S-Clarke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Ut3PVlESY Obligatory youtube video time, but this kid can play.

If it does, then we have ourselves an incredibly good replacement. Nothing to worry about either way. This kid was looked at by Barca as well, but they opted for the Vidal guy.

Cédric leaves Alvalade and goes to the Premier League The right-back Sporting is about to leave Cédric Soares is very close to moving arms and baggage to Southampton. The right-back of Sporting is preparing to leave the club to which is tied for 17 years and get into the Premier League, having been given as very likely at Stoke City, which offered five million euros. The 23 years should see the transfer announced by a higher amount in the coming hours. If the operation goes ahead, as it seems, the No.41 will become teammate of Jose Fonte, beside which is now the work of the National Team, Georgia. This was posted in the Clyne thread, but this is the (translated) report from Portgual. Sounds like it's happening, and for what it's worth, he is very, very highly rated.

Who knows, Les Reed said we will be getting a 2nd RB whatever happens.

Would be a good loan if we can sort it out. That would finish off the Maarten Stekenlburg rumours I'd have thought. I guess we'd then push for that young GK at Newcastle. I just remember Les saying that we wanted a loan to cover for Fraser and a young keeper, probably to replace Davis/Gazzaniga/Cropper etc.

It's slightly different qualifying for the CL and winning it. Qualifying for the CL is pretty hard for us, a freak season may achieve it, but we'll never get far in it. Of course we're a million miles from that level, we always will be. There's no discussion here, it's just obvious.

I don't really see what we're discussing here to be honest? What's the relevance of this? Juventus are a huge club, a hell of a lot bigger than we will, ever, ever, ever be. So, yeah.

Well, they got to the final a few days ago. 2001 - Champions League 1st Round 2002 - Champions League 2nd Round 2003 - Champions League Runner-Up 2004 - Champions League 2nd Round 2005 - Champions League Quarter-Final 2006 - Champions League Quarter-Final 2009 - Champions League 2nd Round 2010 - Champions League 1st Round/Europa League 3rd Round 2011 - Europa League 2nd Round 2012 - 2013 - Champions League Quarter-Final 2014 - Champions League 1st Round/Europa League Semi-Final 2015 - Champions League runner-up

What do you mean in that they haven't been brilliant lately? They've won the last 4 Serie A titles by some distance.

It has been said that Real want to loan him to a La Liga club, not abroad.

My thread is better

Not sure if anyone has seen this, but our brand value has grown 89% in the last year. We're now above clubs such as Inter Milan, At. Madrid, Napoli. Southampton, thanks in part to their recent successes under Mauricio Pochettino and Ronald Koeman, are this year's fastest growing brand. The Saints' brand value is up 89% to $183million (£120million). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3115064/Manchester-United-world-s-billion-dollar-brand-Red-Devils-beat-Real-Madrid-Bayern-Munich-Barcelona-surge-past-mega-money-milestone.html

How's everyone getting on with this now? There are some fantastic players you can pickup early on, and they become £30-40m players easily. Ladisslav Krejci - left winger/amc Romagnoli - you can get him from Roma's U20's team at the start of the game. Within 2/3 years he is the best defender in the game. Carrasco - Belgian attacking player from Monaco. Absolute talent. Can pick him up for £10m and he is Gareth Bale-esque in his ability. Oliver - You can grab him on loan from At.Madrid. I managed to negotiate a £14m purchase fee. Well worth doing it, top player in the AMC role. Thomas Partey - Another At.Madrid player which you can pickup for loan with a view to buy. He's basically Wanyama, so when Wanyama does leave he's a pretty sound replacement. Gaston Gil Romero - Got him for under £10m. He's Morgan basically, just Argentinian. I sold Morgan in the 2nd season for about £29m, got this kid for £10m. He's only 21 and is based at an Argentinian club - you have to get in there kind of early in the window, as some Italian clubs are sniffing. Alan Noym - Great replacement for Clyne if you sell him. He's very quick, very strong, has a terrific delivery on him. Costs about £6m. Another RB worth looking at is (another!) at. madrid player, Silvio. They don't want him any more and you can pick him up for £1m. Portuguese international, 27 years old. He's rock solid Sold Wanyama, Morgan, Clyne for a combined 60 odd million I think, got the replacements with plenty of cash left over. I ended up with this team by season 3, finished on 72 pts in the Top 4: Forster Silvio - Fonte - Romagnoli - Bertrand Gaston Gil-Romero JWP Carrasco - Oliver - Quintero Rodriguez Subs - Stekenberg, Partey, Nyom, Austin, Sims, McCarthy, Reed

Markovic was actually bought as an attacking wide player, but Brendan Rogers, being the tactical genius that he is, played him at right or left wing back. They've also got Aspas, who is out on loan this season. They have a proper stock-pile of strikers not good enough for them, quite odd.

Bit of a reality check for Liverpool I think. Linked with the likes of Higuain, Lacazzette, Vieto etc.....but end up with Ings. Good player, not denying that, wouldn't have said no to him here.....but he's not the sort of signing which is going to propel Liverpool back into contenders.

Stop trying to pretend you're ITK.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-transfers-loic-remy-chase-5840461

Don't bite to it Roger. We've got his trash for weeks yet, if people just ignore him then he'll go away. I hope.

Give me another season or 2 and I'll get them there.

For me, the goal which gave me the biggest emotional release was when Rickie scored against the Skates in the cup game when we were in L1. The other goal was probably Jos making it 3-0 against Coventry, the rest of the game became a massive party. Biggest moments were the new contracts for Morgan and Lallana, and the signing of Rickie Lambert. Huge, significant. Not sure where we would be if we didn't have that sort of goal scorer in our setup.

Rumour has it that Utd are very keen on Kane and want to push a deal.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/446535/EXCLUSIVE-Tottenham-leading-the-chase-for-Liverpool-target-Yannick-Bolasie what the actual fu....?

There will be better games down on the Sunday park pitches.

He's been rubbish this season tbh, in and out through injury, 1 or 2 flashes, but when he has played a lot of largely ineffective performances - like the one we saw at St Mary's. I know L'Pool fan's are the biggest fans.