S-Clarke

AL went crying to MP and NC, basically.

Not really, no, it has not sunk in if I'm being honest. I'd like to thank everyone at Southampton for what they have done for me; I have been there for the best part of 14 years. And that is the sole reference to us. There may be more later, but this is now leaving an incredibly bad taste in my mouth.

He's had a PR disaster, once again. Who is advising him? He was our captain last season, and he openly admits that now. What is he playing at?

AL: “Last season, deep down, I was thinking: hopefully one day I'll be able to play in that team. That dream is reality now.” He's not really helping himself, is he? He's been a complete PR disaster in the last few months.

Think they go straight into the group stages.

All of our England WC players - gone, even before pre-season training started. Quite a sobering thought. No more call ups this year please. Poisoned chalice for us or what.

Lower league style announcement by Liverpool. That looks so horrendous, even worse as a bigger graphic.

Liverpools breaking news twitter announcements are utterly, utterly naff. Proper lower league stuff.

Staplewood footage, the temp. huts are in the BG.

The new facility opened today, so I can imagine they will use that for pretty much everything they can.

Les Reed?....Ummm, no, Guly? You've got me.

You keep saying it's your opinion, so keep it that way and stop trying to ram your **** down our throats. HTH.

Who wants him for that price? He's a good NPC striker, nothing more. Mentalists who pay that much. Almost as mental as paying £8m for Snodgrass, but not quite. That's on insane levels.

Now this is a good post. Exactly how it is.

Maybe a season loan is an option?

In training..... That's a good point actually and very well made. I was actually meaning to say de Rhijn (i think) at Ajax, I know there are some decent CB's in that league that have been linked to a higher level - and he's done well against them. Could have sworn Martins-Indi was an Ajax player too, but must have been a senior moment.

Meaningless odds. Up until Sept. 1st any odds or predictions on how we'll do are irrelevant.

Amazing stats tbh, the Dutch league may be of poor standard defensively (although tbh, de vrij and Martins-Indi were bullied a bit by him, and they're off to higher leagues!), but if you can score that many goals then you've clearly got something about you which can be taken into another league.

I've never really understood why people got OTT over kits. But then people have been underwhelmed by the sponsor this year, so nothing surprises me.

Robbie isn't a troll tbh, just a passionate fan - but does get way too emotional and lets that take over him....as we are seeing here. Seems to have lost his head totally.

Cheers Corp.

This would be a damn fine start to our recruitment if this goes through tbh.

He's going back to Brazil, think it's pretty much agreed.

I'm not sure why he's held in such disdain by some of our fans, he has been a part of our rise as much as anyone else. Key in implementing the football development side of the club, and if Cortese is untouchable as so many believe, then by working so closely with Reed over the last 5 years is probably a decent indication to how he was thought of by Cortese. During this summer of utter upheaval, we need to thank our lucky stars we still have continuity in the form of Reed.

If we value Morgan at £20m, then I'm not sure Goran is worth the 6-8m they seem to be stating. He was a top, top player back in his Lazio days, but he has drifted off and is over 30 now. Wouldn't say that's a particularly attractive proposition. Would rather take the full fee and go and get a younger Pandev type.