Matthew Le God

Blackburn signed him from Huddersfield for £8m, they aren't going to sell him for £4m now he's proven himself to be a top Championship striker and recently signed a new contract until 2019. You can get better value abroad but £12m is about the going rate for such a player in the current market, £4m would be a laughable bid in Blackburn's view.

The article is based on this interview by the club's media team... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?52783-Eljero-Elia-Confirmed-6-Month-Loan&p=2104698#post2104698

We'd gain his use in games until he leaves and potentially a huge transfer fee and future fees that can be used to improve the club/squad.

Benteke & Bony would probably cost £20m+ in the current market.

Get another player at Alderweireld's level to partner him and make Fonte 3rd choice. Fonte would still get game time to keep him happy, that is how you improve the quality level of the squad if we really have ambition of competing at the top.

Why don't you apply the same to your endless stream of negative posts about Saints on the main forum? We are 4th after 19 games and you are still on about survival.

Since they signed Ozil, they spent £35m on Sanchez.

Koeman said he is out for 10 days.

Should we not aspire to be better than that? Dell sized mentality you have.

What is you definition of a "club like Saints"? Halfway through a season we are challenging for 4th place. If we use Yoshida for a number of games we'll fall away. He is okay to start if we were in the bottom half, okay as cover if we were aiming for mid table, but to challenge at the top of the league we need a better quality of 3rd/4th choice centre back.

He worked hard but all the things I listed in that post I stand by. I recorded and watched the Sky coverage, Souness and Neville also pointed out his problems and they weren't solely down to being up against Hazard. Did you not notice how Chelsea were targeting Yoshida rather than a 19 year old on the other side of the pitch? They saw Yoshida as the weaklink, I don't dismiss his efforts and workrate as he certainly put a shift in but he is a very limited player even when he plays in his normal position of centre back. He would be okay if we were still a bottom half Premier League team, but he is far too limited technically to play for a team challenging as we are at the top of the league. Work rate simply isn't enough at the level Saints are aspiring to reach. I think Gardos looks more composure and assured on the ball, Yoshida panics with the ball at his feet and his distribution is poor.

Violent conduct is a straight red card, Schneiderlin got 2 yellows today... which is a 1 match ban.

Two yellow cards in a game = 1 match suspension.

I think you were at a different game to me. He really struggled defensively, positionally he was poor, his lack of pace a problem and he offered little in the way of attacking threat.

Did you do the second part...?

Clyne was touched by the noodly appendage and it healed him...

Tis but a (superficial) flesh wound. Ronald Koeman says there were no injuries picked up today and the squad is in good shape for Chelsea. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30605421

Give it a go and follow the instructions through.

Because preventing your child getting medical treatment that has been proven by science to work time after time and instead to pray for them when praying has never been demonstrated to work is a form of child abuse. That is why parents have been prosecuted for acting in such a way. What if a Christian strongly believes in this passage from the commandments... ...and then kills their child. Is that okay with you because they believe it strongly? Good people do good things, bad people do bad things; but to get a good person to do a bad thing it often takes religion.

You ignored my rebuttal. What do you think of the man in the article? Do you consider it child abuse to prevent your child from proven to work medical treatment that would cure them because you want to pray to an unproven deity in the clouds?

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Not allowing your child medical treatment in order to pray for them instead is a form of child abuse. It is a believe in the power of prayer that people act in this way, so praying is harmful as it gives false hope. It is also criminal, especially if the child dies from a condition modern science can cure.