Baird of the land

You clearly don't like yoshida if you think signing Wimmer(Spurs 4th choice centre back) or the mr 50p head are upgrades on him. Personally i'm happy with yoshida/stephens over either of those 2. Having an experienced japanese international who's also shown himself to be a fantastic professional and a highly talented england u21 international is exactly what we need in terms of 2/3 choice centre backs.

Can't see us adding a keeper or a centre given the existing players we have.

Can't see us adding a keeper or a centre given the existing players we have.

Seems a good deal for all parties. Since his injury he hasn't seemed anywhere as effective as well as the fact we haven't used him out wide where he was at his most effective for us. Now we've got Gallagher he was obvious candidate we could move on.

I don't rate bringing in a coach who's coaching career has been one of bouncing from one bottom to low mid table disaster to another when your stated aim is to be competing at the top end of the table.

I'm sure using Aldridge mouthing off gives Liverpool plausible deniability. Doesn't change the fact this sudden re-stirring of the hornet nest by the media seems very pre-meditated. Really hope Saints stick to their guns and don't sell him to Liverpool. As for Van Dijk whilst ex players talking of striking is one thing i'd be surprised if he/his agent think actually striking would be a good move.

See it says we haven't got rid of Black yet either. Hopefully that'll be first move of whoever comes in.

Would be pretty happy with chambers back.

Thought Clasie was very good in first leg of semi vs Liverpool and in game against WBA where he scored. Hoping new manager like De Boer might give him a run in the team next to Romeu but he may very well want t o move on after his lack of opportunities last year.

Sorry don't see the appeal of Dyche, not in style of football nor results.

I have no problem being used as a stepping stone as that means we've done very well as a club in the meantime. The alternative is mediocrity where you don't do well enough for them to move on.

Good to get it out of the way. Clearly whether it'll be a good decision will likely be determined by how sound a choice we make in replacing him.

Probably quite a good move for him if true. Shame he never really has seemed quite the same player as before, though when he was at his best for us it was out wide rather than through the middle where he played this season.

I thought he did pretty well for Hull on loan last season. So sure he hasn't played as much as Tadic but he is a highly talented player, who's 5 years younger than tadic who was barely given a chance at Liverpool. Right now Liverpool are trying to buy ex chelsea reject Salah for £35m, so not being given a proper chance at a top club isn't necessarily a sign you are a bad player. If Tadic stays he stays, i'm not one of the crowd constantly bashing him but equally if we're looking to move him on and we get Markovic in return i'd be content.

Swap Tadic for Markovic, i'd be pretty content.

If it's true its very disappointing. However the purely pragmatic part of me thinks making a big deal of it(stripping captaincy etc) would just drive further wedge in relationship. I want to keep him and privately telling him how things stand and hope he settles down like Morgan did and doesn't throw his toys out of the pram like others is best course.

Hoping result of this will be us keeping Van Dijk for another season in similar way to how the Morgan situation unfolded. Making Liverpool look foolish means nothing if we then turn around and flog him to Chelsea for just £50m.

Honestly can't see premier league doing anything unless we have some evidence more substantial than newspaper headlines. That said its good to see Saints showing some mettle, just hope its more than crying wolf for effect.

With 3 big clubs at least supposedly after him i'd be very curious to understand why we'd settle for anything around the starting price of £50 million mark when there should clearly be scope to use them against eachother to drive the price up unless there's a limiting factor in his contract.

Given we#ve got the 8th highest wages, getting the 8th highest money is pretty much what we need to be doing at minimum.

Fantastic news. That's what I've been hoping to see for some time.

Felt Monk was incredibly harshly treated by Swansea. Wouldn't be opposed if he ended up here. More potential imo than some of the names being linked.

To me its the points ratio matters a lot. So i'll accept duller football if it results in wins. If it results in us only getting 46 points regardless of fluking a high league position because of everyone else's equal ineptidude then i won't be happy. Equally losing most games 4-3 won't likely leave me happy even if it is entertaining.

I do very much hope Black goes.

This has bemused me all season. We sold our only real natural striker with presence in that regard(pelle) and yet all we seemed to want to do was slowly work the ball out wide and cross it into players unsuited to win headers in the middle, even when we did get sufficient numbers into the box. While the lack of a target man is a problem, i'm not overly a fan of the approach either. Gallagher did well on loan at blackburn. Not sure if he might provide some presence option off the bench next season.