Matthew Le God

All I did was ask what the alternative was, you and the N. Ireland manager haven't given one. Had the ref stopped play and booked him after the first offence then the opposition would be miffed advantage wasn't used as they were on the attack. Do you think he should have stopped play after the first foul and booked Baird? If you were the opposition would you not be upset that advantage wasn't used as you were still on the attack?

What do you think the ref should have done then? There was a clear advantage to be played and they would have been upset if he had stopped the move, the ref is allowed to go back and book previous incidents and the second incident was clearly worth another booking. Baird deserved what he got, the second one he had no intention of getting the ball you could see the aggression on his face and was purely out to hack him down.

There was a 2 point gap separating the two teams. We were competing for a league place with them and Spurs, not with QPR or Burnley as Dalek2003 and alpine_saint would have have you believe.

You don't think we are competition rivals with teams that finished a mere 2 & 4 points above us last season with significantly worse goal differences than us? Why not?

Perhaps they are now; but at the time Lambert, Lallana and Lovren were sold, Liverpool had just finished 2nd. Things may be viewed differently now as at the time of Spurs interest in Wanyama this summer, Saints had recently finished only 2 points behind Liverpool and only 4 points behind Spurs.

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Saints would have had to buy him, they couldn't loan him as we have the max 2 domestic loans (Caulker & Stekelenburg). Plus we don't really have room for him, he wouldn't be a starter and we have a lot of attacking options on the bench. We haven't signed Long and Juanmi to not even make our bench.

I wouldn't ever use it, as it is flawed as a statement and has no real meaning. If he said Pelle is a drop in quality from Italian international strikers of the past, then I'd agree. But to say "Pelle isn't international quality" is meaningless as it has no context to it.

Pretty meaningless as a statement given the vast range in quality of international players representing 200 countries. What definition is he using for "international quality"?

Batman should be court-martialled.

2pm tomorrow, the FM16 unveiling...

Plus he has already been training with Saints on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

In terms of the domestic transfer market and home grown players that fee doesn't look out of place. Championship strikers are being prices at £10m+ and you can get better value abroad. tbf to Long he has still given a good contribition.

Shane Long is a back-up and cost £12m.

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 4m4 minutes ago Southampton FC retweeted OnsOranje INTERNATIONALS: #SaintsFC's @VirgilvDijk added to the Holland squad for Sunday's #EURO2016 qualifier against Turkey.

Not really. You don't have to name 8 home grown players, what you can't do is have more than 17 non home grown players.

Our squad submitted to the Premier League... (*=Home grown) Alves Soares, Cedric Ricardo *Bertrand, Ryan *Caulker, Steven Roy Clasie, Jordy *Davis, Kelvin Geoffery *Davis, Steven Fonte, Jose Miguel *Forster, Fraser Gerard Gardos, Florin Gazzaniga, Paulo Dino *Isgrove, Lloyd Jeffrey Jimenez Lopez, Juan Miguel *Long, Shane Patrick Mane, Sadio Martina, Rhu-endly Aurelio Jean-Carlo Pelle, Graziano Ramirez Pereyra, Gaston Exequiel *Rodriguez, Jay Enriqus Stekelenburg, Maarten Tadic, Dusan Van Dijk, Virgil Vidal, Oriol Romeu Wanyama, Victor Yoshida, Maya http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/news/news/2015-16/sep/030915-2015-2016-premier-league-squads-announced.html

Why have you jumped to that conclusion? He is just below Mane, Rodriguez, Tadic and Long in the pecking order. That doesn't automatically mean a manager doesn't think he is a good player a matter of weeks after signing him.

They aren't opposites of each other. The graphic isn't a list of buys, it is a list of the cost of players currently in the squad. So it doesn't include the cost to buy Lovren or Osvaldo for example as they are no longer at the club.

Cost of current players in squads across the big 5 European Leagues, and Saints are pretty high... 6 clubs higher in England 3 clubs higher in Spain 1 club higher in France 1 club higher in Germany 3 clubs higher in Italy Makes Saints 15th out of all the clubs in England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France. The graphic isn't a list of all our buys, it is a list of the cost of players currently in the squad. So it doesn't include the cost to buy Lovren or Osvaldo for example as they are no longer at the club.

Thats what the potential ability rating is for. At the moment he hasn't proven himself regularly against high quality attacking players.