Matthew Le God

They sold us Wanyama on 11th July 2013 despite still having Champions League qualifiers.

It ended up with this...

I've never said that. You've convinced yourself of something that didn't actually happen.

I am, but Saints are selling players for huge prices to huge clubs. If we were losing our best players to Stoke and West Brom then that is the time to really be concerned... but we aren't... its Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal for huge prices and wages on offer. I still think we should wait and see who the replacements are before criticising the club. If the incoming players by the close of the window don't leave us with a strong squad then that is the time to be annoyed.

What point are you trying to make?

How do you propose Saints keep hold of players when some of the biggest and richest clubs in World football make large offers (both in terms of transfer fees and wages)?

It appears a lot of Saints fans don't understand the following... Asset stripping In an "asset strip" you don't buy £18.9m worth of replacements (with more to come) and a £30m+ upgrade of the training ground. We'd be signing free transfers like Aston Villa have been doing with Senderos, Cole and Richardson. Fire sale A "fire sale" by definition is selling things at bargain basement prices. Saints are selling for huge prices to huge clubs.

Some of the biggest and richest clubs in World football are making large bids for our players and shock horror, our players are interested.

Do we? Cork is on the bench and Schneiderlin and Wanyama aren't available for this game. Positions we don't need extra players... right back, central midfield and defensive midfield.

Wanayma is on international duty with Kenya. They have a two legged match vs Lesotho, first game was on 20th July, second game 2nd August.

Of course they do, for a start if Reed does start to interest bigger clubs then being on a long contract puts Saints in a stronger negotiating position.

Would you prefer the club to publicly admit everyone is for sale? That doesn't help our negotiating position does it? If we get a huge bid for Schneiderlin he'll go, every player has a price. What is important is how well we recruit players ourselves. The Guardian says we are close to a deal for Virgil van Dijk. We could end up with van Dijk and Forster with the Lovren money and still have money left over from that £20m, let alone the Lallana, Pochettino, Shaw, Lambert money.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/25/southampton-morgan-schneiderlin-tottenham?CMP=twt_gu

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jul/25/southampton-morgan-schneiderlin-tottenham?CMP=twt_gu

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/anthony-limbrick/45/571/b92

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/25072014-anthony-limbrick-under-18-coach-1782407.aspx

I didn't say he was the best manager ever, just that he has a more impressive CV than any of our previous managers at the time of their appointment. If not Koeman, then which former Saints manager in our 129 year history has a better managerial CV?

Thats a bizarre logical route to go down.

He has a more impressive CV than any previous Southampton manager in our entire history. Including 3 Dutch league wins, the Spanish Cup and taking two teams to the quarter finals of the Champions League.

Although in the league with Valencia he wasn't great (and there were mitigating circumstances) he did win the Spanish Cup so hardly a complete disaster. With Benifca although he came 3rd, he made the Champions League quarter final for the 2nd time in his management career.

Why are people getting concerned about the tweet of a random Arsenal fan?

It is not Talksaints' info, it is lifted from this and talksaints retweeted it and then made his own tweet... Mike_Hughes_Business @TheAFCMovement · 21m Calum Chambers medical done today#arsenal#afc https://twitter.com/TheAFCMovement A random Arsenal fan with 400 followers, i.e. complete ********.

He may have blocked you, but he follows me. Me >>> You

True, but if(when) Lovren is sold its hard to see Saints not buying another centre back(maybe even two). Yoshida starting is fine for a bottom half Premier League team, not if we want to maintain a top half finish. If Hooiveld plays its a disaster waiting to happen and he'd be better off at a Championship side. We are being linked with Lovren replacements, and if we get one of these to sign the Lovren departure may not have a huge impact... http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-transfers-virgil-van-dijk-3909641 http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-want-stefan-de-vrij-3893127

What is wrong with that as a team? (and please don't use the pathetic nickname Gashton in your reply)