James

They really wouldn't. Our defence and midfield is far far superior to what they are up against in the Champ. They've got some good attackers but otherwise they look very ordinary to me. Will get murdered next season if they don't invest.

So you'd rather we missed out on Europe than Liverpool win the cup? Honestly, I sometimes wonder whether some of our fans actually support Saints.

Bar Newcastle, what has he done of note? He's been ineffective to say the least.

Ha. Obviously not, but not playing our best attacker against a very slow defence is a very interesting decision. I don't understand it at all.

Not playing Mane is an unbelievable decision. Elia has been useless.

This is an excellent post - sets out exactly the way I see it as well.

What a surprise that you have taken the negative view. Look forward to your summer musings already.

I'm not sure I'd call the save he made from Ings "routine". I also don't recall his distribution or hesitancy with the ball at his feet nearly costing us goals today. He's also gained universal praise from all our players and manager for his performance. I'd say he played ok but what do I know? Obviously we will miss Fraser but it sounds like he's out for the season so we are stuck with Kelv so we may as well get behind him. That said, maybe we can get a non-contract keeper in during the break.

Have you ever seen him? Most incompetent keeper that I've seen have a sustained run in our team. There was a stat last year when he was in the team which basically indicated if a shot hit the target it was going in.

And there we have it from the man himself (Hi Artur). Happy to stick with Kelvin - shame about FF but I'm confident Kelv won't let us down.

My last post so all I will say until tomorrow! My only thought is that if City were coming in he'd likely know about it or at least have a fairly strong indication of it. My question is why say what he has said if he would actually prefer to go to one of the big boys. It's fairly certain there will be a lot of interest and he could just have said that he'd see what happened/wait until the summer but he didn't, he said he wanted to stay with us. We will have to wait and see, but if he were holding out for Man City then I struggle to understand why he made such a positive statement. As others have said, the fact he is even considering staying is unbelievably good news.

...and neither do you. My point is more 'it is quite possible that we could match the bid that a big club is willing to make'. KBilly said we didn't have the wherewithal to sign a striker in January but he didn't give much detail. Maybe the right player wasn't available at the right price.

Well no - we could feasibly match the 'big bid' - if we paid 12m for Shane Long then we can go in big for a player like Toby (who realistically, nobody is going to pay more than 15-20m for). If we do that then he would have to go back on what he has said. Why can't some people just accept promising news for what it is? Saints fans = eternal pessimists.

Caught by the grammar police. Prat.

I think its great we are doing team bonding stuff, but given our recent record with injuries could we have picked too more dangerous activities then ice hockey and skiing?!

Spurs 1 up already. They're going to be tough to stop.

How the hell to Yoshi miss that?

God this is woeful. Never going to score.

Not the team I wanted or expected....

Exactly. Clyne and Spider don't care anymore.

Season over. Pelle awful. Our big time Charlie's don't care any more. They know they are playing champs league next year anyway. I'd rather not be in the Uefa to be honest will probably result in us going down next year.

Until he signs somewhere else I still have hope. He'd only be a squad player at City and he didn't enjoy that at Atletico. If we finish in the CL places we'll sign him IMO.

Exactly this. You can't sell two establish Netherlands internationals for peanuts and then ask the earth for a substitute. If De Vrij and Indi went for 7.5 m then even 3.5 m is probably over the odds for Vilhena.

Absolutely outrageous decision in my book. We have our best ever chance of Champions League, we have an injury crisis and we're selling one of our better squad/cover players. It's absolutely mad and could well come back to haunt us. We need all the quality cover we can get.

3-5-2 with Bertrand at left sided center back. Good game to try this in case we ever need it.