S-Clarke

Who is pocketing all the money apparently, go figure.

It seems way too easy to blame a tactic, when more than anything it seems that we lack sharpness and are a bit rusty. We also lack a bit of star quality/xfactor in the attack, which the club are closed to addressing. Way too early to ditch anything or reinvent anything.

I can also see that the ''we got lucky'' for 2 years in a row myth being trotted out again.

I didn't get the grief over the Tadic sub, any of the attacking players could have come off to be honest - at least he put two centre forwards on and changed it up, I felt we got more into the game in the final third on the back of the subs if I'm honest.

First 20 mins, great - after that, trash. No penetration in the final third and a really really poor effort in midfield as the game went on, we never had control over it. Sunderland didn't threaten a great deal, but there was always a risk that just one moment could go their way if we kept playing as casual and slow as we were - and it did. Jose was way too tight to someone like Defoe, that's exactly how he plays CB's and I'd have hoped Jose would have known all about that. It was all too little too late after that, a late rally - but you have to wonder why we couldn't pepper them like that over the course of the match. It was way too much side ways and backwards for the majority of that game, almost trying to create the perfect goal as opposed to playing the situation or conditions (very arsenal esque). The players seemed somewhat confused at times. Also a note on Davis....I don't like the role he has, I don't think he's suited as this sort of midfielder, he needs to be in the attacking third running at defenses - not the last line of midfield trying to stop attacks/break up play, he's too small and weak for that. It's still way too early to jump to any sort of conclusions and it just feels a little bit of a slow start more than anything, I don't see any glaring catastrophic problems - lots of rustiness and lack of match sharpness though.

The fact that their official account felt it needed to respond to a randomer tweet says it all. #Smalltime

Portsmouth?

Nice. #ITKWatch

That joke got old 10 years ago.

Could have done without the Inter games being back to back, but never mind.

What a cracking draw that is, I had a feeling we'd get Inter way back when we knew we were in the Group's. No idea why, just felt we'd get them. Amazing trips.

Expect the first team to be drawn at around 7pm.

Most pundits also waffle the same crap most pre-seasons. Apparently this will be Liverpool's year to get into the Top 4, as they don't have any European commitments. Yet next year, if they do get European football, the argument will be that they'll struggle to retain it because of the extra games in Europe they'll have to play. Go figure.

Does this instigate the move away from Sporting for Slimani? (WBA were interested) and would that then open up the door for Berahino? Ahhh, so much is going to happen.

Sunderland's GK (Mannone) out for 4 months. I think their cover is the young kid, Pickford? (who isn't that bad actually)

Great thread, that was probably the highlight of Gaston's entire time at Southampton though.

Clubs aren't coming to snatch him at the last min, but the media like making a story, makes it more interesting as we reach deadline day. Similar happened with Ramirez. We had an entire week of ''He's signing!!' ''No, it's off!'' ''He's signing!'' ''Nope, its off again'' - when in actual fact it turned out that he'd signed at the start of the week anyway, the delay was the work permit. We've got him, so pointless getting stressed otherwise.

£24m is a lot of money for him.

Christ, how bad have their first two games been at their new home? They were beyond inept. Gokhan Tore.....seriously, wtf is that about? Is he a fan on the pitch?

I don't foresee any drastic improvements in your WUM'ing ability from now until then, so unfortunately it's 0/10 from me.

They look as bad, if not worse, than they did against Bournemouth. That stadium also sucks bad.

0/10

He doesn't want to play for another club in Europe. Expect to see him turn up in China or MLS.

Loic Remy to WHU on Loan. Their scatter-gun approach continues...

Is it really any surprise? Just take a look back at some of your last posts.