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Both of whom sacked their manager midway through the following season and then got a bit better..

Kanté from Caen would have been doable but I think we bought Clasie instead.

Leicester's owner has far more money than ours. He also runs a highly successful company which has no doubt proposed vast sums for stadium naming rights and shirt sponsorship. This is how you do it. It's nothing to do with FFP. Our problem is that our owner is a relative pauper compared to about half of the other PL clubs and all of the clubs above us. Her aunts, uncles and cousins have a lot of money, they could shirt sponsor us but seem to have no inkling to do so.

then again they have room for fairly accessible improvement don't they.

Going to be a messy affair that. He doesn't want to go to wherever Caen have agreed a price, his agent/family have agreed something with St Etienne and Leipzig are said to be involved somewhere along the line.

Not yet returned after prolonged international duty, Confederations Cup.

Not such a bad idea is it.. but managers seem to like to have their say.

Reed was already saying that VvD was going nowhere back in January, at that time we had a valid CB pairing and thus didn't need Sakho, something which might have changed with the sale of Fonte. But Sakho is basically a left sided CB anyway, he's nowhere near as good on the other side from what I've seen.

Debatable really. VvD could have just told them that he didn't want to move anyway. I doubt that we could in fact sue Liverpool without suing VvD and his representatives as well. When you start telling players that they have no right to talk to XXX about anything at all then you infringe on their personal liberty. You own their registration, you do not own the person attached to it. And then the defence lawyers will start digging around in the past trying to find some player, somewhere who we might have "tapped up". Could even be a youth teamer from long past. Whole thing would get mighty messy and drag on for years.

A very good point.

Best he not see this then .. http://www.skysports.com/football/news/33855/10959742/liverpool-target-naby-keita-causes-rb-leipzig-training-to-be-abandoned

By giving him a new contract that he thought acceptable ? He's a Puel binky. Much in the same way that Martina is a Koeman binky.

Don't be so sure, I've seen a lot of Jeremy Pied and I'd not rate him a great deal higher than Martina. He was a CP stopgap whim signing, if he'd been in any way desirable as a player Nice would have kept him.

He's not for sale ? Same as up until now.

Take whatever is on offer, be a knob for half a season and join Liverpool in January.. Not sure that it happens a whole lot but I'm sure I could find at least one case like that in the history of football.

Some need to get their heads around the fact that with no European Competition this season we aren't playing at a level sufficient to attract players like Sigurdsson. Not to mention the fact that we don't have a spare 45 million £ either. Look at the other non-European sides, are any of them attracting 40 million + players ? I don't think so.

It was the right thing to do, you could see straight away from that game that he was pretty clueless about modern football. He may have taken us to the play-offs but we didn't win them now did we. With the investment we shouldn't have needed the play-off lottery, automatic promotion was programmed.

Last I heard Neymar is staying put and PSG are putting all of their energy (and no doubt money) into the pursuit of Alexis Sanchez.

In fact that Ipswich game was a pivotal point in Saints history. If Lowe had called Burley into his office on the following monday morning and sacked him as he should have, our whole future may have been different from that point. Burley was an awful manager and led us to our demise.

The manager has been here 5 minutes, I doubt that his appraisal counts for very much at all just yet. Why for all we know VvD might still be here long after the manager has gone.

So why exactly are they still here then, you have to keep repeating this question until you find an answer. Keeping dead wood is so Saints that it's not true.

So we need 5 or 6 keepers to make sure that one is good enough is that it ? We have FF, Taylor, McCarthy, Gazza and no doubt some Unders keepers. If none of them is good ernough we need to ship them all out and start over don't we. Anyway FF is number 1 and will no doubt remain so, the rest are just a drag on the finances.

Aren't Sky set to be taken over by err Fox is it ? Perhaps something will change but whilst there's an avidity for football in the Far East I can't see it happening in the short term. When China has it's own equivalent perhaps they'll not want to see ours so much.

Well I think most of us had kind of dismissed all that anyway.

That's as maybe but we could have obtained it with VvD perhaps. Everton might have played a bit better at the end of the season if they didn't already have their ticket in their pocket. I believe Koeman spoke of it in an interview. Might have even ousted the Arse and I would have loved that.