Saint_clark

Exactly, someone earning an average of £70k a week playing football earns £54.6million over a 15 year career. That's absolutely plenty to live out the rest of your life in luxury.

It's not really cutting off your nose to spite your face - holding firm and not selling to Liverpool will send a message that we're not going to fall victim to these kinds of tactics anymore, meaning that anyone trying to buy our players in the future (or any players wanting out) will be more respectful and do things the proper way.

Bloody British football hooligans.

Good good, nice to see him scoring again heading into the season.

Clasie seems the obvious candidate, been left out quite a lot. I'd prefer to loan him out, we'll need a replacement for Davis in a season or two and i've always liked Clasie playing further forward.

According to whoscored.com he plays as a defensive midfielder, that'd be a most welcome addition.

Know nothing about him, who is he, what does he do, why are people excited?

What a load of ********, his second game for us was away to Spurs where he missed an open goal and did nothing else all game.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Our first goal scored at St Marys since...?

Competitive football maybe, but as I said above no-ones staying home from their lower league game to watch Saints play in a pre-season friendly.

Last season was a disappointment in general for me as well, but i'm not panicking thinking there's some big slide on the way. We've been progressing non-stop for 7 years, we were bound to have a setback at some point - it's how we respond that's important. And to be fair we have responded pretty well in my book, replacing the manager with a more attack minded one and putting our foot down with player sales at last.

Utterly bizarre to me, no-ones going to miss their football league club play to watch Saints play Sevilla in a pre-season game streamed on facebook.

Oh FFS, missed the Augsburg game due to work (admittedly did me a favour), I can watch this one before I head out but it's not being streamed, fantastic.

Shock horror, maintaining or improving on our highest ever Premier League finish proved to be incredibly difficult. I would have been in disbelief of the reality around me if we'd managed to improve our league position yet again. As for this: I can't be the only person who thinks his tenure hasn't even begun? Pre-season means nothing, league form is what it's all about.

Worth pointing out that Targett is two years younger than Jack Stephens and minus three long term loan deals to get experience.

Just because almost all of the first team got a run out doesn't mean they were played together at any point.

Final audition, blimey. 4 pre-season games was it and written off already?

No. Fonte Hooiveld first season back was.

Schneiderlin himself said openly that he changed his mind and decided to buckle down and stay for the last season after the first game of the season when he heard Saints fans chanting his name.

This quote always made me cringe a little; . What's the source on that? Who's doing that survey? Seems like a statistic plucked out of thin air to support his claim, to me

The header from Gabbiadini really was quite exquisite. Been a while since we had someone that could score from any situation.

It's an easily recognisable trend in football that spending on wages is a pretty good indication of where you will finish in the league, but transfer spend has very little correlation at all.

He was in Boufals training video running with the ball so...not sure what's happening there. Maybe he is up for sale - shame if so, I still think there's a decent player in there.

Ah, cheers! I gave in and just watched the highlights instead...impressed with Ward-Prowses goal, that's the kind of late run into the box first time finishing we've been crying out for from him from the start! I still have faith he'll develop into a goalscoring midfielder.