Lallana's Left Peg

Since May the Board never gave you any reason to have any.

Probably best not to kid yourself on that front. The reason he's at Saints in the first place is because he made the best decision for his career so I doubt he'd turn his back on a better opportunity out of loyalty to Saints.

I think they do - as long as Les Reed is at the club I believe we'll have an emphasis on young English talent. I think he wants to lead the way with English football development. To be fair to him, he's doing a good job thus far and one of the reasons we've got such great fees for our players is because they are English.

And the rest...

He means Ryan Bertrand not Right-Back.

What is wrong with what he said?

Has input, no player is signed unless Manager is satisfied with him, but Reed is the man with the power.

Cortese had the final say when he was at the club. Reed has it now. That is the difference. The underlying process is still the same.

Scored a good goal against Man City last season but apart from that been a waste of space.

Waste of time.

But even then armed with a £70m+ surplus in transfer fees we should be identifying players to buy to develop rather than loaning them from other clubs and giving them all the benefit for a short-term fix for ourselves. If we start loaning players it'll be one of the most idiotic things we can do and a sure sign that we are failing to buy players due to incompetence. I'll make the Taidar deal an acceptable deviation given the main purpose of that deal is getting rid of Osvaldo however why we are signing another central midfielder when that is the strongest part of our squad I've no idea but there you go.

In the space of 8 weeks we've gone from being a club who have youngsters that Arsenal want to buy to being a club they send their fringe youngsters to like some sort of finishing school. I really don't want us to be one of those clubs. Lets develop our own players.

You must be raging that all the ratings updates you've done for our best players are for the benefit of other teams now

Not seen us play live yet but that is the impression I get too. In that case I would suspect having Wanyama, Schneiderlin, Cork, Davis, Ward-Prowse, and Reed is a good rotation there - two players for every position. Unless one leaves of course...

From my brief foray on Google and YouTube he very much looks like a central midfielder...

Jos and Morgan are besties. No way.

I'm saying he signed the contract when we had a different Board, team, and Manager. However even then I do not expect his grievance is that level of change - I'm saying it will be because he was told he could leave and then told he couldn't. He's been messed about. Yet he is supposed to just accept that? If your boss promised you something significant and then changed his / her mind on it would you just accept it or would you be annoyed and then seek to see if there was a way you could get it anyway?

Depends on whether you believe what Kbilly has said or not. I personally do.

No-one is saying he is. But if the Board promised him something and then changed their mind, why should he just accept it. I'd hand in a transfer request straight away. How can he trust the Board with his career now? This is about the Board saying he could leave and then changing their mind. I don't think you just accept that and get on with it. I can't see how anyone would personally. I would expect him to be professional in training and suchlike but in terms of attitude and contentment I would expect him to be annoyed and seek to force a move away. I don't blame him.

If you are told you can leave the club and see all your buddies get their move as well, and then turn up to a meeting to discuss what teams you can talk to only to find that the idiots running the club discovered that fans aren't happy with all the best players being sold and so turn around and say you can't leave, how are you supposed to react? Just accept it? I'm surprised he's been this restrained. I don't blame him, I blame the absolute clowns running this football club right now.

You can't believe a word that comes from the Board - not because they are deliberately lying, but because they are naïve and incompetent for the level of responsibility they have. Thing is at this stage I'd rather find out that what has happened was the plan all along as at least then it would reflect a level of competency on the football side and show that they have the ability to implement a plan. However as Krueger mentioned yesterday that things didn't go to plan it just means that they were ill-prepared for what was to happen despite any old media hack and supporter with their head screwed on seeing it happen a mile away. That said, the Board have achieved good fees for players - but that was always the easy part for me. Now it is the hard part - sign good players (a challenge in itself) in the circumstance where everyone knows we have a lot of money and also to attract the right players when there is no reason beyond money to come here in the first place (as we've sold all our decent players). Good luck with that...

To be fair to him I think he spoke well - or rather as well as he could in the circumstance. He remained positive without trying to dig holes for himself (although it remains to be seen whether or not the Schneiderlin / Rodriguez guarantee will be one). I do think he has too much faith in Les Reed though, but I suppose until Les Reed gets fired he has to.

A 34 year old CB on loan? Lets hope there is nothing in that.

Easy way to back up the statement that Morgan is staying - announce him as new Captain now.

I really don't want any loans, they just don't make sense to me in our position.