Saint Charlie

http://www.vi.nl/web/nieuws/eerste-bod-southampton-op-pelle-bijna-lachwekkend.htm?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=nieuws&channel=phone Laughable first bid rejected.

From Opta: 483 - In his four years in the Eredivisie, Dusan Tadic created 483 chances, at least 178 more than any other player in that period. Divine.

Does he want a chance, thats the key IMO.

Lee and Watson bring along a lot of PL experience and knowledge of English football which is important. For me the most interesting is Hunter as now means there is a vacancy managing the U21s and with the 18s too those are very important positions.

Why? Its not really his role in the team?

No idea with lead times. But that is the excuse.

With Pelle at training with Feyenoord today this surely has quite a bit to run before being confirmed you would think.

Apart from the fact Cortese did it. Its not stripes because he didnt like them and the new lads didnt have time to change it as was already agreed. Is that a good enough excuse?

Interesting. Also not suprising they want more cash seeing as they now know we have a fair bit.

Thanks

You know the market is broken when McCormack costs nearly 10m. Ludicrous.

Out of interest, why when someone points out that players will leave and then they subsequently do leave, is it bedwetting rather than realism?

LOL. So we won't be signing anyone from the Belgium team then.

Aldweireld? Pretty much the only one who is possibly attainable. Apart from van Buyten.

Best bit about the Adidas deal was the nice training kit. The template kit was pretty poor.

Quite possibly both.

http://www.claretandhugh.info/sullivan-talks-with-kolo-later-this-week/

I think he is. From comparing the two Tadic appears to have a better technique for pens but always good to have options.

Getting closer apparently. http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1017/Buitenlands-voetbal/article/detail/3681566/2014/06/30/Dusan-Tadic-bijna-van-Southampton.dhtml Tidy pen taker from the videos.

Yeah he is a solid midfielder but shows I guess that Morgan is worth easily double that and a bit more. Hull are a decent enough team, and are building a bit of strength in depth gradually. Think they might push to 9th or 10th.

16m on Snodgrass and Livermore combined shows the perils of having money to spend and wasting it.

It was an interesting article that came up on a Saints newsfeed, is about Saints and I posted it here, on a Saints Forum where Saints fans have read it and enough have commented for it to have been worthwhile posting. FWIW I think (as do others) that its quite a balanced article, and is actually quite positive about Saints as a club, it just bemoans the influence of the bigger clubs. Apologies if you didnt like it but: 1. I didnt write it. Play the post not the Poster 2. You could see I posted it so if you hate my posts and threads then feel free to block me or not read my threads. 3. I will look forward to your contributions to the forum, where you can give your opinion which I may not agree with but will respect.

It came up on Newsnow Southampton.

I haven't predicted where we come in the league, although think there is very little chance of bettering last season (would have been hard enough anyway). I think its fair enough to say it will be a tough season though, but that doesnt mean we won't do well. Sometimes on here realism comes across as overly pessimistic. The thread I did saying we would lose 5 first team stars looks like it will be proven right, so surely that is realistic rather than pessimistic? Are those saying players will leave any worse than the ones that kid themselves they were all going to stay?

Matt Law from the Telegraph reckons we want Marshall and would guarentee him first team football but Cardiff need to reduce their asking price (was previously reported they wanted £15m which is ludicrous).