Matthew Le God

He is a huge upgrade in quality on Davis and Gazzaniga. Forster is our long term keeper, we aren't going to sign someone that will stay number 1 when Forster is back. Stekelenburg should be of sufficient quality to be our keeper in the meantime.

No, they gave a roundup of Saints related rumours in other media sources and cited the Express. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/13345704.GOSSIP__Saints_to_tie_up_deals_for_Alderweireld_and_Austin_/?ref=mac That is not the same as the Echo themselves linking Austin with a bid from Saints.

I don't think an Echo journalist overlooking him is anything to be worried about, its how Koeman views him that is important.

The gas holders are huge!

Can you provide any proof of this?

"Average" players don't play for as many top clubs as he has. The season before we signed him he was the joint 3rd top scorer in Serie A, "average players" don't do that. Even in his brief time in a Saints shirt you could see he had the technique, ball control, movement, creativity etc of a very good player. The problem was his personality and temperament.

At the point some of these previous posts and threads you & Turkish are now trawling up were written we didn't know what the relationship between Cortese and Liebherr was like for certain. We know have a better understanding, given the way things ended and other things have come to light. A lot was still just forum rumour and unsubstatiated press speculation. Had Cortese and Liebherr had a better relationship perhaps his ambition for the stadium may have proven more likely to gain favour from our financial backer.

I think he'd be more likely than Krueger to push for it, it then becomes a question of if he could get the finance for it. Given the breakdown between Cortese and Liebherr that would have proven extremely difficult.

You both fail to see the context those posts were written in. At the time of my posts the club was being run by someone who commissioned expansion designs. Circumstances changed under new management. Did either of you predict Cortese's departure?

His CA makes him the 15th best Saints player in the current FM15 database. 18th if you include Osvaldo, Ramirez and Boruc. Is that unreasonable?

Really? How much do you think he is on then? His CA makes him the 15th best Saints player in the current FM15 database. 18th if you include Osvaldo, Ramirez and Boruc. Is that unreasonable?

Have you seen some of the stadiums in the Europa League? St Mary's is light years ahead of them. The specification required to play in the Premier League more than covers anything we'd need for European games.

tbf to him he is a very good player, the problem is... he is a mentalist.

I'm pretty confident Ramirez and Osvaldo won't be playing in the Championship next season. We've loaned Osvaldo to Juventus, Inter Milan and his boyhood club Boca Juniors, he won't be playing 2nd tier English football.

I'm sure I'll cope.

I doubt QPR would agree to such clauses, as wouldn't see their chances of getting the money as good enough to keep them happy. £15m isn't a huge amount more than we've been spending on other players anyway, our £10m or more signings... Bertrand £10m Forster £10m Osvaldo £15m Ramirez £12m Tadic £11m Mane £10m Long £12m Wanyama £12m

You've purchased a cabbage?

Come on Irene, don't be silly.

How many 20 year old midfielder's had 6 assists last season in the Premier League? Ward-Prowse did so from 16 starts and 9 sub appearances, with an injury interrupting his season from September to December.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/11516571/Roy-Hodgson-plans-to-give-James-Ward-Prowse-senior-England-call-up.html Why would loaning him out "man him up"? He is already getting huge amount of gametime for someone his age in the Premier League, few get more. If we loaned him out we'd be short of central midfielders.

All I did was highlight that their careers suggest otherwise, given their age and where they have spent most of their time. What has Roberts done to show he is currently "easily Championship standard"? Its you that made the claim... not me. What has Lee done that suggests he could "probably do a job in the Premier League"? Its you that made the claim... not me.

That explains it!

He's 31 years old and has only ever played 54 games at Championship level, the last of which was in the 2007/08 season! He is 29 years old and of his 275 career league appearance... - 81 in League 1 - 194 in League 2 What makes you think he'd ever be good enough for the Championship, let alone the Premier League?

Not unless we gave him a new contract. If we play him in Europa League and League cup games this coming season as adriansfc is suggesting, when January comes around he will be free to discuss joining foreign clubs on a Bosman in the summer of 2016. His transfer value would be small given the status of only having 6 months left on his contract.

His contract expires on 30th June 2016, his value is dropping by the day.