Window Cleaner

We'd have probably let Lallana go for less if there wasn't the Bournemouth cream off. We got 52 million for Lallana,Chambers and Lovren, probably something like 20 12 and 20 then.

Independently of the rest I really, really doubt that we'll get more than 20 million for Morgan, there are other DMs available for free or bargain basement prices and the number of possible destinations for him is limited . I only see Arsenal which I doubt happening and the AS Rome as definite possibilities because I just don't believe that many other top clubs (ie CL clubs) will be interested in him to the extent of paying the 25 million £ (or 33.5 million euros) that you believe to be the "just prix". Could well still be here next season actually if we were determined to obtain 25 million.

Jack often being a diminutive of both James and John IIRC.

Had a great game, seems to rise to the bigger occasions. Cannot possibly be any worse that Djuricic or Elia, probably far more expensive though. I liked the look of Djuricic against Liverpool as well, too lightweight of course but did some enterprising things, seems to have fallen out of favour in a short time though.

It's not about needing a 15 goal a season striker per se, it's more about needing a striker who can score goals when you need them against good sides. Pellè's goals have brought us about 2 points I think someone said it was, Kane's goals have brought Spurs 22 points or something like that. Pellè's goalscoring record is against poor sides in the main, Newcastle 2, Sunderland 2 when they'd already managed to score against themselves etc. He's scored a limited number of goals but when it counts he provides absolutely fark all. What we need is the bloke who's going to score when we're O-O against Arsenal at 85 minutes and against West Brom when they're parking the bus because a couple of goals against a shîte Sunderland side mean very little. You don't need to only consider the number of goals but the value of them as well.

He'll go to Liverpool, they need him and it's near enough where he wants to be. Out of contract so no transfer fee, win win situation for everybody concerned, except the deluded here of course who believe that because he's from Totton or Netley or wherever it is he wants to play for us. We turned him down once, aged about 12 no doubt and that's all he needs to know, plus we probably don't pay enough to get his sort of quality for nowt..

We might make 5th instead of 7th, don't really see the difference myself except that we play some Moldovian minnows in July instead of Basingstoke. Top 4 was within our grasp, we needed a striker in January and ducked out of it that's all.

Might mean that they end up on the plus side of the ledger with his N years contract.

Depends if you see best of the rest as a decent place or not I suppose. We've been disappointing (in a relative sort of way) since december now, 26 points from our first 12 games and 27 from the 19 since. Could have been so much better really. We've proven all those knob journalists and pundits correct, we didn't last the pace in the rarified atmospheres.

We can't make top 4 now and unless there's an upset in the Cup Europe is a gimme so we'll scrap it out with Liverpool and Tottenham for the 5th 6th and 7th places, those leaving will start to switch off and there'll be more results like yesterday I expect. Poor end to an exciting season, we got it wrong in January and now it's all downhill to the beaches.

Why not, season is effectively over anyway.

Doubtful, they are a very poor side defensively, very poor keeper too, anyone who gets in a few shots against them has a good chance of beating them.

Didn't we drop him at Stamford Bridge? Didn't that work out well enough for us?

Committed far too many unecessary fouls today, think he sees himself as bit of a hard man actually.

Think we only officially scored 6, they gave us a hand up, particularly with the all important first goal.

Yep, preferred the style even though sometimes it went tits up, for me Koeman's systems are staid and oft exploitable, plus he has binkies, don't ever like managers' binkies. If a player is right out of form you've got to drop him and use whatever else you have.

I've seen him play a couple of times, great young player. He'd not be in direct competition with Mané anyway but he'd kick Pellè and Long into touch, probably about a third of their combined price last summer as well, surely we'd know something about Standard Liege.

Doesn't always get it wrong but he does often enough. Dropping Mané against Liverpool, signing Elia etc etc etc. He's not perfect prefer Pochettino myself.

Koeman got it wrong, then again he often does.

Batushayi is way way better than Mané, He'll be a big big star. Big,strong and doesn't do daft things.

Well there's a young fellow at Marseille who we might have bought, Belgian, bit of a Benteke bis, did we even try for that sort of player ? Doubt it.

7th won't get us Europa League if there's a bit of an upset in the cup though will it. If Villa win it we'll be out of Europe on our butt in 7th place.

How do you figure that, Pellè and Long= 22 million £ and no doubt somewhere around 70K a week on the pay roll. Can't get a decent striker for that ? I think we could actually. I expect if we'd really pushed them last summer Lyon would have caved and sold us Lacazette.

No strikers available and no money to buy them even if there were, still we made a profit and spent it all on .... whatever it was we spent it on, pity our training complex can't score goals really.

It's called Pellè, original Italian statue.