Lighthouse

3-3 with Liverpool when Pahars equalised, also the 3-2 win from 2-0 down under Koeman. It sounds silly now but beating MK Dons from 2-0 down was pretty special, as was beating Millwall when we went into stoppage time 2-1 down.

We’re Southampton fans, I’m pretty sure we could write a script about a team losing a game in the last minute of injury time.

Redmond, PEH and Yoshi should be a priority. Bertrand too, providing he wants to be here.

Barca could really do with a decent centre half, who’s strong, quick and good in the air but also composed on the ball. Can anybody think of one?

Prove what? There is literally not one redeeming attribute I can name for Elyounoussi.

You mean that season we did actually spend a few quid on a striker?

The club have already said he signed on loan ahead of a permanent move in summer, I’ve no idea why people think otherwise. If someone is privy to different ITK info then fair enough but otherwise it’s just wishful thinking.

They deliberately don’t because that’s a waste of exciting fixtures. When the title hinges on Liverpool vs Wolves and Brighton vs City, that’s a bonus for Sky. Two fixtures your average fan wouldn’t usually be that bothered about.

I can’t see anyone coming in for Ralph this summer after half a season here and narrowly avoiding the drop. Howe, Garcia, Santo and Benitez have all been consistently performing for longer and may feel they’ve achieved all they can at their respective clubs.

No doubting they could and probably wish they had. Merely pointing out that Liverpool can and did sign him, for a fee which beats City's record signing by a good £15m.

It's not really about who 'deserves' what, it purely a question of how much money people spend and how well they invest it. Liverpool really aren't that far behind Man City in terms of what they can spend, no matter how much they bleat about it. In the last year and a bit they've bought the worlds most expensive defender and goalkeeper, then bought Keita for up to £60m. Even the likes of Lovren and Lallana would have been £40m and £50m in today's money. 4 years ago, when City bought Sterling, I would have agreed they're are at an unfair advantage. Now though, could you honestly see City signing Salah or Virgil?

Have you got some evidence behind your story? Lord knows I'm no fan of Robinson but the video I've seen was of a young guy pushing past others to shout stuff in his face, before later throwing a milkshake.

That’s massively skewed by selling three players for about £250m. £500m is a massive amount to spend, regardless of who you’ve sold. Let’s suppose we sold Jack Stephens for £1bn, then over the next three years spent £500m on our squad and finished 12th. Would we be doing an amazing job to avoid relegation despite a net spend of minus £500m?

I think some of you are getting a little to elaborate and sadistic with this. I quite simply don’t want Lallana, Lovren and Virgil to win anything after acting like helmets trying to force a move. I also don’t want to endure the nausea of Liverpool fans and media ‘personalities’ telling us how special this is for all football fans, for the next 20 years. All that being the case, a straightforward 3-0 City win and a 1-1 draw with Barca is fine by me. No trophies and a few agents twitching for moves to the properly big clubs.

That’s always been the case with young players though. For every Bale, Walcott and Lallana, there are 50 Ben Reeves, Josh Dutton-Black and Jamie Hatch. There’s no shame in it, Stephens has just ended up playing a lot more games than he should, out of necessity due to poor recruitment.

City definitely looking nervy here and will definitely be after a decent LB in summer.

They finished above us by about 5 seconds and without riding the crest of the promotion wave in the first two months, they’d have gone down. They’ve been terrible since about October in their first season.

Not sure where the idea that pre-season will get him fit comes from. I’d get that if he was overweight and had poor stamina but we’re not talking about that kind of fitness. An injury prone player is unlikely to change because of a couple weeks running around a field in the Swiss Alps.

One of the greatest enigma in the Prem. Never been more than a 5 goal a season man in the league yet many claim we’d be deluded not to want him because he bangs them in against Malta, Brentford and Vorskla Poltava.

Remember that well, singing, “that’s why we’re going down!” As we threw away a narrow lead to lose in the last 5 minutes. Thankfully those days are behind us and such sloppiness and mental fragility is now unheard of. Also remember Killer booting all the training balls into the crowd after the warm up. There was actually a weirdly cheerful atmosphere at the game. Decent weather and most people seemed genuinely excited to be going on a League 1 tour. The Forrest fans were pretty good too. Spoke to a few after, they wished us good luck and said it was a shame to see a club like ours in such a sorry state.

He would probably spend most of his life doing what Armstrong did for Bournemouth’s third goal. If anything I think he would be worse, at the moment his best play is when he has time and space at the back to play it forward. He won’t get that in midfield.

We’re nearly there, only one more of these to sit through before we can go and watch cricket or F1 for 3 months. Assuming no changes in injuries, I’d probably try something like: - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gunn - - - - - Stephens - Bednarek - Bertrand Valery - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Vokins - - - - - - - - Lemina - - - Hojbjerg - - - - - JWP - - - - - - - - - - - - - Redmond - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ings

Is 5 goals (which weren’t penalties) the best we could get for £20m? I doubt it.

I’m not sure I get your point. It makes who not want to bother trying what in future?

I think I’ll watch a system without Forster, Stephens, Long, Moi and a bunch of players in the beach, before I criticise it too harshly.