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Would prefer banega to wanyama. More gifted player from a higher standard league

would love to see us go for osvaldo from roma, he seems to have it all plus has worked under poch before looks exactly what we need

Banega looks quality,but would this mean the end of gaston playing in the hole? If we can get ramirez playing behind the striker and too his full potential hes the main man for this position, would be great to be able to fit both into the side though

Lets be real here though , things might not be going great for him at the moment . But you can see he has so many top attributes to his game surely? First touch, flair, a belting left foot dribbling skills, strength on the ball, i can see all these attributes in gaston big time . I think he could be a really special talent we just need to nurture him and use him to his strengths, ie in behind the striker.

Barry, whats with your constant ramirez witch hunt? You claim to be a saints supporter try actually supporting and cut the lad some slack. Ramirez season has been a bit stop start due to injuries and fitness but he has shown signs of a top top player. To be honest i dont think he is working as well under pochetino as he did adkins either , poch seems to prefer davies or playing gaston out on the right where he looks less effective, his most impressive games came when he was playing in the hole. I think we should get off his back and see how he looks after getting a full pre season with us i think next year he could be a real star

i have always thought he is a superstar in the making, he has practically everything you would want in a playmaker and could be as good as a kaka given time, theres not many i would say that about, i think lack of fitness/run of games hasnt helped. but if you cant see that this boy is a bit special then i question your knowledge of football

why is everyone on gastons back lately ? anyone with eyes can see hes one of our most skillful players, hes got a hell of a shot on him even if he hasnt scored a screamer yet u can see hes got it in him, and he can also beat players for fun. i honestly cant believe you guys prefer jayrod to ramirez, jayrod gets the ball stuck under his feet or scuffs his shot 90 percent of the time the puncheon goal saturday came from another bit of jayrods woefull finishing i know he puts a shift in but seriously its like prefering ormerod to berbatov!

think this thread is complete bs myself, hes clearly one of the most talented players we have, ok hes a bit of a luxury at times but having him on the pitch theres always a chance he will produce something, what about the arsenal and everton games where he was aguarbly our best attackin player in both games ?

i think its basically cos hes playing out of position, when he plays behind the striker he looks our main attackin threat. he certainly looked assed against everton, he was probably our hardest workin player against them. basically when rodriguez starts up front with lambert behind gastons gonna suffer

Ramirez wasnt injured was he?

Me too please crab lungs

might be able to change his mind if we offer more wages, im not going to hold my breath on this one anymore lets hope we have alternative targets with similar ability.

Gastón: Joan Roman Riquelme, Ronaldo and Ronaldinho have been the ones I've modelled myself on.[/b][/b] [/font][/color] Gastons got great taste in players riquelme and ronaldinho especially

Im sure he could still do a job look at the likes of scholes,giggs,pirlo. Anybody know anything about the sauce of this rumour ive never heard of them before

I get that but the poster above was saying how coutinhos compilation had no end product after the tricks, I was just saying The alvarez one is the oppisite and is full of end product.

I also watched ricardo alvarez compilation he seemed to have loads of end product with most of his highlights resulting in goals! I also remember watchin him a couple of times for inter and thinkin he looked a top player, Would be happy with either of them to be honest but really praying theres tru in the riquelme link :-)

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Lol why's everyone laughing riquelme is fantastic he's also the type of player that it doesn't matter if he's old He was never about pace , riquelmes all about vision not wanting riquelme would be like not wanting pirlo

Wow wow wow please please please let this be true Juan Roman riquelme is my favourite non saints player by a mile he can totally dictate a game with his passing and he's totally comfortable on the ball . Also has one of the best free kicks in the game he's ithe same type of quality as pirlo and xavi with his passing and ball retention . I would totally cream my pants if this happens lol

i feel for adkins as much as the next man, but i dont agree with the cortese bashing on here today has cortese ever let us down? no he hasnt both pardew and adkins did very well here but having nc as chairman made there jobs easier. maybe pocchetino is the way to push on to the next level ? cortese has a vision and he will do whatever it takes to get us there

You would think so but a lot of the players we signed in the summer have had to bide there time like Davies and jay rod, Fonte and yoshida was starting to develop a decent partnership before fontes injury but now there is a chance for forren to come straight in and show what he can do if he signs, I still hope we pull off astori though he sounded the real deal forren doesn't fill me with half as much confidence as he would

So do we really think forren will be an improvement over yoshi and fonte ..? Or is he more being brought in to just give us more strength in depth like being a better replacement than hooiveld seabourne etc ..?

I'd prefer astori out of the 2 to be honest, I haven't really seen much of either, But the fact that astori has managed international caps for a good team like Italy suggests he's good pushing players like chiiellini, barzagli and bonucci he's got to have something about him

I've voted boruc for man of the match that was probably the best goalkeeping performance we have had this season , now Nigel no more rotation with the keepers please . Onto jay rod who I've given a lot of stick to this season, it was probably his best performance in a saints shirt so far . Excellent energy and running It's just the end product that was lacking he'd make a great run through on goal then lose control at the pivotal moment , or his final ball would let him down, much better performance though 10 out of 10 for effort

I actually agree with stu at times Ramirez looks like he could be one of the best players in the league and world class he can be a bit inconsistent at the moment but there's always little flashes of awesomeness I think we have a star on our hands we just need to play him in his best position and get the best out of him , even though I much prefer Lambert to jay rod it would be interesting to see Ramirez behind Rodriguez, Gaston can play some nice through balls but with Richie up front he doesn't have the pace to reach them