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I do honestly believe Koeman is looking at a back five that will feature Caulker, Virgil and Fonte. With this we will have the wing backs pushing on with Wanyama sitting back and Claisie and attacking new signing pulling the strings in the number 10 role. Mane and Pelle/Jayrod will complete the team. The squad will look very healthy for the EPL and European games as we have several options to mix it with Davis, Juami (whatever the name) JWP, Reed and Long.

I don't get this bid at all? It's smells of a decoy to put pressure on another deal elsewhere. Why buy an injury prone player who has only played 3 games last season? Why wait until this late to start a bid in the first place? Koeman has been saying he hopes to have a couple of players in this week and you would think someone has already been shown around Staplewood, St Mary's already. I will put my neck out and say it's the Sevilla midfielder, Celtic's Virgil and Adama as being the 3rd maybe signing Koeman spoke about. On twitter the Liverpool ITK said it's certainly not a deal in the pipeline while the Stoke ITK said that Saints have come in with a late bid to sign the Barca player. Very interesting week ahead I say.

I think it's gone like this. Koeman to Virgil 'Come and join us and we will pay you xxx amount a week.' Virgil '100% yes but Celtic will pay me a bonus plus will let me go when we qualify for the group stages of the Champions league, good luck with the bid to get me though.'

Honestly I do believe Jayrod was held back because European football may not suit him at the moment. The tackles were flying in without the official blowin up Which surprised me. To be honest I prefer this than the nancy officials in the EPL.

Boring first half and a gripping 2nd one. Wanyama was shocking while Claisie was class. Thought our new Dutch keeper was poor while the ref did not let the game flow at all. Oh, and it was great to see Hodgson back at St Mary's again.

Elia, Virgil and Townsend I reckon.

We need a CB covering right back too.

Callum needs to invest in a 2nd suit.

Whoosh...!!!

It's a shame we can't create a special European night by having a sea of red and white with loads of flags in view.

For starters Shawcross will get a good chunk of the transfer fee so he will still be quids in. You only need to whisper in his agents ear these days and they unsettle the player. Liverpool and co like to whisper to the papers instead.

My stream is so badly delayed that they still have Lambert playing for us :/

Limassol would be a 3 minute drive for me as I'm there now. 39c bloody hot today

Can people stop trying to be in the know on this one, it's obvious it's happening so let's wait for this afternoon.

Jayrod will easily go for 30m if he scores goals this season.

Yeah true, I thought it was the other goalie in the selected team.

Blimey we have gone from playing loads of English men to going almost half Dutch, And that is why the English national team is crap.

Might of been an old interview as he could of spoken about Toby, Soares and Clasie.

I would ask 'We have a great bunch of young kids coming through, would it be a good idea to buy a couple of top players (pay them £100k a week) and let them learn from them. Why get a squad of average players like Elia, Mayuka, Ramirez, duejic (no idea how to spell it) that are slowing down their progress to the first team?'

It's sad how easy it's happening. Never known any club on the outskirts of top 6 lose four top players in one summer followed by 3 top players the next. I will bet you my bottom dollar Mane, Wanyama and Jayrod are going next summer. Once Koeman has had enough we will start to become also rans like Newcastle, Villa and Everton. If you don't get a decent manager in then we could sink like Leeds, Wolves and Blackburn did. I also heard that the CEO who got sacked shared some information to Mitchell many moons ago. Mitchell saw the loop hole and sat on his fingers until July to reel Toby in. Could not make it up could you?

He got his head turned in the end, I suppose we farted around for too long and someone has nipped in. Their is no loyalty in football and I do think we come across as too nice to become a top 6 club sometimes. Reed needs to grows some balls, tell UTD you have until this Friday to match the 27m for Morgan or **** off.

The agent has to deny anything for the sake of us suing AM. Once Les settles it I'm sure Toby will sign for Spurs.

If we want to push on and make the next level then Turnbull, Stephens and I have to say it Cocu is not the way to do it.

I think this is where we are right now. Should he join a club who has sold Clyne, will sell Jayrod the moment he starts scoring again, going to sell our best player in a few days time or Spurs where I have 3 Belgian team mates plus play in the capital city. Goodbye Toby it was good while it lasted.

I still think it's come down to how any club pays the fee up front for Toby. Spurs have finally sorted it out so it now up to us to match it or better it by putting in the full 100% instead of laying down 70% like Spurs perhaps. Then it's down to the player and who he wants to join. My guess is who pays him the most wages IMHO.