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First and foremost, utterly devastated for Jay. One of my favourite saints players and I am gutted that I will have to wait 9months to see him playing again and won't be able to watch him in Brazil. It is horrendous for him and his family. Some serious picking up required there, to get this injury right before a world cup is probably one of the worst things that could happen to a player coming into his prime. That said, saints have just picked up a chance card and been dealt a serious problem with the removal of all pace from our attack. Kid wise, who do we have that can stick in in that role? Omar Rowe, Isgrove, Sinclair? I suspect we will be seeing some first team game time from some of them this season, especially since I suspect the development squad are all but finished. We have Mayuka coming back in from loan, do we think he can do a job? It seems unlikely judging by reports from abroad, but he will likely get a shot now. Failing that, the wheels seem to be falling of Burnley's bus with both Vokes and Ings out injured. That could stuff them up for promotion now and if that happens (well regardless really) we should move for Ings inho. Failing that, other players we might stand a chance of getting in our wellbeck (?) and zaha from united? that I kind of like the look of, although secretley I have coveted Bolasie for a long while. Then there are the players we were linked for abroad, nangollan, lens etc. We are going to have to move for someone. By the time Jayrod is back and firing well it will be towards the end of next season. In all honestly, I can't see Lambert commanding a starting berth beyond next year so that means we can move a wide forward/striker with the knowledge that either that player or jay will be the future head of attack, rather than a full stop replacement for Jay (I could not bare for us to replace him and the lad never recover or get his spot back! - MoPo is key for this imho.) Anyway, I know this thread is early, but will definitely be had at some point. All the best for Jay, I'd rather he takes as long as is needed to get back proper, he is a terrific talent, and will be a real miss for England. For those that don't think he was going, wind back the video of the injury and just look at Hodgson's face - Jayrod was on that plane for sure.

Kasper will not be available, one of a very rich Leicester's key players, it always amazes me that A.) Leeds sold him for £1m, and B.) we didn't pull our finger out there and then. He is one of those players that will make the step up and become a top player, just like lallana. Marshall is very achievable but Tan will demand a lot of money to sell anyone he considers a key player, strikes me that he would pay a fine rather than obey by championship FFP next season, he's like football's North Korean Dictator and will do whatever is required to keep his ego and success on the up! I think that Begovic is never going to happen sadly.

Seriously, you are wrong, you need to deal with it. Stop slamming our players fullstop. And if you must do it at least critisie them for stuff that they do wrong. THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THAT GOAL WAS TO STOP THE CROSS! Yet you attack our young keeper for trying to do just that. HTH. Moron

What a moron comment, he had no chance of saving the header that went in off the post.... So he had to come for it. The cross was just to good, very pacy outswinger. He is in no way to blame for coming to get the cross. he had no choice, it was a goal unless he got the cross. Attack him for that, don't attack him for coming in the first place. Literally fu cking retarded.

Their pen was a dive, second both players at two stages of the move are offside. Shocking from linesman on that one. Never mind lads, we will come out again second half, injury to jayrod guarantees effort from the players. And look at it this way, city beating us makes it more likely Liverpool don't win the league and pompey don't get their 1million On a side note, we are playing some great football, its a pleasure to watch us run rings around a team that costs this much. So we're loosing, as stated, referee is at fault for 2 goals, 3rd goal was their only legitimate attack and shot, and was a great peice of play.

I'm worried for you if you can't add up 4 + 2 + 4 and not be confident that it is 10

What the hell.... For starters, he managed to establish us in the premier league whilst slashing the wage budget from 100% to somewhere in the 60% region, so didn't do a bad job with wages and bonuses. As for "shouldn't completely disregard the good things he achieved" - whether you like it or not, Cortese is directly responsible for everything we now sit here and enjoy. The media limelight and praise we recieve, the academy, fuc king pochettino who everyone loves (and the football we play), it is all down to Cortese and his decisions. On top of that, he did a great job with the finances, posting a £5m loss, are you people for real and actually listening to the spin the new board are putting on this? Every club splits transfers over 12, 24, 36 etc months - but we are the only ones who make a big deal of it? He slashed the wage budget (and very low agent fees!!) and has got us a £30m upgrade on the academy which is above and beyond the original designs to keep us at the very forefront and top of the game. AND... Without Cortese, we would never have been brought by ML... He did it all, and for a loss of only £5million last season, this is a smallfry compared to the vast majority of clubs in the league, and its also a figure that will be completely dwarfed by the increased tv deals this season. I doubt you could hope to achieve (let alone better) what he did in the same timeframe to be honest. The club is in a very healthy position, which will be even better after this seasons tv and prize money and the board are just trying to put some PR spin on things to push cortese even further from supporters minds (fairly unnecessary to be honest). But put it another way, if we were in financial difficulties, we wouldn't be able to say no one is for sale. So its either true (and therefore spin) or their lying about the figures and what they mean... but as for "Lets move on but we shouldn't completely disregard the good things he achieved at the club" - that is a joke, he raised this club up to where it is through his shear bloody mindedness and ruthlessness. And thank god he did.

