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Was the togetherness and morale as strong as we were led to believe afterall? Seems now that we were like any other team in that department. The understanding between players I agree will be difficult to lose though.

The only dying embers of hope I have left are that it'd be stupid to reveal any new signings until all the outgoings have been completed as new players would just be overshadowed by the latest player to leave. No on talks about Tadic or Pelle at the moment! Clear out all old players and leave the fans at rock bottom, then everything from then on until the start of the season will be positive and all transfer news will be incoming. I am clutching though...

Not pleased by this as I was really looking forward to him seeing the contrast between his and Lambert's reception. Oh well, guess it'll have to wait until St Mary's, if he decides to turn up...

I've been pretty optimistic about this season despite the departures but this one is most worrying due to the message it would appear to send out. I can understand the 'stars' leaving, but I don't know why but the selling of a squad player (albeit for decent money) just worries me that bit more. It just means the squad is getting thinner and thinner. Desperately need to hear some good news and a significant signing very soon! Please!

Would seem strange timing given the Debuchy signing as well as Arsenal trying to/having signed another backup RB.

I can't understand why people still say they're disappointed we couldn't 'match' QPR's offer for Caulker (if we were even interested in him at all). QPR have a higher wage bill than Borussia Dortmund and I for one am happy we aren't matching any of their offers if that is the case, they pay way over the odds. How else would they get Loic Remy and Julio Cesar in the same team? Whilst Caulker had a good season i'm certain there are better centre halves available for what QPR probably are paying him.

Dejan's first smile of pre-season

Xherdnan Shaqiri has come out and moaned at being labelled as 'one for the future' by Bayern and is looking for move apparently. Sure to be Liverpool if anywhere over here but worth dreaming about.

Was looking forward to seeing us turn over Liverpool at Anfield on the 16th. Now i'll miss the game because i will be on a plane on the 17th. Wonderful, thanks Sky.

I was more getting at the fact that if you asked for someone to list Real Madrid or Germany's top players most would probably forget him off their list. But thanks for that...

All over twitter this morning that Sami Khedira has signed for Arsenal for £23million, and will be confirmed in the next few hours. Hopefully should end their interest in Schneiderlin. £23million for Khedira is a bargain by the way, top player, very underrated IMO.

I've wanted us to sign Honda for years! But it's always just been a pipe dream, I would shed tears of joy if this happened but I think it'll remain a dream.

It was the same with Matt Phillips. Redmond got a lot of media attention in the first few weeks of the season and even pushes for an England call up!! Many people see this and think he must be good, unfortunately it's just a case of most English players being overhyped at one time or another.

I was gutted when Lambert went, primarily for sentimental reason. I was impartial to Luke leaving, he's only been involved for two seasons, and I don't think we can justify £30mil worth of full back in our small squad. I was annoyed by Adam leaving for his behaviour but felt he was replaceable. However if Morgan were to leave I would genuinely be worried about this season, whereas I'm currently very optimistic. I think he's the sort of player we could build our team around and that may make it a lot easier for new signings to bed in. To me, Morgan is the core and everyone else is replaceable, and it would be a huge blow to lose such an important player. He's irreplaceable (realistically).

That's definitely how I've seen Redmond, flattering to deceive most of the time. Very 'English' winger in the sense that he lacks imagination and can be very predictable. Having said that I'd choose him over Tom Ince any day of the week, and he's still young so maybe he can be taught to add variety to his game. Wouldn't be disappointed if we didn't get him and £6mil as mentioned above would be about the limit for me.

Funnily enough i saw a clip of him on Soccer AM recently when he was clean shaven and he looked so much better. I love a good beard but his was unfortunately abysmal, much like his attitude it would seem.

Tadic definitely ups our stakes in our attempt to win the 'best looking team in the premier league' award. Adam had to go based on this, it's just business. Pelle would be another strong addition. Losing Morgan and Dejan would be a real blow though.

Created an account purely because i noticed that James Ward Prowse had followed Danny Ings on instagram last night, so wanted to be the first to post it! Took so long for my account to be authorised that i was beaten to it. Technology, aye!