Saint Charlie

Amsterdam Schipol Airport....go on then...

Highly rated not long ago and on England fringe but has lost his way at the shambles that is Blackburn.

Not an impossible deal but will be hard if they don't want to let him go and can offer European football.

He scored again today as they beat Benfica. This will be a very tough deal to do.

IMO Seaborne is miles better than Martin on the ball, possibly our best passer of the CBs and for that reason would rate him over Martin at the moment.

He isnt really in control of the timescale and everyone wants things to happen instantly. Main thing is he is reliable on when bids have been made. After that there are various reasons that transfers do or don't happen.

Nixon has ben accurate with Jay Rod and Clyne so will be interesting to see who it is.

Duplicated

100% no unfortunately. Another WUM.

His motivation will be to play in the Premier League.

Has the potential to be good and fits lots of systems. Good on him for getting his head down and having a good pre season. Always works hard on the pitch and wants the ball, hopefully he feels fully involved as he seems to be a confidence player.

Yes. He said he twinged his hammy vs Arsenal so sitting out the games.

No Clyne on bench, must be working on fitness. Gazzaniga set to play 2nd half.

Lens was MOTM today in the PSV friendly.

Cork is going to be seriously undercooked for the first month or so I reckon. Probably wont have had a single 90mins or anywhere near before City and for that reason won't play. If Davis doesn't get clearance soon then I think JWP will at least make the bench.

Is he as good as them?

BBC article says Davis to Saints yet to be ratified.

Might be better value around for that sort of cash?

Have we missed out? Not a lot of evidence we ever put a bid in. We need a wide player, not a central attacking midfielder like Michu.

When the Brighton fans see this thread on their forum it will be "Well they don't think we are rivals but they are the ones who have a thread about us on their forum etc...." The best thing Ive ever seen on their forum was where a guy seriously said he would rather have won league One and not been mid table in the Champ (where they were) than coming second in L1 and get promoted from the Championship (where we were).

I live in Brighton and basically football has just happened here since the new stadium. Good for the City, they are excited about their team and should make the top half again this season. Can't really blame them for gloating in L1 as they beat a far bigger club to the title so far play to them. Still not really sure why they hate Adkins and all that guard of honour stuff was bizarre - didn't see anyone giving Reading one last season? I kind of hope they do well seeing as I live, but the arrogance of some of the fans makes it difficult.

Possibly, as he would require a work permit otherwise and wouldn't get one based on Intl apps.

He is very calm on the ball and good at distributing, thats an area that is very important in the style we are playing.

Its handy being able to speak Dutch at the moment! Seems to be going for a lot of players over there, its a good market for us and the Prem as a whole. Tiote and Vorm were brilliant signings from that league.

Nothing will suprise anyone. They will pretend that Lambert, Lallana and Schneiderlin have massively improved this summer and can't have ever been L1 players.