beatlesaint

I have never defended Lowe but the fee he got for Dean Richards was excellent and he had no choice with Theo due to his age so he did well to get what he did.

I wish him well, its just a shame his Dad didnt put his footballing education before the money.

Hardly surprising. Their captain off to Barcelona, Nasri off at the end of the season, Clichy gone, no decent goalkeeper or centre half, forward to partner VP sadly lacking.....oh and they will need a quality midfield player to replace Fabregas. So Wenger buys a 17 year old who has never played above League 1....and that was for half a season. Would you be happy ?

He's a great talent, no doubt about it BUT we didnt miss him one bit at the end of last season with the run in we had, we didnt miss him Saturday, and as has already been stated on here he is not pivotal to the way we play. De Ridder has not come here to warm the bench, we would not pay "a significant fee" as the OS worded it for him to be a reserve. I think the Chamberlain's are missing a significant point or two in their obsession to make a few quid. One is that he hasn't played above League One standard yet and secondly by going to Arsenal he will be playing in the reserves every week, with maybe a bit part in the League Cup games. His development would be better served playing in the Championship every week and coming up against better defenders than he has been used to. But thats up to them, if Daddy wants him to go and has convinced Alex that he should then fine, thanks and good luck son. But at least NC has ensured we get a good deal out of this and the money, I am convinced, will go straight back into new signings either now, in January or next close season.

She's crap and a glory hunter, dont big her up mate FFS ;-)

Maybe but IF he stays fit he will have to be one hell of a player to be better than Connolly......and why offer Barnard a longer contract when he still has another year to run anyway ?

Not a bad shout, doubt Barnard will be fit enough to start, I would think Rickie will play.

Pretty sure its the names of his kids.

I thought apart from that one scary moment in the first half he looked very impressive. I would rather have him than Seabourne, lets put it that way.

He's the guy who said only 70 tickets had been sold for the WBA friendly. Kind of dents your confidence doesn't it ?

FFS we have got 2 more years paying this clown according to the date of that article.

I think the 3rd goal tells me all I need to know about him to be honest.

Thats pretty impressive, trialist subbed after 30 mins. Fusu isnt Chinese for Ali Dia is it ?

Well i can tell you Fusu is a Chinese name.

Cynical.....but probably accurate......Stoke kid heading to the Shots on loan anytime soon I wonder ?

Hope they give btter odds than the notoriously tight Ladbrokes !

Exactly. We played a Prem team on Wednesday and a League 1 team today, what more should we do ? Teams in the same league dont tend to play pre-season games against each other, unless its one of these ridiculous tornaments in Outer Mongolia.

I always thought he had something about him !

Show Yeovil he is worth taking on loan perhaps ?

Didnt you see or read about De Ridder Wednesday night then ? You can oush Guly up front as well......remember we will only get 5 subs this season too.

I think Cork is a dead cert to start, and rightly so. I would go for Morgan to partner him at home and Chaplow or Hammond away but I doubt it will work like that.

If De Ridder plays like he did last night at Yeovil on Saturday I wouldn't be 100% sure about that.

Magnificent skill. I watched him carefully and I dont think he gave the ball away once. If there was no attacking option he played it back to the supporting full back. He looked the dogs wotsits to me, fantastic first appearence. Keep it up Steve.

If true it suggests Jemmal is a done deal.....i think.

I agree. If he thinks it would be nice for Saints to own it why doesn't he lend it to them to display.....if anyone wants to see a copy of an original of course.