Matthew Le God

Hopefully.

Adidas, SBOBET and Carling have been removed.

In the time you took to write that last post you could have quite easily answered my original two questions. Why are you avoiding them?

I asked two questions, you answered neither. Is that because you know the answers make you wrong? Perhaps if you had a more rational thought process you would have more confidence in the club you support and those running it. You've yet to justify the reasons why you don't have confidence in them. Failure to do so suggests that you can't and your position is flimsy to say the least!

Can you show me something that proves the club wanted £40m for Shaw? In any case the club confirmed that the fee received was a world record fee for a teenager! Does that not count as a massive bid to you? You are being ridiculously negative and irrational in your thought process.

I'd say £2m p/a wages plus Champions League football still fits in with my original wording.

I know, was a brain freeze moment.

Champions League football, home town club, he was never going to want to turn down such an opportunity.

How is this escaping you? Lallana and Lambert went to Liverpool, with huge wages and Champions League football on offer. Shaw went to Man Utd and had a huge wage increase and better chance of European football in the future. If those players played for Newcastle, Aston Villa, Stoke, West ham etc they would also leave if the club was offered enough.

Nothing to do with that as other players also had internationals and were at training, Boruc was given leave due to getting married... .

"Younger" players at 1st team training today... James Ward-Prowse Callum Chambers Matthew Targett Omar Rowe Harrison Reed Sam Gallagher Jake Sinclair Cody Cropper Paulo Gazzaniga Jack Stephens Jordan Turnbull Sam McQueen Lloyd Isgrove

I think 9-3 needs a mod enforced weeks "holiday" from the forum, or a ban from starting new threads.

I'd be happy to see Gallagher as 4th or 5th choice striker as I can see the potential in him, but I don't see a future for Sharp at Saints because if we want to maintain a top half Premier League finish we need better senior strikers. He's been through a lot in his personal life and scored some important goals in the Championship for us, but I think people are being too sentimental if they think we should be using him in our squad next season. We should be looking to improve the depth of our squad and bring through quality youngsters by having a pathway, using Sharp does neither of those things.

Gallagher has scored more Premier League goals than Billy Sharp... At the start of 2012/13, Danny Fox was the most experienced left back at the club, I'm sure your glad we replaced him with a 17 year old aren't you?

109 photo gallery here... http://bit.ly/FirstTrainingGal?cc=f2a1afecad3f1ea2c5ec698576d82783

Perhaps he is right, but its hard to take someone seriously who describes himself in the profile section on Twitter as... "Reputable established football associate." https://twitter.com/MurrayGroves Shouldn't that be for others to decide, rather than labelling yourself in such a way?

Wouldn't work very well, "Davis" and "Davies" are pronounced differently.

Sevilla sporting director admits they can't compete with English sides in the transfer market for players like Tadic... http://www.insidespanishfootball.com/114597/monchi-we-cant-compete-with-premier-league-clubs-were-not-in-that-sort-of-orbit/

Daily Echo ‏@dailyecho 37m Adam Lallana has taken a full page advert in tomorrow's @dailyecho to say thanks to all #saintsfc fans. pic.twitter.com/M0PqP2Jyjw

Day 1...

Stewart Lee fan?

Bournemouth chief executive reveals sacrifices had to be made over Lallana deal... http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/11312797.AFC_Bournemouth__Blake_reveals__small_sacrifices__over_Lallana_deal/?ref=twtrec

Alpine calling me a "bore"! I've never seen you post anything approaching neutral, let alone positive about Saints. Its just an endless stream of negativity and is extremely boring. I'll admit, I'm not popular with some people on this forum, but some people do appear to like my posting style. I struggle to imagine how anyone can find anything you have ever posted on this forum as constructive and worthwhile. Cheer up ffs!