Cabrone

If we are having to be realistic then Cabaye would be my choice - however being as he has already gone elsewhere I'd go for Ben Arfa. With what's left over I'd put a bid in for Coutinho.

Like last Thursday we badly need some creative spark up front. A point away is fine but we need to back that up with strong home performances. Tadic and\or Juanmi need to get on the pitch on Thursday. We need to pick their pockets if we want to progress.

Yes I would have thought so too, Tuesday's game is worth a lot of money to Celtic. I'd have thought they'd put out the best XI that they can get their hands on. Once they've qualified then who cares, Scottish league is poor so they should walk it anyway and they haven't got a lot of hope of getting past the champ league group phase anyway. Get to champ league group phase and sell up, how inspiring for their fans.

They came defensive and organised, inviting us to break them down and we lacked the guile to be able to do it. To be fair I thought they were a decent enough team and this tie is on a knife edge at the moment. Our shooting was not very good and too many times players were snatching from distance. We need to up our passing speed, especially when attacking as we are just too slow at times. I'd like to see us use the wings properly and get in some decent crosses, JRod and Pelle could score quite a few with some decent service but we hardly produced anything atall. I'd also like to see some intelligent through balls played to Mane to exploit his pace, see if he can get past defenders. I didn't think we were terrible but we definitely need to wake up a bit and get a bit more speed and intelligence into our attacking. I'd put Tadic and Juanmi in the team for the away leg if available, we need as may pickpockets as possible against this robust Danish side. My overall feeling was that they look like they haven't brushed off their holiday cobwebs yet, we'll get better but will it be too late for this competition?

Post match 'rage' thread? Bit melodramatic isn't it? Everton are a good team that IMO underperformed last season, I'm not completely unsurprised that they turned us over. We've lost some key players and it may take a while for things to bed down but we'll get there. Last season was a brilliant one, I hope you savoured every moment of it because in the history of SFC seasons like that have been the exception rather than the rule. It's not 'our right' to finish 7th, it's a tough league and teams like Everton are no mugs.

Decent result on the road, keep on picking points away and turning SMS into a fortress and we'll do well. Good to see Graziano looking sharp, if we can get a whole season from him then he could be a 20 goal striker for us. Now need to back this up with a win next weekend.

Very professional, thought Arnhem would put up a much bigger fight TBH but glad we're through. Great to see that Pelle is looking sharp, need a big season from him all the way till May. I hope Saints take this cup seriously all the way through, this is a good competition with some very tasty teams in it and we have a chance to go a long way. Big raspberry to all the losers at Wet Sham, what a joke club getting kicked out by a glorified pub team, at least we won't have to play them now.

If he wasn't English he would be rated nowhere near where he is. He may have his moments but what use are they if he's almost permanently on the sick bed?

Yes, he gets away with playing like a box to box midfielder in Scotland but would not get away with it in the prem - he'd be slaughtered. That said, he does look like he has a fair bit of talent and should adjust to become a very good prem CH that occasionally breaks forward. I'd like us to sign him but if we don't then there are other options.

Fonte will go down as one of our best ever signings in my book, an absolute legend that cost a million, dropped a league to join us and has stuck around from the bottom of league 1 to 7th in the prem - all the time improving as he went. What I'd give for us to find another Killer to partner him, that would be an immense partnership. My fav CBs since the late 80s: Fonte Killer Deano Claus Toby Lovren Ken Monkou Andrew Davies Jos The rest

Whilst it's tricky assessing players in Scotland as Scottish football makes any half decent player look world class this guy does look to have genuine considerable talent about him. Looking at the videos he almost seems to play like a very deep lying box to box midfielder, the amount of times I see him streaming up the pitch with the ball. Not so sure he'd get away with that level of freedom in the PL and he'd have to knuckle back down to more defensive positioning but nevertheless he looks talented. I think we'd have to be looking at £10M to make a serious bid.

7th again. Good run in the Europa too.

So, from what I can gather from this thread..... 1) Yesterday Toby was a brilliant player. 2) Today he's not fit to play for a pub team. 3) Spurs are a load of c***s. Have I missed anything?

Best of luck to Morgan, we've had some top service from him and £25M should be more than enough to get some quality replacements. Cabaye and Clasie would be a very good swap if we could get them.

Liverpool got a good deal and we've lost a class RB. Let's hope Ron has a quality backup in his sights.

I'd take both, don't see why they wouldn't fit well together.

Sorry - hasn't done it for me. Time to say goodbye.

I think we can get something out of this, if there ever is a time to play Citeh away it's now when they have nothing to play for. 90 minutes of passion could be what separates us from 5th and 7th.

Not for me, don't rate him + he comes across as a bit of a knob. He's got pace but other than that nothing else stands out for me.

A pretty good summary of LFC I'd say. Ouch.

As a manager I'd imagine working at SFC would be brilliant, a great structure, brilliant facilities and a production line that is the envy of every other UK club. Add to that the opportunity to get some silverware, become a hero and get some great kudos at a club that historically has won very little and I can see why Ron might want to stick around. He's been brilliant for us and we've been brilliant for him, long may it continue.

Well done Bournemouth, its always good for the area to have more than 1 prem team. I hope they can stay up next season as it's going to be very tough, especially after we've taken 6 points from them.

Don't be silly. Today, and for today only you should be wanting a Pool win. Getting more pleasure from another's disappointment over your own gains is not a good mindset to have. Come on Brenda and the Pool team. You'd rather gloat about Pool losing than have the chance to qualify for Europe?

Whatever happens it's been a brilliant season but if we could hang on in there and take it to a Champs League sh*t or bust encounter with Citeh then it would have to go down as one of our best ever. The fixtures aren't too bad TBH... Stoke (a) - mid table team going nowhere, hopefully already thinking about their holidays Spurs (h) - hopefully they do their usual end of season fade + we owe them one anyway Sunderland (a) - really nothing special, if we go there with the right attitude we should be better then them Leicester (a) - same as Sunderland - bottom of the table for a reason, bang average side Villa (h) - hopefully comfortable by the time we play them, 3 points. Come on Graziano, get your shooting boots on and lets make history.

Assuming Citeh lose.... It's not so much Citeh as our own form which is the biggest problem. We've been pretty flat and the goals have been hard to come by. If we can get our mojo back and put a run together then we are back in the mix but will we? We only need to be within 2 points of them to be able to take it to the last day, that's us getting 3 more than them over 5 games - deffo doable but can we get that run going?