Dan Johnson

He plays on the left He plays on the rigggggght Shane long makes Lallana look ****e

Florin Guard left this morning for England to stamp valid contract with the group next three seasons in the Premier League, Southampton. "I am very happy. I was fulfilled a dream, it's great to get to play in the Premier League. It's summer transfer in Romania, "said former star quarterback of the departure airport Henri Coanda.

No On 24 July 2014, Gyan announced on his personal website that he had signed a contract extension at Al-Ain keeping him their till 2018.

The lambert to Liverpool fee was reported as 9-11 million when it first broke Ssn. Long isn't a bad buy, overpriced at 12million but we don't know that's the case yet As buying Osvaldo proved, we shouldn't judge players on their fee anyway

After the TV money increase it's a different market. My house was valued at 217k last year, same house is 270k this year.

Its Alex Butner all over again...

Going off topic slightly, i'd agree with that. Don't think we'd have seen Alex Ferguson criticising a player in public like that, especially a young player who they've only recently signed. If they are after Rojo, I cant see him coming here. Although I think we'll only sign 1 CB & then a right back and a striker.

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I'd sell him, I wouldn't have any problem with the club or RK if we did that. Clearly doesn't want to be here and I don't see anyway back for him. How do you motivate someone to play in one of the best leagues in the world when he can't even be motivated to train!! There's two ways of thinking here. Keep him like we said we would, as the message it sends out if we go back on our word and sell him is poor, it shows we don't keep promises. However keeping him and playing him over players like JWP also sends out a bad message. That hard work and commitment isn't rewarded with a starting place, you can stamp your feet and treat the club with contempt but you'll still start on a Saturday over players who've kept their head down and worked hard. Morgan has put the club in a **** position, as have the previous 3 players (chambers, Lovern, Lallana) who demanded a move and stamped their feet because they weren't going to get their way. I was just as ****ed off with the club when the selling started but I don't see the alternative? Let these players act this way and hope they change their mind? What example does that set for the rest of the squad? What would that do for morale? Arguably allot worse than it has by selling them. Their professionals, yet Morgan and the others haven't acted that way. Regardless of how he now plays on the pitch. Morgan was right, 6 years destroyed, not by the club but by his petulance!! It's admirable that the club are trying to stick to their word but it's pointless, he'll leave either way. Sell and re-invest

He shouldn't kick off, but he might of. Morgan did, Lovern did, by all accounts so did Lallana. Demanding players stays is futile, every ones mentioning what the sell off has done for squad harmony, what do we think it would be like with 3-4 players in the squad that don't want to play for the club? Do we think we'd get the same level of performance out of chambers if he didn't want to be here? Everyone mentions he's one for the future, he has potential. That would suggest we'd be keeping against his will for a number of seasons, do we feel that a disillusioned player would improve over 2-3 seasons if he didn't want to be here? It's easy to demand players stay, the reality is allot more complex & I think although it does hurt seeing a player of chambers potential at another club performing in a position we're short but the club are pushed into a corner in that respect.

If this ends up being our summer business id be pretty happy overall. Especially if the striker ended up being Hernandez and Morgans replacement was blind or Jordy Clasie Outs Shaw Lallana Lambert Chambers Lovern Schniderlin Ins Pelle Tadic Bertrand Tadier Foster Rojos Gardos Striker Morgan replacement

Neither did saints comments that chambers was "ill" wen in actual fact he was having a medical at Arsenal. They could be covering themselves should he decide to stay

Personally, I dont think the feeling on this message board represent the feeling of the overall fan base Saintsweb seems to attract the fanatical "lunitic fringe" that seek out likeminded indivduals to voice their discontent, seeing as saintsweb is one of only a few limited places they can do this the feeling on this board can be a misrepresentation. All the Saints fans i've spoken to outside of this board are willing to wait and see and make judgements at the end of the transfer window & the end of the season

Wellbeck offers way more to the team overall where as Hernandez really is just a goal scorer. With RVP up top they often want the other players to contribute tactically somewhere else, tracking back etc which is why he's on the bench and Wellbeck plays. IMHO Wellbeck is quality and gets some unfair stick

I think it's important to remember who our goalkeeping coach is, worked with some very good English keepers and if we're signing him he's obviously come recommended

Can you imagine haha, infact what’s Michael Wilde doing these days? Or Leon Crouch?! A fan on the board would be horrendous!!! "oi oi lads, we're just about to sign Hernandez... buzzzzzzin!!!!" Two days later the Hernandez deal is hijacked by a bigger club and he never signs, imagine the back lash against the poor fan! Let’s hope it’s not a lee "lying lee" kind of has the same ring as "wreck it ralph" *CRINGE*

Not justifying it, just trying to give perspective to the process/length of time it takes to complete signings for any club. When it comes to signings we've completed around the average amount for this point of the window. No that doesn't take into account the amount of players that have left southampton but as I've said in other posts, the amount of players left has no bearing on the length of time it takes to negotiate a transfer it just means we need to sign more players.

