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Maybe it's becuase they're lazy and cba to do any real work but instead are content to fill column inches by spinning a wheel to determine when a goes to b and get fans of the big clubs to blindly buy their papers?

Very sad, one of the Brits on the plane was in my Hall at uni. Hope whoever did this gets their just desserts...

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Obligatory highlight video...

Was browsing the Burnley forum and thought I'd share perhaps the most ridiculous statement I've read on a forum that isn't this one: 40 Posted 16 Jul 2014 21:46 re: Ings "In all seriousness I honestly do not see Southampton finishing above us next season. They have had a fantastic season last season, granted, so much so that I actually wanted to see them do well by the end of it. However losing the Manager that achieved that success, along with the half dozen players who were above average, means they will in for a real challenge to stay up next season." Maybe Dalek has infiltrated the clarets?

One of the EHC (amateur team we played tonight) is a Liverpool fan and has tweeted this, could be balls but we all know how want away players like to wink before moving to Liverhampton... @Maaslfc: I asked Lovren whether he'll be a LFC player next year, started laughing and gave me a wink! Told him I'd love to see him, smiled again!#LFC

Simon Peach retweeted this - could be a good option. young, Dutch international plenty of potential and probably driven to prove himself after Chelsea have done what they always do and stockpile then ignore wonderkids... @StefanCoerts: Van Aanholt not good enough for #CFC at this point, but would do a job at plenty EPL sides. Can see him join club like #NUFC or #saintsfc. @StefanCoerts: #NED international Patrick van Aanholt has told VI that he wants to leave #Chelsea this summer. Contract with #CFC due to expire in 2015.

If that was us it'd be amazing! Tadic, Aurier, Pelle +£30m to replace Lallana, Shaw and Lambert would be utterly incredible business...

Dynamo Moscow have had a €7m bid accepted for Mathieu Valbuena, surely for that sort of money (£5.5m) he'd be worth a punt even if it's just for the bench...

Because if people were being positive about an exciting new signing it wouldn't be Saintsweb!

Yeah, don't let him adjust or anything... Fwiw I reckon 15+ goals from him and Gaston will step up and make the no.10 role his own this season

3 year deal, €2.5m a year according to Di Marzio

Agree about Richards (probably on astronomical wages too) and Caulker. Roswell is too injury prone for me and even if he was available on the cheap would be on massive wages. Could get someone like Gonalons or one of the Benders for not too much more and similar wages, or a prospect like Onazi or that young Bosnian who was quite good at the WC whose name currently eludes me....

@MartijnHilhors: #Feyenoord and #Southampton have a deal. 8 million euros for #Pelle, but with an enormous amount of bonuses.#saintsfc Dutch guy who works for OptaJohan (the Dutch stats people) on Twitter. Looks like this is a Guan smiley away from being done!

Would be amazing! Not just because it'd mean I wouldn't have to keep signing him for us on FM. Think he may be slightly out of our league unfortunately...

Didn't Monk say we were setting our sights higher than Pelle? Can't see that Wickham would be seen as being that by anyone's standards...

I'm not saying I support it or that it's a good idea (fwiw I don't), just that it might be of interest to the Saints forum crowd who aren't Twitter users

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/southampton-football-club-we-would-like-a-stand-at-st-mary-s-stadium-re-named-after-the-saviour-of-our-club-the-late-markus-liebherr?recruiter=122807540&utm_campaign=twitter_link_action_box&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=share_petition Just saw this on Twitter - a petition to rename a stand at St.Mary's in Markus' honour. Thought it might be of interest to some on here...

Missed a proverbial open goal there, Beavis....

@SouthamptonFC: We’re delighted to announce that #SaintsFC have today completed the signing of playmaker Dušan Tadić. #SaintDušan http://t.co/sxC85HFyPV

For anyone questioning the transfer fee here's a bit of perspective - Fulham have just paid £11m for Ross McCormack. ELEVEN MILLION BRITISH POUNDS STERLING! Football has gone mad. Still it shows what a bargain Tadic is for €13m (can throw in Snodgrass for £8m for comparison as well)

Ok, discount JRod and Gaston then compare the goals scored by Pelle (23), Tadic (16) and Ings (21) compared to Lallana (9) & Lambert (13) and consider that the first 3 would be paid for with the money from the latter 2...

Excellent! Cheers for the insight K.Billy, it'll be incredibly nice to see someone turn out for Saints that we know respects the club and isn't a mercenary cvnt like some....

Does this mean Danny Ings is a done deal then? Would be great to bolster our attacking options - Pelle, Tadic, Ings, Ramirez, Rodriguez is a pretty formidable front line by anyone's standards!