Matthew Le God

Nathan Redmond was signed without us have a manager appointed at the time.

Are you watching the same player as the rest of us? Pied is about 5 foot 8.

When has a Premier League game ever been "rained off"? It isn't a common occurrence, as pitches all have superb drainage systems.

Promotion or not, Rangers can't get remotely close to the wages we pay for any staff. Our income dwarfs theirs.

Technically it wouldn't be, as West Ham can still catch us, although it would need a massive swing in GD (that is if we don't get a result vs. Man Utd).

Delgardo wasn't a club record signing. He signed after record £4m signing Rory Delap and cost less. Sagnowski wasn't a record signing either, he didn't cost much in comparison to others signed before him. Jay Rodriguez became a Saints record signing in 2012 *****il Ramirez signed later that Summer), previously it was Rory Delap from 2001 to 2012.

https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-02-16/announcement-southampton-sign-martin-caceres

Today was the last match of his suspension. http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/discipline/suspensions

No team with a smaller annual income than Southampton, has more points in the Premier League this season than Southampton.

Why is it woeful? Middlesbrough didn't have a game in midweek, Saints did. Saints also have another game in 4 days time. It appears many modern football fans aren't aware of recovery times of athletes and think they all recover instantly at the same rate as each other.

Since he signed in 2014, only 3 players at any club in the Premier League have more assists than Tadic.

Would you prefer him to lie when asked a question by a journalist?

Out of the 92 clubs in the country 2016/17 Southampton 10th out of 92 - with Puel 2008/09 Southampton 44th out of 92 - admin & points deduction and... 2016/17 Portsmouth 69th out of 92 - cue mass celebrations from the Skates

I doubt the club sees things like that. With new TV deal, the difference in prize money between 8th and 16th is significant.

Puel has listed him a number of times in recent pre-match press conferences as injured.

Lovren replaced by Alderweireld, Alderweireld replaced by van Dijk Does that not suggest we know what we are doing when it comes to signing centre backs?

By who? Randoms on this forum?

Can you imagine Forster trying to do this...? https://streamable.com/39w7k

Caceres isn't on loan, he is a contracted Southampton player.

Why would you think that? Cortese hired Reed in the first place. Why do you think he'd want rid of him?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/feb/06/virgin-media-takeover-john-malone-liberty-global

:mcinnes: Why are you making up things I said? Are you that delusional that you've repeated this nonsense so many times that you've actually convinced yourself that I actually said it?

??? Why is it an "embarrassment" for a club with an income of £120m to sell players to a club with an income of £300m? Liverpool can blow us out of the water for wages. It is delusional to think we can stop our players heads being turned. What do you suggest we do as a viable alternative? Keep the player until the end of their contracts and then lose them for £0 on a Bosman? That is daft.

:mcinnes: Spurs have a significantly bigger income than us, and are about to pull further ahead in income with a new 60k stadium. Plus in any case, they didn't keep... Bale or Modric That is what happens in transfer pecking orders... - Real Madrid have a bigger income than Spurs, so but their players. - Spurs have a bigger income than Saints, so buy their players. - Saints have a bigger income than Celtic, so buy their players. This appears to be a concept you haven't been able to grasp! You may not like it, but this is the case in football worldwide, it has a pecking order and it is largely based on money. ............ Interesting you yet again fail and/or refuse to answer all my questions! Almost as if you don't take on board rebuttals to your nonsense and like to repeat all the same nonsense a few days later for eternity! (that is my 3rd & last post of the day, so I won't be responding after this)

The only alternative is we sign players that the top clubs won't ever want. Is that really going to be good for the club? They'd be worse in quality, but we get keep them for 8 years! You want us to be treading water in the Championship for ever, not getting promoted to the Premier League and not getting relegated to League One? How is that better? Some people strangely look down of being mid table or upper mid table in the Premier League as a bad or boring thing. I'm puzzled as to why fans claim they'd prefer us to be in a perpetual state of treading water in the Championship vs mid table in the world's highest profile league. We have circa 20+ current or recent internationals in the squad (many for decent countries), wouldn't be remotely near that in the Championship. The quality of football on offer would be significantly worse than it is currently.