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The thing is we wanted Coutinho, he didn't want to play for us because Liverpool were in for him as well. Until our league position and thus the club's status improves to a point where we can compete with "top clubs" for the services of the best players then money is only relative. No WC hopeful in his right mind would want to come to Saints and play with garbage like Fox and Hooiveld so it's just a vicious circle.

If we guaranteed that we'd put the first team out at 20£ a throw we would get a good crowd, we won't so we don't.

we won't be taking it seriously, unless of course you call a team with Lee,Fox,Jos and Maya and a few kids seriously.

Going to Newcastle now apparently, they've gazumped West Ham. Still if it's a choice between Heitinga and Dummett to replace Coloccini for a few games you can understand it I suppose.

Every country is looking for engineers, there just aren't enough to go round at this moment. A while back Germany was light on about 70000 engineers, if there were any spare in Roumania the Germans would have snaffled them up by now as the have with the Poles. I expect even the UK is looking for them, must be a shortage as half of the Unis seem to produce specialists in football marketing and golf course design these days.

well as we obviously do need players I think we can assume that he was being economic with the truth there. No-one ever needs any players in January, it's just what's said to try and get good deals on the cheap or good players on loan for 6 months, test and try before you buy. PSG's president said they didn't need any players this morning, probably whilst talking to Newcastle over Cabaye on another line. Mauricio said in any event he could find what he needs from the academy, which is obviously bollix because only a couple of weeks back he put 2 injured and virtually unplayable CBs on the bench instead of the 2 lads from the U21s. Everything that could be used from the academy for the first team at this time is already being used.

They're 4 points above 18th with a stack of bad injuries and Utd away next up.

He's very lightweight for a CB really, not all that tall for today's standards either, I mean not Chris Perry small but not 6ft4 either. Makes up for his lack of physique with some awful animal tackles at times.

And look at Swansea now, among my relegation favourites, no Vorm, no Michu, no Dyer, another key player pulled up with something nasty looking yesterday.

Lallana was trying too hard to impress Woy, if he hadn't been there we might even have played better.

Lovren played at Lyon though, anyway Olympique Lyonnais should never ever be used as a point of reference for anything sane or sensible in football, they'll do anything to make money and that means playing crap from the youth teams over experienced players who cost a lot. They played Umiti last season and believe me he's one of the worst footballers you've ever seen.

so why then would he be eulogising about Southampton in an intervew only 3 days ago. I mean to have said all that and then bugger off to West Ham for a few quid more would make him look like a real plastic knob wouldn't it. He'll go nowhere and end up in no mans land because he's fading fast.

If he was any good he'd be playing at Everton now wouldn't he, think he's a bit of a whack job.

For where they actually are today Newcastle have spent relatively little money, most of it provided by the **** Turpin sale of Carroll to Liverpool. We'll have to see if they're capable of maintaining their position with Coloccini out again and Cabaye will be sold to PSG when they get back from Doha. I think Debuchy took a straight red again yesterday so that may put him out for 4 games and he's a very important player for them. They're a bit like us, they have a team but no real squad depth although theirs might be a wee bit better than ours.

Because we're going to put out one of the sh*ttiest sides that we've seen in a long time. Mauricio is talking about rotation and fresh players but we don't actually have too many of those who are of any use to man nor beast. The likely CB pairing of Jos and Maya just makes you shudder, Lee will be in attack, Fox at LB, perhaps Clyne at RB, Gazza in goal again, just that tells you we'll have no hope whatsoever and all it will do is nark off the couple of first team regulars who have to make up the numbers.

Why on earth are we discussing relegation, above all on the FA Cup 3rd Round tie thread. We won't be relegated and we won't win the Cup either so all discussion on either of these points is moot.

Come to think of it though for the 65 million we've spent in 18 months what have we got to show for it really (not to mention salarial mass that went with that spending). JRod,Lovren,Victor and Clyne. so a bit less than half of it, all the rest is iffy and inconsistent at best. We really need to stop wasting money for little or no return..

right, I've worked it out then, if we're not good enough for the Champions League (which we obviously aren't) we might as well finish 9th or 11th or 13th and see if we can't put a few more of our young hopefuls on to the market in order to be able to buy ourselves some Champion's League players.

is that good then, think we're having a problem shifting ours, I've had 2 e mails from the club about buying some already today. Everybody expects us to field a crap side and lose miserably anyway.

it would seem to make good sense, Mata won't come here though, way below his station.

If you say so then, personally I think he's vastly overated at left back not to mention his constant illness and injury problems. Chambers doesn't get injured, doesn't get ill every 5 minutes.

some seemed to think he was quite promising during the summer tour, don't know myself don't every remember seeing him play apart from a few minutes in one of those games.

only probably made up, they don't need Shaw and no-one is going to give us 20 million (or similar) for him.

of course they should, when you look at the number of goals in the PL that come from shots just hit hard into the mixer and that take wicked deflections past keepers you can see the point of shooting often. Think all of City's goals yesterday took deflections, maybe not Tourés. Look at Chelsea's first goal, dink shot, hits post bounces out to Torres who says thanks a lot.

don't worry about it, some of our players didn't look to be in a much better frame of mind.