Lighthouse

On the ones the top clubs weren't willing to chuck money at. Such a system would make it impossible for a Saints, Everton or Swansea to challenge for the Champs League. The days of building a tight-knit squad around Lambert, Morgan, Fonte and Lallana would be history.

The young players would all just end up leaving on a free after a couple of years. We MIGHT have got an extra year out of Shaw and Lallana but then they would have just left on a Bosman. This system would take away any point in having an academy. Why bring through youth players, knowing anyone half decent will leave on a free after a couple of years. Investing in a youth system would just be financially nonviable, when you can just sign players for free anyway. The only people who will benefit from this are players, who will earn even more, and the big clubs who can just hoover up decent players for free from smaller clubs.

That just sounds terrible. Smaller clubs likes Saints wouldn't be able to compete at all. Anyone half decent would just be able to walk out of the club after a couple of year. Nobody would sign contracts of any kind of length because they wouldn't want to be stuck here for 4 years. All this will do is push up players wages. Money that would be spent on transfer fees would instead go into even bigger contracts for players. We would end up having to offer someone like Wanyama £100k a week just to sign for more than 2 years.

In a vaguely defectorish way, Tim Sparv's Midgetland beat Legia. Meanwhile Forren and friends win 3-1 away at Fenerbache.

For every Eriksen, Drogba, Coutinho or Rosicky, there is a Lamela, Beasley, Piper or Mido. Still interesting that we looked at him.

We couldn't afford either of them truth be told. Both were or would have been poor signings at a time when we were lacking experience and quality.

I just hope one day the world will look back and say they can't believe people smoked at all. It's the 21st Century and people are still taking up smoking. Bonkers if you ask me.

Osvaldo comes on in the second minute of stoppage time against Dynamo Kiev. Was hoping he might do something petulant and Khacheridi would lamp him one. Sadly not.

Probably on par with Gardos. Wouldn't be too happy with him playing every week but you wont find many better to be our 4th choice CB. Doubt we every planned to keep him permanently.

He should be called Jorvik, surely.

You're the moderator. I'm not sure why people like this, Dalek and alpine weren't banned years ago.

I'm sure we can show him our support with a chorus of his old song. Truly horrible injury for the lad. I'm glad we don't have to play against him but not in these circumstances.

Potentially career threatening. Get well soon Luke!

I've seen some ludicrous arguments against this. "They're my kids in my car, the government has no right telling me what I can and can't do!" Yeah, you should be allowed to beat them too. Agree, £50 isn't enough. There's no excuse for it.

If there was no buy to rent, there would be no rental properties at all. I used to rent in Bristol and it was difficult enough finding somewhere decent to rent as things are. At the time I didn't have a hope in hell of buying a property as I was on unstable income with some massive student debts to pay off. I think I worked out once that in the 3 years following graduation from school I lived in 15 different flats and houses (in no less than 5 countries). Buying a house is practically impossible for about the first 10 years after school I'd say. You jump around from college to college, job to job, one relationship to another. Buying and selling properties and short notice every 6 months or so is completely impractical and unaffordable. The reason there is so much B2R is because there is so much demand for short term, rental property.

lard, that's a sh*t haiku.

This but with Yoshida on the bench for Bertrand. If Ryan is fully fit he should start, if not I'd rather have Yoshi on the bench. Shaw looked like Utd's best threat today against Liverpool, I think we need to keep him quiet. Put Mane wide right and push Shaw back into his own half. At least we can't get mugged off by RVP this year.

"Oh Yeeeessss!!" Wonderful unbiased commentary.

Go on Utd, stick 4 past them.

Shaw vs. Clyne and Lovren today. Morgan on the bench, Lallana injured.

Unbeaten away from home this season but that was a poor game.

Good run and cross from Cedric.

Tadic on the right apparently...

COYG! etc.

Not sure why Romeu was dropped.