Matthew Le God

Do we really need to go through this with you again? We are competing against clubs with significantly bigger incomes than us, offering huge wages to players. Can you please outline what Les Reed should have done differently, because if it involves holding Mane, Wanyama, Schneiderlin etc to their contracts... then we would have ended up with £0 for them when they refuse to sign a new deal and leave on a Bosman. That is a terrible way to run a business. The only way anything can change in terms of player recruitment is... 1) We stop signing players the top clubs will want a few years later. Resulting in a decrease in quality in our squad... hey but at least we get to keep them for 8 years! Are you suggesting we should do that? 2) The club has a takeover by and extremely rich person/company who are willing to invest. But due to FFP rules, they'd be restricted what they could spend. Any infrastructure investment is exempt so that along with increasing commercial revenue is the only way to raise income and therefore spending on transfers/wages through FFP. Do you want them to do that then? Well first we need that kind of takeover, so how about you don't post until that happens, because your relentless negative nonsense is beyond irritating on these forums. ............ To blame Reed and/or Krueger for "lacking ambition" is daft. Of course they have ambition for the club to reach the Champions League, but it isn't exactly easy vs clubs with significantly bigger incomes and an owner in Liebherr who wants to sell and is no longer investing in the club. You don't ever listen to the rebuttals to your nonsense and roll out the same nonsense time after time even when it has been shown to be nonsense.

Puel has for a long time been saying Hesketh is injured when he is asked in pre-match press conferences to list injured players. Which is why he isn't playing for the under 22s, or training/making the squad of the first team.

Of course it is down to more than just the keeper... but much maligned Fraser Forster is 4th in running for PL golden glove award in 2016/17.... I'm not going to deny he has had his bad moments this season, every keeper does and being the last line of defence their mistakes are magnified. But he really isn't any where near as bad as some people on this forum make out. I see little reason to get rid of him this summer.

Of course it is down to more than just the keeper... but much maligned Fraser Forster is 4th in running for PL golden glove award in 2016/17.... I'm not going to deny he has had his bad moments this season, every keeper does and being the last line of defence their mistakes are magnified. But he really isn't any where near as bad as some people on this forum make out. I see little reason to get rid of him this summer.

Why? Everything in the opening post of this thread is still the case.

Yes, of course today was pretty dreadful, but... - We are 9th in the Premier League (with games in hand) - We reached a cup final - Only ONE team above us has a smaller income - Who apart from West Brom (and perhaps Everton) are you realistically disappointed we are below int he table? He isn't going to be sacked whilst that remains the case!

What is in lack of balance? Looks like 4-2-3-1 to me... Forster Cedric Stephens Yoshida Bertrand Romeu Davis Boufal Tadic Redmond Gabbiadini

This bit is great on page 27...

Your claim... - Hull conceding 6 per game away from home - Hull have played 17 home league games this season - 6 x 17 = 102 away goals conceded Reality -Hull have conceded 41 away league goals this season - An average of 2.4 away goals conceded this season ............. I'm puzzled how you came up with a figure of an average of 6 per game and thought that sounded credible!

Malaga's Sandro Ramirez linked... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-eyeing-transfer-spain-u21-10311101 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chtBIy3kqm4 ................ PRE-EMPTING THIS FORUM: Can we avoid comparison to Gaston Ramirez because he has the same name, or Juanmi because he came from the same club...? Lets instead judge a player on his own merits rather than irrelevant & flawed comparison to another player.

They are the ones using the scripture how it was meant, it is the large number of religious cherrypickers that aren't following the scripture and putting their on 21st century created moral system on it. Killing infidels & non-believers are endorsed by the Koran & The Bible. Both the Koran & Bible are horrendous books with horrendous teachings that should really be banned from publication under UK law for inciting a lot of criminal acts (homophobia, sexism, slavery, genocide and murder etc etc)

I imagine you consider Man Utd & Spurs to have good youth track records. They are only 1 point ahead of Saints and could also both be relegated... If you were a fan of those clubs would you be making the same comments? High league placing in under 23s is nice and a reasonably good sign, but is not the most important thing. What is important is player development. Saints have a lot of players that could have been used in the under 23s in every game this season, but instead have been kept close to the first team, either actual involvement in games, matchday 18s or just training with them.

