S-Clarke

Ah, i remember now. One of those infamous sky sports sources thingys.

You suck so bad at this WUM stuff.

Whatever happened to that Vietto rumour? Just scored (what looks to be the winner) for Madrid in this friendly tournament.

To be fair, it's not hard to do a mock up tweet these days - something like this would do it - http://simitator.com/generator/twitter/tweet then just grab a pic and upload it to an image site. job done. still sad as hell though.

We will dip in form over Christmas.

lol

That was close, think he reacted a little too late to that. We're pressing from the front though, one noticeable addition i've noticed this pre-season.

Boufal has been the best player on the pitch, working his arse off too. But is still overdoing it a little.

Saints stream is pathetically bad, so i'm using the ASSE one - no commentary though.

Just hit it long FFS. Get it into the box.

Everything is Les Reed's fault. Even global warming. He's got a lot to answer for.

Mine arrived, but seemingly in spite of Mr Postman. Squished into my postbox (had to unscrew my postbox to get it out for Christ sake), everything bent, including the card. No idea how he managed that. Let's see if it still works...

I'm ITK. Liverpool are signing Gardos, not VVD as has been reported. The clubs have done very, very well to keep this out of the mainstream media. Expect an announcement in the next 48 hours. Trusted source.

Ah, they're in that denial phase! ''Key player leaving, but actually he's not that important. Actually he's pretty ****'' We've all done it! Fact is that he is their best player by a distance, their main man really.

Another classic thread from 9-3.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11669/10962732/barcelona-confident-of-signing-philippe-coutinho-from-liverpool Karma? Just replace Coutinho with VVD in that article and it's almost identical.

The main issue here is that he ditched the agent he negotiated his contract with, shortly after signing in. For some reason. I think he signed for 6 years in May....then ditched his agent and joined the Wesserman group in June/July ish.

I thought Virgil was different to be honest, but he's gone down in my estimations. We made a huge commitment to him last summer, that wouldn't have been cheap for us in terms of signing on fee's etc. He'd have been getting his increased wage whilst he was recovering from injury as well, something else we provided him and helped him with. But seemingly in the time he wasn't playing for us, and after he'd used our resources to rehabilitate he was chatting to Klopp behind our backs - now if he cannot accept that it was wrong of Liverpool and himself to do that, then he's quite flawed - he needs to show more respect to the club who pay him handsomely. This is also not forgetting the fact that he was made captain for us, he's got that responsibility as well - but he's seemingly acted like a sneaky piece of work. But what I will say is that all of this has come on the back of what is nothing other than an orchestrated tapping up attempt. The rules against tapping up are there to protect the clubs from having unsettled players. The rules have failed us here. If i was at the club, I'd be hell bent on getting Liverpool shafted - because they've not done anything by the book here. You just get the feeling that we don't want to play too hard though. Horrible situation for the club to be in, but I just think they need to get VVD to suck it up, get used to it, you're paid well, you can and will do better than Liverpool....so hold fire and don't be such a ****!

I have this clown on ignore, but reading some of the bits people quote him on, it's so obvious what his game is, and it certainly isn't a supporter of Southampton. I wish people would just ignore him, he'll go away then!

Stinking season....? Do you mean storming season..???

And that's why there should have been serious governance when they were spending stupid money and wages on the likes of Tevez, Hulk etc.. It was never going to last. Novelty seems to have worn off now.

Play Gabbi off of Austin in one of the wide area's, he's played there and thrived there for Napoli - he's got good movement, so could be very much like Jay was for us in the season he had with Lambert etc.

Maybe we could sell VVD to Chelsea for £75m, then go and knock on Liverpool's door with a £85m bid for Coutinho. That's obviously after Les Reed has taken him down to Mayflower park for an ice cream.

I'd agree with that. With the likes of Mane/Morgan etc...we got those out of the way in June I think, left it to the manager to then go out and replace them within pre-season. I think all we're seeing here is a situation where we're allowing VVD to get his head straight and come back into the team at home to Swansea in a couple of weeks - as per Morgan did v Liverpool in the pre-season he lost his head a few times. I know people like to mock Les (Saint Charlie in particular) by taking the **** out of his quiet summer remark, but to be honest it will probably end up being just that....

Even winning the league and playing in the champions league isn't enough for Monaco to keep their best players. They've lost the spine of their team in this window, although they're a hell of a lot better off for it.... They had an awesome young team that would have got better, but as per football it's not fair and the richer teams just poach them and the normal pecking order is returned....getting a bit bored with football to be honest.