Matthew Le God

Post match Koeman interview revealed that the Gardos injury might see two centre backs come in... Adam Leitch ‏@adamleitchsport 2m2 minutes ago Koeman post match: “That’s the priority, to bring in one or maximum two centre backs. It’s too small with Maya and Jose." #saintsfc Adam Leitch ‏@adamleitchsport 2m2 minutes ago Gardos out for '6 or 7 months'. Koeman:“We have Stephens, we have Turnbull,but they are young and still have to improve themselves #saintsfc

The Gardos injury might see two centre backs come in... Adam Leitch ‏@adamleitchsport 2m2 minutes ago Koeman post match: “That’s the priority, to bring in one or maximum two centre backs. It’s too small with Maya and Jose." #saintsfc Adam Leitch ‏@adamleitchsport 2m2 minutes ago Gardos out for '6 or 7 months'. Koeman:“We have Stephens, we have Turnbull,but they are young and still have to improve themselves #saintsfc

Why does the alternative to playing Pelle have to be an identikit version of him? We can play with a different kind of striker or pair of strikers as an alternative. Last season without Pelle we used Mane and Long as a striker pairing away at Chelsea and it worked well. We now have Juanmi and Rodriguez as other options.

Do we?

Those playoffs were played in May. Feyenoord lost to Heerenveen in the semi final. Vitesse Arnhem beat Heerenveen in the final and thats how they got to play us. Given Ajax, Feyenoord and PSV are so much bigger than the rest, it would be hard for them not to be in the top flight.

He does, but then for example there are a lot of French phases and words used in English. Dutch is also one of (if not the) closest languages to English.

It is, on Fox Sports in Holland.

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 21m21 minutes ago Good evening from De Kuip, where #SaintsFC will take on @Feyenoord in a pre-season friendly at 7pm BST.

He said he found something strange, I said he had already said something that explains it... so he had answered his own pondering. The first bit in bold explains/answers the second bit in bold.

30th July 2014 - Celtic lose away 4-1 to Legia Warsaw 6th August 2014 - Celtic lose 2-0 at home to Legia Warsaw and looks like they are out of the Champions League 8th August 2014 - Fraser Forster joins Saints Celtic are reinstated to the Champions League due to Legia Warsaw fielding an ineligible player.

Difference is last summer the rest of our squad had just finished 8th, Villa's have just finished 17th only 3 points off relegation. Our squad had far more quality to it even without Lambert, Lallana, Lovren, Shaw and Chambers than the current Villa squad.

You've answered it yourself. He was the number 5 last season and like a lot of players has just kept his shirt.

Our defensive midfield in that game was Gape and Davis, vs Feyenoord tonight it'll probably be Wanyama and Clasie.

Koeman - "Florin Gardoș has a very bad knee injury and had an operation on 21st July"

Koeman - "Florin Gardoș has a very bad knee injury and had an operation on 21st July"

My post was meant to be in reply to Saint Charlie, not VectisSaint.

Do you not think our starting XI in the first competitive game needs to get used to playing together beforehand? Stekelenburg, Cedric, Targett, Clasie will all likely be playing vs Vitesse and weren't regulars for us last season.

As the tickets automatically go on your season ticket card, how can they justify charging me £3 of admin fees for 3 tickets?

Yes, its on Fox like the FC Groningen game was so there'll be streams.

Saints did similar last season with some of the youngsters, then when they featured in the League Cup squads early in the season they gave them a number.

Koeman will be having an al fresco press conference today...

He has more sense than you two then?

I don't think he is a wind-up merchant, I think he genuinely believes what he says. He also may have put me on ignore, as he doesn't respond to any of my rebuttals anymore.

His point was, you jumped to some odd conclusions based on a list of squad numbers... How did you determine there is "no space for a new CB"? Why were you surprised at the "gap at 17"? Last season we had a first choice centre back wearing number 17!

Unless you say who the tweets are by (so it can be gauged if they are a credible source) then you may as well say you heard it from a bloke in a pub. Just saying "tweets" is extremely vague.