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To be honest, I would expect we've been aware of his contract situation for months and have been scouting him for months. The world cup was just a decent window for the manager to have one last look. I thought he had a cracking tournament too.

He would be a huge signing. Got to think Sevilla are hot favorites though, something would need to go wrong that side for us to be in the race.

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Well he would be a downgrade.

Pace is a funny thing though, I look at the players who excelled for Italy last night - Pirlo, Montilovo, De Rossi - all very slow, not pacey what so ever. Personally that's where I see Adam going in the end, the only reason I have the reservation about his lack of pace is because of his position - left wing.

Seems like the club are being a little difficult here, not sure why they need to be so fussy. Surely they're not going to ask every single student for a copy of their enrollment letter?? (and to be fair, this is much easier to forge than an email from your tutor or an NUS card!) Bizarre by the club.

He's not bad at club level, just seems to be another player who completely freezes in competitive international games. We didn't see anything from him that we saw at Utd, or Villa. He's gots bags of talent, but looks incredibly nervous out there. Now Milner on the other hand...

Big year for Adam next year, there's no doubt that he's incredibly talented, but he's never done it at the top level. Will be interesting to see how he gets the better of seasoned pro's, the only reservation I have against him at the highest level is his lack of pace. If he had pace, he wouldn't be here anymore. If he bags a few goals next year and causes all sorts of problems, then he will have to be considered for england in that 'troublesome' left sided role.

They priced it just right last year, and there was stuff for the kids etc, and you got to see 2 top European teams. How they've justified the price increase this year is beyond me, bizarre. Playing against a team we'll play twice next season, and a team who will not really be able to field many players. I was looking to go to this...but £25 is insane. If we were up against teams like Napoli or Dortmand etc...then maybe you could justify it. It's also a very early pre-season game, players will be no where near fitness and there won't be much to shout about in that sense. £25 stays in my pocket for this one. They've got it all wrong.

This...!

Michu I think? Not sure much has happened on this one, lots of rumours last week, but seems other Spanish clubs are keen.

Excellent. Maybe a good opportunity for that picture again?

Is it just me who find these attendance debates absolutely mind-numbingly boring? I thought this thread was a positive insight into the clubs future plans. Not sure why it's turned into a turgid debate revolving around the same individuals. Maybe the mods should make an attendance forum?

The players were too far away from him, Rooney was nowhere near his flick ons. That's where the problem lies. He was much more effective than wonderboy Rooney.

Carroll was excellent when he came on and held the ball up, which Rooney couldn't do for toffee. Andy is the future, and is an international class player. Lambert is our legend, but he isn't an international class player. Always predictable to see these sort of posts, or ''We could beat them''. No we couldn't, even on that showing they would beat us 9.9times out of 10. All this lower league winning seems to have gone to some peoples heads! The gulf is huge...

To be honest, R1 have bigged this up as their biggest ever event...but It just seems like another identical ''big weekend'' to me. Not sure what's any different about it.

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/why-manchester-united-target-michu-is-perfect-for-the-premier-league/

He's exactly the sort of midfielder we need. All our current ones are too similar, would be nice to have a central midfielder who is a regular goal threat.

Michu was tracked by Man Utd 6 months ago, would be an insane signing if it happens.

That's a silly thing to say really. Messi was picked up at 7 or 8. So was Bale ward-prowse has been with us since he was 10. The younger they are the better chance they have, if they're within a pro setup.

I can't remember to be honest, but I know one of the previous issues were the problems with segregation due to the design and build of the ground - and that the Northam end was the only suitable place at that point, but if there is another place they could stick it, it would surely be a corner...and the Itchen/Chapel corner? Right at the front of the stadium, no issues with the away fans having to walk right around the stadium amongst all the other fans, etc etc...easy access to whatever they'll do with the waterside. And with the megastore already there, I guess it's already 'built' in a way that it's segregated from the other concourses. And from a total business head....what about making the home fans walk through the mega store to get to their seat in the Chapel each game....? bit cheeky tbh, but could happen.

Would make sense tbh, it looks as if that 'link' between the building and the Chapel is for our fans, with the turnstiles 'above' so they don't mingle with the away fans underneath...possibly. Then you'd have an all saints northam end, with an extra tier. Would create a mini-kop end.

congrats mate!

Or where the away fans will enter, as that can then be turned into an independent concourse. They've always wanted to shift the away fans tbf.

At the end of the day it depends, if we're bobbing around in the bottom half of the PL, then yeah, I'd have to agree with that. But if in the future we were up there challenging for European places then I think we'd have a fair demand, because at the end of the day clubs do have a lot of fair weather fans if we're honest.