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http://www.fantasy.premierleague.com/ Back up again for the year, a lot of transfers not done yet but both Tadic (£7.5m) and Pelle (£7.5m) are in. Set-up another league for the forum if anybody is interested. 5127-2398 if you want to join.

Pelle/Ings/Gallagher Rodriguez/JWP - Ramirez/Davis - Tadic/Redmond Strong enough, really.

He was significantly damaged by playing with somebody as immobile as Lambert, his performance levels will heavily depend on who we bring in up front.

Boruc Chambers - Yoshida - Fonte - Clyne Wanyama - Cork Tadic - Ramirez - J Rod Pelle Gazzaniga, Targett, Jos, JWP, Reed, Davis, Isgrove, Gallagher Two signings and it already looks decent, clearly just the lack of a first team CB and LB as well as a second striker and rotational winger (first team throughout Rodriguez' injury).

It's a great twitter for a lazy man, he seems to put a lot of time into searching round the internet for news and then posts it all in one place for everyone to see.

FC Twente Latest ‏@FCTwenteLatest 4m According to RTV Oost journo @PaulSchabbink #FCTwente boss Alfred Schreuder just said that Dusan #Tadic is off to Southampton Dusan Tadic's FC Twente to Southampton, England. The attacker did not count this afternoon in the exhibition game against vv Oldenzaal. Alfred Schreuder said afterwards that Tadic did not participate to avoid. Risk of injury The coach expects the transfer will be completed within a few days. There were several clubs interested in the services of the Serbian, but the team of coach Ronald Koeman is now going to draw the longest straw.

Yeah as Ohio just said, it really is minuscule what we've wrote about Lallana. In contrast to Lambert who had tweet after tweet about memories and wishing him luck in the future. Think there's some ill-feeling between Lallana and the club with this one.

They're ratings based on last season I presume, he'll look a lot better for next years game. Also MLG will have some input but won't be able to be too biased.

http://fifazine.com/news/world-cup-2014/group-stage/koeman-up-by-and-counts-down-top-prize-for-fc-twente-seasoning/

To the people doubting the deal, there's having the ambition to keep hold of your players, but then there's just being offered absolutely crazy money for a teenager. Shaw is a fantastic player and I'm certain the money will work out to be worth it in the future for United, but as a lump sum that we'll be getting right now, it's a deal that'll push us on financially and hopefully will lead to us filling out our squad with better players. Great deal for all three of the subjects involved; us, them and the player.

Oliver Kay ‏@OliverKayTimes 2m Confirmed by Fifa: Luis Suarez banned for NINE matches and banned from all football for FOUR MONTHS #URU #LFC

Fonte or S Davis for me. Refreshing how much Fonte seems to absolutely love the club.

Lovren - van Djik or Caulker Lallana - Firmino or Cerci (ambitious) Shaw - Kolodziejczak I feel we need to go big if Lallana goes for his replacement and the two of those players have been outstanding in the previous season and would be available for around £15m.

Isn't actually his account sadly.

Right profile for us Used to working with young players Proven coach to develop young players/develop players Been successful in player/coach career Fits role to take us to next level Thinks he'll adapt to England easily due to studying the league Adding a GK coach in due course Katharina stabilised the club Case now of moving forward and exciting the fans Logical that we wouldn't make any moves on players without a new manager Ronald and Les need to discuss players futures We'll make squad changes if they're right for the club If players leave and we raise significant funds, it'll all go back into the club Chances of Lallana being here next season? "Difficult to say" "Strong chance" that Lallana will want to be here next season Used the word banter in a sentence Used it twice About it really.

Good point, hope so.

Guardian sport ‏@guardian_sport 17m Steve Bruce and Ronald Koeman on Southampton shortlist. By @DTguardian http://gu.com/p/3pqqq/tw (Photo: PA) pic.twitter.com/0DwwW9ReQ5 Strange.

Alex Goring Crook ‏@alex_crook 35s Despite what the bookies say Tim Sherwood is NOT in the running for the #saintsfc job He's spoken.

That'd be a fair point if it wasn't all news from 2/3 days ago.

How does he make a living from just repeating twitter?

Not bothered about that, showing a bit of passion.

Mentioned this the other day, I think he's better than Lallana and like you say probably available for around £12-£15m. We should really be looking at players who are doing well in the Bundesliga in my opinion, there's some fantastic options over there at much less inflated prices. Firmino, Rodriguez (very ambitious) or even a stupidly outrageous attempt at signing Huntelaar if we get Koeman. Some bloody good players lurking in the Bundesliga/Erdevisie at the minute I think.

Could not give a **** to be honest. Signs a 5 year deal and says he'll happily stay here for his career when he was just another player and now as soon as he's stepped up and shown some real ability he wants off at the first opportunity. Take the £25m and he can **** off, can get unbelievably talent from abroad with that sort of money; Roberto Firmino for example could command half that fee and is arguably just as good as Lallana is. Gutted to see him go but if he's going to start being such a whiny little ***** about this all then he can go **** himself.

Not that it ever was going to be, but now it 100% isn't... Oscar Garcia gone to Maccabi Tel Aviv in Isreal.

I think it's a bit doom and gloom here, I really think we can easily get away with selling Shaw, Lallana and Lambert. Fair enough it'll be different but if we appoint Koeman and give him £50m from the sales of those players and he invests it well, we'll be in a stronger position than we were this year for sure. Shaw is great but his lure lies in his potential, fair enough he's very good at the minute but if we sell him for £30m and sign an established, experienced LB for around £7m then we're making a massive profit and we're getting a player who is less positionally naive than Shaw proved to be on multiple occasions this season. Lallana is class, obviously. 90% of what we did went through him and he's a quality player, but just think about what you can get for £25m in his position. If we replaced him with a £15m attacking midfielder from abroad then I'd be happy, I also feel like Ramirez will prosper in his absence. Lambert is a weird one, we all wanted him replaced this summer anyway if we were to push on, I'm honestly not fussed that we've sold him as it means that we HAVE to sign a big striker now and there's unlimited options from foreign leagues to replace him with who'll be much better than he is. If we signed a striker from abroad and Ings as well I'd be delighted. So if we manage to keep hold of Schneiderlin, Lovren etc and only sell those three I'll be happy to be honest. Just need to replace the three of them and perhaps sign another striker as well as a CB and we'll be much stronger than last year. I also feel Koeman is a much better manager than Pochettino currently is and his experience will be vital. Nothing much to worry about yet in my opinion, but absolutely everything lies on the managerial appointment.