Matthew Le God

This is just daft, as is your opening post of this thread. Its Saints Web forum bedwetting at its worst. Two types of clubs generally get relegated each season... 1) those that are newly promoted 2) those that have been struggling for a few seasons and it eventually catches up with them Saints are in neither category, yes we've sold a few players but the squad just came 6th. The quality in the squad is significantly above a relegation struggle. It takes a lot more than losing 3 important players from a squad of 20+ to turn a team from 6th to relegation. That is without even looking at the quality of the replacements, plus there is still a month of the transfer window left. van Dijk, Alderweireld and Mane were all signed right at the end of the window and we had superb seasons with them. I'm guessing you wrote the club off in the summer of 2014 & 2015 as well? Have recent seasons taught you nothing? The recruitment department at this club is superb, they know what they are doing. Of course they'll make some mistakes but they have had far more successes than failures over the last 7 years of Liebherr ownership.

Linked in the press with a transfer to us to be back-up for Forster. He has now started following Saints on twitter...

The top 7 clubs with sponsors in car, tyres, airlines, banking, insurance & telecoms industries. The bottom 13 clubs in gambling, beer, duty free and pawnbrokers.

Utterly bizarre! - we came 6th and were the 7th highest scorers in the Premier League How is that "impotent in the final third"?

He was released when his contract expired on 30th June... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20160526-southampton-fc-contracts-2015-16-3125504.aspx But with Harry Lewis with the 1st team, Paulo Gazzaniga out on loan and under under keepers with the under 18s then I guess they have Britt training & playing with the under 23s whilst he finds a new club.

The system requires a lot from the fullbacks as an outlet out wide high up the pitch. Adding Bertrand and Cedric into this side would make a big difference.

Looks like we may have a loan partnership deal with Rayo Vallecano now, based on Les Reed's comments about the Gazzaniga deal... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/20160729-paulo-gazzaniga-southampton-rayo-vallecano-loan-3213584.aspx Les Reed said early this year they were looking for loan partnerships in the Championship, League One and abroad, looks like they've signed up Walsall and Rayo Vallecano so far. When jason McCarthy joined Walsall their manager said... "Their keen to build a relationship with the club this season and going forward". http://www.saddlers.co.uk/news/article/2016-17/saddlers-snap-up-a-saint-3159510.aspx ................... The quality bar to reach our first team is very high, as teenagers from our academy are competing with a squad of senior internationals. If the players have outgrown youth football, it makes sense to have loan partnerships with trusted clubs home and abroad to get them to the level needed for our first team towards the top of the Premier League. A player would have to be exceptional as a teenager to challenge our first team now, it may take longer for them to break through and into their early 20's now. In the meantime some loans would be useful compared to stagnating in the development squad if they are too good for that level but not yet good enough for the 1st team.

- first team coach - goalkeeper coach - kitman & assistant kitman - player liaison officier - club doctor - one or two players with the squad but not in match day 18

If you honestly think that is the reason and not the one I outlined, then you are a bigger fool than I first thought.

Why? Guan said "by 9th August". He doesn't rule out further signings after that. In the last 2 seasons we signed some very important players in the final days of the window. 1st September 2014 - Toby Alderweireld 1st September 2014 - Sadio Mane 1st September 2015 - Virgil van Dijk Of course it would be great to have all signings done in early July. The club would obviously prefer that, but transfers are a three-way negotiation and the selling club and the player (and his agent) often want things to drag late into the window to get the best possible deal.

12,356 went to St Mary's for that. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150420-u21-report-southampton-2-1-blackburn-rovers-2414755.aspx Which would be a very big crowd in League 1 or League 2! It is more people than Portsmouth have as season ticket holders.

Did you correct him that we've sold over 10,000 more than them at significantly higher prices? And also sold significantly more than them when we were a League One club (little difference trying to sell League One or League 2 season tickets)?

No it won't. It is for our under 21s, players returning from injury and fringe players.

So far only one person in this thread has picked a team using the formation Puel has used with the senior players in the first half of both friendlies...

Long term I think they see Cedric as 1st choice & will want a pathway for Yan Valery.

It is hard to see Cedric not being first choice under Puel, so the article is flawed in its reasoning for Trippier moving. Yes, it would be nice to have them both. But Trippier is better off being 2nd choice at Spurs than 2nd choice at Saints.

Faith is the excuse people give when they don't have good evidence for something.

He scored 18 Premier League goals for a terrible relegated QPR side in 2014/15.

Well they couldn't still call it the under 21 league, when it is now the under 23 league (plus 3 overage outfield & 1 overage keeper allowed).

What have at evidence do you have for all of that?

Stoke were heavily linked with both Cedric and Redmond, yet they both signed for us.

The development league for 2016/17 is no longer under 21s, it is under 23s plus an overage keeper & 3 overage outfield players.

Both Islam & Christianity are not remotely peaceful. Followers of those religions cherry pick the bits they like from them and sweep under the carpet the bits they don't like. They are in effect creating their own religion by doing such cherry picking. In Christianity the punishment for breaking a lot of the 10 commandments is to be stoned to death. That is conveniently ignored by most Christians. Islam has similar punishments laid out in scripture, if you choose to ignore it you are cherry picking and creating your own religion.

These people you know Toadhill Saint are cherrypicking their religion then, which in effect is making up their own religion.

van Dijk 6 years... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20160507-virgil-van-dijk-new-contract-announcement-southampton-3099615.aspx