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All of us? Maybe one or two. He won't be back on 1st July anyway, he was named in the Morocco squad for AFCON 2019, so according to the schedule he will be in the squad to play South Africa that day. If he does come back, don't expect to see him until the end of July, like Djenepo, because he will get 2-3 weeks holiday after the tournament finishes, and Morrocco are likely to feature longer than Mali. Can't see him coming back myself. Ralph may be able to work wonders on him, but changing him from a talented individual into a useful team player will take some special skills and hard work.

Don't want to take away from the signing, looks a good prospect, but I thought the plan was to get signings in early so that Ralph could work with them fully in pre-season. Looks like we won't see this guy until a couple of weeks before the season starts due to the AFCON. Even if Mali get knocked out in the group stages, he will then presumably get 2 or 3 weeks holiday before linking up.

No it wasn't. Fonte was pushed out by Les wanting to promote VvD to captain, Fonte was seen as surplus to Les' requirement to make VvD the basis of the team. Worked out well.

He really isn't. We should have signed him when he was at Ipswich, but doubt that he would come back anyway, we did treat him rather shabbily when he was with us as a youngster.

Romeu hasn't missed a game through suspension for 2 seasons. Its a myth that his bookings make him a liability. We really need to find better CBs, after all none are as good as Stones or Maguire.

Nigel Adkins leaving Hull. Seems like he was offered a "derisory" new contract by Hull owners. Can't agree he was the best manager we ever had, but he was a top bloke, decent, hard working and enthusiastic, a great role model.

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Maguire making Stephens or Hoedt look competent. Stones too.

This sounds like what is happening to me, Adams has indicated his preference is Saints and now the club are trying to agree a fee with Brum. Sounds perfectly normal, but we'll end up paying more than we have currently offered.

Probably because he knows that he won't be playing for us again. Would imagine he's been told to find another club (again)

Alderweireld, Wanyama and Gazzaniga (and Poch) just lost the Champions League

8 former Southampton players on show in Madrid tonight, plus a manager of course.

So that's a good thing then.

or the Norwegian Moi Elyonoussi Oh wait, we already have him.

They can, but the changes are reviewed and corrected/deleted if incorrect or misleading.

What are you on about? Where did I say anything like what you made up there? English comprehension not your strong suit.

No one. McCarthy was a decent keeper before he joined us. He just replaced the hopeless Forster, didn't actually have to improve to achieve that. Unlike Forster Mccarthy is a much more natural keeper, coaching isn't such an issue. Gunn is similar, Watson manages to try to coach them to his ways, and after a while they regress under his influence.

Most of our new signings recently have been very poor, so you will probably be right.

It really isn't difficult. Gives the 4th official something to do. Other sports do it without any difficulty, grass roots kids do it. It's a very simple solution to one of the most annoying problems in the modern game.

They should introduce "rolling subs", no need for the player to have left the pitch before the sub comes on, easy enough for the 4th official to ensure the change happens.

True, Anderlecht might be interested.

Has Jack Stephens been called up? Didn't know, very surprised.

Heightist

We don't need him to get his head down. He needs to get his head up, head down is his problem, no awareness of other players or position. If he could address this he could be half decent. [i know what you meant]

Seen worse. I would have move the LD logo up to align with the UA and SFC ones but otherwise its not as terrible asall that.