Lighthouse

And here we see everything that is wrong with football. Chambers puts in a string of excellent performances for Southampton and is completely ignored. He plays two f**king games for Arsenal and boom! England squad. Still it's two more than Walcott when he got taken to the sodding world cup in 2006.

Whenever an England player touches the ball in the penalty area, Clive Tyldesley shouts his name like he's just scored the winning goal in the WC Final. Mildly irritating. On another note, f**k me this is dull.

Worth £60 not to listen to Adrian sodding Charles. Watching this game but mostly out of pure boredom. I think Rooney will score and be hailed in the media as an inspiration performance by our new captain (against the mighty Norway). I would probably rather Forster is left on the bench. He is never going to be first choice whilst Hart still has 2 arms and I don't want to risk a pointless injury in this non-event of a game.

To be honest there was very little by way of mixed messages from the club. Most of it was from random weirdos on here and twitter claiming to be ITK. I don't regard the club's PR as being particularly poor either. What do you really expect them to do when players are leaving like that? We could have had tweets from the club along the lines of "OMG Lovren's agent is such a greedy bastard," or we could have hired Tariq Aziz to come out and say, "Everything is fine, nobody is leaving." I wouldn't expect the club to say anything on transfers other than confirming their departures. They don't need to make the specifics public knowledge and if they do it will only fuel rumours.

I used to live there and I can't think of many countries on Earth with a more diverse culture. I know not all of it is good and a lot of their history centres around killing the natives but it's not as bland as places like Belgium.

Southampton Redsox, it's the future.

I would give more credibility to the things mental patients write on cell walls in their own feces than anything published by Fox.

FWIW Suarez is overpriced too but then the value of players seems to go up exponentially the better they get.

Useless Safri scored an absolute belter once. The rest of Shane Long's Premier League career would suggest he is anything but prolific. Everything he has done to date would suggest he is a 6 or 7 goals a season player and for £12m that seems pretty disappointing to me. Yes, we could have hot dogs instead of Forster but I think Forster was decent value for money.

Obviously I'm not suggesting it as a serious business proposition. I'm just illustrating to the people who say 'well it's not my money so I'm not that bothered' (I'm not aiming this at whelk specifically) that transfer fees ARE important and that the bottom line on the balance sheets is always the fan's wallets.

If it meant another £12m to spend in January as we see necessary then yes I would. However there are better options out there for that amount of money. For £12m we could have given out 20,000 free season tickets. I'd rather we did that.

I can't put into words just how grateful I am. If there is anything I can do to say thank you, don't hesitate to ask.

Yoshi has done alright but I can't imagine Toby wont go straight into the starting line up. Mane probably on the bench.

The only disappointment for me is signing Long for £12m. However you try and dress it up with regards to Gaston's loan fee, £12m is double what he is worth and it stinks of a panic buy a bit to me. Overall though, very positive. I think overall our squad is stronger and we've made a profit of about £30m to balance the books and pay for the developments at Staplewood. I posted this in the locked thread, so I'll share it here again. Tadic replaces Lallana Pelle replaces Lambert Mane replaces Gaston Alderweirald replaces Jos Gardos replaces Lovren Bertrand replaces Shaw Long replaces Osvaldo Forster in Chambers out That's a pretty decent window IMO.

So Tadic replaces Lallana Pelle replaces Lambert Mane replaces Gaston Alderweirald replaces Jos Gardos replaces Lovren Bertrand replaces Shaw Long replaces Osvaldo Forster in Chambers out Not bad overall I think.

Do you lot seriously think we'd have let Jos and Gaston go if the deals for Mane and TA weren't all but complete? Patience.

Ignore him, he is a complete plank who posts nothing but meaningless nonsense.

Probably has double the shelf life of Defoe.

Not sure about James Beattie's shirt and tie combo. Looks like an extra from Anchorman.

Good call. She speaks fluent German too, which is good for my Nazi, S&M fetish.

Forren, Tejera, Sarmiento, O'Halloran, Ian Pearce (played away at S****horpe under Pearson), Flakey (that Spanish kid from Spuds), Kanchelskis, Marcus Hall, Bledelis (came on in that Tranmere game), Kleber Challa, Yahia. I'm sure there are more out there who played 1 game or not at all.

It's all about Natalie Sawyer as far as I'm concerned.

COYR!!

What a bunch of helmets on SSN. On the upside, I'm liking the new wooden fencing around the ground.

We put up a much tougher test for Liverpool than Spurs have this afternoon, at Anfield too. I know you can't compare 2 different games and say 'Well team X must be better than Team Y' but we've looked better in the games against West Ham and Liverpool so far. This game reminds me of performances like Cardiff at home last year, where we passed it around nicely without offering any real penetration.