Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

He's 22/23, settling into the country & playing in a much more testing league. He's going to have the odd stinker. That said, his pace & unpredictability clearly worries defences, he's getting in positions to score & when he finds his shooting boots, he will be a tremendous asset IMO.

Is Jay Rod actually nearing any sort of return. Barely mentioned by Saints in these heady days...

Here's a thought. Maybe Ronnie wants to work with his own man and Mitchell was a dead man walking anyway, despite his "successes". Tadic, Pelle, Mane and Toby all seem like Koeman signings no matter how much we claim to have held long term interests.

I'm sure it's posturing to enable Atletico to scare us into paying a little bit more than the fee we signed up for. Still hopeful of a permanent deal.

They don't need scouts, just a season ticket to SMS...

Can easily see him going on loan in January but can't see it being to us. Shame it's not working out for him but not really a surprise. Classic case of a dream move turning sour as I said on the defectors thread.

Rickie's probably always dreamed of seeing his beloved Liverpool play Madrid at the Bernabeu. Unfortunately that's all he got to do tonight. Not even on the bench. Classic case of dream move turning sour. Shame. On the other hand, good to see Lallana contribute s**t all.

Genius. From someone who has too much time on their hands.

Utter nonsense to award this as an own goal. Can we refer this to the dubious decisions panel? Either that, or someone sent in a clip of the wrong goal when we were wanted the Bridcutt own goal re-considered!

I'm happy to wait until May before we hit the summit...

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. We is well good!

Super stuff. Well deserved too! With Davis signing a new contract, it's been a rather good day for us Saints. Hoping the good news rolls on into tomorrow with a resounding win.

My favourite XI: 1. John Burridge 2. Ivan Golac 3. Francis Benali 4. Steve Williams 5. Michael Svensson 6. Jose Fonte 7. Kevin Keegan 8. Matthew Le Tissier 9. Steve Moran 10. Barry Horne 11. Danny Wallace 12. Nathaniel Clyne 13. Ivan Katalinic 14. Russell Osman 15. Morgan Schneiderlin 16. Ronnie Ekelund 17. Marian Pahars 18. Paul Rideout

And we mustn't forget his birthday: November 8th according to Wiki. Who's getting the card? No need for a present, the club will get him a watch.

We would've been mental to have accepted Cardiff's offer during the summer and I'm glad we saw sense and offered him a new contract instead. A rival for Rickie, IMO, as the best signing we made during the recovery period we started in League 1.

Excellent today up against a strong centre half in Caulker and a fading Rio Ferdinand. Strong, good positional sense, great touch, didn't let that miss in the first half affect him and scored a goal of the season contender. Everything I hoped Dani Osvaldo would be.

W**k draw but a chance to dispose of another Premier rival, I suppose.

Honestly, Bale & Theo aside, no. They've all made decisions to move on - fair play. I'm only interested in the squad RK has assembled now and those he feels are worth adding to the group. If its an old boy being brought back - fine - but its all about the future for me and, for now, the exciting squad with greater depth we have for this season

Farking marvellous stuff. Gets better & better. Hope we get a good home draw next round & we could go a long way in this Cup.

Great result tonight on now on to the next one! Think Harry will park the bus on Saturday so we'll need Dusan at his creative best to unlock their defence. Looking forward to it!

It was Swansea at SMS...

This one was good too...

A quick search of the Liverpool forums which come up first on Google and there's one that's got player ratings for today's game. This one made me chuckle...

He could leave out Long, go with Morgan, Vic & Cork in the middle and push Davis out to wide right? That's the beauty now, plenty of strong options in the squad with Jay Rod & Mane still to add in

Wife is clued up on this as per my earlier post. It's something called a hub and spoke model and the reason he had to go to Ghana is this is our hub where visas are more likely to need to be processed speedily. Senegal does also have a visa processing site but could be the spoke leading to Ghana where he might get sorted more quickly. The TB check I wrote about yesterday is a real process required to enter the UK and does cause deltas for overseas entrants to the UK. "Slow paperwork" could include this. Just got to wait this out unfortunately, if so.