Window Cleaner

David Selke ou mean.

Yep, he did say that although I think it was until the end of the transfer window. In fact Koeman says a lot of things of which few seem to take much notice.

FFF, L'Equipe, TF1,BFM, Infosport wherever you like. Squad was annouced at 2 french time today, no surprises, 21 out of 23 WC players, one has retired,Giroud is injured.

Well Morgan has to be at Clairefontaine by 10 am come Monday, so it's by Sunday afty or not at all.

Pablo Betancourt spoke about Gaston's future with Saints back in the summer, said Koeman wanted to consider all the players and then make his decisions. If Gaston is allowed to go to Seville or anywhere else we'd have to assume that Koeman has decided against him.

No it isn't, he needs to go to resurrect his career. Being dropped by Uruguay must have been a tipping point for him. Still it's only a Marca rumour for the time being.

We did, twice.

Taider doesn't seem to be getting much game time at all really, has he played in a competitive first team game so far ?

Belhanda is like Rojo and Alderweireld, we don't have the status to sign such a player, wouldn't want to myself, he's a bit of a knob, good player when he wants to be, knob constantly.

You could probably get several Redmonds for 15 million, anyway the synopsis of Morgan leaving would no doubt bring Townsend so we wouldn't need Redmond, won't happen though.

We got Lovren and Victor last season when "top" clubs were umming and aahing over them but procrastinating overmuch. Doubt if we could sign either of them now if you see what I mean.

RK doesn't seem to want him and Gaston won't want to lose any more time on the periphery of the team. His agent said as much back in July. Been dropped by Uruguay you know, that must have p*ssed him off no end.

As with Rojo and no doubt others we no longer have the status to sign that sort of player. The won't give up their participation in European Competition easily, we can offer whatever we like but not what they want. Some seem to vastly underestimate the standing European competitions give a player.

Gaston is rumoured to be on his way out, all over Marca this morning, a colleague brought it to my attention.

Hatem is what you'd probably find in Pandora's box. Best not to go there, completely erratic, capable of the very best and the absolute worst.

Gaston on loan to Seville, or so say Marca (or was it As). Anyone think there's any factual base for that? http://www.marca.com/2014/08/27/futbol/equipos/sevilla/1409144940.html

Work permit would be a problem, got one for Arsenal but then probably doesn't have the quals any more. New club=new work permit.

Must be one of the players who aren't 100% just as RK said. Good game last Saturday for someone who isn't 100% really.Maybe he's got a new agreement that he doesn't have to participate in sh*t games this season. West Ham and then 2 internationals next week will be enough.

In fact most fixed term contracts can only be broken by mutual agreement, you can quit but in that case your employer can seek compensation. Getting out of a fixed term contract is never a one way street unless it's for misconduct on your part or some defaillance on theirs.

That's what agents a for, they establish if we had some ham we could have ham and eggs if we had some eggs type discussions. Nothing binding, informal and hypothetical discussions. It has been said by the French press that Morgan has his personal terms with Spurs all hammered out, although he's probably never spoken to them himself on the subject.

In fact I've just read the Guardian article, it says absolutely nothing, except that Townsend could be stuck in limbo if Saints don't change their mind. Seems to be more about Townsend than anything else. Stand down.

Absolutely, not getting more out of him is really regrettable, he's obviously fragile and probably needs to move to a less intense league for his own sake. We'll not get much more out of him really so we could save money and he could relance his career. You see these type of players all of the time in football, great talent but they just don't have the physique to go with it, Grenier and Gorcuff spring to mind, Ledley King as well.

Examined by the team doctor or not it's just one injury after another with him, he's been here over 2 years and has participated in 48 games (mostly as a sub).

If of course the fees obtained eventually benefit the club. For the time being the most part of them has been spent on players who are of a lower standard than those sold. Forster perhaps being the exception so far. As for the rest time will tell.

Although he said we weren't going to rest many players, just those who weren't 100%. We'll see what he does but if he rests Forster that would be because he's either not 100% or he is in fact a hypocrite, same as most football managers when exposing their plans for tackling lower league opposition.