Lighthouse

Some of you sound like these idiot girls who date bad boy love rats because they think they're the ones who can change him. Boufal is not about to suddenly turn into a productive team player because Hughes is here, if anything I think he will react worse. Puel and MoPe were a bit of a soft touch IMO and I don't think Sophie-Anne is the type to respond well to the hairdryer treatment. I think if he goaded Hughes like he did MoPe after the West Brom goal, Hughes would have put him in hospital.

I was being sarcastic, personally. There are some big names on the left but I'd take winning and confidence over an easy draw on paper any day.

I don't, we'll f**k it up and win 4-0.

Just goes to show that even if the club doesn't necessarily want to sell a player, he can still leave on good terms without acting like an absolute helmet.

Yes. It's exactly the same as Stephens replacing Fonte and the rock solid defence we've had ever since. We've badly struggled for goals over the last 2 years, it's part managerial and partly the players. However you try and dress it up, you want to replace Boufal with a player who was behind him in the pecking order under 3 successive regimes. We need someone who is BETTER than Boufal. Much better. Replacing him with one of the kids, so we can all just sit here with an academy boner like we did under Poortvleit is stupid.

I don’t care how old he is, the fact is he can’t be relied upon YET in the first team. What you’re saying is you’re confident we will get enough creativity from Redmond and the unknown Elayoussi to give Sims time to develop.

I’m not saying they haven’t, what I’m saying is the add ons will eventually take us to somewhere in the middle of that €11.9m and the £18m we were asking for.

We’ll just have to agree to disagree on that one. With our attacking play being as bad as it has been over the last 2 years, it’s not as if he didn’t have chance to make an impresssion but a succession of managers and coaches preferred the likes of Redmond and Boufal.

That's what Ajax say and it's the initial fee, there will be other add ons spread over a period of time. Our usual mouth pieces in the media say we wanted £18m. The truth will be somewhere in the middle.

Farewell and good luck Dusan. A quick reminder of his finest hour at Saints. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgOSX9FFzY&start_radio=1&list=RDcPgOSX9FFzY

You'd hope we're after a decent replacement for Boufal too.

Only in the Glasgow fantasy land where Saints sell everybody for the lowest rumoured fee.

I always saw Davis as the link in the front 4, between the rest of the team and Lambert/Lallana/J Rod or Pelle/Tadic/Mané. Hopefully he can fill that role and provide some purpose to our attacking play.

Paid gardening leave? Where have you read that?

Oh, so it's fallen through then. Bugger.

I think the team in the OP would get relegated, lacks any sort of creativity in midfield.

Hope he pulls through. Diego's coke dealer is 8% of Argentina's GDP.

The same rag who said Maddison was a done deal.

We are guaranteed to see either Maradonna or Pogba crying, what's not to like.

This is just a cynical plan to... Les Reed, season tickets, something something...

Would be happy to see Clasie, Reed and Davis all move on.

It's official - 4 year deal.

I agree, although it would likely be 35 or 40 minute halves, which would equate to the actual in play time of an average game at the moment. Basically other sports have the answers to most of our problems, football is just a bit behind getting into the 21st century. Players appealing for VAR - Only the captain can ask (other players get booked), fix number of challenges per half - As per cricket and tennis. No clear and obvious error - Stick with 'umpires decision' - As per cricket. Time wasting - Stop the clock for stoppages, the game ends when the ball goes out for a throw in or GK after time is up - As per rugby

The best improvement to VAR I can think of is to have the officials in the video room make the actual decision IF they are certain a mistake has been made. We don't need the ref to run over and look himself if a qualified referee has already reviewed the video. Agree with whoever mentioned booking for delaying a free kick. Refs seem really slack on bookings for kicking the ball away after a foul. It should be an instant booking for anyone who picks up the ball, holds it behind their back for a few seconds, throws it in the other direction etc.

It wasn’t a release clause, something daft like he was allowed to talk to the other club but Liverpool didn’t have to accept the offer. Genuine release clauses are rare in Britain. I think Demba Ba had one at Newcastle, which backfired on them a bit.