Saint Fan CaM

Oh dear, there's going to be a few people coming down to Earth with a big bump come August kick off. There's only one way to replace 5 + years of team spirit and it's not signing lot's of lower quality players at inflated prices or relying wholly on untested youth. I said months ago that the summer would be a massive test of the Boards competence and we're now at the sharp end. At the moment the signs appear not too positive, but there is still time to make the right buying decisions. #itsnothappeningyet

Good point about Lallana, however I suspect that Mopo allowed Lallana freedom and that in itself got him playing better (and in turn confirmed to himself that he was a big deal).

Pity there was no option for 'Like it, may buy it'. I'll reserve my judgement on whether I invest any more of my money when I see whether the club keeps it's promise to invest all the transfer fee money into new players. I'll not be holding my breath to be fair.

Mmm, well it's not unusual for a Manager to favour an inner circle of staff he trusts. For Poch that was probably Lambert, Shaw and Lallana I suspect...maybe Lovren too? I don't think Cork was in that circle of trust.

When we were in relegated to league 1, did you think we would never see the Prem again in your lifetime? Serious question.

A truly magnificent post. Unfortunately the intellect of many on here will mean they will just not get it. In fact they probably will not even be able to read it, let alone understand what it means.

New shirt looks good. Not sure if I'll be forking out £50 though...feeling a bit ripped off by the club at the moment....will wait and see how much they invest in the squad before putting my hand back in my wallet.

This. With Pelle in particular we will pay more as Koeman wants him and they know we've got the money burning a hole.

Don't be such a naive girl....if we were not important to them, why try to buy our best players. Everytime we faced them we were their rivals you dinlo.

Well whatever...it's £50 that will be staying in my bank account!

Nah, you're kind of half right. Fonte was better with Lovren, but that's not due to Lovren specifically. Fonte has enough about him to raise his game with whatever partner providing that partner is a PL class defender (i.e. a primarily left-footed ball player) that suits Fonte's game...it could be anyone that meets that spec.

Liverpool are enacting a strategy that has served other PL teams in the past...buy up near contender clubs best players to break up the squad, even if they're not really needed. It kills two birds with one stone - destroys the other team and bolsters the depth of their own squad. They knew Saints were on the brink of something big - let's face it, we stood tall against them last season - so unfortunately Saints became the natural target. Unfortunately, our owners don't have the dangly bits to stand up to the bullies and use financial muscle to keep players under long contracts with the club. Not only that, but we've got decent youngsters knocking on the 1st team door waiting for their chance - the strategy is of course to sell our first team, not our Academy products. We have had it confirmed to us this summer that we are nothing but a breeding ground - that's what's "#happening'. Lovren is an incidental - a player brought in to bolster the PL squad as we didn't have that quality coming through to claim a CB slot. If the funds are there and a decent player available, then he's replaceable.

Perhaps the question should be, do you think we'll spend more than £25-30m in this window? I would be pleasantly surprised if we did I think many fans would just like a bit of good news on the transfer front as, lets face it, the 3 most iconic players from the '13/14 squad have been pilfered. It's as simple as that.

Steve D...you don't get the Captaincy of your National side for no good reason.

LOL. Nice.

Take a cr4p or get off the pot Saints. Fannying around with silly bids while Koeman starts pre-season without a strike force appears to be a bit noddy.

FOOK YOU 14 years that are now forgettable thanks to your disgraceful exit from Saints FC. Fook you Lallana for your badge kissing insincerity - you could have had a place in our hearts. Clattenburg was right - Saints FC supporters.

FOOK YOU 14 years that are now forgettable thanks to your disgraceful exit from Saints FC. Fook you Lallana for your badge kissing insincerity - you could have had a place in our hearts. Clattenburg was right - Saints FC supporters.

Mmm, now whatever happened to the last flag contributed to from this site? Oh.

Thing is, how many Saints fans will know what he's said on the Pool site versus his Echo ad? Most will probably think the noob is a hero!

Well after reading 9 pages of vitriol there's not much to add. In summary though, not worried about him going but completely amazed at the lack of respect he has shown his teammates, the clubs staff and most of all the fans. Above everything, he was team Captain - what the hell did that actually mean to him? Clearly sweet FA. Sorry Lallana, no wormy worded Echo advert is going to cut it...the few words of the OS statement tells me more than you could ever say.

So basically all the talk about him about sign blah blah is rubbish. Oh well move on.

He's full of the brown stuff...can't believe anyone thinks this is true...lol

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