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didn't look a bad player (well at that level) on the very few occasions when we actually got him onto the pitch. Early partnership with Lallana and Schneiderlin looked to have some promise. Quite glad that he's at least getting a few games now.

But Hunter is in charge of academy coaching assisted by Jaidi, Dodd and Williams were charged with the U18s I believe. I however believe that main difference may be that the U21s do not spend much time with the first team nowadays, perhaps someone who still looks at the training galleries and videos could confirm that (or not).

What's he got to sulk about ? It's nothing new, he was totally dismissive of Gallagher last winter as well, even when Pelle couldn't buy a goal he told the press that he had no need of Gallagher.

But honestly I think that Pochettino had far less at stake than Koeman plus the nucleus of the Saints side under MP was pretty stable and at times pretty good. Above all I think you need to look at the relative abilities of D'Agostino and Kluitenberg when considering the question because it is not irrelevant.. Under MP the lads trained a lot with the first team, I've no idea whether that still happens now.

And the game before Koeman subbed him on at a free kick from which RvP scored the winning goal, not that it was probably any of his fault of course but as a rule most managers avoid subbing players at set pieces.

We counted it in for last year because as we were under the 56 miilion bar or whatever it was the year before we had scope to do that. I may be wrong but I think it also gives us a better starting line figure for future years. There was method in that madness at least. If you're under the threshold and are going to go over it might as well do it in a big way.

I'd agree with you there but it does mean a bit of a U turn in club policy. How much have we spent on the academy thus far ?

Mason had been out on loan a few times, Swindon, Yeovil, Lorient that sort of place. Think he actually got a few games as well, some sort of solid experience. Perhaps we need to look more closely at the first team coaching role in our current set up.

Why change the side just to accomodate a token youth academy product. When you start doing that you're on the rocky road to ruin. The situation is as it is, Koeman doesn't believe that the youth products are better than the other players. It's been obvious for a while that that is the case, now that it's been sort of officially confirmed some of you seem to have difficulty in accepting it. Of course those of us who told you that it was probably the case months back are still fools and heretics.

the humour has probably just sailed over his head. People advocating the use of dictionaries should choose the word correctly in the first place.

But Pochettino is a far better manager than Koeman wll ever be, perhaps D'Agostino is a far better coach than the 3 clowns Koeman has working for him as well. There are so many factors to be considered. Ali had 62 games for MK Dons on the counter before he went to Tottenham, different class of player.

Against Burnley, Koeman probably had his hand forced over that. Lad got booked after a couple of minutes and then his physique couldn't stand the strain, point proven Mr Reed.

Because he had no choice, doesn't mean he liked doing it although the players he had at his disposition were of a certain quality. He still wandered off at the first opportunity though.

2 possibilities. a) The "raw materiel" isn't of the same quality and the coaches not of the same standard. b) It's getting harder and harder to accede to the PL. Look at the sides from some old games 5 jocks, 4 Englishmen and 2 Irish against 6 english, 3 Welsh a Scot and A Northern Irelander. Now if you get 3 home growns in each side you're lucky; There's less place for home grown players that all.

The Eredivisie isn't the Premier League. There is little room for error in the PL. Couple of bad results and you're relegation fodder (apparently anyway) and with the sums at stake that is unacceptable. You might be able to get away with playing young unexperienced players against Wilhem II and Utrecht but not against West Brom and West Ham.

I see that Vilhena has had a bit of fistcuffs with a fellow Feyenoord player then, sign him up ??

I see that Yeovil Chase hasn't changed then, always was a den of iniquity.

Well yes, I think most of us had worked that out for ourselves, despite the habitual protests from they'll be good one day brigade.

How so ? The accounts are about somewhere for all to see, don't really see what you mean.

Depends on how we planned on funding the purchases of players other than Clasie and Romeu I suppose. Not getting Toby for the knock down price that we thought we were getting from Atletico must have come as a bit of a blow to us, what was it about 7 million compared to the 13 we're said to have paid for VvD ? However what really surprises me is the 5.3 million £ in agents fees. Way way above our usual amount.

Well not having the entire accounts in my head I'd hazard a guess that we as a club have a pretty top heavy administration and that it costs a great deal of money. How much do the Hampshire police take off of us in a season? We know that we paid a record (for us) 5.3 million £ agents fees this year, as we only have about 30 million £ left when the salaries etc have been paid it's not particulary difficult to imagine how it's spent.

City paid far more than he was worth, Bony's trouble is that he's thick as a block of wood. When you're behind Aguero, well you need to be smart and pretty good to take the starters role. He's a typical big lump striker, except that he isn't very tall. Defences are getting better and better and the thick and uninventive will get found out.

We'll see how it pans out shall we.... there are many factions at work in today's Germany.

Are you trying to tell me that there are not reported rapes in any UK city on an average Saturday night?

Of course, but there are some similarities with the cultural behaviour of your average 20 year old in dance emporiums in the UK in the 70s. The difference being that if your chosen dulcinée didn't like it she either removed your hands or smacked your face and you accepted that as a polite refusal.:uhoh: