Verbal Kint

His interview was worrying tonight but his tactical performances for a long time have been far more concerning

Because he's a young player that's come through the Southampton academy, so he must be good. He's not good enough. Simple

That interview was seriously worrying. His performance this season has been abysmal so far

Exhibit A

We'd be lucky to get back what we paid for him next summer. He isn't good enough to play for the big 4 or 5 so there won't be many clubs in for him. Spurs is the best he could hope for and Levy won't be paying big money for him with only a year left on his contract. We have no real idea what Spurs are prepared to pay now (only speculation) but I don't think Les and Koeman saying they categorically won't sell him is particularly smart. He's a replaceable player with decent transfer value running down a contract. We should be prepared to sell at the right price, but now if they do they'll get the fans calling them liars and creating a difficult atmosphere when there really shouldn't be. Maybe we'll even see the "Meltdown" headlines again with an 'ITK' poster on here telling us all how awful and evil Les and Kat are. They probably didn't return Vic's phone calls either

I doubt it. He has 2 years left and is unlikely to re-sign. He's great defensively but he isn't as good as people on here make out. Morgan is miles better than him and went for 25. 16 seems about right in comparison

I'm not a scout so can't answer that. But I'm certain you could get a better player for half that amount. Romeu cost 5 million and looks a better all round player to me already

I don't think he's going anywhere, but if Spurs are prepared to pay 16 million for him then that is very close to the mark where we should be selling him IMO

He looks a bargain at 5 million. A bit rash with his tackling but otherwise looks a very good holding midfielder

Last night in the second half when they were camped around liverpool's box, everything was one touch. A lot of it was just lay offs and short angled passes but most of it was one touch football. Wanyama can't do that, he's technically very very average. He doesn't fit in with the way they play at all and there is nothing about him that suggests Wenger would like him. He's closer to being the complete opposite to what Wenger likes in his midfielders. Even watching Morgan for United so far, he sticks out as being too slow when moving the ball. Great defensive work but when they need to break teams down he just doesn't do things quickly enough, always needing two or three touches. And we all know Morgan is miles ahead of Victor as a player. Both of them had their best games for us in defensive performances, particularly away from home against the big clubs. Dominating possession and having to break teams down is a different game altogether and I'd be amazed if any of them wanted him

Major difference is that Morgan was always too good for Spurs and I'm not sure Wanyama would interest any club better than them to be honest, he's just too clumsy with the ball to interest them. The rumours linking him with Arsenal just seem ridiculous to me. If Morgan wasn't a good enough passer for Wenger then there's no chance Wanyama is

Are you seriously suggesting Wanyama is a better player than Illaramendi?

I just don't understand why nobody pulled him to one side and said "I know it's flattering and they're a big club, but you need to be playing regularly to get to a level where you can make a big move and be a first choice player, and you aren't there yet". 21 games he played for us. Ridiculous He has not improved in the slightest over the last 12 months because he hasn't played enough. He's an idiot for moving and will end up being shipped out on loan to Sunderland or some other ****hole when he could have been here playing games and actually improving as a player. It's not as though he will be earning astronomical money at Arsenal either, probably not much difference to what we could have offered him

We need to start playing to the strengths of the striker, the guy who is going to score the goals and win us games and it's clear that is going to Pelle. That means not playing as narrowly as we are, getting the wide players playing on their natural sides and getting quality crosses into the box that help a striker to run onto rather than these pointless crosses from the wrong side that are constantly swinging towards the defenders and goalkeeper. They are easy to defend against unless the accuracy is pin point and we don't have players good enough to do that regularly. Pelle v Spurs, v Newcastle showed when the delivery is right he is lethal in the air. And it is no surprise to me that his best form was at the beginning of last season when he had Tadic and Long playing on their natural sides. If we don't want to play that way then we shouldn't be playing Pelle. At the moment we pass it among the defenders and holding midfielders pretty slowly, allow teams to get organised, and then pump it long to Pelle as there isn't any width and not enough movement from players who are all trying to occupy the same spaces.

Huge game. Really hope we see Juanmi behind Pelle. He deserves a chance

And yet he is played on the right... Koeman is to blame for him going off the boil. Regularly played out of position

Tadic got 9 assists and 4 goals last season, Lallana's last season with us he got 9 and 9, which is the level you need to play as a number 10. For Tadic to have done what he did last season despite spending most of the second half carrying an injury, in his first PL season, was impressive. Lallana last season dropped to his normal level (5 goals and 3 assists, lots of lovely turns but **** all end product) and the stats so far suggest his final season with us was a one off fluke. We certainly did well to get the sort of money we did for him. A fully fit Tadic playing at number 10 will prove to be a far superior player to Lallana.

I disagree and I think he showed that in the first few months of last season (when played on the left) he was incredible. He then got moved to the right once Mane came into the side and didn't look the same player (coupled with his injury problem). He needs to either play on the left or, ideally, as a number 10 with 2 proper defensive players behind him (which we now have in Wanyama and Romeu). As long as we play Davis/JWP as an attacking midfielder we will struggle to create chances

He's got the talent to be significantly better than him. But it would help him to play in his actual position

Well we won't be signing a striker with Jay now back and we seem to be happy to keep our creative midfielders either on the bench or in positions that don't play to their strengths. Koeman so far gets a 5/10. Juanmi looked lively in pre-season and can't get any minutes, Tadic is stuck out on the right where he's ineffective (or on the bench) and meanwhile we have to put up with Steven Davis as a number 10 every week. Pretty painful to watch

Agree with this. Don't see why they cant just have one window from 1st June - 31st July

I'd sell for 20 million. He's great defensively but he's not good enough with the ball to justify that sort of fee. His contract situation means we have to sell next summer anyway

Wow. You really are ****ing stupid aren't you?

But you've just said that spending big money is no guarantee of a good player, so why do you think we need a "balls out sesh"?

Why would they say that when it's clearly not true? Every player has a price