S-Clarke

Yep, he was described on another forum as a player who could take to any position as he's that technically gifted.

I really wish I was around when Keegan was signed, would have loved to have been around to soak up the atmosphere - must have been electric all over the City. Would love to have seen other fans reactions too! Doubt we'll ever make a signing that'll shock as much as that again, it would need to be someone like Ronaldo or Messi to have he same impact I'd expect.

An official move made for another player according to Alan Nixon on twitter, he's not mentioning names, but it'll be in the paper on Monday.

Well he's throwing his hat into the ring during pre-season, that's for sure. What the motives are for that, who knows. I still don't trust the guy really, not the right sort of character that you see associated with us these days. But I think he's got a chance of being in the 25, simply because he's on our training camp. If he wasn't in the plans I doubt he'd have gone with the squad, he would have bene left behind with the likes of Forte, Barnard, Dickson etc. - so NA clearly thinks he can have some sort of impact. Time will tell.

Quite clearly rubbish. He's with teamgb

Does someone want to reply back stating that they spent £8m on an average > poor championship striker? Jay Rodriguez is also a better player than Nugent will ever, ever be. Can't even be arsed to respond to any of the other ****.

According to the twitter it was comfortable for us, Evian barley got a look in. We should have won by a much bigger scoreline.

All over, we won. Excellent result against a top 10 french team.

Have to assume that's an injury to Shaw.

As a marker for next week, Ajax are currently thrashing Celtic 4-0.

https://twitter.com/ETGblog FYI...a french based (english speaking) twitter feed giving regular updates.

From how NA was talking when we signed Clyne, they didn't want to throew him in as they wanted to give him a full assessment to see where he was etc. Likley that this game just came a little too soon for him. Would expect him to be involved against Ajax though.

How assured does Ward-Prowse look by the way? Can't believe he's only 17/18. So agile with an excellent range of passing, seems to just find players with ease...and if you notice, he always bombs into the box with great timing. Reminds me so much of Jack Wiltshire, he's definitely in that mold. You can tell why the club are going the whole hog with his face in all the promotion, he's going to be some player. They've been rightly excited about him for a good few years now.

But he doesn't solve the problem of our lack of pace. And Wolves want upwars of £10m, which is why that has gone quiet. Lens will be cheaper, young, quicker and more talented.

Very happy with our dealings so far, all young players (Davis isn't that old either tbf) and all with the ability to improve and get better...and another way to look at it, their price will only rise. Give it a few years and I reckon we could provide a fair few England internationals, just as Villa did a few years back. Lallana, Cork, Rodriguez, Clyne - all have the ability IMO.

15million? Holy Jebus. Good player, yep, but a criminal amount of money - again - spent by Liverpool.

He does, and I think people look at SDR last year and how good he looked etc - but let's not kid ourselves, this Lens fella is playing for a huge European club and has alot more about him that SDR quite clearly. I know he's rated very highly back in Holland, and IMO he's easily a mid-table and above PL player, so we'd be pulling one hell of a signing off if it happens.

Who on twitter out of interest?

I think, Lens' , if ht happens, would have a certain Wow factor about it.

From the general consensus we're held in high regard by Burnley and CPFC for our dealings with them, regarding Rodriguez and Clyne. People who say we are difficult are those with an agenda who have lost out because of a deal falling through (i.e agents). We pull out of deals for the right reasons, but in the whole we seem to be a pretty professional outfit to deal with - hard, but fair.

He's not the sort of guy to sit around on unresolved issues, if something needs sorting then most of the time it's sorted fairly quickly. Makes a hell of a difference having a bit of money though.

It's on the OS - http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2855765,00.html we've agreed a settlement fee of around 800k with Rangers to secure it, with Davis adding an extra year onto his contract in the process.

I reckon he'll end up @ Spurs for £10m+, eventually ousting Friedel which won't be long away.

There's obviously a reason we didn't go for him, I don't believe we ''missed'' out as such because if we still held a big interested he would be ours.

Time to update the thread title to ''4 year deal'' as well!