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And to be fair, it's the only way a club like ourselves can compete. We have to be clever and buy potential or take a gamble on a 'big name' who hasn't quite made it, we can't buy the finished product. Although we can make the finished product for other clubs it seems. But I still surprises me how people don't understand this. They seem to assume that because our billionaire's family are rich, that we can keep all our players and buy lots of expensive players. That's never going to be the case. The policy we deploy will have peaks and troughs, but it's what gives us the best chance to compete, whilst not totally screwing ourselves financially. I'll await the ''Well, Nicola didn't have that thought!!'' - well no, he didn't. He also assumed that because our billionaire's family are rich, that he can go out their and splash stupid money around.

This is probably the worst kept secret in football. Everyone and his dog knows he's coming to us.

Whilst being absolutely disrespectful to a family we owe so much to. But it won't stop fans crying because they want ''More, More, More, More!!!!''

Blimey, it's not like Crook to be wrong.

The amount of over emotional tosh on this thread is proper cringe. Seriously, you'll all look back at this in a few weeks and feel quite silly for being so OTT.

Les Reed ‏@Les_Reed_ 2m2 minutes ago @MartynMacintyre God, I hope you're right... #SaintsFC

Out they come...

He clearly isn't, but never mind.

They might offer £1 in installments, with Dembele or another unwanted player in exchange.

The timing of this (i.e on the eve of a match) does seem to suggest it's come from Spurs end, or another clubs end. Horrific foul play, but nothing we can do about it at all.

Because that's what he does.

Seeing as he's injured until 2016, I would expect this to be transfer trash.

Saint George we need you to save us here, just like you did before. Remember? God knows where we'd be otherwise.

I love the last week of the transfer window...

Looks like Jose's tactics worked, and he's got more $$$$ to play with. Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri SUPERBOOM! Chelsea have offered 120m€ to Juventus for Pogba!Juve not keen to sell, but understand they won't get more 7:27 PM - 21 Aug 2015

Huh? You said Fonte and Pelle appear to have missed training, so I said it's unlikely that they'd have trained straight after that game - especially as they've played 90mins in every game so far this season.

It's falling on deaf ears for certain individuals. It's a convenient stick to hit the club with, for some reason some feel the need to do so.

Wouldn't have imagined they'd train the day after the game, they'll train tomorrow I expect. Koeman said ''no injuries.''

To be honest, Shaw was on a different level. It didn't take him too long to knock Fox out of the team, which he eventually did. Whilst Reed and Targett look decent players, they don't look at the same level as Shaw for e.g, and they're a lot older too. You'll get stellar crops through, and then not so good crops of players. I don't think Reed is a bad player, but he's not amazing. Solid, but unspectacular. Same as Gallagher really, not the most exciting crop.

That team would be utterly, utterly destroyed on the break, time and time again. One recognized centre back.

He was never bought as a starter, more as a replacement for the Djuricic/Elia roles. He is seemingly being eased into proceedings, Haven't seen enough of him really to make a massive judgement.

To say Bertrand may not return to the same level is incredibly extreme. He had a little clean up operation on his knee's.

Only when their players rolled around because someone had stamped on their toe nail.

I'd be quite happy with this, and I think it would be a lot more balanced and allow us more control through the middle. Romeu - Wanyama Clasie Mane Jay Pelle

Or another way of looking at it is the quality isn't the same as it was (chambers/shaw). And we've moved up a notch.