sandwichsaint

4-5 years you say? Everton to be top 10 ........ tick Saints to be top 10 ..... why not? Heisenberg to be banned ..... unlikely .... why not?

Fonte to Benfica innitt?

He doesn't look too bothered about it, I reckon the photographer is holding up a copy of Ron's most recent pay slip.

Watching his kicking on Sunday he was probably aiming at a completely different part of the mural.

Boro 0-3 Liverpool adds some perspective to our recent 0-0 against the dippers. Stoke a Bomp a Spurs h WBA h What's a par score for that run of fixtures? 4 points/5 points/6 points? We have one down, 1 pt and 3 to play, we could get almost anything between 1 and 10 (obvs need to score a few goals if we are to take more than 4 points!).

That would be first favourite for me too. Second favourite is a non-starting squad player from Germany/France/Spain for about 4.0m. A player we have all heard of who has scored 20+ goals in the PL ..... 25/1. (Ullaoa would be decent in front of Tadic/Boufal/Redmond, come on Claude, embrace the 4-2-3-1, we have the players to play it.)

How was it? Massively over-hyped is how it was. The football seemed to be an adjunct or secondary to the whole UEFA 'experience'. Who wants to go to football on a Thursday evening anyway? Looking at the 6 games we played in the round you would have to say you would see more excitement and more quality in 6 PL games. Thoroughly enjoyed both Inter games, the rest of it was all a bit meh. Hopefully the rotation has given Puel a good look at all his options and we have enough left in the tank to get through Xmas and then consolidate in the league. Does make you wonder what the point of qualifying was when we went out with such a whimper.

Agree, he was the single worst thing about the whole piece, embarrassed us right across a whole continent. Reckon he/it was a skate on a wind up (fair play if it was!)

Time for a re-think and a back to the future 4-2-3-1 Usual across the back Romeu + one ... don't have any great preference for JWP/Hoj/Clasie .. they can all do that job Boufal and Tadic plus Davis Long up front Would for me be the way to go from here for home games especially, 'rest' Redmond, he looks physically and mentally shot, he's not good enough at this stage for the role he's being expected to play. Bin the negative 4-3-3, hoof it in from wide stylee.

Moronic suggestion. Like something a very bad kids team would do. But exactly what happens when you elevate one special player above all others. Of course he's good but he can't do it on his own. Maybe he should run out on Sunday with his underpants over the top of his shorts? I've not read the match thread but he looked seriously ****ed off after the game...

According to today's G. the payment(s) were paid 'in the last three years' which is just extraordinary if it's true.

#meltdownsRus

Has been excellent all season, top quality 3rd CB.

Forster sweeping better tonight? He has had more touches outside the 6 yd box tonight than in pretty much any game I've seen.

Or maybe the taxidermist the way he stuffs'em?

It would be gutting to see him go for less than Stones but guess that's the English premium thing. Cheers to ADutchSaint above, sort of what I was asking yesterday, looks like people expecting 60m-70m are going to be disappointed.

Martina is better in the air, and that goal, and he appears to be available more regularly than Cedric. Cedric has had two of his best games for us v Liverpool and Everton, after a long period of unavailability. Cuco's not been as good this season as he was at times last season. Cedric's had some pretty meh games for us too. Horses for courses, they can both DAJFU, in reality, to move on, we can probably do better. Compare Bertrand/Targett/McQueen, I would say we have overall more strength on the left than the right.

I remember, as a fresh faced 14 year-old listening to the semi-final draw, on the playing fields of Hamble, on a Monday lunchtime, on a tranny; and Derby will play ... Manchester Utd ...... we didn't hear the rest, cue mass bundle as Southampton will play third division Crystal Palace, but I digress. Nail Cedric and Cuco together and you'd have one decent right back, maybe breed them and, gender permitting, we'd have our next big seller in 20 year's time.

Of course! Duh!!

Sick of people constantly under-valuing our players, anything under 80m and next year's ST's going in the bin. Seriously? A big team is going to give a small team 70m for a centre half with no CL experience, I just can't see it (however good we know him to be). Out of interest what are the biggest prices received by non-CL clubs when selling to the elite level?

Probably along with all 91 other clubs ... this is not a club v club issue. Let's hope all perpetrators are bought to justice, all victims are supported and that we create the systems where this can't happen again.... at any club or in any junior sport.

Cheers, saved me looking it up,that about sums up my interest in European/Champions Lge football!

Every cloud and all that, if we limp past BS we could get a decent draw in the knockouts! I went to Milan and would love another go to somewhere else - big team, big ground, somewhere decent and not too far away will do nicely. Can we draw Celtic in the current permutations?

That's the spirit! The meter's running and that cost of £2000 per head is probably rising by the day....

Playing a dangerous game looking that far forward. What he's worth is what he's worth today. He could lose form or he's always just one injury away from being the player he could have become. If we were offered silly money this year it would be a massive gamble to hang on for silly money plus one in the following year. We don't 'need' him under our model, cheaper replacements are always available and once he has reached the level where he has out-grown us and we have received a suitable (derisory) offer he will be on his way. cf Mane, we cashed in, some would say a year too early but we've got the money in the bank and the world hasn't stopped turning without him.