Matthew Le God

2 + 2 = 5 Mane has done it before when nowhere near a transfer window. More a case he needs an alarm clock.

Utter nonsense.

Not sure why people remain fixated on his £12m fee. £12m for a domestic transfer in the current market is not a huge amount of money. A decent season for a Championship striker and clubs ask for £10m+, so £12m for Long really doesn't stand out. Some people still haven't twigged the market has moved on from the days in the 1990's or early 2000's where if you signed a striker from another Premier League side for £12m you'd expect him to be one of the best in the Premier League. Those players now cost £25m+. You can get better value for money abroad, but in terms of buying a striker who has proven to be useful in the Premier League, Long at £12m has been a good purchase. Lucky for us Saints aren't run by Saint Charlie and won't sell him in the summer at a loss.

Fickle football fans being fickle. Shocker!

Fickle football fans being fickle.

I'm lost as to where you are going with this. Saints now have more numbers than last season in terms of senior players. van Dijk replaced Alderweireld Cedric replaced Clyne Clasie replaced Scheniderlin On top of that Saints have extra numbers in the squad in the form of Stekenlenburg, Romeu, Ramirez, Juanmi, Rodriguez, Martina, Caulker. Clasie and Cedric still have a lot to prove, but van Dijk has been impressive and the squad has more senior numbers than last season. So I don't see how anyone can justify in terms of depth the squad isn't better than last season. Starting XI quality may be down, but depth is an improvement despite the sticky patch we are going through which fickle fans jump on.

Koeman has said Austin is "too expensive", its hard to see how Remy is the cheaper option as he'd be on huge wages.

The Daily Mail are not claiming that at all. They say Saints are the "latest club to show an interest", that is very different form being "front runners" to sign him. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3372016/Chelsea-striker-Loic-Remy-quiz-new-boss-Guus-Hiddink-plans-Southampton-join-clubs-keen-January-him.html

Jumping to conclusions to think either rumour is definitely true.

That is pretty meaningless in terms of practical application or manifesting in reality. Especially after finishing 8th and 7th in the last two seasons.

Did you think Newcastle were not good enough to trouble them last weekend?

I'm not solely talking about league positions. In any case I don't think there is a great deal to separate two of the three players we lost last summer (van Dijk/Alderweireld and Cedric/Clyne), Clasie still has a lot to prove if he can ever get to Schneiderlin's level. We do now have extra depth to the squad, as we signed players in addition to those we replaced. That is extra depth compared to last season, but many fans are too quick to jump negatively on a run of bad results. But in general the club over the past 3 years is in the best place it has ever been. We have a combination of very good infrastructure at the stadium and training ground, a strong top flight squad, a very well respected academy and a good owner. We have never had all of those in place before in 130 years and next season's TV deal will allow the club to strengthen further relative to European clubs and those English clubs not currently in the top flight.

Fickle football fans... being fickle shocker! Its not new, especially since the birth of internet forums. The endless negative random musings of depressed fans grates and is part of the reason I rarely use this site anymore. The club is in the best situation it has ever been in and people still moan.

How many first team keepers do you want Saints to have in their 25 man squad? Forster is very close to a return, Stekelnburg has done little wrong and Gazzaniga really isn't as bad as many on here like to make out. If Saints did as you suggest and have another keeper, what would the do with all of them once Forster returns relatively soon?

Umm... how to break this to you? Tadic and Pelle have been dropped to the bench today.

Just saying "PL football" is too broad. Its significantly harder to get on some Premier League team benches than others. The quality standard at Saints means any youngster is competing with senior internationals in every position (multiple ones in quite a few positions). That isn't the case at all clubs.

Why do you think it was false? The story wasn't that Arsenal want to sign Wanyama, it was that in Pires opinion Wanyama would be a good signing for Arsenal (whether that is accurate or not is irrlevant) and the two are very different. It can only be false if Pires didn't say it.

Hard to take that article seriously when they think Saivet is a possible replacement for Wanyama. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/6524746/SunSports-daily-football-round-up.html Saivet is 5 foot 9 and a very attacking player, he doesn't play in the same role as Wanyama.

Quite a few of those could describe Beckham, especially when he had only just turned 21 like Ward-Prowse. You appear to want Ward-Prowse to be a different type of player to the one he is. He has a lot of very good attributes for the roles he is used, you've listed attributes needed for a player in a different role which is unfair. I'd also dispute a few of them anyway and they certainly aren't all "unimprovable" for a player with 10+ years left in his career.

Will you give them the honour of learning to spell their names correctly before they leave the club?

Sadio Mane is worth more than £30m in the current market. Are Martial for a fee rising to £58m or Sterling at £49m really significantly more effective than Mane? When the new TV kicks in prices will be further inflated next summer. There would be little incentive to selling Mane in January, let alone only for £30m. He'll probably be sold in the summer for huge money.

Last night in the second half Koeman was playing a 3-4-3 formation; which involved Bertrand as a central midfielder and Wanyama as a centre back... Stekelenburg Caulker Wanyama van Dijk Davis Ward-Prowse Bertrand Tadic Long Pelle Mane I'd rather he didn't do that again.

Which one? In the second half vs Liverpool Koeman was playing a 3-4-3 formation, which involved Bertrand as a central midfielder and Wanyama as a centre back... Stekelenburg Caulker Wanyama van Dijk Davis Ward-Prowse Bertrand Tadic Long Pelle Mane

They say its tighter security, but it was very poor. I joined a very short queue at the Northam turnstiles and ignored the metal detector queue. A steward at the turnstile then asked me... Steward: Have you been scanned with metal detector in that queue? Me: (looks at long queue) Yes Steward: Ok ...and in I went. Really is no point to the metal detectors and the queues they created if you can bypass it so easily.