Matthew Le God

Why? Guan said "by 9th August". He doesn't rule out further signings after that. In the last 2 seasons we signed some very important players in the final days of the window. 1st September 2014 - Toby Alderweireld 1st September 2014 - Sadio Mane 1st September 2015 - Virgil van Dijk Of course it would be great to have all signings done in early July. The club would obviously prefer that, but transfers are a three-way negotiation and the selling club and the player (and his agent) often want things to drag late into the window to get the best possible deal.

12,356 went to St Mary's for that. http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20150420-u21-report-southampton-2-1-blackburn-rovers-2414755.aspx Which would be a very big crowd in League 1 or League 2! It is more people than Portsmouth have as season ticket holders.

Did you correct him that we've sold over 10,000 more than them at significantly higher prices? And also sold significantly more than them when we were a League One club (little difference trying to sell League One or League 2 season tickets)?

No it won't. It is for our under 21s, players returning from injury and fringe players.

So far only one person in this thread has picked a team using the formation Puel has used with the senior players in the first half of both friendlies...

Long term I think they see Cedric as 1st choice & will want a pathway for Yan Valery.

It is hard to see Cedric not being first choice under Puel, so the article is flawed in its reasoning for Trippier moving. Yes, it would be nice to have them both. But Trippier is better off being 2nd choice at Spurs than 2nd choice at Saints.

Faith is the excuse people give when they don't have good evidence for something.

He scored 18 Premier League goals for a terrible relegated QPR side in 2014/15.

Well they couldn't still call it the under 21 league, when it is now the under 23 league (plus 3 overage outfield & 1 overage keeper allowed).

What have at evidence do you have for all of that?

Stoke were heavily linked with both Cedric and Redmond, yet they both signed for us.

The development league for 2016/17 is no longer under 21s, it is under 23s plus an overage keeper & 3 overage outfield players.

Both Islam & Christianity are not remotely peaceful. Followers of those religions cherry pick the bits they like from them and sweep under the carpet the bits they don't like. They are in effect creating their own religion by doing such cherry picking. In Christianity the punishment for breaking a lot of the 10 commandments is to be stoned to death. That is conveniently ignored by most Christians. Islam has similar punishments laid out in scripture, if you choose to ignore it you are cherry picking and creating your own religion.

These people you know Toadhill Saint are cherrypicking their religion then, which in effect is making up their own religion.

van Dijk 6 years... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/20160507-virgil-van-dijk-new-contract-announcement-southampton-3099615.aspx

It is better than that, he signed a 6 year deal this summer.

They are having a friendly in the US and then 3 more on tour in the Netherlands.

Only keepers on US tour are Paulo Gazzaniga & Harry Lewis. The development team goalkeeper coach Vince Bertram is on the tour.

Kelvin is with the squad on the US tour. Here at the Under Armour building...

How is it "utter shyte" to have ambitions to finish in a position that was only 3 points above us last season? Very difficult yes, but hardly unrealistic.

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I don't yet know what the German research team have done with him for FM17, but in FM16 he had a potential ability significantly above any other Saints player. Youtube "highlight" videos can be derided, the ones that show every touch in one match give a better idea. Here he is as an 18 year old playing out of position wide on the right for Pep's Bayern in the German Cup final vs Dortmund... His range of passing is a lot more impressive than Wanyama's.

What about Juanmi? He has left, why are you ruling out Redmond being Juanmi's replacement and someone else coming in to replace Mane? People are dismissive of Juanmi's departure due to him not being a regular, but he still featured in 19 matches and the club needed to replace him or lose squad depth of last season.

No, he left last season.