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It's a season long loan so he's there for the season.

And your rant will achieve what exactly? The blokes gone.

I couldn't give a monkey's who wins the league, how Liverpool do, and how any of our ex players do. I'm not sure why anyone would. I'm a Saints fan and how we do is all that interests me.

More defence orientated apparently, so I'm guessing likely to offer less in back 3 than Valery but possibly more in a 4. I wander if we'll see someone like Long ahead of him to give the width, and hopefully more protection than Valery did against West Ham - poor kid was hung out to dry.

Whoever is left wing for city is captain of my fantasy team if that's the case. If it's Sane or Sterling, they'll murder Ramsay.

Yep. Targett 60% of the player Bertrand is.

We're poor tonight. Wing backs are a weakness, Armstrong everywhere apart from where he should be, ponderous and look jaded.

Yep. Gotta rotate with all these games. I fancy Gabbi for the Armstrong role and Obafemi up top.

We'll have to be changed, no Hoj. Personally think we'll change one or two more - someone in for Armstrong and a wing back.

Of course we won't stay up with 2 more wins. We need a lot more than that. Nobody has ever stayed up with 25 points, and doubtless it'll never happen. We'll stay up though, I'm. (now) confident of that.

Decent prospect. I wonder if the policy is to give one bench spot to a different youngster on a game by game basis. Great motivation if so.

No chance. The only way he'll go to anywhere other than Real is that he gets the message that he has no prospect of the Real job within the next few years.

No chance it'll be Poch. He's hanging on for Real Madrid and will no doubt get the job some time soon.

I wouldn't play either against Huddersfield. If Lemina is fit I'd play another man in midfield and a back 4. Stephens additional height and strength at RB would be our best defensive option imo. If he does play a 3 I'd prefer Cedric - he's a good player and will improve now we have a proper coach/manager, and some competition for his place.

This is tedious. None of us have any idea what we offered, and what they were willing to accept. I get that you would have preferred a loan to buy but that may not have been an option and even it was, I remember the Toby fiasco. Anyways, it is what it is and we have a decent striker who is scoring and, like any other player, may stay fit or may not. I'm happy to have him and if this deal was the deal available I'd rather we took him on that basis than not at all. For what it's worth, I suspect Turkish is right about how the deal will have been structured.

You assume Liverpool were willing to loan him. The bottom line is we've bought him, albeit with the first year as a loan for whatever reason.

We could also finish top half and he stays injury free.

We won't play a 3. I think it'll be Bednarek at RB with Valery ahead of him. Johnson as Valery replacement.

Yep, agreed. As you mention, 4 or 5 clubs are in false positions but the rest aren't a million miles from their net spend positions. In fact, if you take spurs out of the bottom 6, I'd be surprised if the remaining 5 clubs plus Fulham aren't the bottom 6 at the end of the season.

Yep...Jaidi comments perhaps implied that Hughes wasn't overly interested in the u23's: "it's nice to have a first-team manager who believes in what we do"

That's the safest bet ever. The whole thing is WWE politics. Boris never wanted to win his leave campaign. He did too good a job and we are where we are.

Some great players there. Abdul was a potential star, such a talented lad. Followed Ray and Rod Wallace to Leeds along with Bob Higgins. Faded after that.

What has our on loan youth players not being good enough got to do with our senior players not being good enough? I think you're suggesting that we replace one with the other. If so I'm not sure how that helps. If you're not saying that, then god knows what your point is. The bottom line is that neither our senior or youth players are good enough.

Because he's not a premier league player. Ditto Sims. What next, Alfie Jones to solve our defensive crisis cos he's playing in the Scottish prem? How about Ryan Seager coming back from Holland to score all the goals we need? These lads are on loan to lower league clubs because they're lower league players.

Yep, I thought Sparv would have become a first team regular for us. Never understood why we released him. Going back many years the one player who seemed destined for the top was Paul Masters, captain of the Shearer era youth team and looked to have it all. Now owns a cleaning business.