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He's reached his maximum potential with us, and needs to move to a big club to progress. That'll also see him called up to the France squad, something that would never happen with us. Ha! Ballocks. He'll play in the Champions League. With us. All jokes aside he seems like a loyal player, but I'm not sure whether big money would entice him somewhere else. Whatever happens he''s one of the crown jewels we cannot lose (I'd add Lallana, Shaw, Ramirez, Lambert and perhaps even Cork to that list) if possible, meaning relegation is out of the question this season.

Fulham have been flattering to deceive all season,. Berbatov was a seemingly good signing (I didn't think he would be arsed tbf), but aside from that they lack quality with no Dembele and Dempsey. I can see them being dragged into the struggle, with Norwich potentially.

Just watching the FACup highlights, Man Utd looking on fire. Need to be at our very best all over the park to get anything from this game.

I missed Micky Adams, CMFG (I can't believe I did that...), and Tessem. Did anyone else see the comment for saying Ali Dia?

For sh!ts and giggles I altered the editor of one of the earlier Championship Managers, think it was the '98 version, to make one Saints player awesome. It was Duncan Spedding, who went on to be the best defender the world had ever seen. Tomas Pekhart Nic Bignall Still trying to rack my brains for youngsters that may not have got much of a look in. Jake Thomson par example.

Exclusive: Guly whips it out for his fans, only in the Sunday Sport. And GT. It'll either be a Cortese interview or a Pochettino interview. I'd rather it be a signing though, I loves a good signing, i do.

Wow, I was bang on. (Hopes nobody looks back through the thread...)

Hidden in your post is the real answer to that statement! :-)

Keller, Forecast, then I struggle. Thorstvedt? Didn't he sign for us? I know Beasant played for both, but Spurs came later.

Steve Wood Peter Whiston Paul Sheerin Colin Cramb Christer Warren Mark Paul Rory Hammill - who while never played for us I never knew we had on our books as a youngster Graham Potter Jason Bowen All of which I had to look up using Wiki's transfer pages.

Yup I was on S4E but was more of a lurker than a poster. It was under the longer version of my current username, Saint No Stopping Us Now. I posted more on 606, Plastic Saints and LoyalSaints. RIP the lot of them.

Zoltan Liptak. I bumped into his name earlier today when looking for the original Ted Bates statue thread. Jim Brennan.

The Liverpool forum's thread on Coutinho is 99 pages long now - after the Ramirez saga it is my suspicion that the longer the player thread is on a fans forum, the more chance you have of signing that player. Ergo we need to add 80 pages to this thread pronto if we want Coutinho. And.....GO.

Sure if you scrimp on the actual gold and just use gold coloured. Still a balloon halo would be a good idea - unless it developed a hole and sunk onto the pitch mid game, or broke loose of its anchor and crashed into a Flybe jet...

How about bubbles that magically fly up into the air from the touchline? Oh, wait, it's been done. And it looks cack. To the point I can barely watch a game on MOTD from Upton Park. As for us, a nice floating halo around the whole ground above the roof, made of gold. God knows what you'd need to put inside it to make it float.

Newcastle really are strengthening well, even if there is a distinctive French theme there, but as we've seen from QPR, good players don't always gel together. That said I do think Newcastle will pull clear now. I see Loic Remy's gone and pulled a hammy. Poor QPR, not a lot is going their way. > I thought Reading would spunk a bit of cash in this window but they haven't yet - a couple of lucky come-from-behind wins doesn't a good team make. I do hope we add one or two more to the team. A flair player with a knack of changing a game would be nice - I don't know anything really of Coutinho, but someone with creativity a la Lallana. (In addition to Lallana, not in place of.) It's all gone rather quiet since the lads went to Spain.

+1.

About 75% pro, 25% against. He has our best interests at heart, has a solid financial background so must be pretty solid dealing with the financial side of things (especially as it's not his money), but at the same time I think sometimes his lack of a football background shines through, especially the recent poor handling of the dismissal of Adkins.

Well all 3 pointers are big fo sho, but with Wigan currently 4 points behind us, a gap of 7 compared to a gap of 1 would be sweeeeeeet. In addition, they're one of those annoying teams that are good at a relegation scrap. To get Pochettino his first win at the DW (assuming we don't beat United) would also be massive for confidence for us fans too.

Suddenly, I really fancy a Cappuccino. Mo Po surely has more to do with Punch, as a shortened version of More Poo.

I think we'll lose, but with a spirited performance. Nevertheless the media will see this as a complete failing of Pochettino's managerial talent. We follow this up by spanking Wigan all over the pitch. It's one of those rare times where if you offered me a win at Old Trafford over a win at Wigan, I'd turn it down. Beating Wigan is key to our season IMO - perhaps the biggest 3 pointer we could face this season.

I can't remember where I read it today but he apparently hasn't been returning Karl Oyston's calls at Blackpool. With the money he'll get as a pay off from Cortese, he could take some decent time off and still have the pick of jobs in the summer. I actually think he'll just wait until one comes along that he really fancies.

Ha! - I remember the Ranieri translator; wasn't he the tea boy or something that was knocking out cliched phrases because he didn't know what Ranieri was saying? Pochettino must have known that football is a world game - and that if he was ever going to be a top manager a la Mourinho, he'd have to be multi-lingual, and English is a pretty common language in world football. I should expect Pochettino has the old Rosetta Stone on the flight to Barcelona, or something to that extent.

I don't normally watch the League Cup final, but if it's Swansea vs Bradford I'd be very tempted. Swansea winning tomorrow would be the icing on the cake - and they're not the sort of team to let a 2 goal lead slip - even if it is against Chelsea. (Whom haven't be in top form for a while now...)

Adkins would be first name on Villa's wish list if they dispense with Lambert IMO, but I actually think they'll keep faith in Lambert. He's a good manager that's playing around with a young team that are desperately short of experience. If anything, this will spur them to spend a bit on players before the window shuts.