West Ham v Blackburn Wolves v Leeds Nottingham Forest v Tottenham Manchester United v Aston Villa Bournemouth v Everton Liverpool v Derby Burnley v Crawley Bristol City v Lincoln Manchester City v Chelsea Stevenage v Charlton MK Dons v Morecambe Newcastle v Crystal Palace Southampton v Sheffield Wednesday Arsenal v Brighton Brentford v Gillingham

I haven't played football for about 30 years now, but I'm going out tomorrow to buy a pair of boots. I reckon, that by about next Tuesday, there's a pretty good chance that Forest will have signed me.

By chance, I happened to see Tino at St Mary's last week and was able to have a quick word with him. He has a 4 to 5 inch scar to the side of his left knee which he confirmed was from the current injury (i assume the surgery). He didn't mention how long he thought he would be out. He wasn't limping though (haha that's my professional assessment completed). He was with Perraud, who when asked why he wasn't playing, said that he is injured. I have to say, both lads were really pleasant and stopped to sign autographs for kids and have 'selfies' taken......and before anyone asks, no I didn't. Here endeth my ITK input 🤣🤣

I don't know which game Tuchel watched this afternoon. He says Chelsea were "clearly the better team". Leeds 3 Chelsea 0. I watched it live, Leeds absolutely played them off off the park. After last week's antics, could the pressure be getting the Chelsea boss? He reminds me of a petulant child. "Thomas, go and sit on the naughty step until you've calmed down".

My mistake - I was thinking it was Chelsea next week. Cheers.

Some of these points have been raised previously, however.... Broja not in the Chelsea squad today.....just sayin' Koulibali red card. Presumably he misses next week against us. Bednarek available if they want him.....£20m......just sayin' Saints currently above Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea, Wolves. Everton, Villa, West Ham, Bompey & Leicester......just sayin' Our result against Leeds last week starting to look a pretty decent result.

I drove past St. Mary's earlier. There was a bloke who struck me as rather pedantic looking, standing outside the stadium, holding what appeared to be, a 24 hour vigil. He was holding a massive banner which read "PLEEEEEASE SIGN JAMES GARNER NOW. IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU GET THIS TRANSACTION COMPLETED FORTHWITH". I sounded my horn in support. He shouted back at me that it is "actually unlawful to sound ones horn after the hours of darkness unless it is in the case of an emergency" I don't think it was MLG though......he'd spelt "PLEASE" incorrectly.

I would be sad to see Oriol go. He has been a brilliant servant for this club. Not only will we lose a damn fine player, but we will also need to nominate someone else to wind up and taunt Jack Grealish! We need to start a "KEEP ORIOL" campaign. Only my opinion, but I would much rather we were looking to move Diallo out.

I don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but from what I saw on Saturday, I do wonder if Adam Armstrong could be utilised as one of the attacking midfielders. As an out and out striker, it hasn't really worked for him here, but there's no denying he puts in the miles with his work rate and puts himself about. His control is pretty good (it was just his final shot that was letting him down). His cross from the left on Saturday was a decent set up for Aribo's goal. I would imagine he could play left or right of an attacking midfield (no. 10?). I would really like it to work out for him here, and maybe it's an option. Also a shout out to Djenepo. His willingness to take on a man has always been there, but his final ball has let him down. From what I've seen so far, he looks to have "upped" his game a notch or two and the final ball looks better. So, this being the transfer thread, I would actually look to keep AA and Djenepo and not, as some have suggested, get rid of.

Yeah, good luck to him. He's had his moments, good and not so good, but has been a good servant in my opinion. Probably a good time to move on, for himself and for the club. Watford should have a few quid to spend as well. having lost Dennis and isn't/hasn't Saar going/gone as well? so hopefully we get some of that.

Changing the subject slightly. This made me smile yesterday.....at about 6.04pm this came up on my phone as I was travelling back from St Mary's. Question. "What time are Man United kicking off against Brentford?" Answer "About every 5 minutes at this rate".

A few tears ago, playing against Arsenal, he apparently lobbed Seaman from the half-way line. (the old ones are not always the best!)

Yeah, I don't disagree with you. We'll start the bidding at £150m. With all these youngsters coming in to our team as well, JWP is going to be needed anyway. I know every player has his price, but I would say JWP could be "priceless" for us this season.

For £120m they can have him. The nearer to the end of the window and teams start to get more desperate, the prices will rise.

I wouldn't mind betting he could still put in a crunching tackle though. He was a proper "Midfield General"

Win or lose the final, I think this year's BBC Sports Personality of The Year "Team Award" may already be decided. I confess, I know next to nothing about the women's game, but I have tuned in for the last 2 games and what I do find refreshing is players not rolling around on the ground after the slightest contact, and players respecting the referees decisions. And credit where credit is due, I thought England played a really good attacking game. The best goal ever though? Ummmmm, not sure about that claim.

To the tune of Nick Nack Paddy Whack... MARA SCORES, BAZUMU SAVES OUR AWAY KIT LOOKS LIKE WAVES SPLISH-SPLASH HAVE A BASH ARIBO IS A HIT WHY ARE POMPEY STILL SO SHIT (It's ok, I'm getting my coat)

Crikey! That looks like a career threatening injury for Neymar. I really hope it's not too serious and wish him a speedy recovery. Knob!

He looks like a good player. If I recall he gave Arsenal a real runaround in the cup last year. Also, I guess that might rule them out of sniffing around for KWP which has to be good news.

Various people on here saying we don't have enough money to buy this that or the other. Need to sell now before we can buy etc etc. That's a pretty big assumption unless you know something the rest of us don't. You may of course, be absolutely right, however, I don't know and I suspect nobody on here actually knows just how much the owners are prepared to splash out and none of us will know for sure until that transfer window SLAMS shut. £30m for Broja plus possibly 2 or 3 other players may indeed be outside our budget. Equally, it may not. They may have spent cautiously and not broken the bank, on the likes of Aribo, Lavia, Kotchap and Bazumu, but for all we know there may be a larger chunk waiting in order to get the right players (striker? No 10? cb? rb cover? etc etc) in. Or there may be nothing left in the pot. My point being, nobody actually knows. It's pure conjecture how much the owner are willing to spend.

Great post. However, I don't think you should let it drop now. You've done well to get this far and probably deserve some sort of honorary life membership to Saints. So wherever Bednarek goes, and for whatever fee, just tell your mate "Anything less than fifty or sixty million and I tell you, they've got themselves a f***** bargain".

Genuine question as I don't know the answer. Maybe someone on here knows. Can Tottenham enforce a buy back clause for KWP at any time during his contract with Saints, or would they have to wait for the end of that contract. Presumably if all parties were in agreement and the price was right. it could be at any stage, but if Saints were unwilling to sell at the moment, surely that contract is binding. However if it were to be run down, he could go on "a free anyway" which I guess wouldn't suit us. As I say, just asking...