Give it to Ron

Exactly...thats the whole picture to look at not just stats or some whingeing about the price just because they can think it won't be doing the same as what Pompey did! Yes 12m does seem high ...on one player who if he scores 2 goals that keeps us up will have paid for it - same as Jonathan Forte did really. Mayuka, Gallagher, Sharpe are not going to do the business - Long just may help us with the right team shape and chip in with the odd goal or two.

Yeah always have been crap at multi tasking thats why I edited it!! Strikers are not always about scoring goals its what else they add to the team..why did so many managers put faith in Emile Heskey? Having watched us on Saturday it was obvious to me we needed someone to support Pelle get in advance of him, run channels someone with a bit of movement. I have nicked Nicks stats here - Rickie got 13 league goals last season, take away the free kicks and the penalties and he wasnt in double figures - football is a team game I think Long is a good option until we can hopefully get jayrod back until he goes in January.

Any chance you can **** off back to sea for the season??

Its having an insane interest in football I not only watch Saints but other teams play as well. I watched Ings quite a bit last season before his injury.

Couldn't give a rats arse who he supports I think his style is a perfect match for Pelle.

Ings would be my choice too but doesn't seem like there is any movement for us

Don't think I will buy in the ground again. Went in new pub Spitfire in town cheap food £2.20 a pint of Ringwood

Why are you calling him a liar ? What has he hoped to gain by posting that?

Bought mine this morning steady stream of people priced right at £12

What like Sunderland last season?

So your a better judge on the quality of keepers than the England coach? How many games have you seen Forster play?

So we recruit the England goalkeeping coach who knows him well yet we have fans rubbishing him on one game!! Is he better than what we currently have?

Heard on Talksport that VVD is going to Swansea for 6m after Celtic exit.....can't be right surely?

Thanks for those Norm and you are of course right....do you have any of the Pompey shirt buried in the centre circle :-)

Samaras is better than Mayuka and Sharp also an improvement on Guly so not too unhappy but would have preferred Ings but clearly this FFP is all bullsh1ne and hype Samaras won't be on peanuts.

No I just have redsloscf.BlogSpot.com but there are a few things I dont agree with - I have simply assumed that all our new players will receive the same salary and that salary is the average of last year’s three transfers: Wanyama 2.0, Osvaldo 3.6, and Lovren 2.1 which I will round to 2.6. I think that might be a bit low, but I really have no idea. At this point we have 3 new players in so that would be 7.8 million . A good read though and more food for thought and hopefully tomorrow we will improve the squad more - just centre half and striker needed urgently.

Do you think Pelle, Tadic and Bertrand will be on a lot more than their 3 counterparts that were sold plus Osvaldo wouldnt have been on minimum wage? Chambers and Shaw may not be on much - Guly wages saved as well. I think this FFP seems to be used as a cop out really what is the penalty for being over?

Sorry let me clarify that - I meant most players have no loyalty and will go where the money is - we should be able to compete with most clubs with transfer fees and wages - I know we sold 5 of our best players but with Koeman think thats a big draw here. How many player do you think that dont sign for the money? 10-15%?

I have no problem with loans, my problem is why we have left it until 1 friendly left to get the other replacement players in - what is stopping us signing them? Where is the problem - most footballers are mercenaries and will go where the money takes them. So far I think the signings have been fine its just central defence and a striker that will score enough goals that worries me now.

No probs...we all want to see good signings arrive and the best for the club, it doesnt matter where they come from. I can see value in Samaras actually as well , however I am impatientbecause Reed/Kruegar fed us all the stuff about the scouts, players wanting to join, players in this week etc yet we still have gaping holes especially at centre half that they have not delivered in weeks despite all the PR on OS/Media thats where the 20 scouts bothers me

WTF ...ok you are obviously so immature you cant hold a conversation without throwing insults - don't bother - bedwetting, panicking hahahahah ok if you say so. making up facts - so our 20 scouts picked out Pelle and Tadic...of course nothing to do with Koeman. No control or insight...what am I meant do with that exactly act like so relaxed and chilled on a football messageboard ?

That is you opinon and fair enough but the season starts in 2 weeks not 4 - we have had weeks to get in players we have known we needed. If we have a 20 team of scouts why have none delivered that is my question not bed wetting or panicking but a fact that we have not recruited.

But in how many weeks? Pelle and Tadic were Koeman deals where are our Prem deals that our alleged 20 scouts advise. ...what's the point of them if we cant recruit them? Just frustrated and worried we dont seem to be progressing

Well it depends on whether you believe that or not - personally I don't believe a word Kruegar or Reed say - actions speak louder than words so why can't we get anything over the line? If you have the money we are alleged to have then its not as hard as we make it to be although its obvious when you sell your 5 best players then you become very unattractive especially if offering less wages than others.