Ken Tone

He's never really been given a chance here since his injuries a couple of years ago. I don't know if he'll ever make it at top level, but I'd like to keep him for now to find out. He is unusual in being both tall and quite fast, so if he does come good he will give us several options in terms of style of play. So give him a go now then decide in summer.

When it says pay so much for the loan, is that in effect just to cover his wages, because contractually we still pay him, or do they pay the wages *snd* we get a fee?

No Gallagher then. Hmmmm.

A season long loan makes good sense. Prove his fitness. If he is fit he'll then be a good signing.

The problem for ward Prowse at saints is that his best position is right side of an attacking midfield, and that doesn't fit with Hughes's 3-5-2 formation, with a right wing back ..... Unless JWP adapts to RWB himself which doesn't seem to be likely. so if he wants to play he'll have to go elsewhere, which personally I will find a great shame. He * is*a good player, and what is more he's a lot brighter than most footballers. If we let him go, we'll regret it.

I'd be happy to have Welbeck here, but media reports are that he's on £115k a week and surely we won't match that?

I'd like to see Sam Gallagher given a start and a decent period of time on the pitch, to see if he might make it this year (as I hope) After all, the point of these friendlies is at least partly to assess players against proper opposition, not just to build up fitness.

I'm also in the no music camp - or at least very little music. When I go to football I want to talk to the other regular supporters around me, not try to work out what they saying by mime! And crowds geberate their own atmosphere. The music actually stops the singing building up before a match.

Not received ours, nor for parking. The club's cutting it a bit fine for the Burnley game if none have been posted. It must take a FW days to sort out. Have others of you received yours yet?

What league do Karma play in?

When even Palace are apparently looking to pay more than £100k a week, the world has gone mad.

Reports said he was leaving arsenal because he wouldn't take a pay cut from £120,000 a week to a mere £100,000 a week, for a new contract (presumably they wanted him to take a cut because he's injured so often ) so I suspect he's out of our pay range

Phoned for ours. Got through almost immediately ..... Fastest ever. Both tickets for both games sorted in a minute or two.

I see Wikipedia says he's 182 cm, which is a massive 27/32 of an inch taller than the 5 ' 11" we'd been led to believe. All he needs is some long studs and he'll be as good as 6 foot!

I still think he'll come good. Sobe on here seem to have forgotten how promising he looked when he came on several times as a sub for Lambert years ago. He's big string and fast, and has shown he has a good shot.

No one has addressed the really big questions about this bloke ..... Why is he Moi, not Mo, and how the hell do you pronounce his surname?

Dont like the sound of a buy back clause. Makes it a bit like a loan with City in a win win situation. If he fails they got a good price. If he is a star they get him back for relative peanuts. Anyway, it seems a bit odd for us to be getting a £15 million keeper now that McCarthy has signed a new contract.

I agree, but am a bit worried that he'll feel that playing for us has cost him his England place, and that a move might put him higher up the international pecking order. He's not that old after all and could reasonably have expected to be England LB for a few years yet

So it isn't money, it isn't the manager, so what is it?

The question for me is why does Tadic , apparently, want to go to Ajax? In one sense they're a massive club, but I doubt they have the financial clout to pay premier league wages, and if saints supposedly offered him a good new deal, money can't be it. does he not like Hughes? does he want to play in Europe ? ( though Ajax never get far nowadays) does he want his kids to go up in Europe rather than post Brexit UK? does he particularly like Holland? ?

I've already renewed, but much of what you say resonates. It's the dominance of TV that's caused the problems. We 'real' fans are treated like **** in favour of the armchair fan. And the money has corrupted just about everyone invilved in the game.

Thru cam buy Forster if they want!

Would be good to have an announcement about the manager before we start the ST renewal process. Whilst I'm not saying Hughes is any sort of messiah, I do think we need sobe continuity and a stable close season.

That dive by the Fulham player when he could have gone round the keeper is one of the most stupid bits of football I've ever seen.

At the stadium already. Not sure why coaches were quite so early. 2 hours till gates open. Still, better than kidding kickoff I suppose.