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Jose Fonte....wait...what...sorry I mis-read the title thought it was tosser of the season... VVD is a shoe in injury or not. Romeu has had a good season but other than that no one has really been showing "it" consistently this season probably not helped by the fact only Romeu and VVD seemed to be exempt from the pre Christmas rotation fest. Shout out to the youngsters though McQueen, Sims and Stephens have all been thrown into big games and none of them (IMO) have lets us down.

Thought this might be of interest to those of you in the US maybe worth a punt. Saints fans living in the States can show what the club means to them, with the chance to win a VIP football trip for two on offer as a prize. https://southamptonfc.com/news/2017-03-09/visit-britain-us-competition-southampton

Mings incident looked like an accident to me no way for anyone (other than Mings) to be sure for definite. Zlatan on the other hand was deliberate and obvious. Zlatan was a ban in my opinion because of that. Mings should have been given the benefit of the doubt and you feel probably would have if he was wearing a man u shirt...

If Lander have bought a stake I'm surprised the club and Lander haven't made an announcement you'd think they'd both want people to know? Didn't Lander make announcement in China a couple of months back that prompted saints to release a statement saying no deal had been reached? Any chance the club statement didn't get back to China?

I'm not sure Boufal has played enough football to form that opinion. What little I've seen of him he looks talented and frustrating in equal measure he needs to be coached into releasing the ball quicker. He can beat man, or in case quite often two, but than pass the ball don't try and beat a third and fourth man. People say he needs to man up and at times he does get knocked of the ball easily but I've also seen him get stuck in to win the ball back and put himself about in a way I've never seen Tadic manage to do. Basically I think until Boufal has a decent run of games (ideally behind Gabbi for me) its pretty hard to say weather he is going to a success or not.

Never know how accurate these things are but 63 million according to this http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/776353/Premier-League-wage-bill-2016-17-sportgalleries

The joys of football rumours and the press ? http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-transfer-claims-end-rumour-mill-mess/

This says we are interested in Andre Gray from Burnely. If true it looks like we are defiantly looking to clear out some of our attacking options. http://www.eatsleepsport.com/southampton/saints-join-striker-race-2243731.html#/.WL_51EZFDq0

Cedric to barca story seems to be gathering pace. Barca to offer 25 million and we won't stand in his way http://www.caughtoffside.com/2017/03/08/barcelona-eye-shock-25m-raid-for-pl-star-to-finally-solve-defensive-headache/

Dare we suggest that with less games and more time on the training pitch Puel's coaching is starting to have an affect ...or is that a step to far

http://www.90min.com/posts/4679543-barcelona-send-scouts-to-watch-southampton-pair-ahead-of-shock-summer-moves Yeah my news feed seems full of Cedric and Romeu to Barca stories not much chance of keeping either if its true.

Sims looked decent other than that not particularly. More worryingly none of the seasoned 1st teamers looked very good playing against a bunch of Chelsea kids. Caceres looked ok but he's probably had more testing games.

Hoj really struggles with the passing to team mate part of the game...

well he's been offside....

wow Jrod and Hoj looking bad in an under 23s game

that was confusing clicked and found myself watching Watford v Saints guess its half time...

He has upped his game a lot recently some of his performances before Christmas were very poor by his standards.

It was interesting that Howe dropped him for Man U away. A game of that magnitude you'd expect a team like Bournemouth to put out their best possible side and Wilshere didn't even feature....

This direct quote makes it pretty clear it was about the money I appreciate what the club had done for me since day one but we all have to take care of our families. There were offers that came in that would take care of my family in ways that Southampton weren't willing to. It's a difficult situation. I arrived in the Premier League late at 29 years old - you still have to live 50 years after football. You do your best for yourself and your family. You've got to fight for what you believe. I respected the club, but they weren't willing to find an agreement and reach a compromise.

So you were happy we lost a cup final.....

Made it into someone's European team of the week to http://sportwitness.co.uk/southampton-star-finds-european-team-week-watford-match/

Bloody hell its going to take Souness a week to find his way out of Fonte's arse... Still that interview confirms what everyone suspected Fonte wanted to cash in on winning the euros with last big pay day so he he can spend the next 50 years doing nothing....fair enough.

So have you got a big wedge on a saints win then.....

It was the hugging the saints fans after the knee slide against Watford that made me smile there are grown men in there offering to have Gabbi's babies.... actually looking at Cedric he seems to be enjoying that position a bit to much

To be fair we failed to beat Sunderland this season to. It's got nothing to do with putting them on a pedestal more about being realistic that they are an in form team with the best home record in the division. They dominated Everton (the team top of the form league) for large parts of yesterdays game and humped us at home when we had VVD in the team.