Lighthouse

From who? Nonsense IMO.

And Felaini, Lescott, Rodwell, Arteta and Gravesen.

And Sigurdsson, in a similar way to how we lost Toby. Michu sort of, until he got injured. Swansea don't really have any high profile players, just a solid squad with a decent team ethic. If they had anyone like Clyne or Morgan they would lose them too.

An option to buy only works if: a - The player actually wants to sign for us b - We don't have some weird buy out clause which completely negates the point of an option to buy in the first place. Neither of those was the case with Toby but we've used it in the past to our advantage with players like Chaplow, Rasiak and Saganowski.

And yet there he is. The point stands; it doesn't matter who he might end up playing for next year, if a player is good enough to play for us now we'd be foolish not to take him on loan. If I told you a year ago that Spurs would sign Toby this summer after his loan, would you still have taken him? Whether you think Januzaj is good enough or not is a separate issue. If that's the case then fair enough.

You're probably right, got me thinking though, imagine if Yugoslav was still one unified country. They would have one heck of a team. Begovic, Lovren, Srna, Rakitic, Modric, Pjanic, Mandzukic, Dzeko, Vidic, Corluka, Jovetic all in the same squad.

If he's a good player he's worth having, even on loan. It's like saying we were only developing Toby for Spurs, when actually he played a vital part in getting us into the Europa League. Just because he will go back to Man U potentially a better player doesn't mean he can't DAJFU. Supposing I could guarantee he would come here and score 30 League goals, then go back to Man U. Would you still be against signing him? Obviously I can't but we shouldn't turn players down just because they're on loan. Think how much worse we'd have been in our first League 1 season without Waigo and Antonio.

Christ knows I wish you wouldn't bother. It's like repeatedly explaining to the forum what bears do in the woods. It's not about developing him for Man U, if he is good enough to add something to our team at relatively low cost then it's a no brainer. I'm not really convinced by AJ yet but he does look better than Elia, Djuricic and JWP, which seems to be the bench mark for us.

Hire some wannabe artist to come and adjust the splatter to look like Jesus. Then claim it as a divine miracle and sell it to the papers. Sorted.

Would be interested to see how a Serb and a Kosovan get on in training.

Not sure. Perhaps they can cut it off, chop it into 4 pieces and send them back to headquarters.

How's that a handball from 2 yards away?

Aaaaaaand it's another MLG thread. Bye everyone!

And a certain Welshman ahead of Surman maybe.

Said it before and I'll say it again. Video technology would have cleared that up in 20 seconds. Games shouldn't swing on decisions like that.

Yeah and I don't much like Bournemouth either.

How was that goal given and Bompey's disallowed?

What about FA Cup + All our top players and Koeman sign new long term deals + 12th + knock Liverpool out of EL but lose semi to Spurs. or EL + Relegation but come straight back up + Pompey relegated + Noshed off by Saints WAG of your choice

Yep, same. Normally I'd prioritise the League over the FA Cup but winning the EL would trump that if we stayed up. The chance to play in the Champions League, even for only a year would attract some high caliber players.

Yeah but Hooper dies and the shark doesn't explode (sorry Fry). The film is better IMO.

Watford is no bigger than any other game and I would place higher priority on this one. I'd expect a very similar team to the Everton game but with J Rod and Romeu probably starting ahead of Long and maybe Tadic.

Terrible replacements. Romeu, Clasie, Caulker and Van Dijk were all dreadful first half.

Some people already have, some never will, the rest are spread out inbetween.

2 years ago today. Probably my favourite moment watching England.

EL by a mile. 1. We've never won it before 2. Into the Champions League 3. It would mean one heck of a European tour. We'd probably have to beat the likes of Dortmund and Liverpool at some point. 4. Most of us went to Wembley for the JPT, 15,000 Saints fans packing out Basel City centre would be quite something.