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Much like Rickie who took his goalscoring through three divisions.

He spent the past week in Holland improving his English, he wasn't on holiday !!!

Try telling Everton fans that links them with Liverpool FC

If it is true and he chooses to go on strike then fine let him. Legally would he have a leg to stand on ? Would the PFA support a one man strike who's sole reason is that despite signing a four year contract he has decided after one year he wants to move on ? How detailed are players contracts ? Is there a clause whereby if you withdraw your services you dont get paid as you are in effect breaking that contract ? Is there any difference between that and you or I walking in to work tomorrow and saying "Now that Milie has left in Accounts I dont like it here anymore therefore I'm staging a one man strike, see ya" If he throws his toys out the pram this Board arent strong enough to call his bluff, they will cash in, we will hear how this is a great bit of business for Saints cos Jos is ready to step up to the plate after a poor couple of years etc etc. But its what they should do, dont be held to ransom by a effin player, make the guy look a bloody idiot.

Yeah the U18's is the most likely job for him if there is any truth in it. Probably a chance to groom the best ones for a move to Liverpool

I dont think its bizarre all these players want to leave but I do think your reason is incorrect. Lets look at the aways or supposed want aways - Lambert, Lallana, Shaw, Lovren and Morgan. What have they all got in common ? They are all current internationals, they are all mixing with a bunch of Billy Big Balls who are turning their heads, talking about life at a big club, the Champions league etc etc. Rickie virtually admitted that the wonderful Stevie G had been in his ear about Liverpool, Rogers congratulated him after his England debut etc. Thats the bloody problem, these International call ups are a bad thing for clubs like us. Morgan was talking of going in a bid to get into the France squad. Ok, he is there now, he has played so that should be the end of it. But no, he will now want CL football to maintain his place in the French team/squad. No doubt he and the rest are encouraged to seek out the bigger clubs cos we all know playing for England etc is so much more advantageous when playing for one of the big boys. And I suspect its no different for France, Croatia, any of them.

Why do you think we would rely on him as the main source of goals if the talk of Pelle coming in is true ? Surely Ings would be one of the three or four strikers we would look to have ?

Excellent post

Yes, for those who cannot understand why Lallana is getting so much stick then for me this is the answer. That was said just over a year ago if memory serves.

Yet you were impressed by Ralph ? I think people have been spoiled by the fact in the last four years we have, up to a month ago, only sold Chamberlain of the players we wanted to keep. How many other clubs have kept hold of their players for so long in todays game ? Even Man Utd sold Ronaldo. It was always going to happen, especially once we reached the publicity glare of the Premiership again, even Cortese said in that BBC interview something to the effect he would have tried to get the players to give it another year. Then this same situation would have arisen. Given the number of poor/average teams in the league this coming season I fully expect us even with a virtually new team to stay well above the bottom three. Think yourself lucky we aren't WBA !

Fkin arrogance of some of these big team players is incredible.

But we haven't gone down the WBA route for a manager and we haven't seen what pedigree of player he will bring in yet !

I reckon. This is becoming ****in tiresome I know that much !

Well that should be a given for any players we end up selling. We don't need to sell, we can do it as and when it suits us. We hold all the cards now as opposed to a few years back when we needed the money.

He is at the nunnery in Holland for a few days to improve his English, he tweeted it yesterday.

Totally agree, the press should pick this up and hound the saggy chopped **** until he gives the names....and if he cant then its typical Redcrapp bull to get attention as per usual.

Always got to be centre of the latest hot topic hasn't he ? So now what ? Press ignore the stupid old fart or go off in search of a story from those Um has named ? Hope its true Arry, slander otherwise, you can be done for that

Well said.

I hope we don't get all this ******** about playing too many games in a season dragged up again as an excuse. All the foreign players in the Premiership don't seem to suffer and with half the team made up of Liverpool/Everton players who had no European matches last season it kind of rings more hollow than usual as an excuse.

I fail to understand why Roy or his assistant were at St. Mary's nearly every week yet when it came to he didn't trust Lallana, Lambert and to a lesser extent Shaw to do the job for him ! 5 minutes for Rickie and barely half an hour for Lallana whilst Wellbeck and co serve up the same old crap.

That's exactly it. If you make a final offer after you have already made a final offer you have handed the advantage to the seller. Its only mid June, they have got over 2 months to make a few more final offers

Thankyou for that, very interesting. Lallana certainly given them a problem the way he has gone about things, hope it all gets sorted quickly either way.

Especially in the beginning of the season has ended, there was some criticism Kluitenberg. So that he had found followers selection train too hard, causing Feyenoord not picked up from the first three league matches one point. Glad we cleared that one up then WTF ?

Problem seems to be that Roy thinks he has to play Rooney come what may but hasn't got a bloody clue where to fit him in the system he wants to play. He was awful last night, how he stayed on the pitch for 90 mins I just don't know. I thought we looked quite good going forward, dodgy at the back but with Johnson at right back what else would we be ?

Some poor sucker at the BBC obviously thought "That Gary Neville on Sky is good, i wish we had him.....oh wait a minute, he's got a brother....I know...." Anyone who struggled to stay up that late to watch England would not have been helped by his "you are feeling sleepy" commentary !