Matthew Le God

Why on earth would Saints want to buy a 31 year old central midfielder like Steve Sidwell in the summer? We already have Schneiderlin, Ward-Prowse, Cork, Wanyama, Reed, Davis and even Ramirez to play in central midfield. Apart from Davis, they are all 24 or under and have promising futures. The same can't be said of Sidwell.

Tom Coull‏@Tom_SFCMedia Blizzard like conditions in Hull this morning. Snow is hammering it down.

A few people have said this, but seem unaware we didn't hear about him for a while because he was injured.

Tottenham signed Gareth Bale from a Championship club and Arsenal signed Walcott and Chamberlain from a Championship club, to make a sweeping statement that no Championship player will be good enough is daft. Lallana, Cork, Lambert, Schneiderlin, Clyne, Rodriguez etc all made the step up well.

Why? When we have two very good right backs who are both younger than Trippier.

His initials are TS.

But it also says...

Looks like it'll be Clyne and Cork starting on Saturday... Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 46s Pochettino says @CalumChambers95 suffered a dead leg last weekend, while @VictorWanyama also took a knock. #saintsfc

I think Isgrove is more likely to be used as an attacking option on the bench, as he trains with the first team.

It gives more meaning to this photo. On the day it looked like a manager congratulating a youngster he gave full debut, now we know there was a lot more going on... Make his performances in the 1st team even more impressive given the circumstances.

Its not one of the players. Its one of the backroom staff monitoring the progress of the three injured players, can't remember his name of the top of my head.

Gastón Ramírez ‏@gasramirez10 2m Primer día en la cancha con @DejanLovren05 @Mattytargett muy contentos! First day on the pitch. We are very happy

Why do you think that? They are terrible away from home...

Why would you think it wasn't? It was posted today (the day they film training before a match to go with the press conference footage) and comes with the description... Southampton FC VINE: A wet morning at the #SaintsFC training ground, but @DejanLovren05, @gasramirez10 and @Mattytargett don't seem to mind!

Well it does for me.

Lovren and Ramirez doing ball work this morning...

Mauricio Pochettino is now the 8th longest serving Premier League manager!

Chico Flores now has to take orders from Gary Monk. http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/21/swansea-police-row-monk-flores

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I think this is the key part of the Swansea statement... He looked like he was going to leave in the summer, his heart wasn't in it anymore and that was possibly affecting team performances which haven't been good lately. They've been on the slide ever since the League Cup win.

http://www.swanseacity.net/news/article/ml-leaves-1340293.aspx

We've only had two under 21 games since 13th December, the last one was over 2 weeks ago on 20th January. Pochettino probably feels its better for Wanyama to be training with the first team during the week rather than the development squad.

Its a deserved red for Carroll (he swung his arm, minimal contact is irrelevant), the only thing that encourages cheating is no punishment for Flores for trying to get him sent off by play acting. They should both be punished over the incident, but that would be too confusing for the football world to cope with.