Monk

The thing I find most bizarre about England and tournament football is we never go out to attack. Always pedestrian and cautious. Okay it worked for the Italians but it hasn't for us. Why cant we go out and play to win each game? After all football is an invasion game and you can't win the world cup by drawing.

Read the opening post. I haven't got much of a clue how much it would cost to bring him here but it wont be £10m.# My main emphasis was Lasogga.

£4m might be enough but there's one real candidate for me - Lasogga.

THIS

Shut up.

Interested in peoples opinions in the following two questions: Should Rickie make the move, will he remain a club icon/legend in the same capacity? Should Rickie make the move should he stay in the banner? Thoughts

Hats off, smashes my post out of the water. My sentiments exactly.

Firstly, I do not expect you to all agree or perhaps like the following post. I suggest you take a deep breath before you read: Over the last five years, I have witnessed a number of bedwetters on this forum panicking from 'issues' such as not purchasing a player who posses pace, no weekly press statements regarding a stadium expansion to hideous car park charges. However, following our most successful and enjoyable season in the PL we now have a stomach churning summer which has a number of us questioning 'why we bother'? Ultimately, we are not a big club. People come and go with ambitions to progress us and sometimes those ambitions have been reached. I urge you to bare in mind it is just as easier to fall from success than it is to maintain it (success in our case was cracking the top half with a philosophy). We as a fan base easily get carried away with anything, whether its positive or negative as opposed to just supporting our club. However, the last few weeks I have found incredibly unsettling and uncomfortable as a large number of you have. The majority of you will respect the fact it is now the close season, the media go into overdrive with their imagination regarding transfers. There's much more column inches to fill daily now there is no PL/FL matches to cover, that's just how the English media is and we MUST get use to it. I do hate it when people say 'well you/we must be doing something right if clubs are interested in your players' - I can assure you, nobody knows this more than the fans that pay £40 a week to watch the team week in. It is incredibly bizarre that we have endured our most successful campaign but have since lost our manager and potential 4 key players but as they say, that is football. It happened to Villa, Newcastle and Leeds for whatever reasons but it happened. I am not happy with the way the club has conducted itself from closed doors. My personal opinion is Southampton's board should of notified potential bidders/agents that any approaches for our players before the WC will be deemed as disrespectful and we will not take it lightly (no deal will be done with that club or run the risk of paying a higher fee). I appreciate everybody is feeling the pinch of uncertainty around our club its completely valid, just take a deep breath as unfortunately we can only do one thing WAIT until the new management comes in. Thunder is just a noise and it can't hurt you, when lightening does strike that's another bloody matter!

Can anybody elaborate why Yakin left Basel?

Hit Nail The Head: Reassemble the above words as you please but that's opening post is spot on.

What a surprise Jim White brining up Nicola.

Every email, text and tweet read out by SSN has been from a Spuds fan....

He is back.

Firstly, good luck to Poch should he take the job at the graveyard of managers that is Spurs. Secondly, I was more gutted about both Strachan & Adkins departures. I have found this whole episode nothing short of disrespectful towards us supporters. Yet I'm not sure there is a better way of Pochettino dealing with this situation other than declaring he is staying or he is leaving. I've met Poch twice and really enjoyed his company and he genuinely struck me as very committed and passionate about this job. Unfortunately, I cannot see us 'kicking on' from last season by means of significant elaborate signings regardless of Pochettino remaining at the club or not. To do so would be unsustainable and irresponsible (remember where we've been).

Bernard, Curadrado, William Carvalho, Christian Atsu & Lallana

Jesus.

So here is my final list of NEEDS. Happy to do some postal trading! Opening pages: 5,6 Stadiums: 8,13,14,15,17 Brazil: Team Photo Mexico: Badge, Javier Hernandez Cameroon: Nicolas Nkoulou, Joel Matip, Vincent Aboubakar, Pierre Webo Dutch: Team Photo Chile: Team Photo, Claudio Bravo, Eugenio Mena, Eduardo Vergas Australia: Badge, Matthew Ryan, Lucas Neill, Ivan Franjic, Mile Jedinak, Matt McKay, Mark Bresciano, Dario Vidosic,Matthew Leckie, Joshua Kennedy. Greece: Orestis Karnezis, Uruguay: Diego Lugano Costa Rica: Junior Diaz, Alvaro Saborio England: Ash Cole, Jagielka, Kyle Walker Swiss: Admir Mehmedi Ecuador: Enner Valencia, Renato Ibarra France: Karim Benzema Argentina: Team Photo Bosnia: Senad Lulic, Zvjezdan Misimovic,Vedad Ibisevic Iran: Pejman Montazeri Nigeria: Nnamdi Oduamadi Ghana: Andre Ayew USA: Badge, Geoff Cameron, Brad Evans, Eddie Johnson Belgium: Team Photo Algeria: Majid Bougherra, Carl Medjani Russia: Aleksandr Samedov, Aleksandr Kokrin Korea: Kwak Tae-Hwi, Kim Young-Gwon, Park Chu-Young

Getting incredibly board of this. The whole situation is tinkering on the edge of disrespectful.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Lasogga needs to be priority number one. Lasogga Tello/Affellay Caulker GK

I desperately needs the following: Stadiums: 8,13,15,17,23,25 Brazil: Team Photo, Ramires Mexico: Jesus Corona, Rafa Marquez Cameroon Nicolas Nkloulou, Joel Matip Spain Iker Casillas Netherlands Ron Vlaar, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar Chile Claudio Bravo, Eduardo Vargas Colombia Team Badge Greece Orestis Karnezis, Sokratis Papastathopolous, Jose Holebas Uruguay Diego Lugano, Cristian Rodriguez Costa Rica Cristian Gamboa, Junior Diaz, Alvaro Saborio England Ashley Cole, Phil Jagielka Italy Claudio Marchisio Switzerland Tranquillo Barnetta, Admir Mehmedi Ecuador Renato Ibarra Argentina Rodrigo Palacio Iran Pejman Montazeri Nigeria Nnamdi Oduamadi USA Geoff Cameron, Demarcus Beasley, Brad Evans Algeria Majid Bougherra, Carl Medjani, Essaid Belkalem, Nabil Ghilas. Russia Igor Akinfeev, Aleksandr Samedov, Aleksandr Kokorin, Aleksandr Kerzhakov South Korea Kwak Tae-Hwi, Kim Young-Gwon, Park Chu-Young

The club I am currently at, the players are sent off with a generic fitness programme during the summer. It has cheat days and is much more relaxed regarding alcohol dairy etc. The players have to log what they eat. When pre-season testing comes along such as V02, BMI, Bleep etc it shows those that are disciplined and those who let themselves go.

***** City. Nothing has happened.

Surprised Dodd is leaving. As for Paul Williams, lovely bloke but not too surprised.

The English equivalent of Atletico is/was Spurs.

Very valid point.