The final sentance... "It is understood there are other offers on the table, Lander is not the preferred bidder and that the club is likely to have new investors within a fortnight."

The London Stadium & St James' Park offices this morning...

His technique is clearly extremely good and he has a lot of natural ability. What lets him down is decision making as he dwells on the ball too long or picks the wrong pass, which Puel can hopefully work on with him.

If Christianity wasn't cherrypicked and followed to what scripture said, then I struggle to see how it could be considered a benefit to society. The Bible endorses sexism, homophobia, racism, slavery and murder. It is cherry picking Christians that ignore all that and make up their own moral code that goes against the teachings of the Bible. What benefit can any religion give a society that couldn't be achieved by secular means? Secular charities don't require a man in the clouds to do a lot of good for the world.

Only the Muslims & Christians who cherrypick the bits they like from the Bible and Koran and conveniently ignore they dreadful bits. If you cherrypick from the scripture you are making up your own religion and moral code. That is what pretty much every religious person does. The punishment for breaking the 10 commandments is death, that is conveniently ignored by most Christians.

Jumping to conclusions yet again Batman? Bottom 2 go down, Saints are not in the bottom 2. Saints are 9th. On last game of season Saints have difficult game vs Man City... but Derby (who are below Saints) play Chelsea.

Why have you asked me that in responce to my post? I was asking those Dusic and richardc the questions; I don't know what Lander's intentions are or how much or little they plan to invest. Until we do... it is best to stay neutral and not get excited or write them off as a disaster for the club. Some people in this thread have been far too quick to write them off as a disaster! Best to stay neutral until more good evidence arrives about their intentions and level/type of investment!

What evidence do you have in regard to the size of the investment or the attractiveness of the deal from a Saints perspective? We know extremely little as to their intentions, unless you have a good source it appears you and others are jumping to conclusions to write off Lander as a bad thing. As so little is known, the best thing to do is remain on the fence until we have good evidence of what is happening and if it is a good thing or not. What evidence do you have that they are "struggling to purchase the club"? In a business negotiation, it is in the buyers interest to try and make the purchase as cheap as possible, that doesn't mean they are struggling to do the purchase.

I doubt Liverpool are keeping the Sun informed. Liverpool, Everton & Tranmere have all banned the newspaper over the Barkley incident.

I don't enter a price for how much the players are worth into the database. The value shown uses a formula taking a huge range of things into account and isn't simply inputted. Plus if you've played the game you should know that the price listed isn't what the player would sell for, often it takes a lot more to actually buy them. What on earth are you on about!? Can you actually link to the entire post and how the flow of the conversation went? Rather than the quote and no link. I have a feeling you may have taken my words out of context and left out something afterwards. Even if that isn't the case, are you not aware that players can improve? Yoshida this season is significantly better than in any of his previous seasons.

This is nonsense from Koeman and no journalist picked him up on it... Stephens and Ward-Prowse both played for our academy teams and are both currently starters in the 1st team. Stephens being used ahead of 2 internationals - Caceres & Gardos. Plus Sims, McQueen, Targett & Reed are all getting a good amount of exposure around the first team training and some bench and game time.

You appear confused at the difference between a Premier League team buying a player from abroad and selling a player. There is significantly better value for players in the foreign market. That doesn't mean we couldn't get a high value for existing players at the club, especially if there is interest from other Premier League clubs. Being at a Premier League club inflates Yoshida's value. £15m in the Premier League for a club to club transfer is not a huge amount, a club like Bournemouth spent that on Jordan Ibe in a Prem to Prem transfer. But £15m in the European transfer market can still get you a very decent player... similar to want we paid for Gabbiadini.

You have significantly undervalued all of these in the 2017 transfer market. A decent season in the Championship sees players sell for £15m. All of those apart from Yoshida & Davis we'd be able to sell for £20m+ if we wanted. A universe where a decent season in the Championship sees players sell for £15m. Let alone a regular for a top half Premier League side.