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It is a hell of a lot of money for a foreign player. With that kind of money, am expecting Tadic-like quality.

No doubt, sleeping off the sunday lunch.

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Or maybe he's our new Henri Camara. Seems to have quite a low centre of gravity, so hopefully has better close control than Mayuka and Papa Waigo.

Was certainly a handful against Bayern in a recent friendly. [video=youtube_share;bXl0Tb76ziE]http://youtu.be/bXl0Tb76ziE

What's the standard of Austrian league football like - below Belgium league football?

The winger?

Long's vision was going to pick apart Wham, Yoshida's toss, Pelle's goal was a grudging ropey swinger - you're on a fantastic run of cluelessness. Keep it up

Straight out of the MLG book of howlers You mean Jos and Maya?

Where did he suggest he'll be starting for Saints after the international break? What did he say exactly?

A ridiculous statement. Just because you're indifferent to finances, doesn't mean that value for money considerations go out the window. Every player 'brings something' -as trite and disingenuous a statement as you'll hear- doesn't mean that there isn't a limit on what a club should pay.

Jrod's a good guy but would have been bored to death, hearing how 'brilliant' everyone is.

Danny Murphy's a better commentator than pundit - quite like like him. With Phil Neville, the BBC is discovering that the apple falls miles from the tree.

Been pretty impressed with him - above all, he's solid defensively. Won't go on any careering, driving runs like Shaw but, at the same time, has delivered a better final ball. In general, our crossing from the full-back positions has been a highlight. Helps to have Tadic in front of him who is a decent outlet with glue on his boots but doesn't mind rolling his sleeves up and tracking back.

Looks like a hamster on PCP.

Nonsense - was right behind the goal. Steered the ball without lashing or swinging at it, even as it stood up. Composed finish when many of our players have failed to take chances like that in the past. By contrast, Long should have done much better with the chance that was slid across goal.

Blind is coming in to play CM, so more than possible that Shaw, Rojo and Blind will feature in the same team.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

So the best example you can come up with is a club that had racked up €500m in debt and owed the taxman €100m - and has been trying to extricate itself from a total financial cluster**** ever since. Good one, chump

Guan is like the mongboard Russell Grant.

Always going to be hard to settle if you've come to play football and are not getting a sniff of any action. Surprised he didn't feature Tuesday, especially as he showed some bustle and energy in his cameo appearance and we've often looked pedestrian in midfield.

You are talking about Shane Long, right?

They took the train up and the coach back to Southampton. I saw the coach with my own eyes.

No. Their black coach was parked right outside the away end on Tuesday.

Tmrw will be a big test for Pelle - if he can acquit himself well, have confidence he'll be a success for us.