Matthew Le God

Its early in pre-season and we are mixing and matching the defence to build fitness and look at the under 21 players. It won't be anything like that during the Premier League season. - The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Leipzig had 1 first choice player (Stekelenburg) out of 7 - The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs Valencia had 2 first choice player (Fonte and Wanyama) out of 7 - The defence, goalkeeper, defensive midfield vs RB Salzburg had 2 first choice players (Stekelenburg & Cedric) out of 7

Seemed quite happy watching the game sat next to Katharina Liebherr today...

How is that ironic?

Gave him 45 minutes just in case, but its official... Gary Preston is the worst commentator I've ever heard...

He keeps calling Jason McCarthy, Macca McCarthy!

Where did Red Bull TV find this commentator? He doesn't understand the rules and doesn't know who any of the players are! Its like an episode of Channel 4's faking it.

We have two games today with a different starting XI in each, Cedric Soares (unless injured) will start in the second game. Koeman is mixing the teams up relatively evenly.

Subs: K. Davis (GK), Little, Turnbull, McQueen, Gallagher, Hesketh, Wood

Gazzaniga, McCarthy, Fonte ©, Stephens, Martina, Wanyama, Reed, Isgrove, Juanmi, Mané, Pellè Subs: K. Davis (GK), Little, Turnbull, McQueen, Gallagher, Hesketh, Wood

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.