Matthew Le God

We play a system that requires 3 central midfielders, Cork isn't one of those three, he is one of 7 first team central midfielders at the club. He clearly wants regular first team football and he won't get that at Saints. Saints have enough central midfielders to be able to sell Cork for four times what they paid for him with a year left on his contract.

Saints are playing a system with three central midfielders and Saints have seven first team central midfielders, Cork is 25 years old, isn't first choice and has only one year left on his deal. Although he is a good player its understandable why both the club would sell him and he'd want to leave.

He is only 9 months younger than Shane Long, so not an up and coming striker either.

Well since 2012/13 we've added Wanyama as a defensive shield and you nor I know how Pelle and Tadic will do in the Premier League, yet you appear to be writing them off... are you?

And your actual point is...?

4? He scored 7 Premier League goals in 2013/14. 8 in 2012/13 and 8 in 2011/12.

Our defence in the successful part of 2012/13 was... Boruc Clyne Fonte Yoshida Shaw At the moment for 2014/15 it is only two players different to that... Forster Clyne Fonte Yoshida Bertrand Forster seen as an improvement on Boruc, Bertrand a downgrade on Shaw but still a good player, plus we now have Wanyama as a defensive shield and keeper cover is better with Boruc on the bench rather than Davis/Gazzaniga. Without a better centre half than Yoshida we won't stay in the top half of the league, but its not a relegation candidate defence.

McCarthy or Stephens.

Which teams that finished below us last season have a better strike force than....? Long/Rodriguez Pelle/Gallagher Tadic/Ramirez

The fee does seem excessive, but equally it looks in line with other domestic club to club transfers in the huge 2013-16 TV deal era. I'm sure they could get a better player from Europe for that kind of money, but in a way this is less of a risk. The £12m figure is likely to be the total amount if all clauses are met, I doubt it is a guaranteed £12m. If it happens it gives a strike force for Ronald Koeman's 4-3-3 system of... Long/Rodriguez Pelle/Gallagher Tadic/Ramirez Which is hopefully good enough to maintain 8th position and have a good cup run.

Exactly, in a lot of the youtube videos of his "best bits" he is in the left wing channel.

Fourth Official @FourthOfficial_ · 10m Billy Sharp having a medical with Leeds tomorrow, fee agreed of around £500k #LUFC #SaintsFC Fourth Official @FourthOfficial_ · 11m I meant to type 500k for Billy Sharp #nightmare

No he isn't.

Adam Blackmore ‏@bigadamsport Interesting that Sky have talked about a possible #saintsfc bid for Shane Long, a BBC colleague called us this morning about it... #gotlegs

It quotes this thread. Journalism at its very best!

Not that it automatically means you are brighter, but he comes from quite a privileged background and went to a £3,500-a-term school... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Grammar_School,_Newcastle Helps explain why us Southerners can understand him without the need for subtitles compared to this...

Why are you including future years? In 2014/15 Saints are only paying for their 2014/15 wages.

Good point.

d) He signed a new 3 year contract last month... http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Leicester-City-captain-Wes-Morgan-signs-new-year/story-21329896-detail/story.html But I think the key one is a) He's ****e (relative to what we should be looking for to replace Lovren)

Koeman confirmed we had a bid rejected in the post match interviews on Saturday.

Further evidence announced today of why FM has credibility in the real football world... http://www.sigames.com/news/14353/Football+Manager+gets+real It would be wrong to simply dismiss it as "just a game". It is respected by professionals in the football industry.

Further evidence announced today of why FM has credibility in the real football world... http://www.sigames.com/news/14353/Football+Manager+gets+real

The resemblance is uncanny.

Here's another example... http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/everton-sign-deal-to-scout-for-worlds-997789 A number of clubs use it as an initial scouting tool.