Monk

Surely we're a club with at least £35m equity.

Yes, you're clearly missing your eyesight. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/southampton-transfer-news-quincy-promes-spartak-moscow-january-window-htmlhttp://www.skysports.com/football/news/11700/11226845/southampton-talks-to-sign-quincy-promes-from-spartak-moscow-ongoing http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/15902244.Saints_to__keep_pushing__for_Promes/

That's a fair point apart from Sisto being far more similar to Mane than Promes is.

The one thing I can't understand is if there is a release clause of €30M and Promes is entitled to 15% why have we got to pay the additional amount? That should be coming out of the release clause.

Still can't believe we haven't chucked a £15m bid in for Sisto.

2005

That is such a typical Saints FA Cup draw. One of the most dull clubs around WBA.

Really struggling to understand why we're going for Promes over Sisto.

Sky Sports just saying its full time?

Another young thunder cat - social media 'coach'.

Pione Sisto - plan B

Not seen any signs on this 'protest'.

Streams?

A category one club going out to a category three club. Who only just scrapped through the audit.

Interesting considering Pardew said they would have to sell to buy.

Why did Olomola return?

FFS **** off back to the 70's.

Horrified to have been told that 'meetings & discussions' have been 'allegedly' held internally with regards to potential relegation and what it would mean for departments in the club. From an ex-colleague who works with a head of department at Saints.

I made the 'mistake' of joining the Facebook page which has over 30,000 members. Literally minute by minute posts of people asking for x, y & z. Sharing their stories and tactics. It's pretty amazing but also ridiculously annoying. You can also second guess the majority type of person posting on there too. Very pale, don;t get out much and constantly deleting their browser history.

Won't happen, very highly rated at Everton.

Linked with Nicolas Gaitan from Atletico Madrid on twitter.

Thanks.

Can someone please amend the title to paradise.

Based on the book by award-winning author Michael Calvin, 'No Hunger In Paradise' explores the academy system and the pressures and pitfalls that prevent young players from making it as a professional footballer. You can watch it here - free: http://sport.bt.com/bt-sport-films-no-hunger-in-paradise-91364241852638 Would love to hear some of your opinions on the documentary, experiences with academies, development centres and more. Thankfully, Saints are one of those clubs that conduct themselves with much better sense of grace and after care (I'm sure there's a few cases that haven't always felt like this.) When I previously worked for a PL club, one of our satellite centres attending a termly fixture against the academy development side aged U11. In the fixture I was talking to the academy staff about players to consider and their traits to coach. I was then astonished at what I was told next. "The number's x and x are twins from Sweden here for six weeks. We only wanted to trial one brother but parents wouldn't come unless the other could too." The boys both eleven at the time - had a house in Surrey paid for for six weeks, food paid for for the family, travel arranged etc" All the usual you'd associate with a Royal visit. So roughly £20 - £30k spent on trialling two eleven year olds from Sweden, with neither particularly standing out in our evening and the fact they was released after five of the six weeks, suggests they 'wasn't up to the expected standard.'

Young Yann Valery is another good prospect.