S-Clarke

Crikey, if we do no business at all then it's best to get Samaritans on speed dial for the season.

Alan Nixon ‏@reluctantnicko @Jayrodfan2 @markreeves999 U don't have a clue what centre half u want. Not clever.

We'll probably win against 1 of them, that's the way we work!

What, the 4-4-2 that totally ended the game for us today? Once we switched to 4-4-2 we didn't have a scooby what we were doing. Keep the formation as it is because it is fluid, easy on the eye and is the way forward long-term - but add a bit more penetration and ''nous'' down the flanks and we'd have more luck.

Totally not his fault. If he played where he's supposed to play then he'd have made much more of an impact. I'm sure of that.

Probably just fans who've sprung back up now we're in the PL. No true fan, who has been through what we have in the last 2 years, would think any such thing.

I wonder who our new CB's will be then?? Possibly that bloke from Rennes and Dann? Although I think we'll add 1 new CB and have done with that.

He scored 23 goals last season by playing as a striker. Therefore play him as a striker. The whole formation is fair enough, but it will not work by putting square pegs in round holes. As someone else has said, I'm sure he's there until we have someone else to play there. Shows the frightening lack of options on the flanks though.

He was no worse than anyone else in terms of ball retention. He was our most effective player in the final third in spells.

I didn't realise 9 points won you promotion.

The whole day was pretty underwhelming if we're honest, the attendance was very odd.

Christ, do we need someone like him. Please sign.

2 pretty rubbish teams, we were just a little more rubbish than them. We were pretty in the first half up until the final third, but very, very ineffective. I couldn't give two hoots if Jay Rodriguez has played on the left before, he shouldn't play there for us. Completely isolated, no support and not involved in the game what soever. He scored 23 goals last season as a striker, play him there - simple as that. We are pretty up until the final third, where it all goes tits up basically. We just need an extra injection of something, a little more flair on the flanks, because we're so static and slow it's frightening. and PL defenses will just gobble that up really. The 2nd half was one to just simply forget, horrific from us. We just never got going. We changed the shape a few times, but once you've started poorly it's very hard to get any sort of rhythm no matter which formation we played - and that was pretty much the case today. It was never going to be easy, but I just hoped we'd have a bit more about us today in our first home game back. But we were flat and one dimensional, and never got going as an attacking threat.

It was blocked, I can back you up on that eric. but it looks like it's been fixed - ok now.

For the last time, you can work on more than 1 transfer at any one time. I'm baffled as to where this theory has come from.

TBF he played well against City, so deserves to keep his place. Lambert up top them is my guess.

Sunderland have been busy. They've now confirmed the signing of Adam Johnson

What a completely bizarre thread.

Just how you wanted it, basically. Otherwise what the hell are you supposed to moan about??

Another day, no sod it, another WEEK, and Alpine is saying the same thing. A massively normal transfer window on saints web.

A much, much clearer translation.

This thread won't go down well.

Bloody twitter.....Now we haven't bought 30% of him at all, so that's rubbish.

Because it's obvious. Bolonga have a player on strike. He won't train or play for them anymore. We have the only offer on the table, which is 2.5m euro short of what they want in terms of a net fee. We've agreed the contract with the player. The player has been over and has been sold the whole package. The closer we get ot the end of the window, Bolonga will realise that what we've offered is better than nothing and having an unhappy moping around for 6 months. (value potentially decreasing). The talk of other clubs being interested is just that, talk. They're playing games to try and force our hand. We won't budge and they will be forced to take it at the end of the day. Basically, nothing has changed. Just fresh quotes saying the exactly the same as he did on Monday, just worded slightly differently.