S-Clarke

Lallana captain. What a day for the kid.

So pleased for prowse. Deserves it.

That is a mothwatering 11

Has Lambo ever been a sub for us? Can't recall Any other times

There is no room for sentiment in this league. You play the best available for the job at any given time

Without Moses and Maloney they must be the bluntest side in history. And there is a chance that we will face them without either

Very pleased that jay is going to be used as the main striker. That's his position.

Red it is then.

Well Gaston came out and said we've given him the number 10 shirt, so him..! I think we're after 2 players that will be real starters, top quality, and 2 players that can add cover.

WTF @ the bompey keeper for the first goal? Abysmal.

He will be under even more pressure if/when we sign Gaston. I cannot see Cortese pulling of a transfer like that and accepting a season of struggle. I just hope NA proves himself to be one of the best English managers, and becomes the big name that Cortese so clearly craves.

I don't think it's going to be a radical formation change, but likely to be someone dropped that shocks us and one of the young lads given a chance. We could end up with Paulo in goal, maybe Ward-Prowse in midfield...

Tello, crikey. Well we're after a winger, but jeez - the level we're after is incredible.

I think a lot of this has understandably got lost in translation, but my jist on it is that we agreed a fee with a few bits to sort. I.e how it's paid. For bologna to then see the player speaking as if it was done they got rightly annoyed. So they paused it. It also allows the club to swing the exit in the face of the player, rather than the club looking like its selling off its talent - to their fans they now look like the victim. So in essence gastons comments were ill timed and slightly unprofessional, but bologna used this development to their advantage. There is no way back for Gaston now, so it's up to the chairman to look like he's trying to get the best possible deal he can. I think it will all be resolved rather quickly next week. As I say, that's just my take on the numerous articles all over the place but I don't think it's too far from the truth.

I don't know, there's something funny about it that I can't put my finger on.

Looked very good. Big, strong and technically sound to say the least. I still think we want better than him though.

Quite excited now. Can't wait to see us line up at the Ethiad tomorrow, I think we'll give a good account of ourselves and that's all we can really demand from tomorrow - go down fighting. It just feels like it was only yesterday that we were preparing to go to Dagenham, Yeovil, Wycombe...and the likes of Lambert, Lallana, Davis, Fonte, Morgan - who have been all the way - now get their chance up against the best tomorrow. I bet they are absolutely buzzing for it, and they all deserve it. p.s - Lallana on the titles of MOTD, quality.

Wow, 2 days. Blimey. Hold the back pages, transfer off - it's taken longer than 48 hours!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus hypo, what a silly thing to say.

Not sure. Adkins seemed fairly content with Shaw and Fox y/day. Although we could be after a CB who can also play LB...in an emergency.

According to Nixon, the tale regarding the (i assume) CB we're after is in the printed version of the people tomorrow. And it will ''WOW'' us. but it will be hard to do.

He could tell him that we're playing in our blue away kit.

Charlie Weyman?

Newcastle carrying on from where they left off, very impressive in the 2nd half. Spurs looked decent, but lacked a killer edge (i.e Modric). Arsenal also seem to be selling everyone again, Song is now off to Barca for £15m.

Bompey have got themselves a decent little team there, they should score bags of goals with their forwards.