Lighthouse

Have I missed something but when did we decide AR10 was ITK? As far as I can tell he just turned up a couple of weeks ago, said something vague about Tadic getting a new deal and that's about it.

Loyalty by definition is turning down better offers. I can't say that I can recall any which he has turned down since joining us.

I can't see any reason why the club would sell him if it was detrimental to our season. He's not like other players, if he runs his contract down he will be 34 and pretty much done with football at this level. Would a deadline day replacement be that bad if he ended up being younger and just as good? A couple of games with Yoshida isn't going to kill us.

Why would be agree to any kind of late deal whereby we don't have a replacement lined up?

If I were in the boardroom, I'd be perfectly fine with him not signing a new contract. We're only really offering it to him as a reward, don't see why we'd give a sh*t if he doesn't sign.

I think you may have fallen for a fairly obvious troll post.

I can't understand anyone who wouldn't take a 1-0 win in any game TBH.

I wish we could have replaced him during last seasons trip to Bompey. Or the home defeat against Spurs, the trip to Palace, home to Everton and Villa and Sunderland, the Palace cup game... You get the idea. In the past 2 years Lambert, Lallana, Alderweireld and Schneiderlin have all been 'irreplaceable'. We'll cope.

I'd agree with this. Redmond for Mané is the only area I think may be weaker but the latter only turned up for about 15 games last year.

Can't see how that's weak. The one we had 4 years ago was weak, back when we had Fox, Kelvin, Hooiveld and a teenage JWP in the side.

So who do we start with? I'm assuming it'll be something like; Forster Cédric - Fonte - VvD- Bertrand Romeu JWP - Hojbjerg Tadic Redmond - Long

Yep. Done well to bring this back after being 100 behind in the 1st innings.

Pakistan 150-8.

When they asked her if the lumberjack was any good she said, "he's okay."

This is like finding out your favourite comedian is doing a new tour, booking tickets and then when you get there they've just rehashed a load of old jokes they told on Mock The Week, last year.

They've re-signed Van Nistelrooy?

Fonte should post something on Instagram saying how happy he is to be back. Like Pellè did.

I live in Fiji, we're a couple of days ahead.

I thought this would be a thread about the long suffering British farmers and how they're struggling to supply crops for an ever growing population.

On a thread which nobody had even looked at for 8 months too. Maybe he was already planning to resurrect it 3 years later.

You'd get it wrong anyway mate.

Which alter-ego was it Charlie had a big argument with once? That was odd.

Hope he doesn't cut his feet on all those shards of glass ceiling.

Possible but I can't see any motivation for Jesé to do that. Why sign a contract with Real, so that you can immediately sign for Liverpool, just to screw Saints out of some money that he doesn't get?

'Any good' is a big grey area. He could be as good as Lallana or Mané and Real Madrid wouldn't give him a second glance.