Matthew Le God

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

It is better than that, he signed a 6 year deal this summer.

They are having a friendly in the US and then 3 more on tour in the Netherlands.

Only keepers on US tour are Paulo Gazzaniga & Harry Lewis. The development team goalkeeper coach Vince Bertram is on the tour.

Kelvin is with the squad on the US tour. Here at the Under Armour building...

How is it "utter shyte" to have ambitions to finish in a position that was only 3 points above us last season? Very difficult yes, but hardly unrealistic.

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I don't yet know what the German research team have done with him for FM17, but in FM16 he had a potential ability significantly above any other Saints player. Youtube "highlight" videos can be derided, the ones that show every touch in one match give a better idea. Here he is as an 18 year old playing out of position wide on the right for Pep's Bayern in the German Cup final vs Dortmund... His range of passing is a lot more impressive than Wanyama's.

What about Juanmi? He has left, why are you ruling out Redmond being Juanmi's replacement and someone else coming in to replace Mane? People are dismissive of Juanmi's departure due to him not being a regular, but he still featured in 19 matches and the club needed to replace him or lose squad depth of last season.

No, he left last season.

It is surprising that Koeman dropped him and that so many Saints fans have already written him off calling for a new right back to be signed. Cedric is considerably better than Martina and Puel doesn't need to sign anyone to start ahead of him.

It isn't going to be under 21s in 2016/17, it is under 23s (plus 3 overage outfield players + overage keeper allowed). It is to be rebranded as "Premier League 2".

Even if we don't get him, if its true we made such a bid its positive we've allocated such a large amount to replacing Sadio Mane and we look elsewhere with that cash.

+ £5m compensation for Koeman & staff

If true... Nathan Redmond to replace Juanmi, Sofiane Boufal to replace Sadio Mane. http://sport.le360.ma/marocains-du-monde/transfert-southampton-propose-30-millions-deuros-lille-pour-boufal-12611?utm_content=bufferc4663&utm_medium=Le360fr&utm_source=Twitter.com&utm_campaign=Publipostage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1417CiH0SCg

If we had a referendum on bringing back 1960's legislation on capital punishment & homosexuality they'd probably be a disappointingly high % of the British public voting for it. The public are idiots! Instead of democracy, what we need is a benevolent dictator. I think Sooty would be good, he'd get **** done and wouldn't need to talk about it first.

You think a 24 year old current Portuguese international right back is going to play in the Spanish 3rd tier? Really?

I would have thought it quite obvious that a bra would have to start below the chest rather than above it.

"Bra"? Its a colour patch high up a football shirt and in no way resembles a bra. How could a bra do what it is supposed to do if it was that high up the chest?

You are right, it would be pointless arguing it with you, as it would appear in the publicly available accounts... which it hasn't.

Signing a player because of a good goal or one-off good performances in the European Championships or World Cup is not good idea, as clubs with poor recruitment structures have found out to their cost over the years. When scouting a player you should look at him over a prolonged period. Robson-Kanu isn't a young up and coming player, he is 27 years old and over a sample of the last 3 Championship seasons.... 2013/14 - 36 games - 4 goals 2014/15 - 29 games - 1 goal 2015/16 - 28 games - 3 goals I know there is more to it than looking merely at goals scored, but that is not particularly impressive for a winger/striker over a large sample of games. I doubt he is suddenly going to light up the Premier League, or even the Championship.

He follows me on twitter, that is as good a confirmation as you'll need.

van Dijk was in the Netherlands squad in the summer so is still on holiday, Clasie was injured and was not called up.

He'll take a look at under 21 players over the coming weeks, but the 1st team squad as it stands today... [b] Goalkeepers [/b] Forster Gazzaniga [b]Right backs[/b] Cedric Soares Martina [b]Left Backs[/b] Bertrand Targett [b]Centre backs[/b] van Dijk Fonte Gardos Yoshida [b]Central Midfielders [/b]Clasie Ward-Prowse Davis Romeu Reed [b]Attacking players [/b]Pelle Austin Long Rodriguez Tadic Redmond That is 21 players. If we have no more outgoings to replace, at the very least we need to take it to 24 with... - another keeper - a Wanyama replacement - a Mane replacement (assuming Redmond is to replace Juanmi in the squad) As things currently stand, it could be something like... Forster Cedric Fonte van Dijk Bertrand Clasie Romeu Redmond Davis Tadic Long 7 Subs: Gazzaniga, Yoshida, Martina, Ward-Prowse, Rodriguez, Austin, Pelle