beatlesaint

how ****in long has it taken for them to work that one out !

He's been st training from 9.30 to almost 1.00......where the **** do they think he's going

Well if he arrived at 9.30 that would be about right as the players train in the morning. If he was training alone, as supposedly was happening a few weeks ago, he would have been there this afternoon I would have thought as we were led to believe he wasn't there when other players were training.

Well said sir They are well and truly into "last orders at the bar" territory and no ****er has given them the green light for a lock in !

@SlugSaint.........oh ffs, name says it all

No it's not just you

I sincerely hope this is the case. I think a hell of a lot of clubs will applaud Southampton's stance if this comes true and it sends out a message to players. I see that Drinkwater is now trying to force a move out of Leicester......it all needs stamping out and if we are in the box seat for doing it then more power to us as a club.

I'm not overly impressed with the Hunters, Butterfields and Jaihidis of this world as coaches to be honest. Someone like Adkins would be a good shout.

An injured Adam Lallana going back up North after visiting his Bournemouth residing parents for the weekend ?

You could well have a point BUT he's better than Redmond and will be when he's 78 never mind 28.

He also mentioned two "black box" type signings which didn't exactly set the pulses racing.

I still find it a bit galling that we have to sell to bring in a "high profile attacking player" given we are debt free, have received the largest amount of Prem League/Sky money and Ralph stated we are in a good place. So if the choice is keep VVD or have someone who can hopefully find the net then it's a no brainer for me. Hope they don't run out of time like they did in January......

could have stayed here for the same outcome.

Think he just means a centre back to replace him like for like.

If this rumbles on until Thursday that knob on Sky Sports, Jim "I'm Mr Transfer Deadline Day" White will have a minute by minute Virgil Watch with varying degrees of hysteria as some spotty 12 yr old kid from Stoke sees him zooming up the M6 (good luck with that) or Sid from Sefton Park sees him fly into Liverpool JL Airport on a private jet

guess you/we will find out in three days time

:lol: Of course for those that believe we were the 8th best side in the league last season congrats, fill ya boots

Yes cant say he doesn't deserve it, has improved a hell of a lot.

are they ? In an average season that number of points would have seen us 14/15/16th

We are, absolutely just average. We will have bad days like yesterday and we will have good days. We are average middle of the table Premier League. Nothing wrong with that, it beats battling relegation year after year BUT the club keep selling us this vision of pushing on and breaking regularly into Europe. It's not going to happen unless we buy one or two high quality established players to go along with a Hoedt, Lemina, Gabbiadini. Every successful team has to have a mix. We mix promising with average, we should mix promising with proven and established but we won't pay the transfer fees for that or the salaries. The club want to be self sustaining, again that's fine and when the balloon bursts the club will be one of the healthiest around financially. But please don't be surprised when VVD, Bertrand, Cedric and before them Mane, Wanyama, Lallana etc want to move on to being better than average and earning more money. We have been spoilt in recent seasons, we punched above our weight. I think finishing 7th/8th is beyond us currently.

in a nutshell

Absolutely this. We are just one, albeit very long, week away from pulling this off and standing firm. It would be a big kick in the nuts to concede now no matter what him and his agent do or say. One more week away from him either making some form of peace with the club and coming back into the fold or one week away from him cutting off his nose to spite his face whilst not playing and forking out weekly fines for not honouring or fulfilling his contract.

I keep reading about a static Austin. The manager and coaches must surely see, and if not do some bloody research, that Charlie's strengths are best served playing with two up front. Gabbiadini would take defenders with him as his movement and intelligence is excellent. That would free up Austin to be the poacher that is his strength. its not rocket science and there is nothing to lose by trying it and seeing what happens. We have two many "on their day" attacking players. Yeah on their day Tadic, Boufal and Redmond can be very good and are match winners BUT just one of them having their day is as rare as hens teeth and that's a huge part of our problem I think.

Absolute class to get between 2 & 3 million for him. Well done Les

I think you have answered your own question with your last paragraph to be honest.