Georgie

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Didn't Les Reed say we were looking to improve on this season? That's not consolidating in mid table and you would have bought Ralph had given him permission to make that statement. I guess we will see in the coming weeks who is lying but it's going to be a long summer

Me too. By boyfriend was told from someone that works at the club that he heard MP, Shaw and Lallana were staying and we are buying 5 new players in the summer. Who knows whether that will turn out to be true. Probably not.

I was surprised he didn't rush over to get involved

So is Les Reed a liar then?

Just saw some of the game on BT again. They were doing their best to stir it up after his comments. Grrrr

I've accepted Shaw will go, but Lallana is the one I really thought wouldn't leave this summer. Would be a massive blow to lose him.

I had also heard he had work done to his house. But then when you are earning as much as he probably is it's not really going to matter.

Especially after Ralph said we did not need to sell anyone that Pochettino wanted to keep. Although if Shaw requests to go there's not much we can do about it.

A new contract for Pochettino would tie in wonderfully just before the start of season ticket sales. I guess it won't be that though!

No doubt will be against us!

We are obsessed? Didn't they have a Happy David Norris Day on the anniversary of him getting the meaningless equaliser against us?!

Haven't seen today's game, but really thought he was a massive part of our solid start to the season. Since he's been out I don't think we've been the same defensively, although obviously Boruc was also out for a while along with fonte, lovren and shaw missing the odd games. There are some games that Cork is more suited to when the other team's midfield is not as physical but overall I think Wanyama is the better of the two.

It's a bit of banter. What's the problem? I'm sure they would have done the same when they were above us - if they had the money!

Did Wanyama go off due to his knock or was it just due to fitness?

Desperately need a striker in the summer.

I actually thought he had a good game in the end. Just that team don't trust him enough, and I think that showed.

Last week it looked they didn't want to commit forward due to the likelihood of any shot on target going in with Gazzaniga in goal.

Wanyama got injured in that first half against Villa though and came off at half time. Strong defensive side but still can't see where the goals are going to come from, if last week is anything to go by. Anyway COYR!

I thought it was season ticket holders who have been to x number of away games first. Isn't this still giving season ticket holders priority over others who don't have a season ticket but have been to away games?

As a season ticket holder I disagree. I think this has been done fairly in allowing other people who have actually been to games priority. They have also put in money to the club by going to the other games. As season ticket holders we get every home game and priority over cup and away games. For me this is enough.

Well to me that meant we wouldn't sell anyone that we may receive a bid for, but wanted to stay. Anyone that wants to leave will go. To me this is similar to the summer of 2003. We had a great chance to push on in 2003-04 but didn't quite take it and we all know what happened the season after. Just hope this isn't the same.

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Looks like no Boruc in the training photos. Yippee. Let's hope Cardiff have no shots on target