Matthew Le God

Line-up vs Carlisle on 11th July... Cody Cropper (Chris Johns 46), Niall Mason (Richard Bakary 71), Josh Debayo (Ollie Cook 46), Kyle Clinton (Alfie Jones 71), Will Wood (Colm Deasy 51), Armani Little (Chris Regis 61), Jake Flannigan (Stuart Wilkin 71), Mark Irvine (Josh Sims 41), Jake Hesketh, Omar Rowe, Ryan Seager (Marcus Barnes 61) Line-up vs Newcastle on 15th July... Chris Johns (Cody Cropper 46), Colm Deasy (Richard Bakary 62), Ollie Cook (Alfie Jones 46), Niall Mason, Josh Debayo, Armani Little (Joe Lea 59), Chris Regis, Jake Hesketh (Mark Irvine 70), Josh Sims (Dan Demkiv 46), Omar Rowe (Harley Willard 70), Ryan Seager (Marcus Barnes 70).

The under 21's (which includes a lot of 1st and 2nd year under 18's) are staying up north until the weekend. They've played Carlisle and Newcastle already and play Sunderland on Saturday 19th July.

I doubt it, more likely to be just using him there until we sign a new left back to compete with Targett. Koeman said in an interview he wants two players fighting for each position.

Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 2m Maya Yoshida, @DejanLovren05 and @ArturBoruc not yet ready for matches, while @GPelle9 only joined up with the squad last night. #saintsfc

Ronald Koeman played with his father Danny Blind, but hasn't managed Daley.

Okay, thanks.

What do you mean by "sensitive transfers"?

That is a random twitter account with 12 tweets and not linked to a publication of any kind, I wouldn't take it seriously enough to start a thread about it! If every random tweet about Saints had its own thread this forum would be a mess. Coutinho is worth a lot more than £11m now and I fail to see why he is described a "wantaway" or why he'd leave Liverpool for us. He also still has Liverpool pictures in his profile despite the tweet suggesting he is removing Liverpool related things from his bio.

No idea, as like most Saints fans I haven't seen them play. Stats from the Eredivsie and Premier League aren't directly comparable.

I think we should only handle those that appear to be credible rumours rather than by random twitter accounts or we'd be flooded with daft rumours.

What makes you think that?

He has been at Saints training since 1st July, but for the Holland/Belguim trip... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/13072014-saints-arrive-in-belgium-1751827.aspx#s3bCpCoGTwARFBqz.99

Our early season opponents will have scouts at our pre-season games, it won't be kept a secret how we are planning to play.

Players that went to the World Cup were given 3 weeks holiday after their teams exited the World Cup, Gaston Ramirez has another week left and Schneiderlin has two weeks. Confirmed by Ronald Koeman in his press conference on Friday.

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/13072014-saints-arrive-in-belgium-1751827.aspx#rWXj4wk6DflERco2.99

Reminiscent of this scene (it will jump to it when you click play)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=V5QfKxYbAag#t=82 9

"3 at the back" requires fewer midfielder and more defenders than Pochettino's system. 4-2-3-1 = 4 defenders and 5 midfielders (3 of which are attacking) 3-5-2/5-3-2 = 5 defenders and 3 midfielders (as the wing backs are defenders - Clyne, Chambers, Targett etc)

Connor ‏@ConnorwilsonLFC 22h Southampton fans message to Dejan Lovren by the training ground.. That is on the bottom of the Itchen Bridge, so about 8 miles from the training ground.

He is 34 years old, he was born on 20th February 1980.

I did mention at the beginning it was stating the obvious, but read it in the context of the post I was replying to and not as an isolated point made my me...

Stating the obvious but... you can still win a game if you concede, you can't win if you don't score (0-0 the best you can get).

Last season it was - 1st August 2013 http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/201314-squad-numbers-announced-959979.aspx

So do I... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkFfPUxf5o

Was there really any need for that? Had it been anyone else posting that I doubt you would have said a thing. Exactly! All I did was say how much he is reported to be earning.

€2.5m p/a is more than £30k p/w, its about £38k p/w.