beatlesaint

I think like everyone else Matt can see that Merson is just a brainless **** who is best left in his own world

Well I would like to know why the one attacking player never got over the line.....unless it does in the next couple of hours of course

Guess we will never know what Tom28 was gonna tell us on 1 Sept now............

Sky showed him driving out of Staplewood, he even waved at them

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