John B

I agree with what you are saying but if we did get £20m I suggest that his signing would have been a pretty good one as he cost little and probably his wages have not been huge and he has played some decent games. I am interested in what happens to Jack Stephens has he has dropped from 2nd CB earlier in the season to 4th now I think it is time for him to go as if any of the younger CBs are any good

We are a lower PL club I think you are wrong to think players will stay with us when they can get paid more and win trophies and play in Europe What is the evidence for your theory especially as agents are always looking for the next pay day

Why not give them a chance I for one would like to see more competition for CL places I would have thought it was quite feasible for Newcastle to be in the Top 8 in the next few years Leicester have done well and West Ham are challenging now and Newcastle have a huge amount of money behind them but of curse the club has to remain in the PL this season Both Chelsea and Man City have done really well under new ownership

I was quite excited after the Swiss takeover getting top League 1 players and winning the JPT so you were not exited as we bought our way to success I find that pretty strange and feel your post is a little hypocritical most of the large clubs in the top 6 diligently scout and have well run Academies where they devolop players Thanks to Newcastle we now have Armstrong who they developed

Not sure Chelsea would want to sell him to a top Eight Club

My daughters brother-inlaw told me in the Autumn a Chelsea Fan ho had seen him player for Chelsea that Broja was the Dogs Bollix so I believed him

The first Saints player I met was John Sydenham he had an A40 and I served him with some petrol on West End Road in Bitterne it was a Tesco's outlet when I was last in the area Terry Paine used to live near Lances Hill off Glenfield Avenue in a 3 Bedroom House named Garrincha

Yes so much better than we have today Only played for England once against Egypt if I remember

I saw him make his debut (taking the place of the injured Kevin Keegan) aged only 16 years and 313 days on 29 November 1980 at Old Trafford, thus becoming the youngest player to be picked for Southampton

Ben Brown: Hampshire sign former Sussex captain on two-year deal Must admit never heard of him has he signed as a Batsman or Wicket Keeper/Batsman

Of course we could do better if we had more financial resources and the ability to sign top class players with the promise of European football but at the moment we do not We are a bottom mid table club with bottom mid table players who have been given contracts by the club but constantly discussing their abilities is not going to make them better. I my opinion SFC have not signed a decent experienced top class PL player for sometime apart from possibly KWP we sign inxperienced young players who are prone to make errors

Very true but Broja is probably going to be a CL performer

At the moment Armstrong is innefectual but Broja is not he may well become a decent player but at the moment surely you must see there are questions marks over him

Although we have done well recently and relegation is very unlikely to happen the only consistent thing about SFC is their inconsistency Hoping for a decent performance but will be unsuprised if invidual errors leads to a result which I will not like Brentford lost because of their errors lets hope Wolves do the same

We won because the players made few mistakes and played really well whereas Brentford did not

You may well be right but how many games do you suggest he plays if he does not contribute to the team's success

Currently he is not a very good PL striker he was signed to replace Ings Of course he could become a 15 goal a season player but that seems unlikely at the moment

Yes I agree but most games somebody does something stupid last game it was Salisu against Brighton it was JWP Coupled with the fact our stikers are shocking with so many misses it is hardly surprising our results are pretty poor Need to cut out these yellow cards as soon as possible

Hopefully we will have a stronger team than that Ralph usually puts out decent teams for the cup

I think buying Carrilo was Reed's worse decision Although sacking Puel with no decent replacement was not a good decision But the players were pretty crap as well although when the new ones were were bought I thought Hoedt and Lemina were pretty good signings

I agree with what you are saying but when do you expect to see results

Thank you By not being practical I meant that a top player in Udinese would more likely want to play for Liverpool than Watford

Just seems far from practical to me why would a top player want to come to Southamton if they we wanted by Liverpool What clubs run this scheme

I do not really understand what linked clubs will bring to SFC can anyone please explain I think I read that Man City have linked clubs but they still buy from clubs all over the world which are not linked to them

To improve we need a decent striker Not easy to get one but we do need one