Matthew Le God

Odd you've written them off already. Not a patient man Glasgow? (I think we all know the answer to that )

Confusing two different governing bodies. It is the Premier League, not the FA that would deal with any transfer issue.

£3m a year is £57,000 per week The Telegraph said Saints offered Koeman £86,000 per week.

£38.5m

I think the club should have moved beyond developing young players for other clubs. Just blocks the route for our own players and gives us little long term benefit.

So what? Why put 3pm Saturday kickoffs on such a platform? Tradition isn't a good reason. "Traditions" change. Before floodlights from the 1800s to the 1950s they didn't kickoff at 3pm on Saturdays in the winter as it was too dark. They kicked off earlier than 3pm on Saturdays so they had enough daylight by the time of the final whistle.

So are you suggesting we sell Yoshida then? Because we won't need 5 first team centre backs. If the club keep van Dijk, I think we'll start the season with van Dijk & Yoshida first choice, but over the season it will become van Dijk & Stephens. Stephens isn't that young anymore, he turns 24 years old midway through the season and if the club see him as a long term starter he needs to be starting games very soon.

:mcinnes: Have you considered that a 35 year old player released by a bottom half Championship club, wouldn't be remotely good enough for a side that has finished in the top 8 of the Premier League 4 years in a row? Rickie Lambert is a Saints legend, but in 2017 he wouldn't get anywhere near the pitch with Gabbiadini, Austin, Long & Gallagher all ahead of him for a striker role. Lambert is being linked with newly promoted League 2 team Plymouth Argyle for a reason...! Alpine you are completely out of touch with football.

Stones, Lukaku and probably Barkley... I thought they weren't a "selling club"? Every club bar Real Madrid & Barcelona is a selling club.

Redmond 72 - 14th highest in the Premier League Boufal 76 - 10th highest in the Premier League

Players will still be sold, van Dijk isn't going to be here for the rest of his career even if we keep him this season. He is good enough for a top Champions League team. I don't see why that matters. It is a good thing we have players the top clubs want, the time to worry is when we don't. That doesn't look like happening any time soon. It is better to be a "stepping stone club" and get to see some top young players for 2 or 3 years, than plod along with players the top clubs will never want and keep them for 7 years. All this has been pointed out to you time after time. You choose to ignore it, then days, weeks, months, years later you bring it up again and again! The number of non-selling clubs is tiny! A handful of clubs aren't selling clubs, Real Madrid & Barcelona, perhaps a tiny tiny number of others.

It is a pressure pad to measure stresses and impact of them jumping on joints etc.

If we are keeping players then I'd be surprised if we signed a centre back, another "number 10" or another striker. You need 4 senior centre backs, so if we are keeping van Dijk then van Dijk, Yoshida, Stephens and Bednarek are the 4. I doubt we'll be changing from Tadic and Boufal as the number 10 options. Of course both can be frustrating, but both have a lot of talent if Pellegrino can get the going. In a 4-2-3-1 you need 4 strikers at most. At the moment I can't see us going with anything other than Gabbiadini, Austin, Long & Gallagher. A central midfielder and another wide player are probably what we'll be looking for in the rest of the window. Not a lot else needs changing with a lot of depth to the squad now.

It isn't down to the FA, it is the Premier League. Two different governing bodies. (his name is van Dijk, not Van Dyke)

It isn't down to the FA, it is the Premier League. Two different governing bodies. (his name is van Dijk, not Van Dyke)

So do you! What good evidence do you have he'll leave this summer?

Clasie has a contract until 2020, but I'm not sure why you think that means he can't be sold this summer. Nor why you have written off Hojbjerg already. (it hasn't been called the Premiership since May 2007 )

That didn't happen when Schneiderlin and Wanyama both asked to leave. They were both told no and stayed an extra season.

He will be 28 before pre-season ends, a couple of years and he'll be the wrong side of 30.

How can he be blamed for that? He worked with Hart for a tiny number of days over a season.

The Sun article today states that he flew into the country today to sign his contract.

% of shots saved is a deeply flawed stat as it doesn't taken into account the difficulty of the shot. Which shots "went through him"? Can you name a lot of examples?

He doesn't need to convince him to stay, with a contract until 2022 the club is in a strong position. Schneiderlin & Wanyama asked to leave, kicked up a fuss and were told that wouldn't be sold. They both were superb in an extra season for the club. How about we sign the keeper who had the joint 3rd clean sheet record last season? Oh wait, we have him... 1st Courtois 16 2nd Lloris 15 3rd Forster 14 = de Gea 14 I know it isn't entirely down to the keeper, but he isn't remotely as bad as many Saints fans like to make out. To say those clean sheets are down to van Dijk, Bertrand, Romeu protecting Forster does him a disservice, he was a key part of a defensive unit that did well last season and in previous seasons when he also had a good record. Why have you already decided they wouldn't be replaced well? Did you think we'd "struggle big time" when their predecessors Clyne and Shaw left?

You mean Yoshida? Stephens was playing because van Dijk was injured.

It isn't remotely interesting if it is bullsh!t. The stuff AR-10 tries to pass off as him being "ITK" is flawed nonsense.