Dr. Kucho

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.

With Lukaku likely to go to United, I wonder what their player recruitment strategy is? Buy as many overinflated, big name players and hope they can be merged in to a team.

No interview with the manager about how it's been so far, little mention of the players, few games announced, this must be the most secretive pre season we have had. Anyway I trust the club they know what they are doing and looking forward to seeing more videos and pictures of the pre season.

Nasty crash in the final meters, Cavendish likely to be out of the tour. Wonder what happens to Sagan after he elbowed Cavendish into the barriers.

Nasty crash in the final meters, Cavendish likely to be out of the tour. Wonder what happens to Sagan after he elbowed Cavendish into the barriers.

Cheers for that. Do you know what's happing to Black and the French bloke Planquard or something like that?

Surprised we haven't heard anything about who will assist MoPe this season. And Mods, could this thread be made a sticky?

Lets see what they have to say about the club once Jay has left..

What has Black done to upset so many on here?

The guy is right, we should stop moaning and let Liverpool have Van Dijk. How dare we stand up to the almighty Liverpool, the absolute top of Premier and international football.

More classy stuff from the bin dippers. http://www.sundayworld.com/sport/soccer/van-dijk-may-go-on-strike-to-force-liverpool-move-john-aldridge

If it wasn't for your ITK credits, I would have dismissed the post. Do you know more then you are saying LeG?

I reckon it would be De Boer to Palace and Pellegrino to us. De Boer would have Palace well organized with decent football played. We would go for Pellegrino as the club wants fancy football. Or can we expect a surprise? Thinking back to when we had Pochetinno, the players were always laughing and really seemed to enjoy the training. I can't remember seeing a similar video last season. Players just didn't seem happy under Puel (although I rate him as a coach, think he definitely knows his stuff).

Alain Perrin?