Matthew Le God

The squad for the training camps in Spain and Austria... Adam Lallana Artur Boruc Calum Chambers Danny Fox Dejan Lovren Emmanuel Mayuka Guly Do Prado Jack Cork Jack Stephens James Ward-Prowse Jason Puncheon Jay Rodriguez Jordan Turnbull Jos Hooiveld José Fonte Kelvin Davis Lloyd Isgrove Luke Shaw Morgan Schneiderlin Nathaniel Clyne Paulo Gazzaniga Rickie Lambert Steven Davis Plus... Maya Yoshida - joining up this weekend Gaston Ramirez - joining up next week Victor Wanyama - joining up next week

50 goals in 106 games in the Spanish and Italian top flight isn't exactly poor. Over a 38 game season that would average about 18 goals. Only van Persie, Suarez, Bale and Benteke scored more than 18 goals last season in the Premier League.

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He thinks he is Johnny Depp...

Not many players that can be... pretty much its Pablo Osvaldo.

No Eterna watch but a nice friendly hug from Pochettino..aww...

It isn't a % of who has the ball, it is a % of the league average for time with/without possession. The closer to the bottom right hand corner of the graph the better (although there are more factors to football than just this such as what you do with the possession you have and don't let the opposition do in the possession they have). Southampton (under Pochettino) being the lowest on the graph shows they are the best in the Premier League at reducing the average time the opposition have the ball due to tackling/intercepting. If they were to improve keeping the ball for longer they'd move towards the right of the graph.

He became a dad this week, I'd guess he doesn't want to move his young family to Cardiff, so won't want to move to us either. Probably wants to be near both his and his partners parents in the North West.

This is a very interesting read... http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11662/8820344/Pochettino-s-plans

Not in doubt. Yes.

That I agree with.

As I just said...

It is not me. It is someones idea of a "joke".

Why does that make him itk? It didn't happen in the time frame he gave and it was actually 2 out. Given it is the transfer window of course there is going to be movement in and out of the club.

Why would they need to do that? Normally announcements are just made on the OS, even record signing Ramirez didn't get a press conference unveiling.

But when the person with the rumour has given us clues, what is the point in suggesting names that don't match those clues? Might as well say Messi.

Where has he been "linked several times"?

Unlikely signing him would meet this criteria...

Not in my opinion at all. We were discussing Pilchards rumour, he said that it was a player that has "we have been linked with him several times" and we have not been linked in the press with Lamela, Torres or Benteke several times. So I was right to say those names don't meet Pilchards criteria. Pilchards said the following...

None of those meet the criteria laid out by Pilchards.

We've strayed from Wanyama onto a player Pilchards says is currently looking around St Mary's that would "smash our transfer record by double". Given the clues, Pilchards can only really be talking about Leandro Damiao if true...

Yep, he is the only player we've been liked with that would cost that much and Pilchards says its a player we've been linked with. Osvaldo would be cheaper and Banega would be a lot cheaper.

Pilchards said it would "smash our transfer record by double". Banega wouldn't cost £24m.

Simon Peach said "Pochettino & Co unimpressed by Norway defender".