Lets hope they get completed this week

That they do The above was in response to early posts regarding prolonged transfer negotiations. Posters had commented that other clubs don’t seem to have a problem with signing players. Free transfers where taken out of the assessment to give a comparison between transfers that require negotiations with selling clubs as this is the factor that’s most at play regarding the length a transfer takes from start to finish, when comparing transfers that have required negotiations we’re bang on average for incomings. True, but the amount of players sold doesn’t have any impact on the actual length of the process when buying players, it doesn’t make agents any quicker, or solicitors any quicker. It does of course make it more important to sign players, but that’s a completely different subject. IMHO if anything it probably means transfers take longer to tie up. All selling club knows we have more money to spend and negotiations regarding price have probably become somewhat prolonged as we don’t want to pay over the odds. Again, arguing whether we put ourselves in that position or not really does nothing to impact the actual length transfers take to complete

My point being though if you take out clubs who have made free transfer signings it'll probably be a better comparison only 1 of those players, Campbell, would have involved negotiations with the selling club. 7 of those are Free Transfers so the process would have been allot quicker, no selling club to negotiate with, no player chain, not as much paper work when you take out free transfers and concentrate on negotiations whether loan or free Arsenal - 4 signings Aston Villa - 0 (2 development fees) Burnley - 3 signings Chelsea - 4 Signings Palace - 1 Signing Everton - 3 Hull - 4 Leicester - 1 Liverpool - 6 Man City - 2 Utd - 2 Newcastle - 6 QPR - 1 Southampton - 3 Stoke - 2 Sunderland - 2 Swansea - 4 Spurs - 3 WBA - 3 West Ham 6 So 60 signings in totally excluding free transfers which means the average transfers that have been negotiated per club is 3...

I think we're light at CB & up front. I think with Jose & Yoshida we have players who will be adequate against the likes of Leicester\Burnley\West Brom but when it comes to the bigger teams are at risk of falling to pieces. Yoshida struggles with intelligent strikers but can handle physical players much better, if we play a high line and the opposition doesn’t have any genuine pace then we’ll be alright. When teams look to play in behind Yoshida looks terrible, that’s when we’ll get caught out. He backs off and hates players running at him, he back tracks and defends on the back foot. Jose plays on the front foot a little better, which is why he suited a partnership with Lovern who also plays on the front foot. He does suffer a bit from the old “lazy leg” defending where he just sticks out a leg and hopes. He’s a much better ball player than Yoshida and offers something going forward. However his composure is always in question when under pressure which is why Loverns leadership was so instrumental in our clean sheets last year. Neither Jose nor Yoshida are particularly convincing in the air & neither are what you’d call a “commanding” centre back. A leader is essential. I think out of all the center backs listed Vlarr is the best option, he has the physical presence & the experience. He is also commanding and leads the line very well, he lacks pace but (having been a centre back for 14 years) I don’t think it’s a top requirement if you’re able to adjust how deep you play. Defending against pace is only an issue when players have space to run into. If we want to take points off the top 6 this season then we need a better quality CB.

Palace have also only signed 2 players. Also you take out clubs who have made free transfer signings it'll probably be a better comparison. Aston Villa 4 senior signings - all free transfers West Brom 6 signings, - 3 free transfers, - 1 Loan, - 2 transfers. We were also hindered by not having a manager for part of the summer, the manager always wants to judge the quality in the squad & highlight positions he'd like to strengthen in, where as other clubs are already prepared for that (West Brom apart in this case) Don't get me wrong, we need new signings, not taking sides either just highlighting that there's allot of facts to consider. It's like the housing market, if its moving slowly then your choice of new home is limited by who's willing to sell. You're also buying into a chain, where you have to wait for the occupants of that house to find a better home and so on and so on. The difference being of course that your current house isn't going to demand a move to a better part of the country :-)

There's no real way of knowing whether that actually is the case, that would suggest we'd know the ins and outs of every transfer, which we simply dont. Of course we have signed 3 players this summer already, but each negotiation is different, each with its own set of hurdles to overcome. For the top 5-7 clubs it’s allot easier as agents know those clubs are the top payers and that generally speaking, the player isn’t likely to get a better move. When Saints look to buy a player, it’s always possible that a bigger club could come in. When you compare our transfer activity to clubs outside of the top 7 this summer, signing 3 players, we’re probably about average I’d suggest? The need to purchase players doesn’t really make the actual process of purchasing them any easier, in fact it probably makes it harder in our case as clubs know we have allot of money to spend