Saint_Ash

Even if we reinvest 75% of sales into the first team it should be enough to cover some outstanding debts and leave a sizable kitty for player investment.

Making the most of a bad situation - Sell Shaw and Ozzie for circa 40 million and reinvest the whole amount into the squad, we lose only one first team player but quite conceiveably bring three in with 40m. Hopefully this will persuade Poch and Adam to stay. If Lallana goes then it's about 35m with Ozzie going, again re-invest the funds and give the captaincy to Lovren, he has to stay, more important than Shaw in my opinion, if not Lovren then Morgan, either way try and keep them sweet. I'm sure if we looked at it we could try and make positives from what's happening....

I missed the part this season when we finished above Liverpool to be champions

Be interesting if Roy is in attendance with his season ticket as I believe this Sundays games he will run the rule over some last minute decisions, ie - is Shaw good enough for the 23 or will it just be the 30 and will Clyne (and maybe cork) get into the 30. If Roy attends then I think we might have a couple more in the 30 than we think. I still think only Adam and Rickie will be in the 23 though.

Adam is a pretty big fish in a medium sized pond where he's worked hard and overcome his problems with being captain that he is extremely proud of. At Liverpool he'd be a pretty big fish in a big pond with bigger fish and he'd never be captain. His quality deserves champions league football but I reckon he's going to wait until we show our ambition, he's not going to leave lightly.

I reckon Clyne will be one of the seven standby players if Walker and Jones are not fit, has to be another injury to maybe Johnson or Smalling to move up to the 23. That would still be a boost for him though.

What a boring thread and it's not even the close season yet. People don't get on, fact of life, the beauty about a forum is that if someone annoys you can ignore them or leave the computer for a bit. There are some wierdos on here but everyone is different, how boring would it be if we were all the same.

Caulker and Lovren in the centre of defence? YES PLEASE.

Hodgson stated I'm his last interview that if someone new comes in now it will be because he's watched him over the course of the season and not be based on last few games. Suggests to me a Saints player does have a chance to get into final 30 so I wouldn't be surprised to see clyne as a standby. He won't go but will be the happy ones to know he's actually in Roy's thoughts.

I like the fact Roy will name the 23 and the 7 standbys and not name 30 and cut it to 23 before they go crushing some players. I think rickie is the 23rd player on the plane, if not then he'll be first choice stand by, I really hope he goes though. Adam will be a starter.

You're pretty weird, I think everyone knows you've done this as you have form.

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7 for me. Imo opinion a 10 is winning something, like one of the cups of getting in the top 4. 9 would be top 6 or a losing cup finalist. We have played some excellent football but also fallen short against weak opposition which we shouldn't have, I was onthe verge of an 8 but the failed chance of enhancement in the FA cup and the big dip in current form dropped it a position.

My brachypelma smithi or Mexican Redknee called Jules, died when I was going through a divorce about 9 years ago, I had to move house and take her with me and I think it unsettled her, I had her from a tiny spiderling but she died at about 7 years old, I have kept every moulted skin she ever did in a jar by my bedside table and the young kids love getting them out to scare their nan. I would love to get another at some point but my wife has put her foot down so we now have a Giant African Land Snail called Blinky, he's a pretty cool pet and and I will be very sad to see him go. We also have a Jack Russell who is mental and has a massive personality, she's going to be 8 this year but eats so much rubbish all the time we don't know how long she'll last, only a few months ago she got bloat and was on a knife edge but a weekend stay in vet hotel and £1500 quid later (think god for insurance) she was back to her usual barky self. My wife's previous Jack Russell was 20 when she died so hopefully we have many more years of fun left with "Snowie".

Your knickers seem a bit wet.

Bit of a weird thing to say, did Osvaldo stab Jay in the knee or something?

Meant on Rodriguez thread

Fair play to the city fans for the standing ovation. They've noticed his quality.

Great interview I thought, spoke about Adam and saints but obviously non committal about who is on the plane. Pleased he's naming 23 players and 7 reserves instead of 30 and everyone is wondering who's going home.

I think this is exactly what will happen, Lukaku and 10m for Barkley. I think Everton will fall short of Champs League though and that is what Lukaku wants. I can imagine Belgium having a blinding world cup and Champs League teams coming in for him though. Why Chelsea won't play him God only knows.

Who let Damian in from the Omen? Wembley will come crashing down!

If we can get 30m for Shaw and re-invest that into the team then that would be sound business. A £15m new left back and a £15m centre back for instance would be damn good players at that price (unless they were english and inflated!) I still don't think we'll sell anyone unless they really want to go though. And to be honest if Shaw and Lallana want Champions League football I wouldn't blame them for leaving, they deserve to be in the Worlds best competitions. Either way I don't think the only way the new lot are going to have us sustaining ourselves is by selling off all our best youngsters.

How does selling our best assets keep us healthy? If we fall down the leagues we would become very unhealthy very quickly. I think that the new team will look into different commercial aspects to help bring in revenue so we can continue to grow and keep the talent we already have.

The tempo has increased tenfold with lallana and Shaw on the pitch. I'd start lallana for the first game of the world cup instead of Wiltshire, offers more around the box.