Matthew Le God

Perry and Thomas are 5th and 6th choice centre backs. How often do you think 5th and 6th choice will be used next season? I'd wager not at all!. Is it worth paying them thousands to not even sit on the bench or is is not better to use the money saved from their wages elsewhere? James is a central midfielder. He is extremely average and most likely will end up at another League One side. Saints intend to be a Championship side in 12 months and will be looking for players that can play at that level to compete with Hammond/Schneiderlin. No point James not even making the bench at Saints if more central midfielders are brought this summer. Some people in this thread are setting their expectations too low and showing too much sentiment and not enough ambition!

Use the Bargate silhouette from the council logo.

Why have you quoted me saying something I didn't say?

Only one of the players released was in the starting 11 - Otsemobor. How does that require gelling time? All the rest were basically the deadwood of the squad. Perry and Thomas would have been 5th and 6th choice centre backs on high wages so them leaving has freed up wages to be used elsewhere. Calderon is coming in at right back, so no need for James/Thomas there and likely they'd be bringing in more cover in central midfield.

You'll bankrupt yourself!

A retained list is for those coming to the end of a contract and offered a new one. That doesn't apply to the players you mention.

You do realise Saints had 40 players over the age of 19 don't you? Losing 13 players now still leaves them with a huge squad even if they were a Premiership side let alone in League One!

Lallana and Puncheon will be first choice out wide again next season. Both are hardly slow! I also wouldn't rule out a return for Antonio (less chance with Papa Waigo).

He is not a right back. He is a centre back that has been played out of position as a right back. He is not good enough at centre back and is even worse at right back and offers no attacking threat from that position which is what Pardew wants.

But if Pardew rates Fonte, Seaborne, Jaidi and Martin as above Thomas in the pecking order there is little point even offering him £2k p/w to be 5th choice. May as well use that money from the budget to improve other areas such as central midfield and right back.

Thomas was on huge wages. The club has 4 centre backs now - Fonte, Jaidi, Martin and Seaborne. No need to keep Thomas when he is taking up wages that could be better used elsewhere. Calderon is about to sign, so no need to keep Otsemobor on the bench on high wages and not getting a game.

I think you are still struggling to understand what a retained list means! Pulis and Wotton are still under contract.

That would go down well Peter! A public lynching if this happened! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8683904.stm

No, he is from London and started at Crystal Palace before they released him. He then went to Protec Football Development School for a few weeks before being scouted by Southampton. Saints signed him late on in his development and he wasn't at the club for very long at all. He left Saints because he was an alleged troublemaker and bad influence. He won't be back at Saints at time soon after all of that!

Why were all those Preston players acredited to me? All I did was list all the players Preston were releasing. I didn't say they could all do a job for Saints. Some of them are crap!

Needs to be emailed to the club, for use in the future. Would be too late now for 2010/11.

It is quite depressing seeing the badge above as the tweaks it has made to the original make it so much better. Yet there is no chance the club will adopt it.

Why does it matter if he does? They would be fully aware that he may do that when they replied to him.

That looks awesome. The club really needs to see this. Although it will be far too late now as shirts/merchandise will have been ordered/produced.

If you were going out with someone for a year, on your first date you goto restaurant A and then every week for the last year you went to restaurant B. Can you not see that celebrating your year anniversary together at restaurant A is a romantic notion? Then you can go back to restaurant B afterwards, as you clearly prefer it.

Indeed. Schneiderlin is the only non French based player in the French under 21 squad for a tournament this summer. He is a class act.

They are paying £2m (£1.6 million after expenses) for 40%, so to say that is the highest value for a League One team ever is a nonsense. Saints cost a lot more. The are also charging £420,000 per year in management fees. http://www.swfc.co.uk/page/News/0,,10304~2052224,00.html Not quite a Liebherr takeover is it?

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2025768,00.html

Some people in this thread are confusing what a "retained list" is. It is NOT a list of all the players you want to keep like Lambert, Lallana, Seaborne, Hammond, Harding, Barnard, Fonte etc (all of these have more than a year left on their contracts) A retained list is a list of those that are out of contract this season that you offer a new contract. For example Otsemobor, Connolly, Thomas, Perry, James, Gillett etc are all either going on the retained list or to be released. Those that have contract running out and aren't given a new contract are released on free transfers and thus not on the retained list.

It will because the Echo has lost its close ties to the club. In the world of mass media and the internet the club no longer needs the local paper to get its message out. The lack of a good relationship affects the Echo's coverage. I would imagine a high % of the Echo's circulation has a direct link to its readership being interested in Saints news. If the Saints stories dry up circulation will fall.