Lallana has embraced and made every step up that is ever put before him. In league 1 he was simply class for that level. He went up another gear in championship, and he has now ascended to the top of the pile in the premier league. Not only that but he hasn't yet played a full game for England in 3 attempts and is already being talked about as a "must start"... If he carries on this season with no injuries he will shine in Brazil... compared to the England teams of recent years full of lumbering journeymen and speeding headless chickens he will stand out as the skillful maestro. He has always had the ability, and it has been a case of developing the confidence and knowledge that he can do it at each new level... If he goes to Brazil (and stays injury free) he will reach a new level with the assurance and confidence that comes with it... imagine that next season.... because he has been good this year... After this summer their is every chance he may actually be world class. Step 1 - Imagine Step 2 - Salivate Step 3 - Watch it happen Step 4 -

Newcastle took a fantastic following. The reason we hit 31500 is because of them tbh. We sold the usual amount, and for whatever reason (hospitatlity, staff ST etc) the club don't seem to offer full sell outs at the moment.

Considering the massive increase in tv revenue that the new tv deal will have added to this seasons (next years) financial figures... I'd say we are bloody laughing to be honest. And we're about to promote the next bunch of kiddies. Re transfer debt, don't think £20m is that bad. We've spent the same, just split it over more seasons. Net spend is net spend at the end of the day. Everyone sounds very positive about it all, quotes about no players being sold, and being able to act to bring in players if needed. I'd have no issue selling shaw for a nice chunk of money if it means we signed Marshall of Begovic and a decent CB and or wellbeck (or ings etc) to add to the attack. Think next year and this summer will be a great time to be a saints fan atm. I no longer miss cortese, and its nice to have a family owner who enjoys being to the matches, long may it last!

Calm down dear, just because your club's ambition is to stay in the football league... you should never knock those who dare to dream... or would you like to still be living in caves?

Yeah, Barcelona's class.... Like being sponsored by that Qatar Foundation bunch in exchange for Spain's world cup vote Classy That club are one of the biggest set of cheaters there are... Neymar also Or shall we digress into their dodgy goverment land dealings, both them and Real Madrid stink on that front.

The board need to act now. Either by getting rid of Barker, or by coming out and explaining to us why they think they shouldn't. This is a big test of their mettle again. If they just maintain their radio silence, I can see pockets of fans at Fratton starting to turn against the board at the next home game. We were supposed to be the shining beacon of fan ownership. Not working out as we'd hoped, is it? :lol:

They're fans really are starting to get it however :- "How do you guarantee an immediate return? Can't think of any clubs that have managed it. Can we even afford the upkeep of FP if we're in the conference? What a complete and utter ******* mess we're in" Then again:- "Someone one here said we're 7 months ahead of schedule with our debt repayments, so presumably we'd be ok as long as it was an immediate return to div4?" And look, the bestest deserting the team! Can't be true surely? "The club has had my blood, sweat, tears and tens of thousands over the last 45 years, and I've always said I am Pompey 'till I die, and I am, BUT, dropping out of the league will be one humiliation too far and while the clubs in its current dire predicament, I will not invest any more time commuting from Somerset to watch the likes of Salisbury playing Pompey! We need a manager with half a clue and twenty players who will give 1000% or die trying! Until that delirious day, I will following us on the internet only. I really can't believe we've been allowed to sink this low!" :lol::lol:

Adrian wind it in bud, you spend 50% of your posts it seems getting sucked in by these guys.. just stick them on ignore and leave it be. Life is a lot more stress free on here! I expect Lallana to stay with saints his entire career. He is nearly 26, and is playing regular top flight football for a club he loves, not only that but he is our star man and attracting lots of praise. He has had options to leave in league 1 and the championship and didn't take them... now he is captain, and not only going to brazil but is a growing favourite for a starting line up... He can swap all this for a likely squad position at a "bigger club" and earn fractionally more than I dare say we will pay him to stay. The final nail in the coffin... know one will pay what we value him at.... certainly not at 25/26.... So he isn't going to leave! I Think!

