VectisSaint

I would have Chambers back, we should never have sold him, the only sale that still really irks me. he is a super player, and will develop greatly in time. Although I hate his attitude I would have Lallana back, we really need him as cover for Tadic, to bring on with 20 to go. Lovren, no thanks, demonstrating clearly that he was flattered by Fonte, and deffo no better than Toby or even Gardos. SRL - he was going anyway, we had the best out of him. Shaw, meh we have Bertrand who is currently as good (but probably won't develop to the same extent as Shaw) and it sounds like Targett is getting close as well. I would like to have Ramirez back though.

I don't think that will catch on.

We will not be on the verge of anything great while we have such a paper thin squad. We do not have 2 quality players in every position in defence. Backup RB? Assume that's Toby, which is great when he is injured. Backup LB is Targett, have to say that is probably better than last season, but I think you are depending a lot on a youngster there who is not fully proven (I think Bertrand is as good as Shaw was last season so no issues there). Then we have the GK situation (which is part of defence). Same lack of quality backup as last season now that Boruc has been shipped out. Unless we are incredibly incredibly lucky, we will not avoid an injury/suspension crisis at some point just like last season and once a few of our 1st XI are not available we will struggle. Just like last season that will most likely happen when the really hard games come along early mid season. JRod is out till Xmas at least, now JWP is also out to Xmas, Toby and Yoshi are both currently injured, though it looks short-term. Gallagher still nowhere to be seen. We have 6 players out on loan, our squad is no stronger in depth than last season. No doubt though that we have a great manager and great 1st XI (or 1st XV lets say). Exciting times, because the style of play is better than under Poch, but don't get carried away, there is still an elephant in the room, just like there was last year.

Head in sand. Let me know the options at CB or GK for that matter.

Think just about everyone

Suggests it was metatarsel as the commentators speculated at the time.

Many people (seemingly me included despite having you on ignore) read your posts in a similar way with a similar view. In order to form the opinion that Samuels is a clown it is usually necessary to read said posts. Personally don't think he is a clown, just a very poor, ill-informed, stating the bleeding obvious fat **** of a journo hack.

nor did his wife (or maybe she did).

Markus

I assume the author is not a native English speaker, the report is appallingly badly written, much of it looks like the output of a Google translated page. Maybe a trainee Martin Samuels.

So you do remember, despite what you posted.

No its not, majority is 3 out of 5, that means Shaw (brought through), Chambers (brought through) and Lovren (bought). Technically absolutely correct. All in all there is nothing wrong with the article. But its not exactly insightful or in-depth or anything that would be written by the sports journalist of the year. Any average hack could have written the same and would probably have looked a little more in-depth into the circumstances etc. Truth is that if the Board, inexperienced as they are, believe this way works then they could go down the route of disaster that he sees. We have to believe that the experience of some members of the Board who were here previously (i.e. Les) would hold sway in case any of the newbies think this is an easy game. I hope Ralph does not get sucked in but as of now there is no evidence either way whether he would or would not (not just Ralph of course).

Too many beers again. If it helps we won 1-0.

Liverpool police have reportedly contacted their Manchester counterparts about a similar case, this one related to a young player (whose name cannot be disclosed for legal reasons) who has been traced to the local branch of Nandos. At this time there is nothing to suggest the two cases are linked as no-one has yet seen the young man kick a ball and therefore it is difficult to ascertain whether or not he is a genuine footballer.

Only in your mind.

We don't, we really don't. Look at the bench yesterday. We are two or three injuries away from the exact same situation as last year. We may be down to 2 fit CBs this week, no decent backup keeper, no backup RB (if Toby is injured), thin up front until JRod is back in January. No creative MF if Tadic is missing. We have a much smaller squad than last season. Our first XI (or may XV) are very good, as good as if not better than last season, but there is no way anyone can justify that we have a stronger squad or more depth.

Koeman resigned at Feyenoord in February, he was looking for a PL job after that, certainly sounded out Swansea, suspect Les had also sounded him out either then or previously as an option of things went tits up with Poch as was very likely when Nasty Nic left. The appointment of Koeman was nothing to do with luck, or for that matter much to do with the new Board, but due to the continuity from the old board.

What about 14/15? Good win today, our team is looking good. But our squad is so thin, bench today showed that we have so little strength in depth. JWP injured, hopefully Toby is not too bad, JRod not back until Dec/Jan. No decent keeper backup. Not trying to be negative, but some people need to see how weak we could be with a few injuries or suspensions. Hopefully it will not be an issue.

Certainly looked like he was upsetting a lot of people in the squad photo. Still makes no sense to me including him in the picture and then shipping him out.

I don't think we are allowed to play in the French League.

Daniel Levy.

Bloody daft, if you ask me. We really needed a stronger goalkeeping lineup after last season, so we have replaced Boruc with Forster and still have the same poor backup, and a year older. We clearly have not learned the lesson from last season, just hope Forster does not get injured or suspended, I really hoped never to see KD in goal for us again (good bloke, blah blah), instead we ship out Poland's #1 (or even #2) keeper to Bompey. we even wait until he has been pictured in our squad photo before shipping him out.

So the Scottish Record and the OP don't understand the difference between Twitter and Instagram then. Your link explains why people had not seen anything on Twitter, because it wasn't on Twitter.

Never seen it mentioned before either. Bad taste for someone in Southampton though, not sure the Daily Record quite understood the Southampton link.