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When you hear Saints players talking about both managers, you can clearly see that MP is much more demanding and worked the players more. Steven Davis even said that playing games was easier than training under MP and that they felt physically strong in games. That s why you saw the team pressing all over the place because they were capable of doing it. Their opinions of RK is that he is a calm manager, a good guy and has a good sense of humor. Not sure these are the traits of a great manager. We are too soft as a team and easily overworked by teams who want it more. That is what is frustrating with our current run. Went to the Crystal Palace away game, you could clearly see that Palace were the hungrier side. That to me is not down to the recruitment but the motivation of platers and the training regime which the manager is responsible of.

Here is a video of him

The kid is 19, has electric pace and has huge upside to improve. Of course he is not the finished but who is at 19? Let s be honest, if we had someone like that in our academy, we would all be creaming ourselves.

We probably weren t aware that he was available for that price.

As our academy roster seems a little thin on quality, how about targeting high potential youngsters with pace from the championship or the lower leagues, slowly bed them in and get them used to the way we play. This would enable us to hit the ground running next season and not have the excuse of giving the team time to gel (which is still the phrase Koeman is using now). Let s anticipate now on next summer's departures (mane and vw which we all know will happen) and stop reacting later to a situation that is inevitable and all know will happen.

If we sign Henri Saivet, I will seriously question our recruitment policy. A very inconsistent player in ligue 1 and clearly not an answer to our midfield problems.

Starting today

Great. Suggested this signing 10 days ago.

I see Jack Stephens is back. Wonder if ge will be part of the match day squad? Also in the arsenal preview, Koeman indicated he let his emotions go a little bit after the spurs game. He doesn t think there are a lot of physical options in the squad so expect a similar side to the spurs game. Not sure this is the right way to go, we need to refresh the team a little. Drop Wanyama, get harry reed and Gaston involved even if it is from the bench. I would also start Juanmi

If i remember correctly, Spurs offered 10m in the summer + Lamela on loan with a view to buy next summer. In hindsight it could have been a good deal, and would have given us more options in attack

Tbf, Fonte would probably be part of that list if he played at right back too

And now he's just scored for Chelsea. Forget what I said.

If we don't have a lot of funds for a new striker, how about Loic Remy from Chelsea. Hardly plays and would have extra motivation of tring to in the France team for the euros.

There were some Dutch fans at the game on saturday. They were speaking in Dutch and heard Pelle and Koeman mentionned in the discussions.

We seem to getting tonked every week by very high scorelines. I know it's not all about results and producing players for the 1st team, but why are getting beaten up by nearly every team we play? Bad coaching? Talentless players? Not playing as a team? Players being played above their normal age groups?

Gaston is nowhere to be seen on the training pics. Injured again?

If Martial is worth 60m and Man U were prepared to pay that for him, we should be demanding the same amount for Mane.

Its not an over reaction. Fans are upset that all the good work of last season is now all for nothing. I don t care if we finish 8th or 14th in the league as it ultimately gives us **** all. 7th last season on the other hand at least gave us the opportunity to qualify for Europe, the opportunity to be on the World map, be respected and increase our brand name. I live in France and the majority of people here have no idea that even a football club in Southampton exists! If we want to make strides and eventually challenge the bigger teams this is how we can do it by increasing commercial revenue and increasing our fan base. To give that away just like that with no fight or passion shown whatsoever during the match does my head in. And Koeman blaming the result on referees over both legs and not on the way they approached the games is criminal. I don't give a flying **** about what we do on sunday as its a way less important than yesterday s. Its gonna take me a while to digest this defeat and i'm sure others feel the same.

ITK or a suggestion? Because he s just chosen Rennes

Imagine Yoshida is shipped out and we end up with Fonte Vlaar Van Dijk and Caulker as center backs. Would be very pleased with that.

Cracking game, I enjoyed that, it was end to end stuff. Newcastle are a very athletic an agressive team and will finish much higher up the table this season. Need to work on better communication at the back but i'm sure we will improve with VVD perhaps coming in and Bertrand to come back from injury. On another day Mane could have had a hat trick, was sometimes let down by his passing but my word does he make things happen for us. The Mane Pelle Tadic combo is such a threat going forward, we will score lots of goals this season and we also have very good depth with Jay Rod Juanmi and Shane Long coming into the mix. Really looking forward to see what we can do in the coming months.

This why we should ve have signed him on a five year contract and not a four year one like we seem to do. Had he signed a five year one he would have 2 years remaining on his next summer, giving us much more flexibility to negociate his transfee fee if he doesn t want to stay.

http://livetv.sx/fr/eventinfo/330202_southampton_espanyol/#webplayer_ifrx|315520|330202|315520|5|1|fr Here you go!

Hum didn t Gaston travel to Austria? Is Ronald getting amnesia?

So Ronald has said that apart from Frazer and Florin, everybody is fit for Vitesse. No sign of Ramirez in the training, so where is he? Surprised the media didn't ask the question at the press conference.