Matthew Le God

The Football League doesn't have billion pound contracts of national and international TV money like the Premier League, nor is it a bank with large cash reserves. - League One clubs get a few hundred thousand pounds in TV money and solidarity payments each year. - Plymouth have £13 million worth of debt and a cash flow which can't support them until the end of the season and beyond. It is the PFA and not the Football League that has been loaning the club money. If the Football League help Argyle when they didn't help anyone else, there would be (quite rightly) uproar on a huge scale amongst its 72 members.

Not in a million years will the Football League "bale them out". How exactly would they do that without upsetting every other member? Also how could the league buy and fund a club? They require an investor in the next few weeks or they will go bust.

- Shea was recalled by Arsenal because of an injury to another keeper. - Forecast's loan at Eastbourne finished. - Bialkowski has started jogging again and should be back in full training relatively soon.

From Miles Jacobson...

Yeovil manager thinks it is very unlikely Paul Wotton will be fit for Tuesday. He went off injured today after 5 minutes.

Would you prefer this as a bench? 12 Cousins, 03 Beevers, 05 Baldwin, 14 Bond, 17 Perkins, 07 Vincent, 18 Gillespie

I know you are joking. But Lallana, Chamberlain and N'Guessan are all more than capable of playing upfront in League One if Lambert or Barnard need to come off.

No it doesn't. You can still shuffle the team round to have lots of striking options. If Saints signed more players in January the squad would be massively bloated and no player would have signed as they wouldn't think they would get games.

That doesn't mean he isn't now a midfielder. He has also been training with the first team for a long time now.

Reeves is now a midfielder. Butterfield and Dickson have both been midfielders in numerous games in their careers. As for striking options, Lallana, Chamberlain and N'Guessan can all play up front.

What assets? - They don't own a training ground. They are training at a local university. - The stadium was remortgaged and then eventually sold to HPPL in April 2010. Newport and Maidstone also didn't have £13m worth of debt.

Well Ferguson, Comoli, Wenger, Pearce and Brooking think otherwise... And they all know more about spotting young football talent than any of us!

You say "every", but it would actually be more accurate to say "most", as a number of clubs have been liquidated. It is entirely possible Plymouth could be liquidated if no adequate buyer is found and they have severe cash flow issues which makes the length of time they can remain in admin very limited.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1362860/AC-Milan-eyeing-Southamptons-Alex-Oxlade-Chamberlain.html I doubt this is true, but if it is, Saints should take action against Arsenal for tapping him up. Interesting no Daily Mail "journalist" (in its loosest sense) puts his name to the article, nor do they give sources. No doubt the Daily Echo will run with this story as they do with other unsubstantiated national rumours about Saints...

Teams have bid already for Chamberlain and they were turned down.

Well "if" in January 2012 Saints are in the Championship and towards the top of it, I think you will see the same happen.

That isn't what I said at all. You were using Walcott playing in the Championship as a reason for him being better than Chamberlain. Although it is currently impossible for CHamberlain to match that as he is in League One. That doesn't mean he couldn't though. Technically I think Chamberlain is much better than Walcott at the same age.

Well you are wrong. Cortese has said he turned down offers in January. So Alex hasn't gone at the first opportunity.

- Do you know how much Guly cost? His loan fee and transfer would have likely been significant. - Do you know how much Forte cost? - Richardson in the summer cost £450k, Dickson £225k and Butterfield as an out of contract Championship regular wouldn't have been cheap. - Lallana on a new 4.5 year deal is a very significant show of intent. - Chaplow, although the transfer fee was small he'll be on a good contract. In any case most of the spending on the squad to get it promoted has already taken place. The squad shouldn't need much spent on it, nor are players with high fees easily attracted to League One. Also you ignore the multi million spending on Staplewood.

A strange logic you use there. As Saints are not a Championship club at the moment, so Alex hasn't had that opportunity. Doesn't mean he wouldn't though. Some of the best managers in the world have publicly rated him highly as have important people in the England setup.

If Saints are spending money regardless of selling youth products. There is no need to sell the youth products.

Alex has some of the biggest clubs in the world interested in him and important people in the national setup rating him very highly. Selling him for £10m, when he still has over 15 years of good playing time ahead of him, would not be "incredible business". With the club being backed financially for the first time in 125 years, it is under no financial pressure to sell.

Because he had a record of.. Played 5 Won 3 Drawn 2 Lost 0

It is in Saints players' interest for them not to give the opposition clues. It wouldn't be hard for Saints management to make this clear to them. Of course footballers aren't always the brightest, but it makes little sense for them to undermine their own team against the clubs wishes.

I agree. Hammond and Chaplow will play, with Gobern on the bench. Any additional central midfielder would probably just replace Gobern on the bench. Saints may not want to stifle Gobern's chances and any parent club wouldn't loan us a player if he won't play.