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Not everyone. And the suggestion was that he has caused the opposition problems whenever he has played, which isn't true is it?

Sheffield United away immediately off the top of my head.

When we signed him there were reports there was an agreed fee with Benfica for around 12m Euros (or something like that). I agree there are differences between Djuricic and Ramirez but there are many similarities as well. For me I wouldn't want them both in the same squad - and whilst Ramirez is definitely slower he is as creative in my opinion.

And so is the guy we shipped out on loan at the start of the season because he wasn't deemed good enough and / or suitable for the way Koeman wants to play. Djuricic may have found opportunities a little sparse, and add that to coming to a new team and new league that makes things harder for him, but his challenge was to prove in games (and training) that he is a £9m footballer. I haven't seen him in training but based on gametime I am not convinced. You need to be productive.

Long has had some absolute shockers as well though. He's never scored too many so I'm not going to hold that against him. At his best he is very handy, at his worst he is like playing with 10 men. In both cases he gives 100% though, so it's never a question of effort its just a question of quality and application. Shocking first touch though!

Seager is a proper goalscorer - he has all the right instincts and 20 or so goals this season is a great return. He is a very niche player though - a bit like Hernandez at Real Madrid. Slattery is brilliant but apparently his family / agent know this too and are pushing for him to progress at Saints very quickly otherwise they are saying he could leave. That news is a year old though so not sure if anything has changed since - he's a mainstay in the U18's and has made some U21 appearances too. He's going to be one that if he makes it with Saints, he won't be around too long.

Going to be an interesting last 20mins to this game no matter what the score!

Time for Man City to get the job done...

Self preservation society. Far better he talk about Saints than his latest employer, QPR, where he promoted three at the back with spectacular success

Why?

Whilst I feel confident that Man City will get the job done and win tomorrow and we will finish 7th, I can't help but feel that Villa have a better chance in the Cup Final than many are giving them. There is no doubt on paper that Arsenal should win, but Villa have given Arsenal problems down the years and Arsenal haven't always played well at Wembley.

Are you being serious?

Watch the goal and tell me where the foul is. Fonte doesn't even jump because he thinks the ball can't be met. His reaction is one of disappointment not one of asking for a foul. I could find you hundreds of still pictures taken in every game where you can suggest something is a foul but that split second that the photo was taken doesn't prove anything. Seriously, it is not a foul.

No it is not. Players win headers like that all the time in every game. It is a foul to push the opposing players shoulders down in a blatant way however to use their body as leverage is not a foul. Look at the way players jump for the ball - many have at least one hand out to either prevent the opposing player from jumping properly, or, if they do, use them as leverage to get to the ball. Benteke scored a great header and it was not a foul at all.

No. And besides, the ball was already headed in that picture and from memory Benteke simply outleaped Fonte.

I don't rate many of the Liverpool defenders as individual talents but as a unit they are shocking - add in a massive lack of protection from the midfield and really it is a joke that Liverpool are that bad at defending. Liverpool fans like Lucas but is there another team in the top half of the table that would want him in front of their back four? All have better options.

Alderweireld was our best player last week.

It's too early to say - I really think both of them are good players but in terms of whether or not they're in our squad next year: 1. Our own CB situation (Koeman's confidence in Gardos, whether or not Toby stays, if he doesn't if we replace him with a new signing or not) 2. Whether or not we qualify for Europe 3. Whether or not Swindon get promoted and if they do, if we think a season for them both in the Championship with Swindon is better for them than fighting for minutes with us.

Rusnak: http://talksport.com/football/exclusive-manchester-city-target-albert-rusnak-admits-he-would-be-interested-southampton

You can add Jake Sinclair and Omar Rowe to Pochettino as well. Isgrove belongs to him too. Assuming you are counting league and cup, but I think you are with Seager on there.

The club are contractually obliged to offer him a deal. That clause kicked in the moment he made 40 appearances for us. I am not sure if the last offer was made to meet that clause and then shelved because of the injury but then had to be reoffered because of the clause, or if this one is different.

I think its important to consider that we have quite a big scouting network and attend a lot of games monitoring lots of players. All a paper needs to do is find out what games we're attending (usually easily enough done as many clubs publish a scouting list of clubs in attendance) and then they can decide who we're looking at. It is also worth remembering that we will monitor players without a view to signing them unless someone leaves. The most extreme example is our Manager...right now we're monitoring Managers in case Koeman leaves. That is not to say we think he will or want him to of course, but should he leave for whatever reason we won't be starting from square one in our search for a replacement - we will already have lots of information on potential replacements. We take the same approach to players - say someone bids stupid money for Tadic and he wants to leave - if we accept we don't want to be starting to think about who to replace him, we want a list of potential replacements already drawn up. It's just a really sensible approach to recruitment. But it does mean there will be a lot of guff about us in the papers.

If we qualified for the Europa League then we'd have a decent ranking courtesy of our nations co-efficient (rather than our own, which is non-existent ). Taking a look at the teams in Pot 4 in this years groups: Dinamo Moscow (Rus) FK Krasnodar (Rus) NK Rijeka (Cro) KSC Lokeren (Bel) Asteras Tripolis (Gre) Slovan Bratislava (Svk) Apollon Limassol (Cyp) Garabag Agdam (Azb) HJK Helsinki (Fin) Astra Giurgiu (Rom) Dinamo Minsk (Bls) AaB Aalborg (Den) A half decent Saints team with players like Targett, Reed, JWP, and Stephens / Turnbull in it should be able to beat most of them, surely?

I think they are new but they also echo his previous comments too.