Pamplemousse

We didn't sell any key players, although I have a feeling there may be a bit of a defensive exodus next summer if Bertrand and Cedric still want out. But who knows, we might win the league or qualify for Europe and they might change their minds. I personally think we're an attacking player short. Still, there's January to sort it out if it becomes an issue.

Defences win championships, as they say.

4-0 now! The only good news for the Dutch is that Sweden are losing, so 2nd place *might* be up for grabs.

Even The9 wouldn't start a thread this early

Meanwhile, a Portugal defence containing Fonte has conceded a goal from the Faroe Islands...

Defensively they've looked reasonably solid, but attacking-wise they've been dreadful. No idea why Sneijder is playing, he is past it. Surely they have some good young attacking players they can play????

Reintegrate him, but give him assurances that he'll be sold (for an acceptable fee and not to the bin dippers) next summer.

Griezmann sort of lured him out of his defensive position and then the Frenchman ran in the area where he should've been. It was more intelligent play by the French rather than poor play from him though.

Glass half empty kind of guy by any chance?

Just popped onto POL. They seem to be discussing Bournemouth more so than us. Some of them seem to think they might be in financial difficulty...

I've spent most of my summer blocking idiots like that so they don't appear in the #saintsfc timeline. Would help if people actually paid attention to sources and didn't repeat them here too.

Away from the transfers, a few Saints players are involved in matches in the coming few days. The first are Hoedt, who starts for the Netherlands against France tonight, and Cédric for Portugal against the Faroes.

RAWK have created their own deadline day bingo

So, I've just noticed on SSN that they have a mugshot of VVD, wearing the current kit. I suppose that means that, at some point, he has done a photo shoot wearing the new kit.

So now we have held firm, the question moves onto: will he play for us again?

Oh good, an ITK from Reddit, of all places, has posted this

I only really started hearing the 'victims' tag, especially on social media, after their actions following the Suarez/Evra affair.

Just reading that thread back... they're reading this thread a lot. They don't seem to like being called victims.

This quote will do... They're reaching POL levels of delusion

I am going to be spending all day on Friday winding up the bin dippers on Twitter

Poor jonnoquick, his ITK status has been shattered completely. Or, trousers' roulette evaluation was bang on the money...

I'm anticipating one last push from the Liverpool media and their surrogates. They won't go quietly, that's for sure.

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/virgil-van-dijk-will-eventually-win-battle-leave-southampton-will-happen-124538831.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw Nothing new really

Would've been credible until the Les Reed line

They haven't learnt their lesson from Monk's little game with them a few weeks ago