Bobbyboy

Ref: "Hmm, good opportunity to kick J-Rod in the najjers without anyone noticing"

I've never seen the word 'but' appear so frequently in the first sentence of so many posts

Genuine question: is Adam still interested in what goes on at Saints?

Wonder if any others will follow

TBH I doubt Alan McLoughlin can turn him into Eden Hazard. But I'm willing to eat popcorn and watch while he attempts it.

I think Long will. For the longest time I thought JRod would too but I'm close to giving up now, and I'm really sorry to say that. Been so long since he looked even close to sharp. (Not Billy Sharp).

Interesting that they pick Vokins but not Slattery. He's really come on the last few months.

Been thinking the same thing actually. If someone really wants to put money into the club, they should have enough money to be able to put it in via some kind of commercial sponsorship deal instead of/as well as direct investment. It's an obvious bending/breaking of the FFP rules but FFP itself doesn't appear to have been thought through very much so I'd be surprised if they had some sharp rule to prevent this approach.

And in twenty years we'll be listening to Puel co-commentating on Solent telling us how the one thing saints don't want to do is concede.

Almost Ali Dia. Almost.

Was doing ok on comeback trail but got possessed by an apostrophe or something. Didn't real follow it.

Exactly. I read "5 year contract" as meaning "higher fee when he leaves".

The first. That will allow Pompey to slip quietly out of the league as well.

1-0 Saints, Jack Stephens header from neat free kick from Callum Slattery...

He deserved that!!

Wow that was some miss from Long.

Stephens might be a stretch but it's an interesting thought. I wonder if Alfie Jones is ahead of him in the pecking order now?

I remember one game last year or the year before when Mane wanted to take a pen after he was brought down, but Fonte took him to one side and let the designated person take it (I think it was JWP, which would help narrow down the match in question). Fonte deserved MOTM purely for that on that day. Maybe I am misremembering but I think this is where having Fonte on would have made a difference. Except Austin scored. So I have no point to make here. It's good to have people WANTING to take pens I suppose!

Not sure about dropping Hojbjerg

Right. The impression I have is that we tend to do attacking left-backs and inside forwards from the academy. If it comes to BUYING players to sell later, they're presumably thinking Morgan or Vic, who both came to us in totally different circumstances anyway. I'm just struggling to see how this fits with who we have "developed" over the last say 8-10 years.

Isn't it about time he signed a contract extension? All this faffing around. First Fonte now this.

"And sitting alongside me is Phil Neville"

"They're the very definition of a selling club"

Picking VvD? Harsh on poor Alfie Jones, what did he do to miss out?

Pelle was playing for the under-9s? No wonder he wanted to leave.