Lighthouse

A sh*t player who starts every game. Jermaine Wright in other words.

And has never put in a performance close to that of a Premier League keeper. Age means nothing if he isn't showing any signs of notable talent. Mayuka likewise has done bugger all other than win a penalty 2 years ago. He failed to impress out on loan either. Two players we would be well rid of IMO. I can see Osvaldo just drifting around on loan until his contract runs out. I really can't see anyone actually paying for him, not for more than a couple of million anyway.

He was a back up player who only cost £6m. Other than being Belgian these two players have nothing in common.

According to wiki we gave him a 5 year deal, which just seems plain odd. No idea why anyone would give such a long contract to an unknown foreign player. It reminds me of Tommy Fourpast a bit, just doesn't make sense.

I don't think we are likely to spend £30m on a single player and I don't think anyone that good would be willing to come to Saints. Toby wont be any kind of factor.

Apart from JWP, Chambers and Shaw you mean? Reed is on the bench because there are no better players in our squad for that position. Clearly the coaches feel he is one of the brightest prospects in our youth set up, hence he is the one on the bench for first team games.

It will probably end up being Reed if there is nobody else fit.

Which senior player would you say he is keeping off the bench?

Clearly the coaches who have been training him for a large part of his development don't feel Reed is ready yet for big League games. I'm not sure why the clamour for a player who nobody has seen play a proper first team competitive match before. Remember the summer of 2008 when some people were championing our new young team and the benefits of our academy. I would have thought Jamie White and Lloyd James would have put most people off throwing kids in at the deep end.

I don't see the appeal in Guidetti TBH, he has only ever done it in Holland and Scotland but had little impact at Burnley and Stoke. One thought that did occur to me was Januzaj on loan. He doesn't seem to be getting any game time with Rooney, Falcao, RVP, Mata, Di Maria and Fellaini all ahead of him.

More likely it's different people.

A month to go until the sales are on, no doubt the club have already been doing their homework and a few cracks in our squad are starting to appear. If a Championship quality player like Mayuka is getting on the pitch, I would suggest we definitely need more fire power up front. Let's open up the floor to wild rumours of houses being bought in Winchester, dodgy photos taken through a hotel window, ear lobes, friends who do player medicals at Solent Uni and of course Carsten Janker. I would suggest we need an AM, ST and in a perfect world permanent deals for Ryan and Toby. Edit: Youtube compilation videos and Football Manager stats are mandatory for every suggestion.

I don't really get why Koeman sent him on and wasted our last sub. I know he couldn't have predicted Toby's injury but that is always the risk when you use all three subs. I would only use the third sub if you needed to make a definite, game changing decision or maybe if the game is already beyond doubt. To waste it on a nothing sub like Mayuka just seems odd when we were on course for a pretty decent point.

Pom... ah f**k. A nice easy home game for me please. Plenty of big guns over the X-mas period as it is. No doubt whoever we draw will be 'boring' to people who were expecting the 1970 Brazil team.

On the bright side, we've now gone to Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs, lost by one goal and deserved a point in all of them. Perhaps at home those games would have swung the other way, who knows. A bitter pill to swallow but saw it coming after Toby went off. Just hope the queue outside the treatment room isn't too long after this.

Nobody, it was a pointless substitution. Mayuka has done f**k in his Saints career.

Couldn't have written a worse script than that. Saw that goal coming a mile off.

Perfect, just what we needed

He's got good moobs though.

F**k sake Long.

You know the atmosphere is rocking when you can here one bloke coughing in the crowd on TV.

Are Leicester still putting our start 2 years ago to shame?

So Lovren's dream move to Liverpool has basically turned into what? 12 Premier League starts and 3 in the Champs League.

The joke posted by Mario (and the comments made by Dave Whelan) have nothing to do with the Holocaust. You can't use the gas chambers as an argument against Jews being money grabbers because the two are completely unrelated. How many Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman jokes have you heard where the punchline is the Irishman saying or doing something a bit thick? Imagine if every time you said a joke like that, an Irishman said, 'oh you can't say that about the Irish... something about the IRA etc. etc.'