Matthew Le God

Any evidence to support a bid for van Dijk?

If using a 4-2-3-1 you need two defensive minded players in central midfield in order to allow for very attacking fullbacks and the creative freedom of the attacking midfielders. If we regularly played with a more attacking player alongside Wanyama we'd be exposed defensively and would cost us points. Last season in the Premier League Southampton had the... - 2nd best defensive record - 6th best goalscoring record - 5th best goal difference The system we used last season clearly worked well.

You didn't answer my question. There is a big difference between contacting ex Saints players asking them to recount their favourite game and having good current contacts at the club or agents who feed you things.

Can you link to an article from Crook that provides evidence that he has good football contacts and isn't a rehash of something someone else has put on the internet for him to source and not credit?

What makes you think that? Pretty much every article or tweet I've seen him make about Saints is something from a press conference he's attended, a rehash of either someone else on twitter or a rehash of a local/foreign article from days earlier. Whenever that hasn't been the case its turned out to not be true, so probably made up. I can't find any examples of articles from him that look to have been from a good football contact and aren't a rehash of someone else's work. Compare that to Simon Peach... the clubs' media department actually tell him things in advance. He clearly uses them for information and they are happy to give it.

He doesn't appear to have any football contacts, his stories come from attending press conferences at Staplewood/St Mary's and rehashing articles that were in local or foreign press days earlier. He also has a habit of making things up as click bait to sell to newspapers.

He talked about Ramirez because he was asked a question that was directly about Ramirez. He wasn't asked a question about Ward-Prowse, so he didn't talk about Ward-Prowse.

They are making things up regardless of what the club do or their staff say on personal accounts. In what manner could this "haunt" them?

If they are making things up regardless for clickbait, why does it matter negatively on the club if you expose it on your personal twitter account? If anything it will help as more of the public will be aware of it.

Why is it a daft move?

Jordan Sibley ‏@jordansibley 1m1 minute ago .@alex_crook That must have been his identical twin brother I flew back to England with last night then

He is 1cm shorter than Claude Makélélé. If we signed Makélélé in his prime, would you be worried about his height?

Feyenoord Rotterdam ‏@Feyenoord 15m15 minutes agoView translation Jordy Clasie speelt vanmiddag niet tegen Fortuna Düsseldorf. De reden is dat er concreet serieuze belangstelling is getoond voor de captain. Jordy Clasie doesn't play this afternoon against Fortuna Düsseldorf. The reason is that there are concrete serious interest has been shown for the captain. Feyenoord Rotterdam ‏@Feyenoord 17m17 minutes ago Club en speler hebben daarom in goed overleg besloten hem niet te laten spelen zolang gesprekken over een eventuele transfer gaande zijn. Club and player have therefore in good consultation decided not to let him play as long as talks on a possible transfer.

7th again.

Its a nonsense story, they claim its to replace Clyne at right back and would give Chambers regular football. Yet we've already signed two right backs this summer and Cedric Soares will clearly be first choice.

Its early in pre-season and we are mixing and matching the defence to build fitness and look at the under 21 players. It won't be anything like that during the Premier League season. - The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Leipzig had 1 first choice player (Stekelenburg) out of 7 - The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs Valencia had 2 first choice player (Fonte and Wanyama) out of 7 - The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Salzburg had 2 first choice players (Stekelenburg & Cedric) out of 7

Seemed quite happy watching the game sat next to Katharina Liebherr today...

How is that ironic?

Gave him 45 minutes just in case, but its official... Gary Preston is the worst commentator I've ever heard...

He keeps calling Jason McCarthy, Macca McCarthy!

Where did Red Bull TV find this commentator? He doesn't understand the rules and doesn't know who any of the players are! Its like an episode of Channel 4's faking it.

We have two games today with a different starting XI in each, Cedric Soares (unless injured) will start in the second game. Koeman is mixing the teams up relatively evenly.

Subs: K. Davis (GK), Little, Turnbull, McQueen, Gallagher, Hesketh, Wood

Gazzaniga, McCarthy, Fonte ©, Stephens, Martina, Wanyama, Reed, Isgrove, Juanmi, Mané, Pellè Subs: K. Davis (GK), Little, Turnbull, McQueen, Gallagher, Hesketh, Wood