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Their new tunnel thing is absolutely bizarre. Have you seen the rest? They have one way glass, so people in 'hospitality' can see the players lining up in the tunnel - but the players just see themselves. They also have a red carpet catwalk style entrance for the players on match day. Absolutle gimmicks. Shame they can't win games.

RIP. Sad news, had hoped this was pulled on Saturday because it wasn't true, but sadly it seems it was. The news actually came out on Saturday, there was a post on here - which was oddly pulled after about 10 mins. Maybe the family didn't want it made public then, which is understandable.

All these posts regarding ''it's not happening'' ''he's been snapped up by someone else'' make me laugh, as when people are posting that he's probably at that exact moment having his Saints publicity shots done.

Never really been sure on the love for Arnatovic. Always struck me as someone incredibly one paced, petulant and inconsistent. There's a reason why WHU were the only club to spend £25m on him. And as we all know, WHU's transfer policy is flawless.

Exactly how we played away at United to be fair. I wouldn't have called that negative, just a very clever and disciplined tactical performance

To be fair, he was out for about a year with a serious knee injury.

The ref has had a ****ing nightmare tonight.

Harsh 2nd, but this is a very astute tactical masterclass by Koeman. Pep's teams didn't have any idea to this sort of tactic last year either...

Southampton forward Sam Gallagher has agreed to join Birmingham on a season-long loan, according to Sky sources. Harry Redknapp's side have already made two signings today and we understand Gallagher will undergo a medical later before signing terms on the deal.

Not surprised, given the fact he's not even been on the bench for us. Not denying he's a good player, but I would agree with others in that he's not really suited for the cut and thrust of this league. I can imagine he would thrive in a league where the tempo is slower and he gets a little more time. Wish him all the best if he goes, always put in a shift when he's played.

Yeah, he's got a left peg on him. I was going more on the style, how he moves the ball out of defence and reads the game etc. The Lazio manager has now confirmed it: http://readsouthampton.com/2017/08/20/hoedt-go-southampton-monday/

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but this is the best youtube complication I've seen on him. And you can't have a signing thread without a youtube compilation. Reminds me of Fonte in his style.

My take on it is that he came back from the Euro's and felt he deserved a new deal and a huge wage rise, whilst we were prepared to give him a new deal it wasn't in our interests to tie him to a 3/4 year deal which I believe is what he was after. The club aren't stupid and they would have been well aware of his deteriorating statistics and the last thing we would have done is hang ourselves with a player on the decline for 3/4 more years on 70k. West Ham were seemingly the only club willing to offer him his 3 year + deal and required wages, and they decided to give us £8m for him as well. It was a no brainer in terms of a business decision, especially given that he decided to kick up a fuss around the place as well. I think, once again, the clubs reluctance on caving into his contract demands have been proven right and the call to let him go was also the right one. The main complaint I'd have from the whole charade is our lack of replacing him in January, that hung us out to dry for the season given that VVD then got himself injured as well - that could have been handled better. But in isolation, the decision to let Fonte go wasn't a bad one. He'll never get a boo from me though, didn't quite get the jeering. He gave us great years and some great memories.

Huge result for Chelsea that. Good game to watch. Not entirely sure why Chelsea think they need Virgil, given they have an absolutely outstanding prospect in Christensen. Trust your youth and stop stockpiling them Chelsea.

hmmm.

Hudders win 1-0. Absolute garbage game though...

If you still have a login to the site and you can get to the subscriptions area, you 'should' be able to use the '2 week free' they're giving out. Payments will be open again in a couple of weeks once their fancy new VPN/proxy based solution is out, apparently. imwaiting is the code...

That told em'

1-0 Huddersfield, good goal from Mooy to be fair. Probably the standout player in a pretty poor game.

I would 2nd/third and forth that. Been using PIA for about a year myself. It's a variant of OpenVPN, so if your router is capable you can do some clever routing stuff so only certain devices use the VPN at specific times. Works a treat.

TBF they both look like championship teams........a lot of dross really.

To be fair, he was the key pen taker for Twente and also is for Serbia. But I would agree that he isn't convincing what so ever. If he's on the pitch, JWP is my first pick every single time.

errr...french journo for Yahoo sport seems to think Man City are about to activate Messi's £300m release clause.

No one's predictions are right after just 2 games, calm down.

Don't pretend you're ITK. I'm still waiting for us to go beast mode and sign Jedinak.