Saint_clark

Less than 24 hours after the fans forum when the management said no bid had been received for Vestergaard, these reports that it's close seem to have come around very quickly. Someone's not being entirely honest.

Sorry yeah, misremembering things. I thought it was Long X 3 and Martina with 1.

That £12million has got us more goals and assists than Nathan Redmond in much less game time. It's got us a hat trick against arsenal, a worldy against Villa and an epic last minute cup semi final goal away to anfield. It's got us a player who has done a decent to good job for 7 years. With the attributes he has, if he was able to finish to the level of Ings there would be very little between them in terms of ability.

I feel like Stu Armstrong is our midfield creative force now, just with a different style of play. A quick look at Transfermarkt shows there are a few potentially good options out of contract, including a 29 year old centreback I'd never heard of but who has played for Napoli for the last 5 years, Jetro Willems who whilst unspectacular at Newcastle would provide decent backup at left back and is only 27, and other decent possibilities like Mustafi, Mangala, Ntcham. Did chuckle to see that Gaston Ramirez is without a club still.

Really feel we should be looking for some sort of cover at left back, whether it's a loan or someone on the cheap - any free transfers about? The squad as a whole is looking stronger but we're only one bad injury to Perraud away from having Djenepo at left back for half the season. I really like him, but he is nowhere near adequate cover there.

Yep, always liked Shlong. People still romanticise players like Ormerod but for some reason Long gets a lot of hate, he's been a great signing for us all things considered. Well worth the money.

An insult based on the colour of ones skin. Thank god white people can't be the victims of racism, eh?

Indeed they are, but for the Saints Foundation, not for any organisation that will help with the issue of inclusivity and discrimination. Compared to the poppy shirts which, as I said, the proceeds from the auction go directly to a charity with specific goals and methods on how it wants to achieve them which are related to the image of the poppy.

Any reason why it won't be the skates? Edit; oh wait, I'm assuming they were knocked out. That's a shame, seeing our reserves beat them would be great.

The Royal British Legion, which those shirts raise money for, are an active charity that have specific aims and methods to reach those aims. The reasoning behind this is a very vague "to increase inclusivity and fight discrimination", with no actual method except just wearing the shirt. I.E, Saints/Hummel's take all the plaudits for signalling their virtue without actually going to any effort at all to do something about what they're campaigning for.

Yeah I skim read it in between redecorating.

Screw it, they're desperate with their injuries. Even if we sell him for that amount we should try and get Kabak ourselves.

A £25million fee would be incredible!

He's 24 to be fair, I don't expect him to start scoring immediately but it's not like he's a youngster who we need to wait years to see the best of.

That would be 10% so exactly the same statistical significance.

Yeah, honestly it won't take much for Perraud to exceed Bertrand's level for the last few years.

Not sure we need two, we'd have A.N Other, Bednarek, Salisu, Stephens, Simeu and Lancashire (lol). There must be other youth players getting close to first team age, not sure a club like us can afford to have 6 centrebacks in and around the first team squad vying for starts.

Well if you aren't prepared to do anything about it then stop preaching to everyone else. Pretty sure there are signs everywhere that say "let your thumb do the pointing" or something where you can text to a number completely anonymously.

£20million for him would be excellent with a year left. We need to replace with another centreback 25+ with plenty of game time in their past though.

If you're saying there is homophobic abuse being shouted I'm shocked that they're still so blatant about it and/or allowed in after you've challenged them on it, made it clear that it's not OK and pointed them out to the nearest steward. I assume you've done that anyway, otherwise complaining about it on here is just as empty and meaningless as a football club wearing a rainbow shirt in a warm up session without actually making any proper effort to change anything.

How offensive, what about the LGBT colours are so amusing to you?

Only during the warm up, thank god. Nothing against being inclusive but I'm sick of being punched in the face with virtue signalling when I'm trying to just forget about how shit life is for an hour and a half at the weekend.

I seriously hope he is on the bench from the start of this season. When is his contract up?

I'm wondering if Long is going to be in the reserves as a player coach like Lancashire. I don't see any circumstance where we sign this guy at the end of the season. He'd only leave to be first choice here and if he's good enough for us to guarantee him starts ahead of Adams, Armstrong and Tella then he'll be out of our price range.

I think Armstrong will definitely play as one of the two up top.