Window Cleaner

Yes and it's very effective at the moment because we have no real change options in CM and won't have until Vic is back. We have Davis and JWP who can be shuffled about but neither of them has the rugged ability of Schneiderlin and Cork. Both played extremely well yesterday but as they seem to need to cover for the FBs late on as well it's a monumental task for them to keep going as they did yesterday for 90 minutes. Then again I thought Lallana and Davis were pretty quiet all game yesterday and didn't help as much as they usually do.

You'd have to assume that wouldn't you and that any deal is now off, ie having no plans so Rickie has nothing to decide on at all for the immediate future. Otherwise it would be in total contradiction of the statement from the owner on Friday.

so in fact we do have plans to sell a player then....surely that can't be right.

Shaw is not a top class defender as of yet, that's why no-one will give us 30 million £ for him. Those that are often reportedly interest in doing so are looking at real LBs just now, Coentrao from Real and Soaré (who I might just have mentioned would be a great replacement if someone actually did give us silly money for Shaw) from Lille. These lads have been there, done that, played in the CL and are fulll internationals with a shedload of caps behind them but are still young and wouldn't cost half of the amounts people like to bandy about for Shaw.

I thought Sunderland's two subs on the hour changed the game a lot. Gave them new energy just when we were running out of it in places. I see Cork has been voted MOM on this forum but I thought he was fading fast from about 70' onwards. The fact that we had no solution for that on the bench was a bit of a drawback for us because I really don't think JWP is suited to that role at all. Both of our CMs won an awful lot of balls in the air yesterday and were put to rude contribution, we really need a change there at about 70 minutes.

But then we need to go back to a Cortese statement from a couple of years back. The jist of the affair was that the club wasn't for sale but as dark forces were insistant on spreading it around that it was then he knew people who'd be pleased enough to buy the club. It depends largely on what view you take, as I could well believe that the owner wants to liquidate her asset then it would seem to me that this scenario is now in motion. Saying they really wanted him to stay was just for the soundbite unless they were prepared to comply with his terms...ie not selling the club.

Sounds good ? If they'd really have wanted him to stay then he probably would have done, on his terms of course ie the club not being sld in the next 2 or 3 years and continued investment to propel us towards the CL.

How is Boruc injured ? Sore balls ? Anyway I'd go for something different Davis,Clyne,Fonte,Maya,Shaw (or fox if you must) Cork (unless Vic can play from the start) Schneiderlin Chambers Lallana JRod Osvaldo. I really want to see how Chambers would do in a more advance role, with his speed and control it could be a real revelation.

Sounds about right really. If there's any truth in the rumours that Cortese may act for a potential buyer then there's no way he could stay on whilst doing it.

Anyone noticed how hard to beat Sunderland are becoming ? Think they've lost once in 10 games in all competitions. They weren't very good in the first half but coming back straight away after going 2 down obviously boosted them. Then they made 2 good substitutions and got at us straight away in the second half. Not discontent with the result at all myself, perhaps I'm just easy to please though.

i really don't think there'll be any money for transfers this window...none whatsoever, not even loan fees.

he would have scored from there as well, ball on his left foot, just the keeper to beat.

Unfortunate and self inflicted, he went for the ball and jarred his leg against the striker's. Probably be OK for the Arsenal game. Gaston's looked like a broken ankle, that's what happens when a reckless thug plants his foot on your standing leg when you're trying to move it forward..

so as I said 38 points is enough to stay up, don't know why we're worrying about it anyway. The question should be how many we need to get 8th place.

As are many others. Refs just aren't up to the professional "cachoterie" of the players. Thugs like Brown know exactly how to hide their vicious tackles from refs. Only the video will ever stamp them out and we'll never ever get that.

38 same as always. Just need to win at home against Cardiff and Norwich and get a draw and we're already there. However being 8th would be good as well.

Wanyama can indeed play centre back, did often enough for Celtic but how he'd do at it in the rarefied atmosphere of the PL who knows.

Yes but only marginally. The two young boys looked knackered towards 70 minutes and were less efficient. JRod runs his legs off every game and you can't expect him to be as useful after 90 minutes as he is at the start. Above all we need to sort out the problem with Lambert whatever that may be, played with 10 men again today. Pity Gaston got injured so soon, he was buzzing. Last of all I hope the FA look at Brown's assasination attempt and give him 5 or 6 games, he's just a thug, a throwback to another age. Pleased enough with the result.

no he didn't, touching the ball is nothing if you follow through and plant your foot on the opponents ankle. Red card offence.

well yes but people have died before and their businesses have continued to run on unchanged, I thought Mme Katerina had undertaken to do that but up until last summer Cortese was still running the entire show with a Swiss Liquidator. Now all is gone apart from the holding company.

and then he gave most of his share back to his brothers and sister and started his own companies, most of which are now in liquidation...why that is no-one seems to be able to tell us.

but if you look closely you'll see that everyone of them bar 1 is in liquidation. Only the holding company remains and that's about buying and selling other companies. Mali Motan...gone, Mali Common Rail. gone....BSG ..gone now Clemens Richter BSG Mali Specialfahrzeuge...gone Just Saints and the holding company left.

Any idea on how much the Sunseeker sponsorship brings to the club ?

I think basically to know where we are you'd need to go into all of the trials and tribulations of the Mali International Group because the answer lies there within. Something changed with all of that between August and October of last year. Unless you can get all of the facts and figures of the group as a whole you cannot possibly begin to understand the situation between the owner and Southampton FC. Is it just a simple case of end of probate, did Markus's will say that NC and the other chap have to administer everything until it was all done and dusted. No-one can possibly know that with some serious research into some obscure domains.

Time only will tell, I personally expect us to be sold off to the highest bidder as soon as possible but that's just a personal intuition based on the fact that everything else that Markus built and owned seems to have been liquidated.