Window Cleaner

They don't need Coutinho anyway, they know that and have just been holding out to force up the price and payment terms. Borussia showed them the way to do it with Dembelé, cos frankly 100+ million euros for him is just a gift from a club desperate to sign someone after Neymar blew them out. Biggest winners there ? Rennes who will pocket somewhere around 30 milion euros for a player they sold for about 10a season ago.

Should never have been appointed in the first place. His trainwreck 3 months at Inter should have warned off any potential employer outside of a second rate micky mouse league like the Eredivisie.

Think it's an Austrian thing more than anything else. Wimmer isn't that good but he's Austrian and thus an Alpine hero figure. Hoedt is probably as good as Wimmer anyway.

Quite right, holding on to a stubborn knob like Van Dijk will do us no good whatsoever. What has he got to lose really, nothing is the answer. Hasn't played since February, isn't in the Dutch National side just now, they won't qualify for the WC anyway and there is only a certain amount of fines we can inflict on him in what is a fairly narrow corridor of action. As long as he turns up for training as requested he can be dire as you like and we can't do anything at all about it. If he doesn't train hard he'll not be selected anyway and so the only losers will be SFC. I tell you, we should take the money and be rid of him.

About sums it up. Happens every summer now and the eventual result is always the same. We might hold on to a unsettlerd player for a season or half of a season but they always leave and usually for less than we could have got in the first place. Any seriously unsettled player should be sold to the highest bidder before at least mid-window and the proceeds invested illico.

Pas de quoi. Misspelling is sometimes acceptable, use of the wrong word is something else.

Lacazette you mean ? Well it's Lacazette innit, probably done something stupid during the week or just been his plain old self. Excellent player but.............

It's going to make it smell of havoc ?

and extremely foolish to boot. FA needs to clamp down on ridiculous transfer fees because paying 28/30 million for Townsend would border on criminal negligence.

At 60 million there will no doubt be a few takers.

Not a bad game, could have won, might have lost but we finished better than they did anyway.

Who knows but I thought Remy was going to Las Palmas anyway. Christensen is probably just some fantasy football obsession.

So then, Notts in the T20 semis. Hope that 10 days or so with no cricket won't be to our disadvantage. Have Notts got a 4 day game this next week ?

Net spend of about 65 million for last season and this summer. Corresponds to about the 60 million that Moshiri is allowed to put into the club over 2 seasons. Plus their new shirt sponsor pays about twice what Chang did. With the European campaign this season they'll probably not be too badly off accounts wise. 40,000 home gates to boot. Think they'll survive.

But that would involve an investment of £5 in certain cases wouldn't it ? Sending and receiving PMs are limited to those who've paid aren't they ?

Us "being after him" would make no difference whatsoever to the situation. He wants to go to a club that's at the top of the pile and just now that's not the case at either Arsenal or Southampton; People seem to have difficulty in understanding just to what extent ambition drives some people.

I'd never, ever set too much store on whatever Krueger may be saying or not saying. He is just a verbal machine that just has to spout something or other for all occasions. If those who really matter at the club suspect than Van Dijk will in fact not play for us this half season, then they'll sell him, no matter what Kueger might have said.

Shopping done ? Kind of normal, we have too many players for our needs anyway. That a fair few of them aren't good enough is a totally different concern. Should have been selling to anyone who was interested in buying all summer long. Hojbjerg, Clasie, Pied etc, all that just isn't up to standard. Why I'd even have tried to offload Boufal cos he really isn't that great, needs to go back to France where powder puffs such as he rule the roost.

Perhaps he didn't read Les's text outlining how fantastic they all are.

you've put your finger on it there, average, that's what we are, average manager, average players signed for average prices. If you want the best you have to pay for it and or pay to keep it and we don't do that.

Never mind he's got another 5 year contract anyway. So after what 5 years with Saints on and off that makes 10 years of contract for him. Not bad for a distinctly average keeper on most occasions, although when he does play well, he plays well.

Why would we loan out Gallagher and sign Karamoh who's of about the same standard really? That wouldn't make much sense now would it.

doubt it, there are far too many suitors for Athletico to take a loan deal. Monaco, Sampdoria, Valencia, Saints if you like, one of them will pay, Monaco would be my favourite there.

James and Tremlett seemed to think that it was T20 knockout stage experience wot won it. Oh and some monster hitting by Afridi.

Do none of them ever wonder where they get all those virgins from?