Matthew Le God

In Mourinho's system Chelsea's full backs aren't given the same license to attack that Southampton's are. This means it frees them to have a more attacking player alongside Matic as the fullbacks are less likely to be exposed. Southampton use Schnedierlin and Wanyama to cover for the fullbacks, take one of them out and it leaves Saints vulnerable.

Saints' Ross Wilson follows that Twitter account which adds some credibility to it.

Saints' Ross Wilson follows that Twitter account which adds some credibility to it.

No fresh links today as far as I can see, it was from 9th July.

I wasn't.

Europa League, not having to live in Wales and the Ronald Koeman factor should hopefully give us the edge.

I had the thread open for a while and didn't refresh it, so I had no idea what you said until I clicked post.

I can't see us going from bidding big for Alderweireld to the backup option being a loan offer for Chambers. The money we were going to use for Alderweireld will probably be used on another high quality centre back.

You are worried because in a total of 90 minutes of friendly competition a below full strength Saints side didn't score a goal?

Pelle, Mane and Rodriguez have all scored good amounts of Premier League goals in their last season in the league. How are they not "proven goalscorers"? Plus we have Long and Juanmi as options, and Gallagher and Seager progressing through the ranks.

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.