Lallana's Left Peg

Not to derail the thread but if you want to see what the potential impact is of two matches a week this is a little worrying when you have a small squad: https://twitter.com/YLMSportScience/status/575412002035789824

Depends how pedantic you want to get over cup replays etc.

Apparently the Mail have linked us with both Jordan Rhodes and Rudy Gestede.

Spurs don't have much money. Their Chairman has already told the Supporters Club that days of big signings are over and they would focus on players in the £10-12m range to develop. The signing of Schneiderlin is a stretch for them financially for the following reasons: 1. He would cost more than their supposed new transfer strategy allows 2. He is older than players their supposed new transfer strategy targets 3. Even if they chucked in loads of players into the deal, they would still value it at an amount that goes against their supposed new transfer strategy 4. Daniel Levy is loathe to recover anything less than the fee paid for all his players no matter how crap they have been - he will value Stambouli at least around £5m and Townsend at some silly fee. Saints will laugh at that, as they should. 5. Spurs are not in the Champions League, and you would think for Schneiderlin to join them it would not only take an extraordinary set of circumstances based on the above, but for better teams to drop interest.

Tadic as well as Schneiderlin out for Saturday.

My main issue with green kits is that they look like goalkeeper tops. I just always associate that colour (in non-stripe or non-hoop form) with keepers.

I don't think much of their away or third strips.

I'll reserve judgement on the away kit until I learn the reasons for it and how / if it benefits Saints.

Looks like we've found Forster's cover

It's all about productivity though. Ramirez is as technically gifted from what I can tell.

Mourinho has said that Cech is a 'special exception' in terms of being sold to rivals in the Premier League, which is a surprise. That said, if he had his way, I think he'd rather lend him to us for a year than sell to a rival.

Spurs are desperate for Morgan, their latest move appears to be valuing Schneiderlin at only £20m but they can't afford that, so they are going to offer some absolute ****e as well in a bid to drive the price down http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-to-offer-townsend-or-stambouli-to-southampton-in-bid-to-clinch-20m-schneiderlin-deal-10211885.html

Looks like he's eyeing up a new boot deal as well!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32510554 Big ask, plenty of reasons why it won't happen, but that is what targets are all about.

Some of those scenarios are the cherry on top. The cake is the fact that they completely ****ed up spending £120m, have missed out on the Champions League (barring a miracle), one of their best ever players prefers to play in the US than stay on, their next best player can't stay fit for more than 2mins, and their utter gob****e of a Manager is coming off like a complete clown. Absolutely hilarious.

Nice article for recognition, however I don't like this bit: I think he was highly rated at Palace and he was in a team that was on course for the playoffs. His move to us was because Palace were strapped and we paid him a lot of money. He was a bit of coup for us, rather than us being someone who he had to turn to because his career was on the downslide.

I wouldn't expect him to say anything else, regardless of what the club think will happen internally.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11700/9827239/les-reed-says-jay-rodriguez-and-morgan-schneiderlin-will-not-be-leaving-southampton-this-summer?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Lots of good stuff in there. I am glad squad depth for Europe will come from within - would be great to qualify for Europe and see lots of Academy graduates play. EDIT: Also says we'll loan a keeper or sign a young keeper as Forster will be back in January. FULL ARTICLE:

I agree - it would be wrong to say that they haven't spent much money and don't have much investment, but it would be equally wrong to suggest that what they have achieved still isn't impressive given the clubs they have finished above.

What is he like in the air? Morgan wins a lot of headed duels in the middle of the park. Size matters in our league. Clasie, Wanyama, and Davis aren't that tall. Reed either.

Sounds positive but it could just be posturing our end to position ourselves in the public eye. Les Reed did similar thing in the summer last year ahead of the sales. Would be absolutely massive if he did sign though.

Steve De Ridder? Tadanari Lee? Emmanuel Mayuka? Vegard Forren? And in terms of good Liverpool signings in the same period: Shelvey, Suarez, Henderson, Sturridge, Coutinho. Liverpool have wasted a lot of money. So have we. We have signed a lot of good players. So have Liverpool. Liverpool have more money so have wasted more, but then they've also signed better players than we ever will as well. It's true they have had plenty of mistakes but then so have we.

Saints and Liverpool have both signed an equal amount of bad and good players in that period, for varying amounts of money. No club is better than 50/50 in the transfer market.

Marca reporting that Real Madrid are considering purchasing Hernandez but won't to renegotiate the agreed free with Man Utd which is about £14m.

Who?