Jack

My guess - throwing everyone into a frenzy on here with "It's a done deal" claims from clearly ill advised 'sources'.

I sort of meant it in a different way. These are the crazy prices being thrown around on big name players. £12m for Ramirez looks a much better deal than all of the above.

I think it's fair to say he's considerably better than: Steven Fletcher (£12m), (reportedly) Jordan Henderson (£20m), Stuart Downing (sh*tloads) James Milner (sh*tloads) Ashley Young (probably)(sh*tloads) Plus with age on his side, and hopefully without the ego, I really like the sound of Ramirez. £12m is huge for us, but you won't get many better players for that sort of money.

Rasiak at Derby. Goals vs skates. Recently: Lambert vs Millwall away. De Ridder at Reading. Fonte vs Cov. Knew we were there.

A good point, very well made. I'll apologise if I'm wrong, but it's not even vaguely believable b*llocks IMO.

Give it a rest. Earlier your 'source' was someone loitering at a hotel, now you've got an agent's flight details?

Guessing IMO. "Mate's dad's ex missus' hairdresser's bit on the side heard...."

My best mate is a skate. An absolute cvnt when it comes to Saints/Pompey discussion, but he's a top bloke.

Not underestimating them, just pointing out that we'll approach the game very differently, being at home and against a bottom half side.

Part of the game plan which will be different for every opposition. Expect us to be much more adventurous against Wigan as we'll have more of the ball, and will be less likely to be picking it out of our own net if a 'hollywood ball' goes a bit wrong.

I think it should be 4-4-2 as well. I'd play: ------------Davis Clyne---Fonte---Jos---Fox Ramirez-Morgan-Davis-Lallana ---Lambert------Sharp Guly for Ramirez if that goes tits up. Although I think it's likely to be: ------------Davis Clyne---Fonte---Jos---Fox ---------Schneiderlin------ -----Davis--------Lallana---- Ramirez/Guly-------Rodrigues ---------Lambert---------- They're not bad going forward but poor defensively, just attack. 4-2 victory.

I've been saying all along that Tadanari Lee is going to be top quality. I think he'll nail down one of the wide positions in the front 3, it's suited to him. Was really impressed in the few games he played last season, good touch, runs the channels well, and can clearly strike the ball well.

He's gone on loan to Bompey. HTH.

14-16. Push for top half next season.

Lee Barnard double hat-trick. As a second half substitute.

Players released from Barnet? No, they haven't got a good side. Comfortable Bompey win IMO, would love Barney to get on the scoresheet.

I wonder if Ramirez speaks much Italian? Guly's Italian must be pretty good after being there that long

Yes.

Then you'd think he'd put a bit of effort in to make it harder for people to make him look stupid? I suppose there's no educating some people, terminally unintelligent.

I always enjoy your blogs, keep it up. Minor error - you have both us and West Ham down for finishing 16th

Correct. A media leak to get one of the clubs moving who can realistically afford him.

Probably just a bluff to get Blackpool moving on the Phillips deal. Wouldn't that be an anticlimax...

Transfer budget? Wage budget? Can't see it myself.

Surely that would result in death. System overload.

I'm going to assume this is absolute horse sh*t. Surely that would be smashing our transfer and wage budgets to pieces. I'd be happy to be proven wrong.