Matthew Le God

Really? He'd be a big drop in quality from what we are used to.

Even if that were true, on its own it doesn't mean much, perhaps he will play in the 2nd game vs Werder Bremen or Red Bull Salzburg later today.

Virgil van Dijk I can't see us getting any more attacking midfielders or strikers this summer. We have a lot already. Hard to see that happening, I think Man Utd will eventually bid high enough. We'll end up needing a Schneiderlin and Alderweireld replacement and that might be it.

I don't see how that could be anything other than incoming. A player being sold isn't a signing.

I'm sure he'd be able to cope with a £100k+ p/w contract at Man Utd.

That is twisting his words and taking them out of context quite a lot.

As good as Cabaye is, I doubt they would want to replace Schneiderlin with a 29 year old for £13m on an apparently £100k p/w contract. Signing someone like Jordy Clasie is more of a Saints style signing and both Koeman & Clasie keep dropping hints about it.

The club have made it clear on multiple occasions that they track players for a long time and have succession plans in place for all our players.

Jose Fonte in the Portuguese media saying today that the club are close to 'two or thee quality signings.'

23 clubs in the whole of world football is not "a lot" of clubs. I'd say its quite the opposite and is actually a very small number of clubs. Only a handful of those clubs will lose a manager in the summer his contract ends. Yes, he'll be appealing to some of them, but he wouldn't be the only manager that they'd want. Its then quite a risk to leave Saints and not get any of them and have to end up looking for smaller progressive clubs like Saints again.

Oh, so you finally admit it. Thats a positive step.

Why don't you use this thread to list the questions you'd like answered? Or better still ask Adam Blackmore on Twitter to ask them for you. But if they are questions people think are flawed, don't take issue with people explaining why they think that is the case.

Which Italian, Spanish, French, German and English clubs would Koeman have seen in 2014 as a more attractive job than Feyenoord? Which Italian, Spanish, French, German and English clubs would Koeman see as a more attractive job than Saints? Do you not think there is a difference between the two lists and therefore the situations? .......... Unless he thinks he can get one of the relatively small number of clubs more attractive than Saints then he won't let his contract run down.

He let his contract run down and left Feyenoord to get a job in a higher profile league, probably looking at Spain, England, Germany, Italy. He currently has a job for a progressive club in the world's most high profile league. He has no need to let it run down unless he thinks he can get a job at a more attractive club than us. The number of such clubs has rapidly decreased in recent years.

What is the "issue of the thread" in your view? The opening post was merely asking for questions to ask Reed and made one suggestion, not raising an issue.

Why rule out the possibility of him signing a new deal? If he doesn't have an offer of a more attractive club, why would he leave?

What is the point in asking that? What kind of answer could Reed possibly give to it? I'm sure Koeman was always aware if a richer club offers big money to Clyne and Schneiderlin there was a good chance they'd leave. If a big European club comes in for Koeman he'll probably go and Reed will already have in mind who he wants to replace him.

Why was it bull****? "Might" doesn't mean "definitely will".

It hasn't. Our first team is now packed for of internationals (more so then ever before in our history), it is a very different task for a teenager from our academy to surpass international players. The bar is a lot higher. That does' mean the club doesn't have a youth policy of getting players into the first team, it just may take them longer to get there now.

Here is what we can win tomorrow...

What are you saying they haven't been honest about?

Koeman gave league debuts to 5 academy players last season (plus we have Ward-Prowse, Reed and Gallagher who are all around the first team and have played for them) and regularly has academy players training with the first team. Which other Premier League clubs did that? Let alone one that finished 7th!