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Said the jail bait girls of Southampton...

God I hope so. I'd love to see it all go to **** for Spurs second only to pompey in the list of teams I ****ing hate

better hope we have an outstanding summer on the transfer front. Selling Bertrand to Spurs and replacing him with Matt Targett is a great start...

Looking forward to next season with a team that includes Targett and JWP as part of the first 11

I don't know why Kat just doesn't sell half the club to Spurs and half to Liverpool and put us all out of ****ing misery.

Talk****e reckon he is nailed on to go to Boro

going to ****ing spurs isn't he....

Inter going for Poch cant see him leaving spurs though. Sky in Italy understand Inter sporting director Piero Ausilio is flying to London this week to hold talks over a proposed move to bring the Tottenham boss to the San Siro. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/other/inter-want-to-appoint-poch/ar-BBB9agd

Is he much good? I looked at his career stats (I know they don't tell the whole story) and they didn't look overly impressive he also seems inclined to kick off to get a move.

Vito Corleone?

Oh dear god I hope not...

I thought he already had

The three at the back is interesting. My recollection about Koeman was he went three at the back because we were leaking goals badly and he wanted to make us more defensively solid. The stats this season suggest our defence was pretty decent overall and we top the league for crosses so our full backs were having no problem getting forward. I guess the main thing going three at the back would have given us was two up top (assuming 3-5-2) which alot of fans wanted.

Article in the guardian nothing to in depth but it does throw up some interesting little points https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2017/may/23/premier-league-tactics-three-at-back-pressing-season Unquestionably the Premier League’s dominant tactical trend was the three-man defence. A remarkable 17 of the 20 sides started with a back three at some point in the season, with only Southampton, West Bromwich and Burnley doggedly sticking to a back four. While many of the bottom-half clubs remained focused on dropping deep and staying solid in two banks of four, the general trend for the bigger sides was to press aggressively in more advanced positions. Although it was relatively rare to see a full-pitch press in the Premier League, midfield zones have become based around regaining the ball as much as retaining it. A few years ago, when Barcelona and Spain’s possession football was at its most revered, Premier League midfielders played calm roles, keeping their shape and using possession with care. Now everything has become considerably more frantic, based around constant sprinting, closing down and blocking off passing angles. The physical demands are extraordinary and it is notable Chelsea – like Leicester the previous season – had the benefit of no European football. Quality in possession has taken something of a backseat and it is significant N’Golo Kante was voted the PFA player of the year. Ball-winning has rarely been so vaunted. This season’s rise underlines that the majority of Premier League teams have generally played positive football. Perhaps only Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Watford were unduly negative – others may have defended deep but usually offered a sufficient counterattacking threat too. The final day of the season, when the top four sides defeated the bottom four sides by an aggregate scoreline of 20-2, rather underlined the disparity and, while a high goals-per-game rate is usually celebrated as a good thing, it is worth considering the numbers in more detail. Often it is simply a sign of inequality, whereas the Premier League has marketed itself as a league where anyone can beat anyone.

Except it looks like both are fullbacks are leaving, we only have one DM in Romeu if he gets injured we're screwed, and we only have one striker really up to the task in Gabbi (Austin is ok but painful slow for the way we have tried to play this season). Squad needs a big overhaul this summer but probably won't get it.

So last year when we got more points it wasn't progression it was just the teams below us were dross...

yeah but we have a 32,000 stadium and £7 million pound sponsor deal and our highest earner is I believe Forster on 90k a week. Spurs only pay Kane a 100K a week so I still don't see how Bournemouth can throw 165-230k in wages at two player (assuming they both sign) surely FFP means they should be paying much smaller wages.

69% possession, 15 attempts on goal, 2 shots on target looks like the Ajax players will fit in pretty well with the current saints squad

Is that the Pellegrini that went to China and guided his team to a mighty 7th in a 16 team league..

No doubt the press will now decide he was worth every penny Man U paid for him...

Forster is only the 5th worst keeper in the league. The clean sheets isn't always down to the keeper so isn't always a good guide to his ability.

some sort of fetish site?

So 65K basic and 130K with bonuses that's much better plus this little gem Bournemouth are also offering Chelsea’s John Terry £100,000-a-week as they look to add experience to their squad ahead of their third Premier League campaign. So how do a club with a 11,464 capacity stadium and 2 million a year shirt sponsor find the money to start throwing those sort of wages about?

That is patently untrue all of them have more points than last season as even you pointed Arsenal picked up less points last season and finished 2nd. It was pretty obvious after last season the big boys got a wake up call and set about bringing in mangers and players to improve themselves which has clearly paid off as they have gone back to dominating the league again this season.

well Koeman obviously thought he was better than Cedric so I guess he rates him.