Matthew Le God

The 25 man squad list is solely for over 21 players. If you only have 7 home grown players (8 is min in squad of 25) then you just name a squad of 24 and you'll be fine. Only have 6 home grown, then name a squad of 23 and so on.

I think they'll be a lot more of the under 21 players involved than the line-ups people are guessing in this thread. The players who were away on international duty aren't back until 6th July, the Leipzig game is on 8th July. Training is currently the few non-internationals mixed with the under 21's, that'll be the preparation leading up to the game.

Sky Sports Italy reporter... Manuele Baiocchini ‏@ManuBaio 31m31 minutes ago #Juventus, c'è l'offerta del #Southampton per #Ogbonna

He wanted to be a starter, he is now a starter at Swansea.

Free transfers like that are never cheap. The money saved in paying his club for a transfer goes to the player in multi million pound signing on fees, more inflated wages than normal and a huge agent fee.

Its this article...

Thanks.

Can you copy and paste the bit about Praet please, as I've used up my Telegraph article limit.

Le Parisien today reporting Saints offering... - €2m season long loan fee - €18m option to buy next summer http://www.pressreader.com/france/le-parisien-seine-et-marne-sud/20150627/281913066761543/TextView

The new TV deal starts in the 2016/17 season.

Pundits aren't paid to give unbiased views, the broadcasters are fully aware that ex-players will favour certain clubs and I'd imagine they like the dynamic that gives. It also can't count as tapping up because Carragher is merely an ex-Liverpool player and doesn't officially represent the club. I imagine if you were a Sporting CP fan you'd be annoyed to learn about Jose Fonte tapping up Cedric Soares?

Perhaps we knew we couldn't compete on wages so there was no point bidding.

The new TV deal is already included in FM15 if you use the latest database and starts in the 2016/17 season.

The core group you describe as getting us to the Premier League has decreased significantly in number, but that has been with another large group of better players who got us to 8th and 7th.

How do you know for certain when his injury problem started?

Sunderland Echo 2 days ago said Sunderland weren't interested and didn't make a bid... http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/sunderland-afc/video-sunderland-not-interested-in-georginio-wijnaldum-but-have-other-dutch-transfer-targets-1-7323782

Read it in context of his entire post, in the 2nd paragraph he says Davis, Reed and Ward-Prowse are all small... but so is Gueye. I don't think Clasie's size really matters, he is very good at winning the ball.

He is 5 foot 9.

Its pointless to use Wikipedia as a source for football unless you check the citations it uses. The articles can be edited by anyone in the world. I could go on it now and say Imbula has signed for Saints for £60m.

Football years... 2015/16 - pre-season training begun for some clubs 2014/15 - 6th 2013/14 - 2nd

They finished 2nd a mere two years ago.

Is Ronald Koeman worried about Clyne & Schneiderlin leaving? Nah, he is currently playing backgammon on a yacht... #wemarchon

Its not that amazing, pretty much everyone on this forum if put in the same situation would do the same. They are being offered huge pay rises and better chances at international level.

If you were him at Palace in 2012 in the Championship and a Premier League club offered you a big pay rise... what would you have done?

Yep, I did say it was a tiny %. The same thing happened with Gareth Bale going to Real Madrid, even though we didn't have a sell on clause we still got some money.