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13:30 Liverpool v West Ham (Sky Sports) 13:30 Southampton v Burnley* * Club agreement further to Burnley's possible participation in the UEFA Europa League the preceding Thursday 16:00 Arsenal v Man City (Sky Sports) What does that mean? They won't be showing two games at the one time so I'm not sure what they mean.

Gallagher was about the 25th best striker in the Championship last season. Why anyone thinks he would do well for us in the PL is beyond me.

Has to be a loan. Leganes record transfer fee paid is around £3m........

Simms and Hesketh should spend the upcoming season on loan in the Championship.

Opening game will be moved to Sunday if Burnley progress to 2nd Qual round of EL.

(Mario) Licka paint v.2018.

Do you mean expand rather than extrapolate?

Maybe not sell but I wouldn't be surprised to see 10 or more players from the 1st team squad leave over the Summer and I will be happy to see them go.

What utter bollux. Of course winning the Championship is far more enjoyable that being 8th in the PL!! You'll see more home wins and more goals for a start. Also we'll win an actual trophy which would last far longer in the mind than finishing as 2nd least worse Big 6 cannon fodder. What has the fact that we have a squad 'packed with internationals' got to do with anything? Does that make them inherently more entertaining to watch? Boufal is an international and he's been the biggest waste of money this side of Guido Carrillo!

Considering they are soon to be the proud owners of a club in the 2nd tier of English football it would have been better value just to buy one last year. It would have cost them closer to £25m than £250m (for 80%).

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Southampton are facing the prospect of off-field disruption as they battle against relegation, with the club’s vice-chairman in the running to take up a new position as technical director of the Premier League. The Times has learnt that Les Reed, 65, features on a shortlist for the job drawn up by recruitment consultants appointed by the Premier League that also includes Kevin Thelwell, the sporting director at Wolves. Reed’s departure would be a blow, as since joining the club as head of football development in 2010, he has played an important part in Southampton’s production line of successful academy products including Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Luke Shaw, Callum Chambers and James Ward-Prowse. Since being promoted to the board the following year he has also had a pivotal role in signing players such as Virgil van Dijk, Sadio Mané and Morgan Schneiderlin, who have been sold for huge profits, as well as identifying managers Mauricio Pochettino and Ronald Koeman, although the more recent appointments of Claude Puel and Mauricio Pellegrino were less successful. Reed was not available for comment yesterday and it is unclear whether he would choose to leave Southampton for the Premier League, a decision that would probably be influenced by whether the club stay in the top flight. Mark Hughes’s side are two points from safety, with a difficult final seven matches, starting with Sunday’s visit to Arsenal. Another factor, if Reed is offered the job, will be the attitude of Southampton’s new majority owner, Gao Jisheng, who has maintained a hands-off approach since acquiring an 80 per cent stake in the club last summer, but may look to make changes at the end of the season in the event of relegation. The Premier League is looking to revamp its football department, based on a technical director who would be responsible for overseeing youth development and maintaining good relations between the 20 clubs at executive level. The new appointment would effectively combine the roles previously fulfilled by Ged Roddy, who left his position as the Premier League’s director of football development earlier this season, and Mike Foster, who stood down as director of football after 25 years at the Premier League last year. Reed would appear to be a suitable candidate for the role given his considerable experience in both youth development and executive roles. He would also be well placed to build on the recently improved relations between the Premier League and the FA.

Krueger said Gao had promised to keep him and Les in place for 3 years so that should see us safely into L2 where we can have terraces and possibly a local derby against Eastleigh to look forward to,

Not a CB as he pretty much steadfastly refuses to head the ball. He might be able to be turned into a defensive MF player but like JWP and Hoijburg is a very technically correct player but one who doesn't fit with any one position on the pitch.

Do half season ticket holders count as season ticket holders? I seem to remember previously they didn't and it was more just buying tickets to multiple home games without actually counting as a s/t holder.

Yes, that's the one. Player puts the last chance of being the starting England LB at a WC at risk in order to get involved in two weeks training for a relegation battle for a club he is desperate to leave in the Summer. And please don't think that Bertrand's place in the starting XI is 'sewn up' - you just know Southgate is itching to be given the opportunity to play Ashley Young there.

Do we think he will beat Tadanari Lee's Saints career goal total? I'm having my doubts.

You can't play 4-4-2 in the PL. We would be best playing 4-3-3 JWP Lemina Hoijburg Simms Austin Redmond

I think this is a very important point that is often overlooked. There is no way that her personal fortune was anywhere near the £3bn figure that the UK press reported. This seemed to come out of half of the worth of the Liebherr corp when Markus left but I strongly doubt if he ever was given anything like this in cash for his part of the family business. There is certainly nothing in his collection of businesses that he left in his will to suggest there was a great business empire there. It was a few small operations which were closed down asap by Kat (remember the headless chicken newspaper article) and then Mali which seemed to have nothing more than a one page web-site holding site. Certainly nothing to think she had inherited £3bn. I think buying an asset for £13m and selling (80% of it) for a cool quarter of a billion was the best piece of business her or her Father ever did. Whatever her net worth is now I suspect by far the majority of this is from the sale of SFC.

1. Les Reed 2. MP 3. Kreuger 4. Gao 5. Big Fat Kat

1. Sacking Cortese 2. Not bothering to replace him with a new CEO 3. Giving Reed too much power This led to all the 'smaller' problems like Koeman being pushed out by Reed as he felt RK was marginalising him, not replacing Pelle and Mane, appalling transfer dealings (Pelle sold and not replaced, Fonte sold and not replaced, VVD sold and not replaced, etc, - players we did sign are not delivering for the amount we spent on them (Hoedt, Boufal, Hoiburg, Gabbiadini and looking like Carrillo too) - and two very bad managerial appointments.

Fail to win home games of football.