Saint_Ash

That's not good enough, he should be able to run around the pitch like a maniac, be the first to every ball, hold up the play, pass the ball to him self and score more than 30 goals in a season.

If he scores 18 goals from in the box I'm happy with that. Didn't harm Van Nistlerooy who only scored 1 goal from outside the box for united or something similar. I would like a striker who is in the box at the right time to score goals not run all over the pitch in and be in wrong positions.

They will all be happy being on the bench at some point! It's not as if they have European football and need a massive squad. One or two of those will probably want to leave in January or before the end of this window.

Post 2196, i posted the link. I don't think we'll be in for him though.

Saints in for Lukauku http://readsouthampton.com/2016/07/20/saints-keen-on-lukaku-fee-an-issue/ Only seen him in the one game against Wales and look well out of his depth, not sure what he's been like at club level.

I would have thought a better team has come in, I get the feeling that can happen quite often. Edit - Just read about the medical.

In the news today that Koeman wants to bring in Martina. I said from the start that it’s all well and good saying you are throwing the money around, a club might accept the offer but if a player doesn’t want to go then he won’t, they have been interested in a few players and they all want to go to a proper team

I find it strange that Professional clubs jump on the EURO/World cup bandwagon and after seeing a few players perform well in a few games they think they can do it in a top league over 40-50 games.

Holding midfielder - https://eplfeeds.com/article/onazis-agent-confirms-english-interest-in-saints-target Can't see it personally and the argent doesn't mention Saints so not sure why we're plastered all over the article.

Good, this will force our hand if we are interested. £20m isn't too bad baring in mind we received £35m+ for Mane. He fits our model of bringing in young players with experience and future prospects.

Even if he does he doesn't have to go. We would get berated in the same situation for not offering better deals or some rubbish.

Sorry Pal, my mistake, glad you helped with your comment pal.

Because he wouldn't be in the right positions, VVD talks to him constantly, I don't think Martina has that much of a defensive brain, pretty good going forward but needs guidance.

Personally think it's horrendous, loads worse than ours (which I quite like so what do I know!)

Just noticed VvD is captain. Good choice, I would give it to him after Fonte, he constantly talks through the game, Martina wouldn't play half as well if VvD was guiding him through every match and helping him with his positional sense.

Must be quarter time.

Prowsey

Looked like a pen to me.

Yep, that's how I'd see the line up

Nice, shown live. Strong team, chuck in Forster, Bertie, cedric, Fonte and Pierre and JRod it shows how strong the squad is getting

According to the saints twitter it's DC united.

Yeah, that is something that can be defined as he's stated it. As long as he doesn't come out in 3 weeks when something is announced and claim it as he could be lucky. If strong rumours start circulating in the next few days you have to give him his dues.

Has any of his waffle come to fruition? Not any of his vague stuff but a proper ITK comment that came good?

It's a replacement for mane I want. Austin is the Pelle replacement.

Shouldn't we put him on once he's left?