Lighthouse

It’s almost like a default setting for any football article, like a signature on a forum. Instead of ‘sent from my Samsung XGEDNDJ294JFJ4400’ it says, ‘West Ham and Everton are also interested.’

I imagine Pellè will be taking the p*ss a bit privately but I doubt it will be anything beyond that. Pellè was only there a couple of years, I’m sure he’s still a fan but I doubt he’s quite that partisan.

I quite enjoyed Feeder's Echo Park.

I would also keep Carrillo ahead of Long but that really isn’t a positive reflection of either.

TBF Belgium - Brasil will be a much better QF.

Juanmi struggled to make any kind of impact, most notably against MK Dons in the LC. He was cheap and worth a punt but never looked at home in English football.

I'd bite their arm off.

The VAR equivalent of saying, "we think Putin might have lost this election, do you want to come and have a look?"

What, he'd immediately sub off Bertrand, Lemina and Redmond?

When he was 19. Gallagher turns 23 in a couple of months and has just scored 6 goals in the Championship. Kane got the Premier League golden boot for his 23rd birthday. Personally I'm not fussed for most of the strikers on the last couple of pages. Long and Gallagher are Championship players, Austin and Ings can go and be injured somewhere else and there's nothing I can find at any point in Carrillo's career which gives the slightest indication that he is a Premier League player. I'd take Gabbi, Alcacer plus one more, given choice.

I've seen goals which were just as good from Martina, Saeijs, Thomas, Baird, Vignal and Yoshida.

I get that he runs, he chases, he puts pressure on defenders but... Two goals a season! Two! There are players out there who can run and score 5 times that amount. A hard working striker who scores 8-10 goals a season really isn’t asking an awful lot. I don’t see how anyone can watch a team almost get relegated, whilst struggling to score goals and not see this as a problem.

We won't get Sisto, Promes AND Alcacer. Haven't really seen enough of any of them to form a judgement but from what I've read, if we could sign Sisto, Alcacer, Vestergaard and Gunn, whilst shipping out Boufal, Long, Davis, Stephens and Forster (Whilst keeping Gabbi) I'd be delighted. I can but hope.

Koller, Janker AND Bierhoff?

Agree, I'd say we've maintained par whilst lowering the age of a couple of players by 6 or 7 years. A good start but I'd say we're still a CB, a forward and a creative player away from where I'd like to see the squad.

I have no doubt Boufal will absolutely rip it up this season. In Ligue 1.

Private jet just landed at Eastleigh from Slovenia. Begin wild and meaningless speculation based on f**k all.

With you now. I thought you were suggesting we hadn't lost a knockout game since Italia 90, when we played Brasil in '02.

Am I misunderstanding your post, we lost to Germany and Argentina in '96 and '98?

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/26/sofiane-boufal-southampton-mark-hughes-bust-up Depends how much you believe what you read and if these quotes are accurate. Of course the club aren't going to say anything, much like they didn't with the whole Osvaldo incident.

Never really settled here, must have been pining for the fjords.

No but he did get 5 goals once, a feat Boufal has never gotten close to.

Some people are saying sell Boufal and don't replace him. With Tadic gone, who else does that leave.

Yes but our only creative option off the bench? Really?! Redmond and Sims our only creative players if Mo El picks up a knock?

Apparently Delgado scored on 8th June against Mexico and Anders scored against the Argies on the 12th. I was thinking maybe a Rasiak, Stern John or Kenwyne more recently but apparently not.