Matthew Le God

Chelsea don't have lots of academy players working with the first team & in match day squads like Saints do. Our best under 21's are with the first team, our best under 18's are with the under 21's, our best under 16's are with the under 18's etc. That all then impacts on the quality of each of the youth sides. The purpose of Southampton's under 18 manager is to produce players for our first team, not solely under 18 results. How many Chelsea youth products have been regularly in their first team since John Terry in the late 1990's?

Last season he was behind Yoshida in the pecking order.

Youth results are very much 2nd place to progressing and developing players. The under 18's lose their best players a lot of the time when they are used in the under 21's.

He has left, Craig Fleming to take temporary charge... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150708-anthony-limbrick-departs-2533707.aspx

There is A LOT of ill informed nonsense it that! Lets start with this easy one to pick apart... Saints finished above Spurs in the Premier League in... 1997/98 2000/01 2002/03 2003/04

The venue for the Leipzig game on the 6 year anniversary of takeover...

Are they? - finished 13 points below us - goal difference swing between the two sides of 23 goals

How is it relevant? Outside the top 6 clubs last season, Saints have the highest number of players in their squad that the top 6 clubs would want.

We were 2 points away from 6th and 4 points away from 5th. For us to have finished above Liverpool all it would have taken is one draw into a win (given our vastly superior goal difference). How is that a glass ceiling?

We have better players than Swansea, which is why we've finished above them for 2 years in a row. Who in the current Swansea team would be good enough for one of the top 6 clubs? Plus they've still lost... Allen, Vorm, Davies, Bony and Rodgers relatively recently to top 6 clubs.

Saints are the "best of the rest" and there is a big jump in turnover between us and the 6 teams that finished above us. The quality of our squad mean we have a lot of players good enough for higher placed clubs but not enough in the squad to finish in the top four. The clubs that finished below us like Swansea, Stoke, West Ham, Palace don't have many (if any) players the top clubs will want. Although it may not seem like it when we sell players, us losing a few players every summer to the clubs like we have is actually a good sign. Its when the likes of Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs, Man City, Arsenal, Chelsea don't want out players then there is a problem, as it would suggest we've dropped in quality and don't have good players in our team.

How would you have stopped...? - Clyne in the last year of his contract wanting to move to Liverpool for a pay rise & higher profile club to help England prospects? - Schneiderlin wanting to move to Man Utd for a massive pay rise & Champions League football? - We don't know for sure what happened with Alderweireld, but the vast majority of players in world football would pick Spurs over us. - Cork was dropping down the pecking order and unlike the others wasn't first choice. We have the emergence of young central midfielders and Cork wanted regular first team football.

Lazio finished 3rd in Serie A and are in the Champions League next season. I can't see us getting him.

You've set your sights extremely low. They are all a drop in quality from Alderweireld, lacking in technical ability on the ball and we have no need to "add depth", that is what Yoshida, Gardos & youngsters like Stephens, McCarthy, Turnbull, Wood are for. Saints will need a 1st choice centre back of high quality to partner Fonte. Shawcross is the only one close enough to what we'd need, and although he is a good centre back I think he is a little limited technically and we'd need better. Plus I doubt we could get him from Stoke. The others aren't remotely good enough for us and a huge drop in quality.

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport Jul 6 #saintsfc Ronald Koeman inferred in interview that signing of Juanmi ends interest in Djuricic & return of J-Rod & Isgrove ends Elia bid

Do you just mean Curaçaoan international footballers, or Curaçaoans in general? Vurnon Anita, although he now plays for Holland was born on the island, or Patrick Kluviert, as his mother is from the island have both played in the Premier League.

They are staying in Werfenwang, this is the view from Erwin Koeman's hotel room window...

31 man squad for Austrian training camp. Players missing Forster - knee injury Bertrand - knee injury Ward-Prowse - on holiday after Euro under 21's Targett - on holiday after Euro under 21's Mayuka - for reasons unknown Armani Little Cédric Soares Cuco Martina Dominic Gape Dušan Tadić Florin Gardos Gastón Ramírez Graziano Pellè Harrison Reed Jack Stephens Jake Hesketh Jason McCarthy Jay Rodriguez Jordan Turnbull José Fonte Josh Debayo Juanmi Kelvin Davis Lloyd Isgrove Maarten Stekelenburg Maya Yoshida Morgan Schneiderlin Paulo Gazzaniga Ryan Seager Sadio Mané Sam Gallagher Sam McQueen Shane Long Steven Davis Victor Wanyama Will Wood Koeman said last week that for the Leipzig game those that had internationals in June won't feature. If he sticks by that, it leaves a squad for tomorrow of... Armani Little Cuco Martina (only had 2 days training) Dominic Gape Dušan Tadić (possibly not fully fit, groin injury) Gastón Ramírez Harrison Reed Jack Stephens Jake Hesketh Jason McCarthy Jay Rodriguez Jordan Turnbull Josh Debayo Juanmi Kelvin Davis Lloyd Isgrove Maarten Stekelenburg Morgan Schneiderlin (possibly won't play as was "ill" on Monday) Paulo Gazzaniga Ryan Seager Sam Gallagher Sam McQueen Will Wood

The released/retained list is only for players that have contract due to expire on 30th June of that year. Mayuka signed a 5 year deal with Saints in 2012, so his contract ends on 30th June 2017.

Cedric Soares is the replacement for Clyne.

How have you managed to jump to that conclusion?

You have jumped to a lot of conclusions without evidence in that paragraph.

...or what St Chalet said.