Whitey Grandad

He hasn't been at the club for quite a while now.

Apart from the golf, that could be any one of us

And even more risky to be flying through it all.

There's no need for that. You obviously don't know him as we'll as the rest of us. Phil is one of the stalwarts of the forum and has been around even longer than me. You just have to skip over the bits about golf and learn and absorb from all the rest. Why anyone would want to play golf in the desert is beyond me, it's just one big bunker

Weren't all in the same game though, were they.

In American Football as I understand it every club has the same total limit that they can spend on wages no matter how many players they have registered and the team that finished bottom has first pick of the college draft.

No, they haven't cost us anything unless we end up selling him for less than we think he's worth. It's not for me to put meanings into other people's words but I take it to mean that his quotes have reduced the figure that we might otherwise have got for him, which can never be proven of course.

Double page spread?

Not enough goals for that price.

16. Keep away from football forums.

'Personal trainer'? Does that mean what I think it does?

Did it come in a brown wrapper?

Doing well in the cups didn't suit Pochettino's agenda. Would Tottenham have gone for him if we'd done well in the Cup but finished 10th in the League?

Players aren't at Southampton for ambition, there here for money, pure and simple.

This is the most likely. There are ways round it, such as paying a large signing-on fee.

Making the most of his last few days here?

This sums it all up for me. The PL is designed to make money for television and the fans are just makeweights.

The England set up is not there to win competitions, it's main purpose is to hype up the big names so that all the young kids will rush out and buy the merchandising and so that Sky can sell more subscriptions. It's all one big cartel involving the FA, the press and the broadcasters. The players just aren't that great, you can count one one hand the number of English players who have been sought after by the big continental clubs.

Plus his mistake against Uruguay.

Who's 'we'? There's no enthusiasm for it anywhere in the EU.

Yes indeed.

That could do it. They started calling me 'Monsieur' a few years ago. I thought it was polite deference but yeah, dosh would do it.

He stopped playing years ago.

You're lucky. I'm down on the Costa Brava and the Dutch are everywhere. If only they could learn some manners from someone. The French have been unbelievably polite though.

Same difference.