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It's been a tournament of shocks so far! Germany join Brazil, Italy & Canada in being eliminated in the group stages, and the US only scrapped through. Seems a great opportunity even with our injuries for us to win, albeit a long way to go.

I am amazed he hasn't left tbh. £20m for a very good FB who can play either side, is still only 26, and is proven in the Premier League. Ok he didn't have a great last season, but that represents a bargain in today's market.

This also from that journalist. What happened to the West Ham of old that would spunk loads of money on any old crap?? I miss those days

Fantastic win today, and great timing to find form before the knockouts! James looks a star in the making. Let's hope she's not quite as brittle as her brother has been in recent years

You're right, we forgot racism doesn't exist in the good old USA. And maybe have a look at your own forums where people have come to the same conclusion as the above before trying to take the high and mighty approach. Feel free to stay there whilst you're at it.

It's a bit weird that Tells leaving hasn't been leaked to a journalist if it was imminent. I hope we are holding out for £20m minimum at least. He seems happy enough here and was excellent in the same league last season.

It's a fair comment, and Kane clearly isn't kicking up a fuss and may well get a move to Bayern anyway, albeit I doubt they would have been his first choice. On the flip side a lot can change in the 4-6 years players sign contracts for, and spurs were a lot stronger when he signed it.

I may be a soft shite but I like the fact we are prepared to work with players who have been good servants to us to get the moves they would like. Both Romeu & Tadic are recent examples of this, Lambert as well many years ago. All players that were arguably worth more to us than the fees we got for them and left the club weaker overall, but shows we value them as human beings rather than as commodities. Compare that to how Levy clings onto Kane at Spuds...

For those of us who just happen to have a device in the Netherlands, you can watch here https://www.az.nl/nl/nieuws/kijk-live-naar-southampton-az Dutch commentary (obviously)

Absolute tosh. Many leaders are introverts. Jeff Bezos - the world's richest man and owner of Amazon for example. Barack Obama is another. That said, I don't think Armstrong is that sort of character anyway. He's a lead by example person, like JWP

Can you name a youngster who has had as much of a breakthrough year as Turner this year? Middleton has had a decent year as well, albeit is starting to struggle... Prest has had a poor season but was injured for a lot of the T20 Again, we're third in the league and got to Finals Day this season. Yes we've had disappointing performances but we've been good on the whole this year. Why all the bashing of the coaching staff??

Seems a low risk signing regardless. If we lose all of DCC MS & ABK we will need to beef out the CB position to provide cover for Stephens and bednarek

No chance Lavia will turn Chelsea down if we only agree a fee with them. Up to Liverpool to pay the fee we want if they want to get him

Apparently it's Shields that is driving Chelsea's interest

Main thing that table shows is how much teams waste money! Who on that list would say gave value for money? VVD I would say currently, a few others may turn out to be good value as well if they've recently signed. Puts our b*tching about carillo and onuachu into perspective

If we overspend on GKs to the detriment of other areas that's what we need to do. I was hoping Baz would come good this season (and he still might) but silly mistakes in preseason are making me nervous. A solid gk should be our top priority, and not be able to shift McCarthy shouldn't change that

Deserves its own thread I think. Worked as a scout for Southampton for many many years. I'm not even sure if he had retired? RIP https://twitter.com/SouthamptonFC/status/1683782509710942209?s=20

To think we were all worried about Newcastle buying Salisu for £40m 18 months ago.... Now we'd be delighted with half that

Nice confidence building save from Baz there. He needs a Few more of them

Since the echo appointed Alfie House how would any of you who read both the Echo & Athletic compare the content provided? Seems the echo have copied the Athletics approach and done a good job, but I don't read the athletic so may be wrong

Seems more to me that Newcastle are feeding the press to try and unsettle the player and get the price down. I think he'll stay until Jan at least

Not sure I believe either that we're signing downes or that we're selling livramento. Guess if the telegraph or athletic report it the story will have legs

Brown has a great record tbf - just not this year. Plus he's WK and a good one at that. I think you're being harsh on the coaching staff. Last season we won the T20 and pushed an unstoppable Surrey hard all season, falling away only in the final two games. I think we also got to the semis in the 50 over tourney? This season we're up and down in the Championship certainly, but another finals day (where we were beaten more by the weather than anything) and safe in the CC means we are doing far better than 90% of the counties. Don't you think the coaches deserve a bit of credit for this?

I can't see Chelsea selling Broja tbh. I expect Poch to give him plenty of minutes and given his rep for developing players it'd be good for Broja as well. Ings is looking good in preseason as well so not a given that WH will want to sell him

Can't believe you forgot Bale!!