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I would do if Russia has a long long history of bluster and this sort of thing. It's a show of defiance from north Korea, if they wanted to actually provoke something then it wouldn't be hard to do but thata the last thing they want because they aren't stupid.

What have they actually done? Fired a few crappy missiles and hit no one so far. It's all bluster which will die down after the war games.

Buzz off you troll. I said if we don't have any more funds for a big name signing and I have no idea what the new owners are like so that may he the case.

Can't imagine anyone is going to pay 80 million. He isn't worth that amount.

That's a good point. If though we genuinely don't have any more cash for reinforcements, would be interesting to see what people think about selling so we can buy a quality attacking player or two.

That's true but I do wonder how much sway the new owners would have on the decision. I reckon we may force him to stay until January when he will be sold and probably won't have played for us again. That may cost us some cash but it also sends out an important message that we won't be bullied into selling our best players. Watch the club sell him to Liverpool now and make us look like fools!

Nothing surprises me with the club but I find it hard to believe that we would have been so categoric about him staying if we were going to just sell him shortly after, particularly to Liverpool. If we do sell I imagine they will say something like it was the managers decision to sell and that we didn't have to.

I agree. He still has potential to improve but right now no way should he be getting the extended run in the team without his place being under threat.

Is this one of those weird stories that passes through the saintsweb machine and becomes fact? Since when did mane do that? It certainly wasn't mentioned at the time- he was superb for us.

Yep. I get that we are trying to make a statement but if he refuses to play until we sell him in January for a reduced sum then we haven't really won in that situation.

You know it's bad when troll chief starts to be a little negative!

We've needed someone to run directly at teams since we lost mane.

Soldiers attacked in Brussels and the attacker shot. Another Jihadi?

And no one denied that but he clearly hasn't been superb so far- far from it.

What has redmond done at saints thus far to be described as superb? He has potential but he's had an extended run in the team now and has been nothing special.

Fairly devoid of creativity. Highlights the need for another creative signing to replace Davis.

I wouldn't be that dramatic as yet- we have definitely regressed from a few seasons ago but that was sadly inevitable with the amount of sales we have had. If we don't bring in some real quality in an attacking position though I will be forced to conclude that we have lost some of that ambition that saw us shooting for the European places.

Seems bizarre if we want a successful season to ignore our most obvious deficiency. I think at the start of the window most would have said a DM was the priority which we addressed but then a creative attacking player was second most important and if we don't get in the correct sort of player we will have messed up in my opinion. Antonio showed us the type of player we were missing last Saturday.

Failure to get in a decent attacking creative player will be another summer of not addressing our most glaring weakness. We did similar last season and it came back to bite us.

As usual, you've waded in without having a clue what you are talking about. John Mcenroe was asked in an interview about Serena Williams. He replied that she was in his opinion the greatest female tennis player of all time. He was then asked why he didn't call her the greatest ever tennis player and he answered the question he was asked by giving his opinion that due to biological differences it is likely that Serena would struggle to beat the 700th ranked male- the implication being that she would get thrashed by any of the top ten men. No one claimed that this performance difference "matters" but pointing it out when answering a question is not some egregious act. Mcenroe answered a question asked of him with a perfectly legitimate reply but was subsequently crucified by a certain section of the press and others who willfully misinterpreted what he said in an attempt to paint him as a sexist. Women deserve success and popularity in sport and shouldn't ordinarily be compared to male accomplishments in sport like the BBC keeps trying to do. The US radio host who asked McEnroe that question is part of the media that continually tries to compare male and female sporting accomplishments and then gets annoyed when they receive an answer they don't approve of, even though McEnroe is entirely correct with what he says. I think the quote from Ronda Rousey sums up my thoughts quite well on the pay disparity:

It's the way society is going nowadays. Look at the wittering on about the lie that is the "gender pay gap" and using Male film stars to try and make a comparison with female film stars. The entire thing is ludicrous but in sport it becomes more obviously false because in general the men at the top of their sport will most likely vastly outperform the equivalent female. You can't speak the truth in public now due to the hysterical reactions- just look at how Mcenroe was crucified for saying what we all know- all the top males would destroy the top females.

We need a nippy midfielder through the middle.

My worry if he is sold is how much will actually be spent on strengthening considering Gao is now in charge. I'd like us to keep him this window if for no other reason than to reassure me that Gao isn't just in this to milk us.

We weren't going to win it anyway. It's a shame because I like seeing some of the fringe players but it was always going to be a tough game with wolves. Win on Saturday and no one will care.

Happy for him to go but not to Liverpool.