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Pearce, Mariappa, Gorkss is better than Hooiveld, Fonte, Seaborne. I'd take Hooiveld over any defender at Reading, Jos aside though our options in that position don't stack up nearly as well.

Is Davies a no brainer? After all he was only able to get in the Birmingham team after Dann and Johnson, who did not impress in the pl last season, had been sold.

Someone posted an espn article where Birch was quoted as saying:

Well, they were largely **** and bottled the penalties in the QF, a traditional international tournament.

Lallana

Alan Nixon on twitter is speculating that the reason we aren't doing much atm in the transfer market is because NC is on holiday.

Same problem here, also can't get text version of the Fonte interview to load either, just redirects to the latest news page.

Adkins press conference quotes http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/gaffer-targets-another-step-up-289415.aspx?pageView=full#anchored

It is worrying that we don't seem any closer to bringing anyone in. We definitely need strengthening at CB before the first game and probably another just to add depth, the thought of us having a few injuries and Seaborne being sent out to defend against PL opposition is frightening.

No, wasn't even on the bench. Seems to have managed to freeze himself out at Vitesse in addition to scuppering the deal to come here

Their Sheikh got in a dispute over TV rights or something and decided to abandon the club leaving them up ****'s creek.

Another bit of interesting WHam transfer talk, Alan Nixon seems to think their deal to sign Ramis is going to collapse.

Yeah Carroll's bad Liverpool form was probably down to being put under too much pressure too early due to his price and he will end up being a good PL target man. If I was a WHU fan though, only question is how he'll react to being forced out by Rodgers when he wants to stay at Liverpool.

Silly season is in full swing now... Would be amazing, but no chance.

This is true, however as the pre-season games go on I would hope the team will improve in this respect as they become more accustomed to the formation.

Ajax didn't create anything of note until they scored and that was gifted to them. After the goal it was hard to really judge because NA started ringing in the changes not long afterwards.

encouraging performance, missing a bit of sharpness in the final third but that will come as they get more games under their belt. Fonte did himself no favours.

Guly, Lallana, Clyne and JWP stood out for me that half.

Letting Ajax have a bit too much possession, but we look more dangerous on the attack.

http://www.talksport.co.uk/sports-news/football/premier-league/transfer-rumours/120716/rennes-star-ready-snub-english-interest-176743 Talksport article (I know they are generally inaccurate), but this one comes with a quote from the player. Seems to prefer a move to Serie A.

Such as....

I'd be really interested to see what kind of players people would have liked us to sign...

Update: http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&u=http://www.vi.nl/nieuws/224782/Lens-geeft-regie-over-nabije-toekomst-in-handen-van-PSV.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Djeremain%2Blens%2Bvoetbal%2Binternational%2Bsouthampton%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DiUo%26tbo%3D1%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D606%26tbs%3Dqdr:d%26prmd%3Dimvnso&sa=X&ei=CFMQUNDOEPSq0AWvk4D4Ag&ved=0CGwQ7gEwBA

On the other hand it's goal.com, so there's no telling if the words attributed to his agent are actually his.

The lad's agent, Alexander Ballsac or w/e doesn't seem to have his finger on the pulse. He doesn't even know which division his client's club plays in. They qualified finished 7th and got into the EL.