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Well, you were right, Benji. This squad confirms "top 6 experience preferred" Southgate has just encouraged our players to go to a Top 6 club for regular monitoring if they can, without expressly saying it.

Good comments, Adrian. I agree with all you say. Personally, I like the 'buy cheap, develop, sell high' and repeat approach. Players have come here knowing if they reach their potential they will be fast-tracked to top 6 sides. We get a couple of good years from them and watch them from afar.

LOL at that. I can give him a single digit if it helps him!

Any Derby players we can plunder? Any Middlesborough (or Villa) we can harvest tomorrow?

Martin Allen no longer available.

That's a good summary, Doddy. We have seen a coiple of left-field appointments and now are ready for a solid turgid mainstream appointment.

why can't I access anything after page 1?

I would certainly offer him a new contract on a wage that encourages him to stay. I'd also be tempted to try to get Boruc back. Unlikely I know, as he wants to be 1st choice, yet he had that taken away from him at Bournemouth when Begovic came in. More realistic target may be a decent Championship keeper.

Yeovil wanted him to stay, he wanted to stay with them. Saints wanted him back to assess him. Looks like assessment is over and I expect Yeovil will announce him very soon.

The figure in the release clause is usually the figure that will guarantee you the purchase. The only way we would have to go above it is if more than one club are prepared to pay the release figure. In most cases, we can offer (well) below that figure and ask them to consider it.

If the players have confidence in him and want him to stay, that says a lot to me. I'm not a fan of player power, but good working relationships are very important in any employment. If we choose not to offer the role to Hughes and offer it to a.n.other, we are back to square one.

Why so long? Why not offer a rolling annual contract? At the end of each season, review and if both parties want to do another year, then continue. I am on a rolling 6 month contract in my job and I am happy with that. It keeps the incentive on the employee to work hard. In this case, if the relationship with the players has turned sour then the directors don't offer the next year. We can't go on offering 3 year deals, then cutting them short after 1 year and paying huge payouts.

Disappointed to hear that. Don't like giving our corn seed away free.

Couldn't agree more. He is currently what the Americans call our MVP. We can't afford to let him go, he's been sensational.

Southampton want to sign Celta Vigo winger Pione Sisto, 23. The Denmark international has a £36m release clause in his contract. (Mail) Southampton's Moroccan winger Sofiane Boufal, 24, spoke of his desire to return to the French league just a day after the Premier League season concluded. (SFR Sport)

OK, he's going to Swindon then.

Jokanavic would be good. If Fulham can't progress tonight, maybe we could make an offer for him, Targett and Sessegnon, plus Cairney, Mitrovic et al..... maybe we could just make Fulham our feeder/partner club.

You writing your own editorials now, Dusan? Tell us what you would like to do. You can see you have our support.

Agree. In no sell list, no matter how angry I am, has Yoshida ever appeared. One of the first names on my Retain List

What an idiot. We are playing at home, so it will have to finish Southampton 0 Man City 7. Such appalling inaccuracy.

Nice one, Crouchie, let's have another one!

Who is playing tomorrow then? I'm looking forward to the Sunday game.

One of the greats. Still have the 12" in my garage. Fab B side too - Rain Forest. Big Hardcastle fan.

Your comment is one of the worst things I have seen. Next season will tell us if Gallagher is for us, but not sending him on loan or selling him. Austin - pah.

Not difficult at all. We keep him. This is the year he needs to play regularly for us. I would release Austin to make that happen. Keep Targett. Reed - undecided.