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Hah don't you just love Arsenal, their new 2nd keeper that they've just signed from Nice is already injured.

absolutely, we're just his annual month's getaway at Marchwood and beyond.

Nothing but most refuse to accept it as possible. The first team we had could have got us towards the top places last season, maybe 5th or 6th.If Boruc,Shaw,Fonte,Lovren,Clyne,Schneiderlin,Davis/Cork,Wanyama,Lallana,Lambert,Jrod had played every game we wouldn't have been far off, even closer with some solid contributions from Ossie and Gaston. It wasn't possible so we had to play garbage, KD,Gazzaniga,Fox,Gallagher. If we'd been able to keep the same base side this season and added the few missing links then our chances weren't too dusty at all. Didn't happen and now we'll have to see where we land.

I saw one whole game,extracts for all, I read the Belgian press about all of the others, perhaps the Belgian journalists were deceiving me and they all had a great tournament. That's why Hazard actually thought it necessary to accept publicly the criticism in the media. Perhaps he deceived himself. http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/30/uk-soccer-belgium-hazard-idUKKBN0FZ1BL20140730

He's certainly approached Schneiderlin over Arsenal though :smug: As for Saints he's let his lackies do the work whilst he was on his hols.

in the Dutch league, we shall see what his systems and tactics bring in the cut and thrust of the PL. The two leagues aren't really comparable. Wish we'd had one game against tough opponents to date because we've just played junk so far. All might be rosy but if we find we're miles off the mark against Bayer then we have a real situation on our hands. Unlikely but one real game out of 6 might have helped.

RVP any good was he? Good goal first game certainly, no real recollection after that. Debuchy did fairly well, Lloris as well.

Don't know didn't see too many of Belgium's games, one perhaps, I know the Belgian public were fairly miffed over him though, expected too much no doubt.

Apparently talks are still ongoing over Schelotto, should be settled in a few hours.No mention of Taider though. Seems that Inter are determind to fob us off with someone that they don't particularly want to keep if they take Osvaldo off of our hands. Can't quite see what the bloke will bring us that we don't have already but who knows. I really do wonder if we're in control of this situation in any way whatsoever. Did Koeman mention Schelotto at all as well as Taider.

although Stephens was somewhat older, he'd already played for Plymouth a couple of times I think.

In fact it was quite odd that several Belgians currently playing in the PL had relatively poor tournaments. Dembele and Hazard spring to mind along with Lukaku.

Good point.

Windows 2.1 was a vast step forward from 2.0, allowed use of 80286 and 80386 processors. Most of you won't remember it though, it was back in the late 80s. Think it was the first you needed a hard disk for as well, you know a solid base instead of just floppys. W2.1 was the first version that I ever had at home.

the system has certainly done wonders at Marseille, Bielsa himself of course not one of his disciples. However it has kind of led to the depart of a 30 year old not very solid player who brought them something else. No room for players like Valbuena in Bielsa systems apparently, still he want a last big move anyway.

rather an "I doubt it" then

Wh would we be, we have our own academy, don't think we pay for our entrants actually. Then it doesn't stop there, the parents are always after hand outs as well. Look at Neymar, his father creamed off about 40 million from Barcelona at the end of the day and their poor old chairman is in the crap over it with the Spanish justice.

So did Koeman really say : Taider, he would bring quality to the midfield and we( really) need that ? Haven't we got quality in midfield then, who of our err 6 or 7 midfielders isn't quality then. It's a strange thing to say, perhaps it's just the translation that makes it seem odd. I'd have thought that with Wanyama,Cork Morgan (perhaps) Davis, JWP, Gaston and Tadic it's the one area where we're not too badly furnished.

The term would be relaying midfielder surely, don't think i've ever heard that used in the Uk though, people just tend to use the term CM which could mean anything really. DM CM AM without further precision.

And let our commercial revenues suffer even more...surely not. How much do you think the club actually got from our 40 quid a year or whatever it was/is.

d'accord

Difficult to see exactly how much he's progressed of late until the opposition is of a reasonable standard. Brighton sounded very poor last night, they might even struggle this season, why did they let their manager go exactly. Seen the goal on the videos, lovely strike but far too much time and space really. If he can do the same with half of each then he'll be a great performer.

Lay off Bearsy, I might just have to question your threesome technique again.

Saints player was useful when we were in the lower divisions, when managers interviews were of some substance. Gave it up last year because all the matches are either on line or televised here, you could make your own recordings and MPs interviews with the translator were not worth actually listening to. The transcripts were quite enough.

no, we've certainly been linked with a lot worse, including right now.

BS I think in french, I write here in English (or a fashion) if you don't like it don't read it. Most seem to get along with it fairly well, they may not like whatever it is that I say, few criticise the delivery.