Lighthouse

They lack the resources really to compete long term. A club that size can have a couple of decent seasons if they're well managed, have a good team spirit and a couple of players like Bony and Michu. Beyond that though, I don't think they have the financial clout to bring in a team of VvD, Wanyama, Mané etc. Their third most expensive signing is Hernandez for £5.5m, which kind of illustrates their limitations. Plus Swansea is miles away from pretty much everywhere.

Somewhat contradictory. First you're saying he is the definition of an 'impact sub' then you say he's not been given a chance; despite making 53 appearances, mainly as a sub. I don't wish he'd seen out his career here as we'd have been paying a big chunk of wages to someone who is no longer good enough. We'd have ended up in a similar boat to the one we're in with Kelvin, clinging on to a player who is well past it largely for nostalgic reasons.

Actually I came to that opinion by having a season ticket and watching Lambert look increasingly off the pace as the season went on. The stand by strikers for that WC squad were Carroll, who'd spent half the year injured and scored 2 goals, and Defoe, who wasn't wanted by Spurs and buggered off to play in the Canadian League. He was hardly keeping Shearer out of the squad.

I'm fairly sure Utd wont be giving us Vardy in part ex.

You mean that one header, from a corner, against a team ranked just below Iran in World football? I was delighted for Rickie, that was probably my favourite ever moment watching England but 4 goals (1 was a pen) in 51 appearances since he left would suggest he has made little impact. Infact we've had a similar return from Yoshida in the same time span.

Apart from pretty much every player in our team you mean? Pelle, Fonte, K Davis and S Davis will all need replacing in the next couple of years, as well as Mané. TV money will provide some of that but a large amount of what we've sold in the past has been reinvested. The money from Morgan and Clyne went on Romeu, Virgil, Clasie, Cedric, Martina, Caulker, Stek and Juanmi.

Yes, I see no reason why we should sell in January either but when he does go it wont be for £50m.

Alright, calm down. Guys, I think we've got a badass here.

The England debut was completely down to his form in our first Prem season, that Scotland game came before the Prem even kicked off. Let's be honest, he only went to the World Cup because there was pretty much nobody else. He was James Beattie if there was no Emile Heskey.

The people who think Yoshi is a bad player obviously never watched Fox, Bernard, Jakobsson, Davenport, Lancashire, Powell or Kenton. Christ we've had some sh*te defenders in the last 10 years.

Absolutely this. Couldn't believe they were playing that, the campest, cheesiest nonsense ever recorded. The best pre-match music we had was Sandstorm, they should go back to that.

Lambert's game involved him being the focal point and the play being built around him. He is the complete opposite of an impact sub as his performances for Liverpool and West Brom have shown.

They had a hovercraft race at half time during our last trip to Coventry, shame there wasn't anyone there to see it. I think our lowest point was probably the ABBA tribute band before we lost to Villa in 2005.

Which would make him 4th or 5th most expensive over 30 of all time. You're in Zlatan and Makelele territory there, it's not happening. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/golden-oldies-10-most-expensive-6087114 Also, the same Bas Dost banging them in for Wolfsburg in the Champions League? Dream on.

I'd say his Championship year and the first in the Premier League were his best. By which I mean, the highest level at which he was performing consistently. He had some decent games in our second season up but a fair few poor ones where he looked off the pace. I think most of us knew that was his last properly decent season and he pretty much proved that at Liverpool. Personally I'd rather sell players around the age of 32, when they're still consistent and worth a bit of money. For me that was the main lesson of 2003-05 when we got complacent in our defence, waiting until the likes of Dodd, Lundekvam and Le Saux were well past it before replacing them.

Not now but for the right price at the end of the season, yes.

Well he definitely doesn't look like a complete weirdo, desperately seeking attention by posting stupid conspiracy theories on the internet.

People always used the likes of Drogba, Sheringham and Pirlo as examples of players who can still perform in their mid thirties. They're still on the decline, the difference is they were world class to begin with. 34 year old Sheringham wasn't as good 29 year old Sheringham and it will be the same with Pelle. We were trying to replace Lambert within weeks of getting promoted, first with J Rod, then Osvaldo, then Pelle (who I think we'd have signed anyway even if SRL had stayed). If someone offered us £10m in summer I'd take the money and have £10m extra to spend on a replacement, which we'd need in 2 or 3 years anyway.

I would say sell and reinvest. We'd get more money and wouldn't have to put up with many of the sub par performances we saw from Lambert in his final year with us.

Because by then he will be 32 and on the decline.

He is not a £50m player. He is good but not that good. To be a £50m player he would need to be as good as he is, 19 years old and English. As he is, I reckon we'll get £30m or so.

£30m to replace a player who cost £8m? He's a good player on his day but I wouldn't really say he's improved here as such. He has probably got one more season in him (after this one) playing regularly at the highest level.

Back in the days of the old forum some of our more boisterous members found a group called 'TSF Completes My Life'. Unfortunately it was nothing to do with The Saints Forum and was actually a group for members of an Evangelical Church in Manhattan called Temple of Saint Francis. As you can imagine, the conversations between Master Bates, Bad Boy Saint and a bunch of New York God botherers were quite interesting. Apparently they don't approve of Tubgirl over there. Who'd have thought.

Well it's Premier League football, every single one of our players would leave if a big offer came in for them. It's pretty much like being destroyed if a bear sh*ts in the woods. £10m would make him one of the most expensive 31 year olds of all time, hardly daylight robbery.

Hence we only got £4m for Lambert, which many people seemed outraged about at the time. I think he's scored about 3 goals in the 18 months since he left, including a penalty last week and a goal against some Bulgarian pub team. I reckon he's got one more season of decent football in him. I'd take £10m next summer and reinvest it in the next Mané, Lovren or VvD.