doddisalegend

The issue is, as someone else posted, there is no consistency I've seen plenty of saints players suffer far worse than the minimal contact the spurs player suffered last night and been given **** all ( or worse booked for diving) it feels like refs just make it up half the time. Considering the spurs player easily made it in to the box and was still able to shoot despite Redmond's contact makes it a soft one for me if refs are going to enforce that I expect a lot more penos and sending's off in the second half of the season. I'm willing to bet if it had been the other way round Dean would have given nothing at all.

Waiting for Dembele to high five him....

Can't even get a regular start at villa this season mostly been an impact sub I believe.

Not sure about that personally thought Romeu was a good player after watching him a couple of times. I've seen enough of JWP to know he won't ever be a good DM. Reed might but he was struggling against Bournemouth. Hoj looks happier playing further up the pitch and his tendency to switch off would kill us in the DM role. Clasie might be good enough as a DM in the Dutch league but doesn't seem to cut it in the PL I'd be quite happy for the club to flog JWP to make space for a quality DM in Jan....

How good do you think our defensive record will look if Romeu gets injured and we have to play JWP as a DM for 10 games? On the other hand if some of our forward line get some confidence and start putting away the host of chances they can't seem to convert no one would be calling for another forward.

Well after the take over we will need the train station for the vast number of Chinese shoppers wanting to visit the saints shop/take the stadium tour at the St Mary's

Well you could argue we are weakest at DM we have one proper holding/D midfielder which is Romeu who has played almost every game this season if he gets injured we have nothing in that position. What we have is a bunch of traditional CM players who are jacks of all trade and masters of F all would anyone be happy playing 1/2 a season with JWP/Clasie/Davis/Reed/Hoj as a holding/DM for the rest of the season if Romeu gets injured tonight? because I wouldn't. If Romeu stays fit great if not we look very weak there We have a decent number of attacking players (and yes I certainly like to see one more) but again arguably Boufal/Sims/ Tadic/Long/Jrod/Redmond is a decent set of options for a front 3 and should be scoring more than they are.

Any player, better than what we already have (which is subjective of course), is what we need. Arguably we have one decent DM and that's Romeu behind him there is a line of mediocre/ok players (and I've being saying that since September) so I wouldn't be crying if the club brought in a quality DM for 18 million quid in Jan weather it be Morgan or someone else if they are better than Clasie/JWP/Reed I'd be very happy.

after 17 games last season spurs were a place higher in the table without Vic and we were four places lower with Vic guess its worked out OK for us.....

A lot of clubs are very short term these days guess that's down to the PL gravy train. Once upon a time going down was painful but survivable these days the money makes clubs look no further than staying up each season. I imagine Pardew will rock up in Wales in the next few days....

Its trolling as soon as you compare him to JWP other than that fair comment..

Maybe we all got Osvaldo wrong....

Romeu not ruling out a return to Barca https://www.360nobs.com/2016/12/oriol-romeu-might-consider-barcelona-return/ Might pay to get in a replacement like Morgan......?

I very much doubt they are paying Lukaku 200K before his new contract he was Everton's top earner on 80K a week I doubt under FFP (bearing in mind they earn less from sponsorship than we do) they can afford to pay Lukaku another 120K a week, plus another 200K a week on VVD plus Morgan on an alleged 120K week. All this talk of investment in the press seems to ignore the fact FFP is designed to stop owners just throwing money at the playing squad (though not managers IIRC).

I'm dubious that Everton can afford VVD or that VVD was thinking of Everton when he said he wants to play at the highest level.

It was secret Santa so their outfits were picked by another team mate.

Pep says he has no interest in VVD In his latest press conference. http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/national/article/Pep-Guardiola-rules-out-move-for-Southamptons-Virgil-van-Dijk-259fb55e-64d6-4935-b104-46668840f07a-ds

VVD top of Koeman's Jan wish list apparently... https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/2474369/everton-transfer-news-ronald-koeman-puts-southampton-ace-virgil-van-dijk-top-of-his-five-strong-january-wish-list/

Top trolling Turks...

Aleix Vidal from Barca... http://www.90min.com/posts/4319382-two-premier-league-clubs-said-to-be-interested-in-out-of-favour-barcelona-defender-aleix-vidal

Guess he fancied Christmas at home with the wife and kid....

Won't that be Cedric?

Tweeted by Fonte apparently. No idea what Boufal is wearing but I've already seen one internet article calling it a suicide vest.

I see VVDs interview has stirred the pot plenty of interesting speculation. His desire to play at the highest level has fueled the speculation of a move to Liverpool according to the................. Liverpool echo.? http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/media-watch/247972-van-dijk-fuels-man-city-and-liverpool-rumours

Hopefully he and his dogs will do a Hello magazine interview with plenty of artistic photos showing off the rest of his house soon....