the saint in winchester

Ah ok, thanks Clarkey.

Tuned into SS Mix for our game .... Roy Keane waxing lyrical about the Liecester v Man Utd game, and now an interview with Mason Flopping Greenwood. Checked I was on the right channel - I seem to be. When are we going to get into the Saints game? 3.30pm : "meanwhile, we have a game at St Mary's this afternoon" to the view of Roy Keane losing interest ...

His comments on hoping to join Spurs may lead to Everton withdrawing their offer. Then Spurs come in and offer £15M, and with no other offer on the table, we will have to accept that. So, not sure we hold any or all the cards here.

I believe that is the deal. That he is regular starter not a squad filler. He will likely come down on his wages to compensate for that guarantee.

Sadly yes, this will rumble on. PEH wants to join THFC, KWP wants to join SFC. Should be easy to grant those two wishes … yet it will rumble on.

OK, let's extend Reed's contract and buy another DM. Let them play season warm-up games (will there be any this summer with only 2 months break?) and then Ralph can decide his batting order.

Lallana - very unlikely, probably impossible. If somehow Bmth stay up, he will likely go there. If not, then probably someone like West Ham.

Can you receive PM's? Apparently you can't?

From who, LeG, from who? Celtic can't pay? Leeds won't pay?

I'm all for a bargain, but I think £10M is on the low side for KWP now. Admittedly, when he came I thought £5M was about right, but seeing him improve under Ralph and thinking of where he could be in a couple of years, I would pay the £10M now, improve him further and brace ourselves for £30M offers in 2022!

Yeah, good player, but 2 London clubs looking at a player in London. His Oyster card wouldn't take him as far south as Southampton, so he'll pick from them.

KWP - haven't Spurs said they would accept £10M? Or is it £10M to everyone but Saints? PEH - radio news lunchtime said Everton had a bid of £20M (rising to £25M) declined. OK, agree the add-on clauses are irrelevant with Everton, as they won't win anything. Saints still asking for £35M.

I think he has already improved massively since coming here, so Ralph's coaching of him is helping. Hungry and capacity to improve, check. And Spurs have named the price at £10M, which is modest, so I would go for it.

Yeah, I was one asking for Ings to take penalties. It's not for him. Poor technique - wait to see where the keeper dives and then pass it to him. We need to sort out penalties for next season. Get any of Lambert, Le Tiss and Beatts coaching the side over the summer.

Meanwhile …. back on Walker-Peters,has he signed yet? (This is going to be Skacel all over again.)

Would be great for my fantasy team, where I'm 6th in my league!

If you watch the video that MLG posted, it takes you to Twitter. After the video, below it is a post from FFC.

I believe our standard conclusion on these is "when I see him pictured on the OS wearing a Saints shirt and holding a Saints scarf aloft, then I'll believe it. Until then, just speculation."

We're getting a BT pass, as well as 2 x SS day passes?

FFC : "The club can confirm that Harrison Reed HAS returned to Southampton" He's not seeing out the season with them? Hopefully, returned to Southampton to negotiate a contract extension.

It's time we stopped sending him out to foster parents and took him in as one of our own. Those Instagram comments from Fulham fans are convincing. Wrap our arms around him, give him a new contract and give him game time. He has clearly developed into the sort of player we wanted and now need.

How about Stephens at RB and Vester at CB? Or I guess he could just bring in Danso at RB? We may want to give Romeu a night off, and play Hoejberg? Up to Ralph, obviously.

I'd agree that it should be a practice that (co)commentators shouldn't have played for either side, ideally. Especially if they are one-club men, then their perspective just isn't in perspective, it's biased. But maybe it's just the individual characteristics of Neville and Carragher that are SO excruciating.

Thank you for that comment, now I know I'm not the only one. I had that feeling through the game and it was the comments of MLT after that crystallised it into words for me. After their 2 goal blitz, I had expected them to tear us apart. Yet, it didn't happen; they took their foot off the gas, and seemed content to be in a winning position. Even the commentator acknowledged we were 'right back in this game', yet we seemed content to retain possession and ensure Utd didn't get more goals. Imagine if we had pushed and got that second goal during our second half domination, and then Obafemi's goal had been a winner! That stat Sky put up about Utd winning every game they had been in front at HT going back to 1851 would have been redundant. So, I have to say I didn't think we would get anything from that game, and yet I think we could got all 3 points if we had really gone for it. We'll never know. On balance, of course, a point away at OT is a big deal.

Yeah, I thought that. Saints x 2 = (United + Ref + Gary Neville) x 2