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Good luck Monk - Hope all goes well.... Saw this one the other day... Finished Players ‏@FinishedPlayers Neil Heaney is now the CEO of Judicare, a full-service Spanish law firm and a UK legal-services company.

There was a really good Q&A I read recently with a Liverpool fan-site. Can anyone find it?

I can deduce from this video that Sam G needs some of this finishing training that Dutchie is talking about http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11676/10687842/watch-blackburn-striker-sam-gallagher-tries-to-score-10-goals-in-10-chances

@OptaJoe: 1 - Southampton have scored exactly one goal in each of their last seven home games in all competitions. Singular.

If we could do that it would be like getting a 50% voucher for Sakho. I hope he's like FM2011 Sakho too - he was awesome.

I would have agreed, but I think the Palace move put me off. His sulks have finally caught up with him, I think.

Tricky week for us as (in theory) we need the strongest squad available for all the games! We currently top the injury charts with NINE players injured. Have to go with our strongest team for this one (depending on those injuries). --------------Forster-------------- Cedric Yoshida Virgil Bertrand --------------Romeu-------------- ---------Davis--Hojbjerg-------- Redmond-------------------Tadic -----------Rodriguez-----------

Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-close-in-on-8m-jose-fonte-with-slaven-bilic-expecting-to-conclude-a-deal-in-the-next-24-a3444641.html

Whilst we aren't playing the diamond, the point you make that I latch onto is that regardless of formation, we are too easy to play against - Too slow, too ponderous & predictable. We've seen it time & time again and it seems unless a moment of magic (Boufal) happens, we are going to run out of ideas & concede. We are almost the prototype for an "away win".

I think his agent has probably sold him a yarn that huge clubs wanted him and they clearly haven't... Or, he's fallen out with the hierarchy and he's just going to whoever we accept bids from. Surprised Everton haven't made a move yet.

No chance IMO.

Telegraph Football ‏@TeleFootball Joe Fonte set to leave Southampton after bids from West Ham and West Brom are accepted http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2017/01/19/jose-fonte-bids-accepted-west-ham-west-brom-southampton-captain/

SSN: West Brom have agreed a fee believed to in the region of £17m for Watford striker Odion Ighalo. SSN: Sky sources understand West Brom have had their latest offer for Jake Livermore accepted by Hull City.

BILIC PROVIDES BIG FONTE UPDATE This morning we brought you news that West Ham were in talks with Southampton over central defender Jose Fonte, and while Bilic has denied the player is having a medical at the club he admitted that they could have something to announce in 24 hours time... "[Fonte is] not having a medical today," said Bilic. "We are not talking about transfers, we are working on some though. "There are one or two players we need, it won’t be easy, but we are trying. "Hopefully have something to announce in 24 hours."

Ulloa is a slight doubt for them. Slimani, Amartey, Mahrez are away at the AFCON.

Saw a few people last night saying we actually played better WITH the diamond than now we've gone to 4-3-3. I'd like to see us switch it up, depending on who we play.

Yeah! - Weird! I don't think he wanted the move though, so fair play to him at least.

SSN: Sky sources understand Watford are in talks to sell Odion Ighalo to West Brom.

We should know we get our money back anyway when they sign Bertrand in the summer

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/southampton/story/3041498/southampton-defender-jose-fonte-fielding-several-opportunities-claude-puel

Hence why we are probably trying to loan them instead...

Assuming he doesn't get re-injured... **Remembers this is the positive thread** HE WON'T GET RE-INJURED!

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11685/10733964/west-ham-in-talks-to-sign-jose-fonte-from-southampton

I predict a loss and then we get an article on the OS with Puel saying "we need to be more clinical" which seems to appear after every game.

Here we go then. Lots of changes. We only score one goal in home games... Not sure that's enough to beat them.