Right place at the right time... Difference he did it effortlessness where as Glasgow saint waits desperately every Saturday to start the next post match thread before it is actually post match

I think people need to get a serious grip to be honest. We are 9th in the league, and have beaten 1 team in the top 10. If we beat newcastle we'll be 8th in the league having beaten 2 teams in the top 10. 3 and a half years ago we were in league 1 obscurity. Onwards and upwards saints, just keep beating teams in the bottom half and we'll do just dandy.

Let me start by saying we have done incredibly well to sit where we are in only our second season back in the top flight, and even better considering where we were three and half years ago. That said, are we carrying a few bodies who are mentally on their holidays? Boruc - When is he not on holiday? Shaw - Playing for england Fonte - Doesn't really have anything to play for, he has next to no chance of earning a portugal call up imho Lovren - Guaranteed to make world cup so taking it easy in recent weeks, criminal performance vs spurs from him, but everyone has a bad day. Chambers/Clyne - neither have anything to play for tbh. JWP - Nothing to play for and looks distinctly average every time I watch him Cork - Nothing to play for Davis - Nothing to play for Lallana - Has the most drive and determination to get to Brazil of all our players and is showing it every single minute of each game. JayRod - Kicked on again since the 30man squad and denmark, puts in a good shift always. Lambert - Again he looks refocused since the Denmark squad call up and is scoring and assisting again. So all in all, not that surprising that we seems to take the foot off the gas when we are cruising, and when things get tough, we only have around 4 players who really pull their weight at the moment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2585223/THE-TRANSFER-COLUMN-Moyes-chasing-Lovren-bids-rebuild-United-defence-Monaco-say-Falcao-not-sale.html Will we have a team next year? Anyway thought i'd share as cant see it posted.

The quick "3 month" intervene is that?

Standing is based on the last 5-10 years not 50... Which puts us in mighty good stead to be honest. Club that has had a meteoric rise in england, good stadium, healthy finances, incredible youth production, 4 players in england squad (4th best in england?)... all pretty rosey. For me we are easily 10-15th at the moment, and we sit 8th in the country on position with a young squad. Now, unless you think teams like stoke, sunderland and west ham seriously have better "prestige" than us in current fans thoughts that is your choice. But we are fast returning to our spot as nations favourite second team.... Long may it continue.. If the club continues its upward trend then we can expect to be challenging for europe in the next few seasons - pushing us up into top 10 in recent years.... Or, we will go flat/decline and sit around 15th-20th.... time will tell. Why you would sell us short of 15th is beyond me... Name 15clubs you would say are definitely bigger than us in terms of current standing?

Morgan interested in a move to Arsenal, with quotes http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/southampton-midfielder-schneiderlin-arsenal-why-not-4013137?utm_source=main_feed#.UymT3_l_s1Q

Not to shoot you down, but as allready said, charging less for the same capacity after the financial penalty of having to install them in the first place won't encourage clubs. Our ticket database is a lot larger than 36k as well. What we all want is larger stadiums and cheap tickets.. Clubs missed a golden opportunity to adopt the german model following the increased tv deals which could have been used to finance this. May never happen now, but regardless, safe standing is not the answer.

To be clear, you want the club to pay to install safe standing in an area of the ground (taking up same area per seat as normal) then charge less for them? Therefore reducing the clubs take for each home game.... They would go in Northam, which sells out regardless as well. Why don't they just drop ticket prices if they are fussed? The only way that would keep fans happy, is that the club expands to say 40k and cuts ticket prices, paying for it out of the enhanced tv deals for a few seasons. At the end of that process you'd have grown the fanbase and sell more on merchandising year on year. All this safe standing bollarks is just that. It will never be installed in all but a small section of the ground, and the clubs will rightly charge the same amount for them since fans are quite happy to pay full price to stand in those areas as they are... They certainly won't charge less for the same capacity.... It will undboutly lead to an increase in detrimental "terrace" behavior, such as not standing where your allocated seat is, drinking in the stands and the use of flares etc... a lot of which is on the rise without the encouragement of standing areas. If fans want them in limited areas then that is fair enough... but I wouldn't expect to see cheaper ticket prices for it... There is no financial reasoning behind that. Clubs pays to replace existing seating, then charges less for same capacity. Not blood likely fellas

Having just read into it, it would appear he can play for England, doesn't violate the home nations agreement and there is similar precedent set by a former saints player in 1998. It won't happen though.