Matthew Le God

Burnley are a well-drilled side that relies on team organisation and good management rather than a large number of standout players. That is why they haven't sold many. If the players we have sold had been Burnley players they would also have left, possibly even sooner than they did as our wage budget is a lot higher than Burnley's. I'd still rather have our squad than Bunrley's, it is just we have had a terrible manager in Pellegrino who stunted and held back our squad and they had Dyche.

Hojbjerg, Stephens and Ward-Prowse don't have the pace needed to be good wing backs. They'd get exposed by a half decent opposing winger.

Is that his fault? Why "hate" him? Seems an extreme reaction!

Did you have a random 17-year-old in mind? (Yan Yalery is 19 years old)

Why make sweeping generalisations based on nationality?

What exactly are you saying his Vestergaard and Gunn predictions were? Link to them? When did he make a Shaqiri to Liverpool prediction? Link to it?

No I don't

Why are you asking him? He is making it up.

The two aren't overly connected, as Blackman was not taking up a spot in Chelsea's first team squad last season.

If it is "quite simple" and "the oldest trick in the book" then why would the clubs not be aware it is newspaper bull****? I doubt they take any notice of newspaper rumours and certainly wouldn't let it dictate there decisons over multi-million-pound deals.

"As well" as who? Do we have any concrete evidence Saints want Ings? Adam Blackmore has rubbished the rumour this morning and the club leak things to him.

Terribly cropped photo in the article. Cuts off the top of their heads!

How exactly does making up a rumour and feeding it to a journalist "drum up business"? How would it have any impact on what happens transfer wise?

If it isn't true as Blackmore states, then luck isn't required

Are you sure it wasn't Johnny Depp?

How many in this tradition can you name? (Kelvin Davis is not Saints goalkeeper coach )

The players we buy will also likely be purchased by installments so that cancels out.

What is a "Viera type of player"? He needs some attacking flair in his team, they can't all be clones of him as a player.

Probably because the article is 5 weeks old!

Kyle Walker is one of the best fullbacks in the country and just had a successful World Cup as part of a three man defence.

I don't think that is the most credible of websites.

Such as?

I haven't seen them play, so of course it isn't going to be particularly accurate compared to the older age groups. Some things aren't numbers, a lot of non numerical data fields in the database that are factual rather than subjective.

Paulo Lubamba is 15 years old, so can't join until he turns 16 in September. I think calling him "one of the best young players in world football" is a stretch. If that were the case wouldn't he stay at Madrid?

15 is a lot more than normal, it is going to take ages to enter them into the FM19 database.