Patrick Bateman

Where have you read that?

Purely just better marketing - bam, 3 new players, here they are, don't they all look like fine specimens etc.

I imagine the club will want to unveil more than one at once??

Can't disagree with this at all. Lineker has become an idiot and I'd rather Jenas , Shearer and Logan as a MoTD team - I barely watch it now as it does my head in.

It'd be a mental move for him. He'd definitely get less playing time and also, it would be a bit of an 'up yours' to the club who have paid all his bills and nutured him back to fitness - assuming of course that the club don't want to sell and it's that way round. If it's the other way round, I'd be disappointed in the club.

You're right, Adam will lose that one

Why?? He's got a point! Or are you one of those that don't allow others to have a point of view?

Hmmm, that's not a good thing, we're always w**k after a break. Hope we arrange a competitive friendly in that time ... ?

Isgrove and Reed - neither have lived up to the standard required at this level. Reed deserves a good loan out and then come back to see what he's got (like Stephens and Gallagher), but Isgrove needs to leave to salvage some career for himself.

Personally, I'm still elated about the cup final, so I didn't care so much about tonight's result, as weird as that feels. However, it did show that Isgrove and Reed are not good enough for this league, Gardos probably not worthy of being near the first team (currently) and same with Martina (contract running out in the summer?). Having said that, our fairly inexperienced and injury recovering back line were facing proven internationals so the writing was always on the wall.

To be fair, it's very much a Liverpool B team, we'd have stuck 10 past this lot!

I think EVERYONE will have someone on their minds. For me, I wish my Grandad, who played for Saints in 1945/46 was around to see this, as well as a recently lost friend. I think it would be good to have a universal round of applause at a set time, for whoever is on your own mind. If say on 20 minutes, everyone applauded and thought of people that were missing who they'd like to be there, I think that would be more personal and mean a lot. Just my view though.

Couldn't make it, got my ticket next to me, absolutely f**king speechless ... I love Claude.

Hire him for the FA cup match against Arsenal, he's bound to score a hattrick.

This. I hate Twitter, it's sh*t. https://twitter.com/skysperts

"Premier League leaders Chelsea have also tracked Van Dijk, who worked under Goodison boss Ronald Koeman on the south coast." >>> Quality article this.

I like it how "taking a short walk away from the ground" has a very different meaning now to in the 70/80s/early 90s

Give over you helmet. He did a very good job today and will make a good deputy (remembering as a centre back, he's still young). Leicester were absolute guff though and I wouldn't put him against Mane or Costa just yet.

Because Leicester are f**king awful and on that performance look division 2 bound!

Agree with all of this. I voted Soares man of the match, he was solid and everywhere on that wing with some lovely crosses and good vision. I wondered how he'd be without his international mate in the same back 4, but he looked very good indeed.

I was expecting it to be after this week once the semi final is out of the way.

I feel sorry for the bloke with all those injuries. But f**k it, let's see what the fella has got, we've barely seen him!

Whatever it is, he needs to get over it, get his head down and crack on. Maybe Osvaldo was right ...

We need to stop fannying around with loans in this window and get it sorted.

Whhaaatttttt? Bloody modern football fans