shurlock

The more, the merrier.

Nothing screams uniqueness more than when Stoke, Watford and West Ham are in the hunt for a player.

I'm sure there's an audience for your cod sociology and things-arent-what-they-used-to-be platitudes just as there's an audience for your conspiratorial, quasi-racist ramblings in The Lounge. But do explain why the club is on the verge of signing the type of player (less than a week before the start of the season) that almost the entire fanbase has been calling for - perhaps that fanbase has simply identified a legitimate area of need and weakness? Perhaps it isn't so fickle or irrational pal.

Wait till it comes to discussing injuries - obviously an alumni of the MLG school of interviewing.

Perhaps we were prepared to sell and even permitted to VVD to meet LFC's representatives (as well those from other clubs) but didn't like the subsequent way they tried to corner or strong arm us by leaking things, including VVD's determination to join them to the press.

Pellegrino's postmatch comments were pretty illuminating - felt the biggest difference between today and Wednesday was our ability to protect the middle of the park, the space in front of the CBs.

Uncle Les had a bid of £3.5m for him rejected in the summer of 2015.

It is for AR-10. Cheers.

The Gabonese Darron Gibson.

According to this, we were. Supposedly had a £3.5m bid for him rejected per L'Equipe. https://talksport.com/football/reports-southampton-planning-swoop-marseille-midfielder-150708155408

This is a decent write up (note he's not overly physical according to this): http://frenchfootballweekly.com/2015/09/01/will-juventus-take-mario-lemina-to-the-next-level/

He's a bit more box to box -can actually take the ball and drive forward with it from central positions. Hopefully that'll make us a bit less predictable and less reliant on going sideways and throwing crosses into the box.

So we're not getting Ross Barkley then?

Hopefully it still means we're keeping VVD

They're always aggrieved about something.

It can be spun lots of different ways pal (just as the Augsburg game can be). Sevilla started a weakened side, have a game tmrw and are behind us in their preseason preparation. By the sounds of it, it was a pretty drab encounter. Frankly am more excited by the prospect of a new midfielder coming in.

Appears more box-to-box which we've desperately needed even when Wanyama was here.

The best midfield in the league just got better.

Who?

A poor man's pogba.

How was he for Marseille (bearing in mind you don't rate the French league)? How did he earn a move to a big side like Juve?

Seems to be exactly the type of player we need - a bit more power and dynamism in the middle of the park.

Yep the defender got the final touch, though the user tweet shows Stephens shot was skewing across the 6-yard box. It wasn't on target. But no biggie.

Looks like an OG to me.

Stephens goal from a corner it seems.