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err, hardly a Jimmy Case style central midfielder. Next. Cue all the clowns on here listing every player to have ever played at full back and midfield. Jermaine Wright, there you go, fine example of a full back come midfield general.

i can think of a few poster who will be like 5 year olds at Christmas. No doubt sleeping with their hard earned cash under the pillow in case someone breaks in and steals it during the night. It's almost upon us people, Season ticket renewal day, the day you've been waiting for since March. Enjoy....

such as.......

Because he is an attention seeking c*** who is Corteses yes man.

You obviously have never watched Midget kick boxing then.

why, has he suddenly become a central midfield enforcer after being a left back/midfielder for his entire career?

Okay not a great example but you get the point. That kind of logic always makes me laugh. Surely to be a champion you have to beat the best, that is the point. There are great players in every era, Nadal and Feder are fantastic players but so were McEnroe, Borg, Samprass, Lendell, Laver etc etc. It's like saying if only Barcelona weren't so good Man United would be the best team in the world, if only Ali wasn't around then Henry Cooper would have been world champion, if only Jack Nicklaus hadn't been so good etc etc. If Murray wins no grand slams then he shouldn't be remembered as a great player, he wasn't, he should be remembered as a nearly man, which he will be, not quite up to it when it mattered. I know British people are conditioned to back the plucky loser but maybe that is the reason why we so often fail when it really matters, by winning major trophies and titles, when most people in this coutry resent success and glorious faliure often makes people more popular than actually winning something now and again.

Shut up you idiot. Who was British heavy weight boxing champion in 2000? Bet you dont know but have heard of the world champion. When Andy Murray retires if he hasn't won a grand slam his major titles will have a big fat 0 in the colunm and he'll be nearly man, just like Henman. I dont recall them showing Bjorn Borgs wins at Queens 20 years after they happened.

Is it just me who is getting really excited now?? Riise, Matt Upson, Scott Parker, Shay Given, all being announced tomorrow when the window opens. We are Southampton We'll sign who we want.

Another example of us taking Arsenals best young players. We are massive, then are our feeder club. We give them players that we realise aren't going to cut it and rip them off. FACT.

Grand Slams are the only ones that matter. It's like a boxer being world champion, no one is interested in British or European titles.

He'll never leave if that's the case. The starting price for a decent young English player between premier league club seems to be £15m at the moment. Any highly rated English player automatically has at least £5m added to his price tag because of his country of birth, it's always been the case that English players are over priced. £10m for Heskey, £30m for Rio Ferdinand, £26m for Milner!!! etc etc......

We should all know by now this is not the place for humour and lightheartedness. This is the place for serious football talk and liberal elitism. Rule are rule, you know what happens if you dont toe the line.

I know they didn't work out but Arsenal could equally argue that they were getting the new Henry and ended up with the new new Pennant when they got Walcott. In terms of highly rated young players signing and not reaching their potential it's Saints 2 Arsenal 1. Arsenal are a feeder club for Saints. FACT.

Does it feel like being told "that was the last time" by the bird you dont fancy but always end up sh*gging when ****ed up at the end of each night when you dont pull something better? We've all been there pal, just for most of us, it wasn't when we were on a football forum.

You are not on my ignore list MLG, even though you are an absolute bulb people like you keep this place interesting. Lighten up people FFS, it's the internet. MLG maybe a f*cking irritanting c*nt but everyone knows he is, it's only him that ejaculates everytime he gets to correct someone on here.

Err excuse me, Scott Marshall was a highly rated young centre half when we beat off competition from Preston, Luton and Brentford for his signature, he was hailed a coup. Perry Groves was signed with the Alan Shearer money for £750k, big money in those days. We took all of Arsenals best young players back then, except for Merson, Adams and the others that went onto forge decent careers, we just got unlucky i think........

nothing like it at all actually.

That cracked me up too. Got a lot of time for Haye, seems like a decent lad, funny and witty with a bit of a swagger which i like when someone is good at what they do. My Millwall mate used to see him regularly around Bermondsey until a few years ago when he earnt his decent money and said he was always a top bloke. Hope he smashes Klitchko.

Lest we forget we signed Scott Marshall & Perry Groves from them, it could be argued they are a feeder club for us.

i dont mind the 84 kit, got the red and blue one although not the new air florida one, mine is the older version, like the cup final 76 one too. Some of the foreign ones are decent as well, like the old Napoli, Roma, Juve, AC & Inter Millan ones. Although not a fan of football shirts full stop generally.

Brilliant, a link to a player we have all never heard of saying he doesn't want to leave his current club. Any reason why you felt this was newsworthy? Probably the only relevant part of that is that he is on holiday, as our most of our squad.

but, but, but, but..What about Corteses vision? Our potential? our catchment area? us being on the up? Theo Walcott not being as good as Messi because he didn't stay with Saints? us playing in the champions league in 2 years with a decent manager and a team of players earning £20,000 a week which all came through the academy and have ignored advances from every other club in the world to stay with us? what about us being the English Barcelona??? there are no reasons for him to leave and every reason for him to stay.......

What amazes me about the game is that someone like Murray can have £16m of "winnings" without ever actually winning anything. The tennis equivilent of the Emirates trophy does not count. As for women getting equal money, of they want it they should play best of 5 as well. Womens tennis is awful, they shouldn't even show it on the telly, and as for mixed doubles, what's the point?

No, dont forget we were told only recently that we have "too much money"..... Could it be there is a spy in the camp? That someone is using our world class scouting network to pick out the best players available then tipping Leciester off as to our targets so they can trump our bids and ours get rejected before we can even start negotiatiing with players? That is the sole reason i can think os as to why any player would knock back this fantastic football club with it's huge fan base in favour of small fry like Leicester and Ipwich. Find the spy and smoke the bugger out FFS.