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Some days 9 (arsenal away) other days 4 (villa away). I just don't like he doesn't come out much from his line as a starting position a la Loris/De Gea etc, I would take him getting lobbed once a season to have him further out.

basically says Morgan is the best at possession, Vic at attacking and Clasie at Defence

Ok used squwaka as another option given its easy comparison style.

Yeah 100% agree, stats just form a benchmark hence i just grabbed the 1st comparison tool I found. I think we will buy Clasie is Morgan goes as was widely reported during the summer. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-plan-jordy-clasie-transfer-3903311

Jordie Clasie was in tears at the end of the game and the Feyanoord fans think that he is definitely off this year for sure.

Doh thanks, I remember Man City were releasing their playing data so they could get fans to utilise sabermetrics all they had to do was register online, anyone know how that went ?

Hahahaha given the love for Football Manager I reached out for something that can be used as a basis for comparison for our midfield v potential targets. I wasn't saying recruit so and so due to their football ratings I was using 1 tool to review the same group of players to compare. Happy to use another basis if anyone has their own blackbox handy

Didn't want to hijack the jack cork thread with this so just thought i'd start one to start one that compares our current midfielders with ones we are linked with as a comparison for those that are interested. As a basis for comparison I made Matic as the "current" most well regarded DM in the premier league who has 8 beast ratings (green) and is currently is rated 82 on Fifa 15 http://www.futhead.com/15/players/1044/nemanja-matic/ Current: Morgan is rated as 81, he has 6 beast ratings (green) his strengths are stamina, passing, tackling and interceptions - http://www.futhead.com/15/players/11832/morgan-schneiderlin/ Vic is rated 75, he has 6 beast ratings (green) his strengths are stamina, aggression, stamina and shot power - http://www.futhead.com/15/players/16593/victor-wanyama/ Cork is rated 75, he has 0 beast ratings (green) his strengths are stamina, short passing, tackling and interceptions - http://://www.futhead.com/15/players/9864/jack-cork/ Harry is rated 62 but has potential 77, he has 1 beast rating (green) his strengths are balance, agility and short passing - http://://www.futhead.com/15/career-mode/players/9695/harrison-reed/ Potential: Clasie is rated 76 but has potential 81, he has 5 beast ratings (green), his strengths are balance, stamina, ball control - http://://www.futhead.com/15/career-mode/players/7772/jordy-clasie/ Vilhena is rated 73, he has 1 beast rating (green), his strengths are ball control, reactions - http://www.futhead.com/15/players/198/tonny-vilhena/

This game is getting tasty, clasie looking immense, ajax players doing some world class play acting, some classic Klinsman dives from goalie and midfielders. Toby A presented to the crowd with Daley Blind so the fans said thank you at half time.

Hey even Cork ended up scoring eventually, miracles do happen

We have more money than all of those teams according to Deloitte as we all know cash is king for footballers, CL is the excuse they make when leaving clubs for teams in or chasing CL qualification.

I don't actually worry about losing any of our players anymore and I don't think we should in the future. If you look at Ajax, Porto and recently Feyanoord they lose a lot of their team every summer to various leagues and use that wealth to continuously improve. If we get 15mil for Clyne I'd take it.

hahahaha I did chuckle when I saw his name. 0-0 in the game so far near half time, always remember living in Amsterdam and going to the Ajax area plenty of times. Feyanoord on top so far and Mark Wotte doing the co-commentary

Will watch this today to see our potential "signings" for the summer http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11907/9656529/ajax-v-feyenoord-six-players-to-look-out-for-in-sundays-de-klassieker-live-on-sky-sports

Get Millk or Guidetti

1st season in a foreign league and he's contributed more than AL has to liverpool this year. Think its natural he is fatigued, he did have an awesome start and only scored the winner in Man U a couple of games ago.

You think thats bad I see Harrison Reed is 1.81 on virtually all major websites He must have the same team as Tom Cruise

Nice article mate, I look forward to seeing if MLG can find out about the Toby wage issue.

Great article and it sums up why Redknapp and his ilk are dinosaurs.

Year poor old Hans really hates De Boer

Article from back in Sept (post transfer window) on the best young players in the Eredivisie. http://www.just-football.com/2014/09/eredivisie-best-young-players-to-watch-2014-15-the-10-series-talents/ Some names I've not heard of before so very interesting.

Yeah and Toby was beyond us as a signing this summer, I think we can all agree we need another pure target man forward we have JRod/Sadio/Elia/Tadic/Long who are all very similiar.

Surely as our feeder club we have the first right of refusal for all Celtic players even if they are on loan http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/english/john-guidetti-a-target-for-southampton-1-3667890

I reckon I can claim getting involved in the saga starting back in July, I really rate JG.

Tancredi Palmeri ‏@tancredipalmeri 4m4 minutes ago Osvaldo went missing: in last 48hours the forward hasn't showed up at Inter camp and nobody knows where he is at the moment. Johnnydeppesque