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Got my Milan tickets today, got tickets in the Saints section courtesy of one of the skates main sponsors !!!!!! Thanks Covers!

I think the idea was to have a guess before it all gets going, rather like picking your fantasy team before the start of the season...not 10 games in.

For me, its more of a case of who seems to have a squad that will do better than us over 38 games... Chelsea City Utd Liverpool Arsenal Spurs Palace Boro Stoke Leicester West Ham (maybe) So, 12th if Puel somehow manages to find a starting XI that can regularly get results.

Unfashionable approach to modern football.

Why do you think...

Totally agree. You can be anti Israel without being anti semitic. Anyway...

Why not?

10 mins to go! Cant bloody wait...finances a bit tight, so could do with Ajax, Gent and Dundalk.

Words fail me on this decision. Shocking decision. This summer is proving to be one hell of a transfer window.

WTF! This is probably one of the most stupid decisions, in a summer of stupid decisions...

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100% This. Also, its been mentioned on here a few times (whether its true or not, I don't know) that if SFC sign a player for £10 and pay £5m wages over the term of their contract, then £15m is allocated from the transfer funds.....if that's the case, what happens when said player leaves before the end of their contract (as often happens)? are their unpaid wages then fed back into our transfer funds?

You reckon that we've managed to come up with some masterful system that no other football team has managed to do in over 100 yrs of professional football? Do you reckon that our academy will ALWAYS churn out gems off the production line, year after year, that are good enough for a team supposedly aiming for CL football? Do you reckon that we have a fool proof system that picks better manager after better manager...without any break in performance....when no other team in the history of football has done that? You create your own luck, but sometimes luck runs out.

This will get shot down by the "everything is fine, trust Les" squad...that have blind faith in the belief we can keep pulling rabbits out of the hat year after year as #wemarchon

He'll start talking English when he jumps ship to Spurs.

Should be "aren't" in post above!

Trouble with players that can cover a variety of positions is that they are really spectacular at any of them. Maybe he is LB cover with a view of pushing Targett further forward once he's recover from injury.

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Its a lot easier to blood youngsters into the first XI when you are are in L1 or the Championship (as we showed) - but trying to blood them into a team that is (apparently) trying to get top 4 is nigh on impossible, especially with the youngsters we have at the club.

This. Just hope he's not Example A of how we cant keep pulling rabbits out of the hat.

Down?

I guess I read it differently, we may be resistant to the effects of short termism, but not we are not resistant to short-termism its self.

I wouldn't agree that we are resistant to "footballs short termism", our last 3 summers would suggest otherwise...

IF we do lose the ability to recruit players under the Bosman ruling, I think that it may well affect the teams lower down the English football pyramid. The type of players that a top 10 prem team are going to be looking to buy should pass the criteria, as they would tend to be proven internationals (generally speaking) - but are a L1 or L2 team going to be able to buy someone from 4th tier of French football for example. It could be good for British football as these lower teams may have to look closer to home.

Great to see him being played in his proper position, and not as a number 10.