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I have a feeling he's going to play Cork at centreback

Yep - I'm going to have to get a copy of my 70+ dad's passport or something - plus something with my 8 year old nephews birth date on to take down to the ground on Monday so I can renew 4 season tickets and spend over a £1000 with Saints! They really don't want our money do they! Cashflow over the summer really can't be a problem can it - with the delay in releasing season tickets and the new kit there is obivously no need to bring money into the club over the summer to pay the bills/players wages etc. It suggests to me that Saints have a lot of money in the bank somewhere - and I would guess from this money to spend on strengthening the squad. Its not the actions of a business desperate for cash is it! Still in my experience investment bankers have no idea how to actually run a business!

I can't even get that far - I need to renew 2 adult season tickets, 1 senior and 1 under 11 and it will only let me select 3 adult and 1 senior as a bundle!

I think it's far more likely to be his brother at Fulham - it looks as though they want to move him on - and he won't go back to Sheff Utd as they've been relegated. If we are after a left sided defender / midfielder I'd much rather we signed Reto Ziegler on a free transfer from relegated Sampdoria - he's out in contract and unlikely to stay there. Plus he's Swiss!

Link to picture of Blackburn third shirt: http://www.epltalk.com/blackburn-rovers-away-shirt-for-2011-12-season-leaked-photo-32688

Maynard but quite a long way! has the pace we need - and a great scoring record in the Championship - also has the ability to step up to the Premier League I would think I'm not sure CMS will be that good in the Championship - he only scored 10 goals or so last time around - and Sharp has had his dry spells at this level as well however I think Maynard would be the better fit with Lambert and the rest of the team - and he has the killer pace we so desperately need

A black and White picture of Markus on a half White half red flag?

I would expect a couple of signings to be made before we start pre-season training and announced at the beginning of July. I would like to see Saints actually start a season running - having had a decent pre-season with some testing games - and a first 11 and a system of play sorted out. However I think Nigel Adkins is the type of manager to do this - with a system of play, a first 11 and a Plan A, Plan B and Plan C worked out before we actually kick-off the season. For proof of this you just have to look at how Saints system of playing developed under Adkins, how the set pieces improved, how the problem with throw-ins was sorted(ish) and how we learnt how to play against 10 men by keeping the ball and passing them to death. For the last third of the season it was visible how these things improved and came together to get us promoted. Also as a physio I am sure Adkins will be much better at the physical conditioning side of pre-season than Pardew proved to be last summer!

It's been a new kit every season for quite a while now has it not!? It's the same as almost every club! Personally I'd prefer to see teams have 3 kits - one changing every year - on a 3 year cycle. But it's all about the money though - isn't it! Do what I do - buy a classic retro shirt. Saying that I bought the JPT final shirt as it was my birthday - and the 125 year anniversary shirt as it had no sponsor!

Morgan Schneiderlin?

Can't see us signing Cork or Danns. Cork will end up at Swansea reunited with Brendan Rodgers - probably replacing Darren Pratley - and Neil Danns will end up at QPR reunited with Neil Warnock. The lure of the premiership - and the money - is simply too much. I expect we'll end up signing Victor Palsson and Dale Stephens instead!

Lallana, Schneiderlin and Oxlade-Chamberlain are all better on the ball than any of those England U21 players today!

Mancienne looked good as the holding midfielder for the U21s - better than at right back - but he was pretty good there as well

I'd be very disappointed in young Mr Howard if he joined the Skates - after all he is supposed to be a Saints fan! We don't want another Darren Anderton do we! I have a feeling he will stay at Reading - they will probably lose Long, Kebe and Mills this summer so will look a very different team next season. Howard will beb a key player for them next season. And to be honest their fine end to the season and good form owed more to Shane Long hitting a purple patch than anything else. Before that they looked more like relegation fodder!

Norwich, QPR and Swansea look like they will do a brilliant job of weakening the the Championship contenders over the summer for us! Norwich are supposed to be after Snodgrass from Leeds, Bennett from Brighton, Morrison from Millwall and they've already got Vaughan from Palace in effect. Meanwhile Palace have taken Murray from Brighton in return! QPR are after McKail-Smith (that's if Norwich don't get him) along with Bullard from Hull/Ipswich. They must have a thing for blond mullets! And Swansea are after Graham from Watford! Leeds also look like they could lose Gradel, Johnson and possibly Becchio to the premier league! And I am certain that Bristol City will lose Maynard to the premier league, just like Reading will lose Shane Long and possibly Kebe and Mills as well. Cardiff have also lost Bothroyd with more set to follow him out the door!

Dale Stephens has already gone back to Oldham and N'Guessan to Leicester

I heard a whisper that we were going to be playing Celtic at St Mary's again.

that suggests Lansbury will be going on loan again - and probably to a Championship club so why not Saints in the case. I woudn't mind getting Sanchez Watt on loan from Arsenal as well. He looked good at Leeds last season. if we do a deal with Arsenal for Oxlade-Chamberlain maybe we should for these two along with Alex back on loan as part of the agreement.

Unless Wenger can guarantee Lansbury first team football this coming season surely he is a certainty for another loan or a permanent move to Norwich. I expect he will sign a contract extension with Arsenal and then go on loan to Norwich for another season. He's proved himself at Championship level - he now needs to do it in the Premiership.

Everton have ambition they just don't have any money! And I think Owen's ambitions are probably limited to starting a game in the premiership once more before he retires!

Thanks for the sarcasm! But it's unwarranted as I for one don't believe the Owen rumours at all. He'll either stay at Man Utd or go on a free to Everton I expect Michael Johnson from Man City is completely different - he's a lot younger, on a lot less money, lost his way at City and not featured in the first team for a while He will probably leave City this summer to kick-start his career - either on loan or permanently - and may contplate dropping down a division for a season on loan

Borini would be great but he's already signed a pre-contract agreement with Parma back in Italy

Michael Johnson from Man City would be great - but could we afford his wages? Maybe on loan we could.

With Woodward I think the real problems started when he was named as Director of Football instead of Head of Sports Science. It was obvious he was Lowe's favourite - after all they had a lot more in common than Lowe and Redknapp - Rugby, Hockey, Public School background, old city connections and upper class origin. Whereas Redknapp was a wheeler dealer slightly dodgy football manager from East London! Lowe, Woodward, Redknapp, Bassett and Smith was never going to work as a management team. The new age v the dinosaurs! I would have welcomed Woodward as a Head of Sports Science - who at the same time was going to get his FA coaching badges and maybe help out with managing the youth teams to get some football experience. But as a manager or director of football it was a catastrophy waiting to happen. Also the time to do it was when we were in the premiership and had the money for his wage bill and the whole project. At the time I think we all thought the money would be better spent on first team players!

Phillips Senderos at Fulham would be a good shout. He's hardly played since sigining for them - and has just come back from injury. You could see Fulham loaning him out to get match fitness and put him in the shop window. Plus there's the Swiss connection. Reto Ziegler is also available on a free transfer from Sampdoria at the moment. But in all honesty it's very unlikely that we will sign players from Premier League teams if they are still in contract as their wages would be a major stumbling block. Even journeymen players in the premiership are on £20K per week or upwards of that. Unless its on a loan and a % of the players wages are paid by the parent club as part of the deal. And if that's the case we are probably only talking about young players loaned out to get experience. Excepting players like Matt Phillips at Blackpool who could be a real possibility due to their very low wages. But then Blackpool have always been a Championship club out of their league! There are probably some current premier league players on free tranfsers that might settle for a signing on fee and lower wages though. But I'm not sure Michael Owen would fit in to that category!