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All the qualities of a Rudi Skacel or Jim Brennan then. Sounds promising. I know nothing of Tadic, but the stats look good and people are positive about him on here. Without looking I'm sure he's also good in Football Manager. For that reason, I'm on board! Seriously though, replacing Lallana will be no easy feat. If he comes here and does as well, if not better than Lallana, it will be an outstanding bit of business. I'm assuming he's not another Steve De Ridder....

And 'the most unsurprising player destination of the summer' award goes to... Haven't Arsenal been interested in Morgan for years?

I like the sound of £160 million to spend. Boruc Chambers Fonte Yoshida Clyne Wanyama Cork JWP Messi JRod Neymar. Get it done Saints!

Goodbye kids.

Would happy with this signing, not ecstatic, more hopeful, but certainly happy. Assuming we also get Pelle, we're back to a decent compliment of strikers. Will we see another on top of them as JRod remains injured for half a season? It'd be nice. Depends on what we do with Osvaldo and Mayuka I suppose.

Much more gutted about Lallana than Shaw leaving. Good money for both though.

I thought this months was apt planning, Morgan and Gaston still both in the World Cup!

:-D I refuse to accept that until the transfer window closes!

If we keep the spine of the team of 'wantaways', that's Morgan, Dejan and Lallana, it will have been an amazing summer. However it's hard to see that happening. I can see up to 7 leaving us, although that includes Osvaldo and Ramirez. It's all speculation though it doesn't bear thinking about!

We needed a CB, GK, AM and Str already. So 4. An educated guess has it that Shaw, Morgan, Lallana, Lambert and Osvaldo will be gone by the end of the transfer window. So 9, could even be 10+ depending on the futures of Chambers, Lovren, Ramirez et al. That's a hell of a lot of players to bring in, let alone gel before the season begins. I can see us relying heavily on the academy this season, as I don't think we'll bring in more than 5 or 6 personally. It's really a make or break season. Koeman has a hell of a job on his hands and he has my respect for it. Come the January transfer window, at least we'll know where we lack personnel. As long as it's not too late by then.

Lads, Cortese has left so we can't go down the route of 'horses head in your beds', but if you speak up about leaving, I'll arrange it so that you'll find Anne Widdecombe there instead.

Still a good side that French side. I want them to win the tournament for no other reason than I have them in the work sweepstake. Boom!

Since appointing Van Gaal their manager, I didn't think they'd have as much interest in Luke as they did. I guess we'll see if he's watching the England game tonight.

Top guess from Doctoroncall too.

Oh I get it - pitch black! Arf. Also it stops us seeing which players have left us. Clever. Now we just need to avoid kick offs before 8pm.

Relatively paltry sum was 4 times what we paid for him, he's now 32 and provided us with the goals and play required to guide us to two promotions, and seemed to get better with each new level he plays at. I don't begrudge Lambert his move at all, I wish him all the best and thank him for what he did for us. My initial gripe when the transfer was announced was that it could have been delayed until after the WC but to no avail. As for Pochettino? Meh. I look forward to the new chapter, win or lose.

Brazil nicked the the matchday fred nuns.....

Can we ask Liverpool for 10 million more if he becomes England's saviour?

So from this thread, I've gathered that: 1) Bearsy is a paedo. 2) paedos don't need to stalk 14 year olds when there are 23 year olds in the world that look 14 3) there are plenty of hot girls at the World Cup and 4) there's a cameraman in Brazil that must have been dynamite at Where's Wally as a child.

Sounds like Cellino is playing Football Manager with Leeds. Worrying for them.

Our own Le Tiss said that, did he not?

Yep. Showed the pic to my wife and asked who it looked like, she said Lambert without hesitation. Good to see we're cloning good players...

Rather have Micah Richards. He's been linked with a West Ham. He's a better age than Lescott.

Let's just enjoy a bit of positivity while we can. We're Saints, something's bound to go wrong eventually, be it weeks, months or years, but for now let's not nitpick at each other and enjoy the summer!

Out? We've only just signed him! ;-) Bloody Spurs...