Baird of the land

Yep i so wanted to believe Cortese leaving wasn't the terrible portent of the summer we're experiencing.

Till January at this rate.

Can't Saints offer them a few more players to sweeten the deal. Saints don't need any players anymore as we're entering a 5 a side league.

Chambers pulled a sickie to get his dream move to the Arsenal bench whilst Reed and Co wallowed in a vat of money like hugs in mud.

Preparing Mccarthy for the glorious moment we sell him after he's played 5 games. Woo HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Crettinous comments trying to justify selling a great young player. You'd forget the amount of wonga they ******** had already pocketed.

Tell them to **** *** and stick any bid in the bin. That shouldn't require much discussion.

Getting into Europe via fair play league maybe.

Yeah very worried she sees it as a new little earner selling all these renewable academy products. Hope i'm wrong or if not hope someone buys her out quick before things go down the toilet completely.

I'd really like the words 'not for sale' to be uttered by saints. Apparently they aren't in our vocab.

Disgraceful if true. We shouldn't be considering selling him, let alone for the joke quoted fee.

Really there can't be any truth to stories about us selling our star young right back can there? That's without even bothering about the pittance fees being quoted. Sales have tested my faith in board's ability to say no.

I'd disagree it got us up to 8th in the league and plenty of games we won because we kept hold of the ball. Our failure to take chances was an issue as was our lack of depth and later in season lack of strikers.

Yeah he's got potential but not happy if he ends up being the extent of our options as natural left backs for a club apparently with ambitions of europe. Would have preferred to have kept Shaw for a year whilst he got the odd prem game and cup games under his belt. As for long term replacement for Shaw. Well i'd need some indication that if he's good he won't be sold next summer before claiming he's a long term replacement.

Because it was very enjoyable to watch and i don't find the new direct approach as good. Maybe it won't be as disappointing as i fear or maybe we'll be so successful playing that way that i'll accept the loss of aesthetics.

Loved the possession and pressing of last season. Think the new formation and style is going to disappoint me somewhat. If it gets results though guess i'll accept it.

Not particularly impressive imo but its hardly surprising given we we've lost are losing 4/5 of last seasons best players and were without another 2 through long term injury and international friendlies. Much strengthening needed though.

No thanks, deeply average player. Keep our star young player thanks.

I didn't consider what we'd already lost as acceptable. Losing lovren and the very likely loss of Morgan beggars belief at the weakness of the board. Fonte, cork, chambers etc would have been unthinkable losses earlier but now seem worryingly likely. All the talk about ambition for European football is laughable. Club seem intent on pocketing as much money as possible. Equally I can't look at the academy player contracts as anything other than securing fees they want in 9 months time.

Hard to get excited about this news given the current way we seem to be open to getting pillaged at the earliest opportunity. If he was actually going to stay for 3/4 years now then I might get excited.

Inevitable that we'd buckle and sell lovren. On the face of it seems terrible selling him for fee we reputedly rejected weeks ago. Maybe we have got an incredibly improved deal but doesn't look that way from the outside. Also once again we are incapable of bringing in a replacement first too. Can't see a hope in he'll of Morgan staying either. Just hope we keep good players like cork and fonte for the scrap ahead.

I'm happy for the league cup to be used to field a more experimental team, giving youngsters experience and squad players valuable playing time. However i want us to take the FA Cup deadly seriously, just as we do the league.

Yeah really hope the inaction on this issue isn't going to come round and bite saints in the ass.

Morgan is a fantastic player. However Cork is a very good player who could slot into Morgan's position if he leaves. Wanyama, Cork & one of Davis/JWP/Reed would still be a midfield three others would be envious of. All this is reliant on Cork signing a new contract though I'm much more worried about the effect of Lovren leaving where we don't have anyone near his quality and the likes of Shaw where we only have an unproven academy player left to fill the void.

Yeah Rose ticks a lot of boxes for me. The fact that he can potentially push on and play on wing if needed would be an added bonus.