Wiggles31

16th after a woeful start but the team gelling together from January onwards.

Well bugger me was not expecting that response from Schniederlin. What a mess! Want Koeman to come out and speak not Krueger the plank.

What a c*nt.

You literally have to laugh. What a circus! The press will have an utter field day now!

Well to be fair Kruger has come out of the woodwork, quite literally as it felt things were looking to back to the dark days. I'll credit him on that as more silence would have killed us. What he has said is pretty reassuring and I for one am feeling much less doom and gloom than yesterday. That said it is hard to totally trust what he has said as whilst we were not lied to we were a tad mislead (Reed saying about player sales previously). It would be suicide for him to say JRod and Morgan are not for sale to then sell them so I do believe they will be staying whether they like it or not. Lastly how much will we see reinvested? Kruger has said every penny and made that clear so the actions in the remainder of the transfer window will give us the ultimate clue. I for one am much more positive again and upbeat about the upcoming season. Yesterday like many others I thought we were certain relegation candidates. However I am ever so slightly sceptical but am willing to give the board back a degree of my trust. They did bring our stripes back afterall Your thoughts SWFers?

So are we going to have a sudden influx of exciting players come in? Who knows. Is Koeman gonna splash the best part of £100m? Who knows. But can we have some more rumours please! Twitters? Anything to get more excited about the upcoming season.

Kind of destroys what so called ITK and the press have reported.

Pretty honest sounding interview. Lets see the actions first. Based on what he said Koeman has the best part of £90m available to spend on players/wages. I'm not as doom and gloom as I was yesterday.

Bugger me this is all too much!

Surely based on Crab Lungs has posted it makes no sense that we have signed Pelle and Tadic for 18 odd million if they wanted to continue with the bare minimum as well as some of the links with players. Don't believe it. Sorry.

Till one of the front 3 gets injured or hits poor form.

What a pathetic excuse of a board we have. We are likely to be in a relegation battle. What club has ever sold this many players! Even ones that have been relegated. Totally furious with this ineptness at the club!

Same.

Left footed CB who would make Jos look like Kompany.

Unless anyone leaves we don't need a CM. And yeah we need a signing this week.

Firmino was 4th highest goal scorer in Bundesliga last year. Impressive for an attacking midfielder.

As disappointed as I am losing Chambers it is not as bad as the others we've lost. Now we need to put a full stop on the exodus. Invest the money in some signings. Otherwise we are in for a relegation battle.

Any post match comments from Ronald Koeman.

Yeah this angers me more than any of the other sales. Totally rubbishes the 'we sell who we want' vibe.

Bargain.

I stand by my opinion that Cork and Fonte will both defintely sign. Was it Boruc who we were all flapping about last season?

Barca has to be number one. Its pretty awesome though. Certainly number one in the UK by miles.

I would say 100% definitely. Modern facilities (which just got even more modern), promotion of using British players in the first team regularly, big name players who have come through each season (some who have gone onto to play regularly at CL/international levels) development centres in parts of the south (see MLG thread) and a huge scouting team working all over the world also looking at young players. Something to be tremendously proud of and a resource which we will continue to flourish from. Its just a shame that the PL is so money ridden because the chances of a Dortmund or Atheletico are minimal.

Hold fire. We have sold three players and replaced two of them. I bet anything Cork and Fonte will sign on and we are looking at bringing in 4-5 more players. Lovren will leave but I'm sure we'll keep the rest. Keep the faith and don't believe everything put in the rags.

Agreed. He is the best CM we've had in years and one of the best in the league undoubtedly. Despite having very decent cover in the middle it would be a huge blow to lose Morgan and his value is only going to increase as he plays for France. Label a £30m price tag on him and that should fend off the vultures.... Unless Madrid are interested!