S-Clarke

MUVI - sub brand of VEHO.

That's awesome, very nice indeed. 2 excellently, smart kits this year. has to be said. Well done to the club..

Bid was accepted, but Swansea haven't taken it any further so far. Bit odd.

That was burnley's sale of the decade, I'd have thought. We were desperate, they had us over a barrel.

That is a pretty ridiculous stat, up amongst some incredible players. The league may be poor, but to stand out that much in it, then you're clearly too good for it.

Will never be forgotten. Forever in our memories.

Villa's recruitment programme this summer is hilarious.

christ, ITV's the championship. Getting up for 9:30 on a Sunday or whatever to watch those arty highlights, which they always were. A great old-fashioned 'ave it from Cork for the assist there.

I must admit, I do warm to the Koeman interviews a hell of a lot more than a certain MP. They were always very scripted, straight and impersonal. You get more of a genuine feeling with Koeman.

Jeez, of course. That was epic, weren't we 2-0 down at HT or something? It was results like that which gave us all false hope, unfortunately!

That's why I think some are a bit nervous about this pre-season!! If we ever hear Koeman say ''the young boysh did well'' then we know we have issues.

Grim indeed, I remember feeling quite optimistic at the start though, as I thought we had a couple of hard luck stories first 2 games - pushed 2 of the top 6 clubs all the way, then we did Derby on their own patch - that should have been 4/5-0 for what it's worth, best performance of the season bar none.

Yes, I remember that. A certain Jonjo Shelvey ran the show up top and scored a couple.

That back 4, what the hell. Bennett was made to look like a joke player, Jamie Scowcroft just tore him to bits all afternoon. And playing Makin at CB didn't help. We'd lost baird that summer, as well as Craine and Claus long-term...

And the similar, if yet more unpleasant 5-0 thrashing at Hull. Didn't we do them 4-0 at an earlier point in the year as well? We were such an all over the place side that year. We clearly had some good players, as shown by the fact that a few stuck around to contribute to our rise, but we were so hot and cold it was crazy. The risk of going all youth I expect.

I remember being excited by the signing of Ifil, saw it as a coup. Umm, never mind. Safri could have been good, but was a bit of a waste of money in an area we didn't need to add to at the time. If I remember, Burley had a bit of a thing for CM's.

I Ruddy hope not.

Probably resigned to it tbh. He's clearly burned all his bridges, just up to the clubs to agree the deal now.

Including sacking Kenny, as his birthday is on the 17th. Oddball.

Thank you Monk. I would expect the club are simply not prepared to spend the fee Feyernord want, which is fair enough given his age. I guess you can't put any names on them

Southampton have signed FC Twente's attacking midfielder Dusan Tadic for an undisclosed fee, believed to be £10.9m. This is what I don't quite understand about the clubs wish for everything to be undisclosed, even undisclosed deals have the fee's ''understood to be...'' added to them anyway by the media! Kind of pointless! But not a bad price at all.

Their chairman is an utter maniac though, so I wouldn't take anything he says seriously.

We've just sold Shaw, Lallana, Lambert and Lovren - it would take a brave man to say we want to push on for certain......would make him look slightly foolish. It will take a lot of spending to even get us to the same level as last year, let alone better. It was a realistic statement which should be read as that. Time to take any stupid Top 4 or European ambitious out of peoples head's, for now. Next season is all about consolidating.

Dembele, Lamella, Soldado, Lennon, Vertonghan, Lloris, Walker - not a bad spine. The area's they probably will look to is a new LB and another striker, that's what I'd see as their priority's if I'm honest. I cannot see them spending what would need to be around £20m on a midfielder when they already have Sigurdson, Sandro, Paulinho, Dembele. Here's hoping, anyway!

It needs to read ''We want to finish in the top 4, and then win the league'' or something.