Lighthouse

I understand it too, lesser of 2 evils and all that. I did have the 'pleasure' of being in the Slug and Lettuce with a bunch of Utd fans before that game. The sang quite a lot, mainly about how sh*t City were, something about Barcelona in 99 and something about Januzaj being the next big thing.

Can't say I'm all that fussed. If the big clubs want to p*ss off and be global super franchises in cities across the globe then so be it. If it means teams like Saints have a half decent chance of winning the Premier League, competing with the likes of West Ham, Liverpool and Everton, it could be alright. I don't particularly care if Utd me Chelsea p*ss off with their £100m jet lagged players.

It could well be that different races have different mental attributes which make them better suited to different roles. I can't believe for a second though that we would pick and chose academy players based on race. I'm sure if we found a pale, white ginger kid who could play like Romario, the club wouldn't be saying he was the wrong colour.

Fonte won't be sold in January and I very much doubt he will leave at all now. There are only 2 deals I can see happening; 1. A loan to replace a long term injury. 2. An opportunistic, Austin type, 'too good to refuse' bargain for a player nearing the end of his contract.

Good shout. Think Guly scored a corker against Blackpool in the cup once. Vergini has to be up there for the Lolz I think.

Baird vs. Cardiff. Vignal vs. Leicester Pelle vs. QPR Lallana vs. Hull Lallana vs. Newcastle Beattie vs. Arsenal Skacel vs. Yeovil Thomas vs. Ipswich Tadanari vs. Derby Plus any number of Lambert and Bale free kicks.

This basically. They can't all be Lovren/Mané/Lambert triple your money signings.

They spent most of it on glazers TBF.

Wasn't it Clyne, Lovren and Mané who scored at Anfield? The other two were at St Mary's. They need Pelle and J Rod for the full set if my memory serves me correctly.

To attract good players.

A lot of people seem to be using the phrase 'push on' on here. I'm not sure what you all mean by it, 6th and in Europe is pretty much as good as it'll get for us.

Wouldn't have said Juanmi was 'utterly world class' personally. Seriously, if you're in about Mané you are massively overrating his talents. He may be 'world class' for about 3 games a season but the rest are a mixture of decent and anonymous. If he was, much better teams than Liverpool would be after him.

I was responding to the suggestion that it was, "a pretty p*ss poor effort." Nothing much we could do about the outgoings but I'm not sure how those signings could be described as "p*ss poor".

A record signing, an England U21, a Danish international from Bayern's youth team and finally a half decent reserve keeper. Disgraceful.

For our last European campaign (before last season) we recruited Neil McCann, Darren Kenton and finished mid table. I think we'll cope alright with this 'disaster'.

Stewards enquiry? I count four.

On par. Wait and see.

Should have done better with Zlatan's header too IMO but people don't tend to mention things like this with Fonte for some reason.

It's not every game and even then 'howler' is an exaggeration. He under hit one back pass against Watford but was otherwise very reliable. It comes with not being a regular starter, we won't get a better player sitting on our bench. If Fonte didn't start for 2 months, then was chucked in because of injury, he would make mistakes too.

Just like Pogba. Juve sold too early, they should have got £200m.

Progression being finishing above a Utd side that just signed Mourinho, Zlatan,Mkhitarian and Pogba? Anyone hoping for that is a bit mental (not to mention we would have to stay above Chelsea and Liverpool). I'd be happy with a decent mid table finish and a half decent European campaign, which is about what I'd expect from this squad.

6 goals each from Austin, J Rod, Boufal and Redmond will match the contribution of Pelle, Mané, Austin and Juanmi last season. Don't think it'll be that hard.

We have improved on Kelvin and Juanmi. We tried to improve on Martina but Pied is now injured.

Better players than Gardos and Yoshi aren't going to sit on our bench.

Would it be in bad taste to nickname him 'Hollocaust'?