the saint in winchester

How many did we take to Wembley for the JPT? And that was for the tinpot cup, as some called it. Heck, we will want to take 90,000. 100% uptake on tickets available, I expect. Fantastique.

Yes from me. Use the £8m Fonte money, add £5-7m. Liverpool fan at office rates and says Liverpool would probably take that, as we have a special arrangement.

If we are getting £9M for Jose, then that goes a long way to funding a Sakho deal. If we can get him for £12-15M, that would be a good deal for us now.

No top draw striker available? Ulloa. Kone (Everton). One of the backup strikers at Arsenal? Cheeky enquiry for Rashford?

Said it before, I'll say it again. Leonardo Ulloa, pleeeaaasssseeee! Closet thing to Pelle there is. And find me a Mane type in the ACON...if anyone is watching that thing.

Can't we just swap Fonte for Sakho? Liverpool get a player comfortable playing alongside Lovren out of it. We think Sakho will play well with VVD. Win/win.

And that basically is the cogent summary. In isolation, we beat Liverpool 1-0, but over 2 legs we have missed the chance tonight to put it beyond them. Sadly Redmond was right to acknowlege he should have scored 2 or more of those.

I was pessimistic until I just talked with a Liverpool fan in the office. He thinks Saints will win tonight (although they to win up there). Says Shane Long ALWAYS scores against them and expects us to play him again and he will score again. Concedes they are vulnerable to pace and says if we go for them with pace, they will crumble again. 5pm pessimistic, 5.10pm hopeful!

I've got a discarded 1991 VW Golf in my garage, but I want 10 grand for it. Anyone? £20M for Sakho now? They're havin a larff.

Is this Oumar Niasse at Everton any good? Koeman dropped him like a bad smell, said he can go tomorrow, today even. Hull rumoured to be interested. Surely we would be more attractive to him? Come in on loan or pay-as-you-play deal.

Accepting we played Wed-Sat-Mon, but West Brom played x-Sat-Mon as well and won their games.We have a sizeable squad and Puel rotates all the time.

Don't want him to go, but if the auction between Citeh and Chelsea takes the bids north of £50-60M and if the player is being offered crazy wages, I think we have to be pragmatic and accept it's best for all/most parties to let him go now. But yes, we have to be prepared to spend a lot of that on a comparable CB

Very true. Puel and the players should watch that over and over, analysing the role of the defenders, midfield and attack, the commitment, the pace, the wanting to get on the end of it. Then look at each other and ask "why the f*** can't we play like that?"

Yep, agree. The last game I thought that was away to Bournemouth. How did that one work out? I expect nothing from this game. Probably what we'll get on current form, but exciting that it's only a 2 horse race!

Great win yesterday and pleased for Jay. However, we still need at least one more striker to cover for Charlie. Two would be better, but at least one.

So let's see who the odd man out at Arsenal is, and ask to have him on loan. That could be any of Welbeck, Iwobi, Giroud, Perez ..... doubt it will be Sanchez somehow. Someone needs to throw a strop soon and be told to find himself another club! We will be there in the car park waiting ...

Agree. Part time job alongside broadcasting deal. If he can get the strikers firing again, its money well spent.

For once, I would actually prefer the short term option. Bring in a proven striker in this league, even paying a fair bit for him. Leave SamG on loan as he will be better for it for us next season.

Mmmm, like this idea. Jose is currently on a downer over him.Could we somehow get him in?

The Austrian? Funny you recommending an Austrian.

Crouch and Defoe it is then. Sunderland had the players all along.

No lynch mob from me. He is someone I mentioned 18 months ago as someone we should go for.

I hope Reed and Puel get together tomorrow and sort this out once and for all. If it's lack of funds, then action Les Reed. If it's just don't know who to buy, then action on Puel. Get a flamin strategy and stop making do.