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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2550574/Mauricio-Pochettino-Adam-Lallana-good-play-Brazil-HAS-World-Cup.html

Or he'll chin Tevez and we'll be back to square one.

Interesting views on how the likes of Chelsea use their brand and the loan system to enhance the value of players that are not deemed good enough to play for the first team. It's possible Osvaldo's value will be enhanced by association with Juventus (as well as with the WC). If Juventus excercises it's option Saints make a reported £3m plus. If not, Saints may still benefit from the his association with Italy's premier club. That would be some consolation for having signed him. There is an opportunity cost of course to having £12.5m tied up on a flop, which money could have been spent on someone better.

An early goal then keep the ball, will pile on the pressure. Desperate B@stards 0 - Saints 2.

Need 4 strikers. If the right player isn't available now then it makes perfect sense to wait for the right player. It's the correct decision to move out Osvaldo. He's failed on and off the pitch and put us in this position of being short.

Nothing cool about nutting people.

You won't be watching the team, nor following the kids, nor catching up with the times...unless you catch up with the fixture list. It's tonight.

Tickets I've seen are double that.

Was reasonably pleased with the draw until I saw train fares from KX. Plus a bus service if it's on Sunday.

Gallagher looks promising. Fitting that in a week when the £15m man gets himself suspended again, a young striker comes in and scores his first senior goal that'll make his week.

I've signed it. Thanks for posting this link. More will sign if you bring it to their attention on the main board.

Communications. For 12 months. That's funny. Maybe moron footballers is a Watford thing....of 7 years ago.... or maybe it was him. Even someone with a screw loose wouldn't appoint to its Board a Director who thinks all footballers are morons.

http://www.sportsdirectnews.com/tony-yorke/38861-have-saints-learned-nothing-from-woodward-failure.php Article speaks for itself but a few points. The author seems like a funny bloke. He's a business correspondent. He thinks all footballers are "morons". That can't be right, surely. “But the fact remains, when you’re dealing with morons who don’t listen to outsiders – which is the norm at a football club (I know because I used to be a director at one of them) – then you’ve got no chance of succeeding.” And, “Sorry Saints fans, I have to interpret the decision-making of Leibherr in recent days as coherent as that of someone with a few loose screws whose currently residing in a Hampshire nuthouse.” He notes that Kreugar has a “quest” at Saints but doesn’t say what it is, only that: “I hope I prove to be wrong and Krueger succeeds with his quest. But I think my tenner is safe, regardless whatever tripe the Saints come up with to justify this latest move.”

No offence intended to you at all but don't you just hate the word project being applied to a football club founded in 1885? A project is something with a finite life, a beginning, a middle and an end. Perhaps the "project" ended when Cortese went. Good riddance to "the project".

Ok I acknowledge it's your view. He won't be stood down because if he needed to justify his decision he'd do so on the basis of Brown having got a slight touch on the ball. I think that would be spurious but I've made my points on that above. As for the views of players on the tackle, this from Fonte: “That’s another thing that we need to address because it’s becoming repetitive the mistakes against us,” said Fonte, perhaps indicating he feels not enough protection is being afforded to some of the players during matches.

http://tui.fansnetwork.co.uk/forum/100038/wes-brown-tackle/#7 The sort that needs reassurance.

Of course they won't stand him down. Did they stand down Clattenburg? It's a refs union. And deference to your betters. Keep tugging the forelock.

Take a break Barry. Go for a cr@p or something and do us all a favour.

It wasn't deliberate but you can't claim it's not a foul because it was an accident as Shearer just called it on MoTD.

Profligate in front of goal but also errors in conceding goals. Lovren played their man (Borini?) onside and maybe he'd switched off a bit having scored seconds earlier. Boruc should have saved the first.

It just says he'd be interested in the job. I bet he would. It's a great job and he's unemployed.

Yet we're being told it's within the laws of the game to follow through (if indeed Brown got any meaningful touch on the ball which I think he did not). So something's wrong. Either it's a foul and a yellow (or red) as with Schneiderlin or it's perfectly legal within the laws of the game and warrants no penalty, as with Brown. That's without even considering the recklessness, degree of force etc relative to the two tackles.

So what are the laws of the game?

So if his ankle's broken is it still a fair tackle?

That's just not credible. A man breaks into the England team in the twilight of a career spent mostly in the lower leagues and just 12 months before a World Cup Finals, makes an impact......and the he decides to give up. And my old man said be a Pompey fan. Pull the other one.