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I'd like to see us do what Man city do when Toure and Barry sit in front of the back 4, Tevez (will be someone else now)and Aguero up front with Nasri and Silva having almost free roles in between them. Almost a 4-2-2-2. Ramirez and Lallana aren't naturally wide players but if they had licence to roam then they'd have Wanyama and Schniderlinn behind them -----------Boruc Clyne Yoshida lovern Shaw -----Schindelin---Wanyama ------Ramirez------ Lallana ------Rodriguez------Lambert

That's fine, we'll just sign him for the season after next, its the southampton way.

Absolutely yes.

He's out of posts now so will have to, I'm sure with a clear head in the morning he'll regret his outburst.

I'm glad to see yours has improved though, finally acknowledging we have some odd individuals on this forum, well done you.

I do enjoy a post that claims that its either stripes and relegation or a plain kit and living the dream.

You said it Frankie boy.

On the subject of people who contribute little to this board; Have you ever made a post which isn't either slagging someone off or talking about yourself?

awful, awful attempt. 1/10.

if he is so good why did not one but two manager not pick him, come on 110, you're the one say the lad only had one bad game last season. And you're using the Forren logic, so lets apply that with Mayuka, that we signed a player in August 2012, didnt play him because we were signing him to play the following season did we?? Signed him a whole season before we needed him. You're not very good at this are you. :lol:

Is it what i've said wrong then?

why didn't Adkins or MP pick him for months and months and month then? Why did he only get one start all season?

Why do you think that was? Did we need to give Tommy Forecast a run of games to prove he was good enough to be a premier league goalkeeper?

15 good minutes in a whole season, what a player.

You know the answer to that Alps. If anyone dares to suggest that Southampton isn't some mega club that players are fighting each other to join you're called a troll. The reality is that we might be bidding for the same players as napoli, Liverpool, Spurs etc and might even be able to offer comparable wages. But these clubs all have a rich history of European footbal and challenging for trophies and are huge clubs. With all the will in the world the reality is we aren't. When Spurs qualified for the champions league we were in L1, when Liverpool last won champions league we were being relegated to the championship. With the TSW delision, some people on here seem to think that international footballers will take a look at Staplewood and spend 5 minutes in the company of Cortese and think he is the greatest man who ever lived and a club they had always dreamed of playing for, the reality is they wont.

We need someone who can do both, None of our current wide players can beat a man on the outside, they all cut in which made us very narrow and predictable at times last season.

Which is fine at home, but as Shurlock said, away from home when we are defending more it means we have little width going forward.

I was actually replying to you but I forget to quote you.

The problem is we don't have anyone that can beat anyone wide, Puncheon and Lallana can beat their men cutting inside Michael and Rodriguez has been at his most effective doing that. Ramriez has been ineffectual out wide and Mayuka ineffectual full stop. We don't need someone else who can cut inside, we need a player who can beat a man out wide. The only ones who can do this at the moment are our full backs when they get forward.

So what does it mean if we don't sign any of them then?

Come on guys, just being linked with these players is fantasitc!! Remember where we were 4 years ago!!

Obviously he didn't read the posts on here yesterday about what a sh*thole Naples is and how a midtable premier league club is a much better bet than champions league football at one if Italy's biggest clubs.

Looking forward to getting stuck back in. Happy to see my colleagues, refreshed and motivated. Not miserable like I'd rather be somewhere else.

No, hardly any premier league club is able to keep signings out of the media before they happen.