Jimmy_D

Seems likely he’ll stay this season now…

The transfer window's still open and journalists have been creating stories on the basis of what happened earlier in the window. No chance JWP actually moves this window, we don't want to sell, Villa can't afford what we'd want if we did, and JWP isn't going to force through a move to a team that's just sold their best player and is facing just as uncertain a season as we are.

Really disappointing second half. Just a bad combination of Everton coming out far better than the first half, then a defensive lapse, and after that they had the momentum and scored two really good goals. Armstrong getting off the mark might be the most important thing to happen today.

It was probably a choice between getting him and 25M for him at some point, or not having him here at all. It’s not a loan, so not impossible (although very unlikely) he could choose to stay here too. Club have done well to get him I reckon.

Ooohhhh... he might actually be awesome for us ^_^

These players have obviously earned their starting places in training and pre-season. I’m looking forward to seeing what they can do

Assuming this goes through, Adams, Armstrong, and Adam Armstrong all in attack for us will be fun for the commentators next season.

Risk of a Championship striker having to make the step up vs the risk of an injury prone player managing to stay fit. Could go either way. Not that it makes a difference, we didn't have a choice over which risk to take. Quite optimistic that Armstrong could turn out to be a gem for us though.

Alas, 'tis a shame he's gone, but he put in some fantastic performances for us. Difficult for me to look past this one as one of my favourites. FULL HIGHLIGHTS | Portsmouth 0-4 Southampton - YouTube

Watching football with away fans in and hearing a rousing rendition of "The referee's a ****er" ring out around the stands is the most normal things have felt in quite a while.

Shearer and Le Tissier for me. Shearer I just missed out on seeing live for Saints, I wasn't taken to games very often back then, every time I went he wasn't playing for one reason or another. Le Tissier... most attackers move to get into dangerous areas. The most dangerous area when Le Tiss played was wherever he chose to stand.

Alas, the information you have could have saved us all. If only you had a change of mind. And were still able to post here.

Ings is obviously the best finisher we’ve got when he’s fit, but his fitness is a bit of a coin toss that’s not going to get better as time goes on. We didn’t do too bad at spreading the goals out last season. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/top-scorers

Disappointing, but I guess the money is pretty decent. Two seasons of a very decent striker and then a profit didn’t turn out too bad. Difficult to replace but at least the money means we probably won’t need to sell JWP.

The great big gaping holes in your ‘theory’, are that there’s no motivation to do it, it’d probably be impossible to carry out from a scientific point of view, it’d be impossible to actually carry out with no-one with first hand knowledge blowing the whistle, all available evidence is that nothing of the sort has been done, and there’s every motivation to do the complete opposite. You’d have to be dumb as rocks to still be trying to push it and think you’d convince anyone at this point. Still, carry on, we’re all having a good laugh at how poorly you’re trolling here.

And here was me thinking you might want to answer the question that’s pointing out the big obvious hole in your ‘theory’. It’s making you look a bit silly. Again.

Out of interest, who benefits from this 30% death rate and the resulting massive drop in GDP?

He’s worth more than 50M to Saints at the moment, with no club likely to value him as highly he’ll likely stay.

JWP is worth more than that to Saints, we certainly wouldn’t be able to replace what he gives us for that. With four years left on his contract it’s unlikely his market value will match what his value is to Saints, unless Villa end up blowing a large portion of the Grealish money on him. After that the only way we lose him is if the player kicks up a fuss to force his way out. As long as it’s only Villa interested we’re unlikely to lose him that way either. As things stand I think he’ll stay here this season.

He isn’t going to go on strike for four years to force his way to an Aston Villa team selling their best player

£25M!? We should wait until they offer triple that just for thinking of making a offer that bad.

Have any sources for these ‘many people’? What is the division being created, as you see it? What should the response to racist abuse be, as you see it?

People being more aware of the problem now doesn’t mean the problem wasn’t there before.

As I understand, it was a group chat. The police are probably investigating whether an offence has been committed against any of the recipients of those messages. Doesn’t mean they’ll find there was, of course, but someone leaked those messages and I doubt it was any of those three.

See my post on the previous page.