Matthew Le God

Its possible to have more than one transfer on the go at a time. The Pelle and Tadic deals are also in motion, others maybe as well that we don't know about yet. I'd say goalkeeper competition is required, we look extremely vulnerable whenever Boruc is injured, Gazzaniga and K.Davis aren't making him fight for his place as the arrival of Marshall or Forster would.

L’Equipe website... http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Actualites/Southampton-lorgne-ecuela-manga/480644&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBruno%2BEcuele%2BManga%2Bsouthampton%26client%3Dsafari%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Den%26biw%3D1399%26bih%3D888%26tbs%3Dqdr:d

From the ticket section of the Southampton FC website... http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/29062014-bournemouth-away-friendly-tickets-1705689.aspx

Being in a transfer battle with clubs like Everton is hardly the end of the world. We could well lose out on the Tadic deal, but do you not think it is a good sign of the quality of player we are going for rather than living up to the doom-mongers prediction of a relegation scrap with Burnley, West Brom, Aston Villa etc etc?

Would it not make more sense to wait and see who the replacements are before writing the team off for the season? Look at the squads of the teams that finished from 9th to 17th and the three newly promoted sides, they really aren't that impressive. Even with Shaw, Lambert, Lallana, Lovren and Schnedierlin sold Saints would still have a high number of players all those clubs would love to have. It would take some appalling recruitment decisions for Saints to be in a relegation fight next season.

I think its likely he would have. Its a rule that is impossible to police and Saints fans can't really complain as we've likely done similar with a lot of players we've gone for.

You've taken one example I made very much out of context.

Tadic hasn't signed for Everton, even if he did why does that mean Saints will be relegated? Even without Shaw, Lallana, Lambert and potentially Lovren & Schneiderlin there is a lot of quality still at the club for Ronald Koeman to build on. Have you seen the squads of the sides below us last season and the newly promoted sides? They really are nothing special. It'll take a disastrous summer of recruitment for Saints to be in the relegation zone next May. Ronald Koeman hasn't left a Champions League club for a laugh, his appointment is a show of ambition in itself. More so than for example West Brom appointing Alan Irvine don't you think?

What does that mean? Who on Twitter is linking him to Everton?

That entirely depends on which Saints fan wrote that part of the article. I could go on Wikipedia now and edit it to say he is a striker.

That may be because he is Kenya's best player by some considerable distance even at a young age. He even has it ahead of his brother who is at Inter Milan.

Ummm... why?

Because Ashley Williams isn't as good as Dejan Lovren and Arsenal were never really seriously interested in Williams?

Feel free to vote. Its looking quite decisive though and recent events make it very unlikely Lallana will be added as a legend.

:D Jordan Sibley ‏@jordansibley 7m Great to see all the positive feedback on the new shirt, I've just got my hands on one... #TheStripesAreBack

That is up their with your best(worst) lines on this forum. Its quite frankly laughable. Why does it not surprise me you would be concerned by something illogical like superstitious nonsense?

Amy Lewis ‏@SkySportsAmy 1m LFC have not gone above £18m for Dejan Lovren I'm told. Saints value him as their best player & won't accept less than £25m #LFC #saintsfc

tbf a number of other Liverpool fans are ripping him apart.

I like it, would prefer white socks though.

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Did you not read my post? I said there might be two player training kits like we had last season.

Does anyone not think post #1584 is a plausible suggestion? http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?49230-2014-15-Kit&p=1981721#post1981721

I think (hope) that is another training top. Last season Saints had 2 training kits! Last season we had this in the summer... And this in the winter...