Matthew Le God

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.

You make it clear to staff that if they divulge company information they will face the consequences. It works in other professions, so it should "in theory" work in football.

I agree the title "emergency loan" is misleading. But all loans in the Football League between February and when the loan window shuts in March are given this title.

Adkins has stated on a number of occasions that this is the reason that he doesn't give out detailed injury and team information. He wouldn't bother if he thought it would leak out anyway. I'd imagine the Saints squad are under strict instruction not to divulge any info and if they are found to have done so they would face disciplinary procedures in house from the club.

Man City signed a goalkeeper last season with special dispensation because the Premier League unlike the Football League, doesn't have a loan window after the transfer window closes. Richard Chaplow and Nicholas Bignall when they signed were "emergency loans" for Saints, even though there wasn't an injury crisis.

He is right not to give constant injury updates. It makes no difference if we as fans know or not before a game, but more importantly it leaves the Colchester manager guessing how we will line-up on Saturday.