Matthew Le God

Player quality impacts the effectiveness of the formation. We won't be using these players in the PL barring a monumental injury crisis.

I doubt we'll be starting many PL matches with Small and Edwards as our wingbacks and Valery, Lyanco and Stephens as centre backs together.

It is essentially our 2nd or even 3rd string.

Thierry Small looks a long way from being ready for the 1st team. Not going to write him off as he is still only 17 years old. A loan might do him good.

It is early in pre-season, we played on Saturday with one XI getting 60 minutes and the other getting 45 minutes. Looks like they are simply switching them round and we may also see the more established played in mass changes later. What else were you expecting from a pre-season game at this stage of the summer?

He is injured.

Questions about a new striker at end of this video...

The club could be open to selling him and if no deal is currently close then it would be daft to not take him on the tour. He still needs to train and if a deal fails to materialise and he hasn't had a pre-season then he'd be behind everyone else.

Not really, as my second sentence points out the flaw.

Extra highlights...

A rumour at last...

This is a good watch on the topic...

What is your point then?

If someone bid £80m for Ward-Prowse do you think he wouldn't be sold? Every player has a price no matter what a club may say.

Every player in the world has a price they would be sold for. No player is entirely 'not for sale'. In any case the £40m figure comes from Alan Nixon who is a terrible journalist and was previously using a £15m price for Walker-Peters.

Why do they need to be 'PL proven'? Mane, Wanyama, Tadic, Pelle, Alderweireld & van Dijk all had never played a PL game before joining Saints.

Girls

I wonder if Jo will continue with Dave's catchphrases, like... 'What Saints don't want to do is concede a goal'.

Yes

It was 3-1 at the time 😉

It is a medical condition, he has alopecia.