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Very much this. (and I salute you sir for keeping the same avatar all this time. Great minds.... )

It's only bizarre if said repetitive critique was posted by someone who wasn't on an obvious wind-up and/or hasn't an obvious agenda

Different

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/liverpool-hold-power-in-coutinho-saga-says-former-reds-boss-brendan-rodgers_sto6283483/story.shtml Brendan Rodgers: "Philippe Coutinho is a world-class player but the power in the position is with Liverpool. Phil has signed a new contract. He's always going to have other clubs that want him. But Liverpool don't have to sell him if they don't want to. So the power is very much with them." A bit like Saints and van Dijk then...

Even if he'd done that he would have got his technique all wrong...

Lemina gets the no.18 shirt

Guan 2.0 lives!

Thanks. Much appreciated

Who?

Indeed. The more intellectual response would be to sing the original words, i.e. the opposite of what van Dijk and/or his agent is hoping to achieve at this moment in time. The time to wheel out the vitriol is after he's left

I don't normally call for polls on here but would be interesting to have one on the VvD situation now that his cards are on the table, as to what the club should do now. Stick or twist? Mods?

Dubai Phil is involved in this? The plot thickens

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So, he never went "on strike" then....?

No sign of Yoshida in today's training footage: Still nursing the injury he sustained on Saturday, one assumes.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4188037/crystal-palace-and-southampton-leading-race-for-8m-rated-benfica-right-back-andre-almeida "Crystal Palace and Southampton leading race for £8m-rated Benfica right-back Andre Almeida"

Indeed (The pessimist in me is just playing the reverse psychology card )

Would appear the only direct flights from Juventus (Turin) to UK on a Sunday are via London.... https://www.skyscanner.net/transport/flights/trn/uk/170820/cheapest-flights-from-turin-to-uk-in-august-2017.html?adults=1&children=0&adultsv2=1&childrenv2=&infants=0&cabinclass=economy&rtn=0&preferdirects=false&outboundaltsenabled=false&inboundaltsenabled=false&ref=home

Unless "a southern airport" excludes London airports, a flight into London would still be a valid stopover route to the midlands I suppose

"Saints need players like everyone else but not a midfielder." Hmm...

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Rule #135 in the SaintsWeb Forum Thought Police Manual: "Never refer back to how bad we were several years ago in order to justify a dip in recent performance" (Hashtag schtickmeister)

Cheers for passing on these snippets. So, if/when Virgil is still here on 1st Sept, he's going to have the right hump with Cedric and Bertrand, if they were instrumental in convincing the board not to sell him. Perhaps doesn't bode too well for team spirit whichever way the cookie crumbles?

Agree that Lemina looks like exactly the kind of player we need to play alongside Romeo. On the surface, he looks like a hybrid of Wanyama and Schneiderlin.