S-Clarke

Wouldn't be Santon or Warnock, the only one I can think of it being is Bertand. Young, english, better than what we have.

ummm....Bertrand? Maybe Chelsea want him to have regular games all season.

Ah ok, cue the histericks that we have no money for a permanent signing.

Wonder if that's more of a case of a move out, rather than in? I assume he's going to publish a line in the paper tonight.

I see people are still reading too much into friendly's, again. The intensity isn't the same as it would be in a competitive game, so you're not going to see amazing ''stand out'' performances during pre-season. We're on the brink of one of our most exciting seasons in years, and years, yet for some reason the general mood is of ''dread'' and ''everything is all bad''. It actually isn't. As a club we're going places, we've just got promoted to the PL by back to back promotions, as fans we should be as high as a kite, so why aren't we? What more do you want or expect? Expectations seem a bit screwed on here.

Do we need another CM? Chaplow, Hammond, Cork, Morgan, Ward-Prowse, Davis and also Lallana and Guly who can play there. I'd be a bit ****ed if our next big transfer was a CM.

Isn't most of their hate still driven from the fact that Illinsgsworth couldn't get a ST? But you're right, any little negative that they can twist and fire back towards the club is like ammunition to them. Unfortunately it seems some from that site are starting to infiltrate here.

It does happen all over, but we have had a decent turnover since they've been in charge of us. I speak from a bit of experience as I am friends with someone who was let go right at the start of the ownership. Unfortunately that period wasn't handled that well and people were forced to leave and accept payouts, and it all turned very sour. NC wanted his own people and didn't want anyone from the old regime left over in key positions, so he wielded the axe on a hell of alot of people - very ruthless. But you could say that we'd been under performing for years, all areas of the club had failed, so why not start again with a fresh brush? I think it was just the way it was done which caused a bit of a sour ending. There is a decent turnover in the backroom still, but these are in area's which are under performing and not producing the results NC wants - so he changes until he gets the results he wants.

So difficult that we were amongst the biggest movers in terms of activity last year. We're just sensible, if an agent wants too much then we'll probably tell him to sod off, and rightly so. Overpaying for no real reason is the route back to financial melt down. WHU are on the road to that at the moment.

The first parts of what you said were false though, so I didn't take them out of context as ti was pretty obvious. Pre-seson is the time to try things. I bet you that if we stuck to the same formation during pre-season, and didn't have a plan B, you'd be one of the first complaining about our lack of tactical options during the season and why don't we have a plan a,b, c etc. This is the only time we can try things like this, if they weren't trying it they'd be proving to be pretty incompetent at their job. What do you mean the time for adding new signings has gone? Has the transfer deadline changed? I thought it was the 31st? That's the deadline, that's when the time will have ended to add players, not before. Saying things like that just frustrates as it's so wrong and just screams of someone wetting their pants for no real reason.

I don't think Newcastle will do as well, they seriously overachieved last year and clubs like Chelsea will not allow it to be as close next year. I reckon BA will struggle to repeat his goal haul as well. They'll still be top half, but probably around 9th Im also not sure why they think villa will Finish so high. Their squad is pants IMO. As last year proved....they're trying to rely on their young prospects, when a few of them are probably championship standard at best

Please, can the season start already??? Crap like this only pops up when people have nothing else to speak about and want to provoke a bit of attention. Once we've got to September, we will have our CB's and wingers, Adkins will still be our manager and we'd have made an encouraging start. Stuff like this will then drift off into the gutter as it should.

Not a bad player, but I still think we're after a level of player above him.

The one on the football rumours website. Funnily enough, any positive transfer news is quickly dismissed from that website, but it seems as people are giving the takeover rumour more legs. Odd. Agendas, etc.

Another odd thread. There have been occasions when we stand off too much and let them take a shot, but it could be argued that we don't concede many bad goals and teams can't get behind us. This is really not worth worrying about. Im also confused at the relevance of joe garner scoring against us long range, when this was 4 years ago against 11 different players.

I've said on another thread, I don't actually think he fits our style from the start. Bringing him on for the last 20mins when we need a goal is fine, and could be quite fruitful.

You'd think we've learnt our lesson from the Jos signing though! I expect we scouted him for a while, I doubt he was a last minute signing as such as I expect we'd done alot of previous work on him. Our scouts have picked out some great players, so pretty sure they can do the same again.

If it was the list you posted, it wasn't great. I think we want better, that may be the delay.

Just lifted a post from TUI, are these people serious? What is with our fans? You'd think they'd have some decent knowledge after all the years following saints, but they seem totally obvious to how things work in the professional game. I believe the time for experimenting with new formation etc. has gone. I believe the time for adding new signings has gone. Last night we should have seen what, in the main, would be our Premier lineup

If we're chasing a game, I'd throw him on and get Rickie to knock the ball down in the 6 yard box. Not pretty, but could be a fruitful way to grab some last minute goals! (ala last night)

We are clearly looking though, but we have specific requirements. If we wanted any old CB to fill the void we'd have had 2 by now, but I'm pretty sure we'll looking for that specific quality within a budget. I imagine we also know who we want, but times in the transfer window are often a waiting game. (agents, players, the selling club). Some fans have the football manager mindset, in that it's as easy as making a bid, the club accepting, and the deal is done. People don't realise how much goes into a transfer, especially big multi-million pound ones. Then when ou have to deal with random third party's demanding money, it can all get very complicated. We're not the only club finding it difficult this summer, and we've actually signed more than most already anyway.

If the ball falls to him inside the 6 yard box, Sharp will score 9/10. An excellent 6 yard box finisher. Not entirely sure he fits our fluid attacking game from the start though.

You cannot make a statement like that until August 31'st has been and gone.

This is what I knew would happen. People had their expectations too high from word go. For a club of our current position and stature our signings have been excellent. If you wanted better, name names, otherwise it's a non-argument

Jeez. Start the season already