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At the game. Saints on top. Ref is a nightmare. It's got nil nil written all over it....

Beautiful

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Indeed. The chronology of events is more likely to have been: 1) VvD decides he wants to leave Saints 2) VvD decides to switch to an agent who has a reputation for engineering player transfers to accelerate his goal Rather than: 1) VvD wants to stay at Saints but for some unknown reason decides to switch to an agent who has a reputation for engineering player transfers 2) VvD coincidentally changes his mind and decides he wants to leave Saints

More what?

Tweaked it for you

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That's not the primary reason. He was never going to play regardless (lack of match practice / on strike / head not in right place... Take your pick) but he just happens to have had a virus in parallel to all/some of those other factors. Doesn't stop the media selectively quoting Pellegrino and making a headline out of it of course....

"A new era begins..."

To be fair, the current football club playing at Fratton Park (est. 2012) have been relatively financially prudent compared to the previous basket case of a football club that played there.

Probably because Pellegrino singled out Cedric in the pre-match press conference this morning as a player who wasn't certain to start tomorrow, due to arriving late back from international duty. Maybe he's not quite ready for 90 minutes and, as such, he'd rather start him on the bench? Wouldn't surprise me if that happened TBH.

Have you seen Larry's posts on here? https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/search.php?searchid=4258961 The words 'happy' and 'bunny' don't exactly spring to mind...

I reckon we should adopt the same tactics as last year. Seemed to work quite well

Liverpool denying they've received a transfer request apparently.... http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/liverpool-coutinho-barcelona-transfer-request-13463687

I disagree. I think our silence on the matter shows more strength. IMHO of course.

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-08-11/team-news-southampton-swansea-mauricio-pellegrino

Virus...

I was never a Puel basher, but I have to admit its a breath of fresh air listening to a pre-match press conference where the manager is able to have a conversational dialogue with the journos.

Gotta be worth a few bites, surely?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40745588

Source?

Bugger. It'll be Millwall away in that case.... But hoping for Redknapp at home...

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