Saint Charlie

Lambert surely won't change from 7. Lallana has been 20 for a while, might take 10 from Puncheon when he goes?

It's a squad game, we will probably see all four play important roles within the first 10 games. Guly would be effective as an attacking central midfielder in a 3 I think.

Jack Cork duh duh duh duh (Yoof can hit the boads at the back of the Northam)

Gobern has. Its a squad game!

FFS why wasn't NA in Leicestershire with the squad? Has he lost the dressing room already?

Im glad they are clearly targetting specific players rather than going for anyone and everyone. Pleased for NA - this is his first real signing of any note, apart from Chaplow I guess!

An aap3 mousemat?

Both. Play Forte FFS.

Sounds like some made up quotes, especially the Lallana ones.

Aaron Martin could be the new Mills?

Gobern needs games. He would always have been 4th or 5th choice next season. If we really wanted to keep him we would have not let him get so close to the end of his contract. I think we just want the best fee possible for him, hence Adkins bigging him up a bit.

Lallana seems to think Adkins is a big enough name. So does Lambert. So does whoever we end up signing this summer. its frustration of no signings that drive these type of threads. Whilst we hate it, we just need to be patient.

Nugent is rubbish, hope this isn't true. Way too slow to form a good partnership with Rickie.

Now they should get him out on loan in L1 as soon as the season starts!

One of the few good journalists on Twitter just posted that he has heard Cork to Soton and that although he expects Arsenal to sign Chamberlain there are no talks at the moment.

It was a quote through the officialsaints twitter account.

It might be Adkins way of saying to Cork, 'Look, I know you want to go to Burnley but we really want you and are the only team wanting you enough to stump up the money. Come here, we are going places.'

Who knows. Similar situation with Baldock Mk Dons/Pboro. At the end of the day he isn't coming.

One of the best things about Lambert is he comes up with goals when they are really needed, not the third in a 3-0 win but a winner or equaliser often scoring from half chances. He finds a moment of quality at the right moment ie superb pass for Barney at Orient.

He has earned that and has never let us down. Quality player.

A 3.25m bid for one player indicates that.

This will just be a standard, start of pre season press call.

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11861_6912608,00.html Riise had his sights a bit higher than us a couple of months ago...

Yeah he is no better than Barnard or Connolly.

I asked a Swiss footy website about him and they said: 'Very fast, but technique lets him down sometimes. Swiss press mention Saints interest, but Grasshoppers say they want to keep him.'