Dr. Kucho

A colleague of mine, who has played at a decent level in the Dutch amateur football league and knows his stuff about football, reckons Hoedt has the potential to be a better player then Van Dijk.

Just bumping an old thread, but Jos Hooiveld has done a interview for a Dutch football website. The interview is in Dutch but Jos does mention Saints a few times. The answer regarding Saints, Interviewer: Who was your best trainer? JH: Pochetinno Interviewer: What was your worst game? JH: Against WBA Interviewer: Who was the best player you played with? JH: Adam Lallana Interviewer: What do you regret the most? JH: Not staying at Southampton and playing under Ronald Koeman Interviewer: What is the best club you played for? JH: Celtic For the whole interview (all in Dutch): http://www.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=311071

Just had a quick look and **** Advocaat says: There,s no point in selecting Virgil van Dijk, he hasnt played in pre-season and isnt training with the rest of the group at Southampton.

Might also need to do some 'whealing and dealing' old Arry..

Ajax lost to Olympique Nice in the 2nd round of qualifiers for the CL. Anyway I can see Sanchez leaving for Spain after this season.

Work permit could be difficult and it's very unlikely Ajax would want to sell him or listen to offers (unless it's silly money). Sanchez must be the biggest talent at CB in the world atm. He could play another season at Ajax and make the move to Barcelona (according to sources in Holland).

I think I know a club where he would fit in perfectly with that kind of behavior.

Today's line up for the Saints: in goal the Geordie, then the Portuguese, the miserable Dutch barstard, the Jap and the Londoner. In midfield: The Spaniard, the Dutch midget and the Skate that turned out alright. At the front we the Arab, the cheater and Serb that falls over a lot. COYR

If the club could sell Long and replace him with a better goal scorer I'm sure they would. Problem is you first need a buyer for Long and when you see the amount of what players like Lukaku go for, you know we would have to spend big.

He has been saying this for ages. Credit is for his persistence in trolling, has been doing this for years on here. First about Hoddle then it was the club with its surviving strategy in the prem. Waste of a life if you ask me spending all that time trolling on the internet, there's so much to do in life.

Sky do have by far the biggest budget of all teams. Riders like Landa, Thomas and Kwiatkowski would be the main rider at any of the other teams. I am hugely impressed with how professional Sky are and how they work on the smallest detail. Sky's team time trials are amazing, how well they ride and inch perfect. Sky must be by far the best place for a rider to develop his skills.

If McCarthy still is injured I would like to know what kind of injury he has. A hamstring injury cannot take that long, unless something has gone wrong in his recovery.

Can't help but feel a little underwhelmed with this years tour. Saw to few battle for the yellow jersey and Froome rode very conservative. Hope to see the return of the team time trial next year and more mountain stages. If Yates can work on his time trials he could be a contender for the podium next year. Just a few years ago David Millar was the only British rider, now we have contenders for the yellow and green jersey, with some talented riders coming through.

Van Dijk and Sanchez as our CB partnership, with Bertrand and Cedric at the left and right, would be a nightmare for all opposition. Forster would have very little to do and could have games not having to make a single save. The chance of having Van Dijk and Sanchez sadly is next to zero.

I assume we are talking about a new CB? The players it could be, Ajax: Jairo Riedewald - contract till 2020 Davison Sanchez - contract till 2021, almost zero chance of signing him, amazing player. Nick Viergever - contract till 2018, has been told he is not allowed to leave. Matthijs de Ligt - contract till 2018, highly rated 18 year old defender. AZ: Rens van Eijden - contract till 2020 Ron Vlaar - contract till 2018, too old. Others seem unlikely. Ado Den Haag, No players worth mentioning tbh

According to the Daily Telegraph Crystal Palace are bidding for Chambers. Would be quite some move for him from Saints to Arsenal and on to Crystal Palace. Arsenal to make decent profit though they report.

He could just say, I am looking forward to the new season, we have a strong squad blah blah, like the new manager, happy to be here etc. If he does such interview it would help stop all this gossip.

Difference is that we paid around 13 million pounds for him, with all due respect but I doubt your employer paid that to require your services.

The video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug0Js5ZLUbM

I am nearing the point that I hope he leaves as I am getting fed with all this Van Dijk talk. On every sports page somewhere some former scouse player is creaming all over Van Dijk and going on how amazing he would be for them. I doubt this talk helps the club with their pre season preparations, just hope we have someone pretty good lined up (we did go better every time we replaced our CB, Lovren

Danny Murphy saying in a interview with 365 Football that a deal is close.

With other clubs going to the States and Australia, I wonder what the players thought when they walked out of their hotel this morning looking out on that weather. Any of the ITK heard what the players first impression of Pellegrini is?

Those bin dippers begging him on twitter to hand in a transfer request and join them are desperate. Feel sorry for them for being so pathetic.

So looking sulky in the plane means the player wants to leave? If anyone is in the area of Soton Airport when the players come back from Austria next week, please let us know who looks sulky and thereby wants to leave.

According to one of the papers Arsenal would listen to offers for Walcott (surprise surprise West Ham are interested). Should we throw in a bid? His missus is from the area and he might want to settle down here with his family.