Pamplemousse

The person who made the first reference to the first team was Duckhunter. I disagreed with his comments that Gabbiadini, for example, wouldn't find his advice useful, and reducing him as some sort of lower-league journeyman who has nothing to offer couldn't be further from reality. Nevertheless, when I said 'get him in as a coach', I never said in what capacity he'd be coaching. If he was to come as a coach, of course it would be with the youth team/U23s, so I'm glad we're on the same wavelength there.

Correct. My post was tongue in cheek anyway, if it wasn't obvious.

I refer back to my earlier point - Stam coached here whilst earning his badges. I never said that Lambert is an excellent coach - nobody knows whether he would be successful or not. Why did we appoint Radhi Jaidi as a coach? He was untested too. I think it's evident who the real idiots are here.

Why do we have the former Barnsley goalkeeper coaching our goalkeepers then? Your argument doesn't add up.

Goalkeepers develop later than other positions - many come into their prime in their late twenties. Working with the England goalkeeper coach and at a bigger club, with better training facilities, could do wonders for him, and untap his potential.

Seeing as we can't finish for toffee at the moment, he'd be a terrific addition. Jaap Stam was coaching here whilst earning his badges under Ronald Koeman, no doubt Yoshida and VVD were looking at this defender thinking 'who's this fecker, what's he done in his career' because he had no badges

Just had a look on RAWK. Some of the latest comments: Les Reed is effectively 'cock-blocking' VVD Because Saints haven't publicly responded to the transfer request, it de facto becomes accepted and that green lights Liverpool to make a bid

In schadenfreude news, Coutinho has been left out of Liverpool's Champions League squad. Presumably he has a virus, or something like that.

Definitely would take him as a coach. Past it as a player unfortunately, but what a player he was for us

Really? Why would he give up Champions League football to sit on our bench?

So last week, LeG told us to keep an eye out for the U23 game against Reading tomorrow...

Out of Forster, McCarthy, Gazzaniga and Taylor - McCarthy is injured, Gazzaniga is off to Spurs and Taylor isn't good enough for the bench. So I would say that a goalkeeper (presumably on a loan, like we did with Hassen) is a priority for us.

Ouch, 4-0 defeat. And Fonte wasn't even playing.

Bournemouth have it too. Although you can easily see the names and numbers anyway, so it's not really an issue. The issue is black numbers on white + colour striped shirts.

It'll be interesting to see how West Ham do tomorrow I don't think they've had a particularly good transfer window. On paper, you'd expect them to attack a bit more than Swansea, which might suit us.

It was listed on this website https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerstreams/comments/6t8awp/1400_gmt_southampton_vs_swansea/

So Van Dijk was at the stadium today

Just had a look at POL (over the summer they accepted my membership request, kept it quiet for a few months in case they banned me straight away), a few people blaming the fact that they only have a 'mid-table budget' Some sensible ones derided the person who made that comment, but generally speaking, most fans want more signings.

Me neither, only found it today. The audio thing was very annoying.

So that's Chelsea and Liverpool who are looking leaky and badly need a centre back... Hope we stand firm on the asking price. Or increase it.

Next week we'll win if we play like we did today. West Ham will be a bit more open.

Ouch, 3-0 defeat at Oxford. There goes the promotion challenge...

At least we didn't go for Frank de Boer!

Frustrating

Interesting revelation from MLT on Soccer Saturday. He says the board offered Puel the chance to stay on as manager this season, so long as he agreed to play more attacking football.