Chez

is there much difference between the two styles?

His touch and passing have been very poor. no where near the level I expected from him. Defensively he's not been great either. The championship is more forgiving, so he may look OK next season, but loads of improvement needed.

only another three years left in his contract.... Perhaps he can find his feet in the championship.

I do wonder how we would have done if we'd played four at the back all season instead if five, along with plenty of bodies in the central midfield area. Too late now.

he's been poor. Every week we seem to find new ways of shooting ourselves in the foot.

another pen?

First time I've listened to radio solent for donkeys and I've yet to hear a "what we need here is a Saints goal" comment.

another game where Lallana's nouse and experience can help us see it out.

my mind immediately turns to OJ Simpson for some reason.

balls

is he playing up front? Listening on the radio its hard to tell.

players will get tired. subs will be required.

I reckon their bench would give us a decent game.

Good question. Is he injured?

Wellington got nutmegged once against Brighton and as a result Juric seems to have totally lost faith in him.

Fernandes and Ramsdale look like they are giving their all to me.

The shirt and performance in it, pretty crap, the actual trip to Bucharest, legendary. I guess that's one good thing about this load of old bollocks kit rerelease is that it has just brought back some great memories.

Not sure why you don't have any affinity with Ramsdale and Ferndandes. Firstly they are good players, but secondly they seem to give their absolute maximum. Both are very easy to like, especially with the rest of the team making them stand out every week. It will be very dissapointing to see them depart in the summer.

That shirt would suit the current side. It's fucking shit.

Do you know if they both finish the game MLG unscathed? They both may never play for the first team again, who knows? But if they are fit, there is at least an opportunity to loan or sell them.

He's got another year left on his contract, but no one is buying him this summer. Maybe these PL games will be enough to entice someone to loan him next season, perhaps with us paying some of his wages? I am guessing no one was interested last summer, but who knows. You'd of thought Thomas Reis, his manager at Vfl Bochum, who became manager of top flight Turkish side Samsunspor that summer might have made an enquiry, but perhaps ABK wasn't interested in playing in Turkey?

Do Liverpool get fined for putting out their reserves if they still win?

I can't argue with that, but posts like "the players are unfit" or "the players don't care" only seem to appear when we are losing. Defeats sure do hone the fitness detection eye.

Whenever we are going through a shit patch "fitness" is blamed and all kinds of experts with amazing eyes for player fitness emerge. Could it be that the players are fit, and they are trying too, but they are just not playing well, good enough, confident, winning etc...

It was about £2m and £7m I think. £7m was sizeable back then. Fulham's biggest signing that summer was Berbatov for just €5m, Swansea's was Hernandes €7m, Newcastle's was Anita (who?) €8.5m, WBA was Ben Foster €5m, Arsenal's Cazorla €19m, Villa's Benteke €8m... Imagine how much you'd need to spend now to buy the best (and young) right back in the championship (Archie Grey went for £30m) and a 22 year old championship goalscorer (he got about 15 goals for Burnley) now (Rutter went from leeds to Brighton for €46m). Instead we got Taylor on a free and Archer for about £15m.