Patrick Bateman

Who cares about these little w*nkers. Reference to the excellent Roy Keane, who speaks sense yet again; https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/11517299/roy-keane-blasts-manchester-united-cry-babies

The only thing consistent with him is that every season, Liverpool win his league. Liverpool's immediate opponents happen to be Chelsea at the moment, so they'll lose 5-0 away to Saints, ensuring his league, in his weird head, has Liverpool clear ...

Amended

I don't think Vestergaard is awful, I think he needs a MUCH better pairing.

We'll probably see Bednarek, Yoshida and Gabbiadini play in the cup ... and win.

Benitez (fallen out with Newcastle now) or Rodgers (getting more fed up at Celtic) will do.

Newcastle and Benitez want to part company ... he'll do.

Yes, because the team still played like sh*t in the 2nd half and the subs were still wrong and there was still no leader on the pitch. A 2-1 win would've been luck.

They're deluded 'bin dippers', typically. It'll be 8 or 9-0.

Yes - as a one off. But that one off should be an important game not vs bloody Brighton

£22.50 burger (!) and some crap pyrotechnics. Top flight football is rubbish.

Great first half, really very good. Good play, players up for it, first to most balls and recovering the few mistakes they made. Obviously a disgustingly bad half time team talk and they come out looking like the team we've been suffering for the last year or so. Dreadful, no guts, no fight, second to most balls, more mistakes and that was then backed up my dreadful substitutions. I'm not anti-Hughes, but that wasn't good from half time to the end of the match.

I'm sold!

Absolutely. For those in North Hampshire it's Fleet Town vs East Grinstead Town in FA Cup qualification & Fleet could really do with a few more paying visitors currently.

Defender Virgil van Dijk 26 2017-2018 £69,000,000 Southampton Liverpool £61,400,000 Defender Luke Shaw 18 2014-2015 £30,000,000 Southampton Manchester United £47,900,000 Defender Dejan Lovren 25 2014-2015 £20,500,000 Southampton Liverpool £32,900,000 Defender Dean Richards 27 2001-2002 £7,500,000 Southampton Tottenham Hotspur £32,000,000 Defender Wayne Bridge 22 2003-2004 £7,200,000 Southampton Chelsea £31,600,000 Defender Calum Chambers 19 2014-2015 £16,400,000 Southampton Arsenal £26,620,000 Defender Nathaniel Clyne 24 2015-2016 £12,900,000 Southampton Liverpool £22,310,000 Defender Jeff Kenna 24 1994-1995 £1,500,000 Southampton Blackburn Rovers £20,870,000 Defender Neil Ruddock 24 1992-1993 £570,000 Southampton Tottenham Hotspur £12,360,000 Defender Richard Hall 24 1996-1997 £1,210,000 Southampton West Ham United £11,400,000 Defender José Fonte 33 2016-2017 £7,500,000 Southampton West Ham United £10,080,000 Defender Fitz Hall 23 2004-2005 £1,530,000 Southampton Crystal Palace £6,650,000 Defender Andrew Davies 23 2008-2009 £1,520,000 Southampton Stoke City £3,916,000 Defender Jonathan Gittens 28 1992-1993 £167,000 Southampton Middlesbrough £3,601,000 Defender Matt Mills 19 2005-2006 £255,000 Southampton Chelsea £1,106,000 Forward Alan Shearer 21 1992-1993 £3,000,000 Southampton Blackburn Rovers £65,200,000 Forward Kevin Davies 21 1998-1999 £7,500,000 Southampton Blackburn Rovers £47,100,000 Forward Peter Crouch 24 2005-2006 £7,100,000 Southampton Liverpool £30,800,000 Forward James Beattie 26 2004-2005 £6,100,000 Southampton Everton £26,680,000 Forward Kenwyne Jones 22 2007-2008 £6,100,000 Southampton Sunderland Afc £20,730,000 Forward Jay Rodríguez 27 2017-2018 £12,100,000 Southampton West Bromwich Albion £10,740,000 Forward Rickie Lambert 32 2014-2015 £4,460,000 Southampton Liverpool £7,200,000 Forward Iain Dowie 30 1994-1995 £333,000 Southampton Crystal Palace £4,634,000 Forward Kevin Phillips 31 2005-2006 £1,020,000 Southampton Aston Villa £4,458,000 Keeper Tim Flowers 26 1993-1994 £2,530,000 Southampton Blackburn Rovers £48,700,000 Keeper Antti Niemi 33 2005-2006 £1,020,000 Southampton Fulham £4,450,000 Keeper Paul Jones 36 2003-2004 £259,000 Southampton Wolverhampton Wanderers £1,127,000 Left Wing Sadio Mané 24 2016-2017 £34,000,000 Southampton Liverpool £45,100,000 Midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin 25 2015-2016 £25,600,000 Southampton Manchester United £44,000,000 Midfielder Adam Lallana 26 2014-2015 £25,100,000 Southampton Liverpool £40,800,000 Midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 17 2011-2012 £12,000,000 Southampton Arsenal £33,400,000 Midfielder Eyal Berkovic 25 1997-1998 £1,800,000 Southampton West Ham United £18,360,000 Midfielder Victor Wanyama 25 2016-2017 £11,800,000 Southampton Tottenham Hotspur £15,620,000 Midfielder Jim Magilton 28 1997-1998 £1,270,000 Southampton Sheffield Wednesday £13,120,000 Midfielder Chris Baird 25 2007-2008 £3,060,000 Southampton Fulham £10,520,000 Midfielder Luís Boa Morte 23 2001-2002 £1,430,000 Southampton Fulham £6,120,000 Midfielder Carlton Palmer 33 1998-1999 £900,000 Southampton Nottingham Forest £5,730,000 Midfielder Nigel Quashie 27 2005-2006 £1,220,000 Southampton West Bromwich Albion £5,410,000 Midfielder Jack Cork 25 2014-2015 £3,240,000 Southampton Swansea City £5,300,000 Midfielder Jason Puncheon 27 2013-2014 £1,870,000 Southampton Crystal Palace £3,327,000 Midfielder Andrew Surman 22 2009-2010 £1,250,000 Southampton Wolverhampton Wanderers £2,798,000 Right Wing Gareth Bale 17 2007-2008 £10,000,000 Southampton Tottenham Hotspur £34,200,000 Right Wing Theo Walcott 16 2005-2006 £7,100,000 Southampton Arsenal £30,800,000

Agreed - would rather him than Austin in the squad.

No, that's Austin isn't it?

Where does this end? Where are the free incontinence products? This country is full of people expecting the world on a plate and the new dishing out some form of preaching every day. Tiresome.

2nd to every header 2nd to every tackle 2nd in terms of energy But a more promising second half, however I never want to see Stephens and Hoedt play again.

We have a very average squad, simple as that, but are extremely poor at centre back - everyone could see we needed more than 1 signing there.

I think everyone agreed that one new centre back wasn't enough ... Stephens and Hoedt are not good.

I agree with this. Carillo is just a young lad who was signed for Saints. It's not his fault he was out of his depth last season and his employer is giving him a chance to improve elsewhere and they're absolutely not going to destroy his confidence further in public.

Skilled in a different way, with a completely unjustifiable salary and a completely unfulfilling prophecy. "I saved x, y, z lives" versus "yeah, er, ugh, yeah, I scored some goals that yeah, ugh, won a cup, ugh"

You could build a team out of that lot. A slow team and a very stroppy team ...

To be fair, he's been training week-in, week-out with Mane, Salah and Firminio ... that can only have helped him train harder and pick up quicker skills. I think we may well have pulled off a blinder by getting him in.