Charlie Wayman

Of all the players linked with moves away from St Mary's, Morgan Schneiderlin is the one we can ill afford to lose. The others are replaceable but not alas Morgan who has a special quality that eludes most professionals. We really should make him team Captain whether Lallana stays or not. Cannot the songsmiths amongst us come up with a chanson en Francais to make him feel he really belongs here, after all wasn't it the Wigan fans who sang to us last year as a welcome back to the PL "You're so Southern you're almost French!" "Sur la pont d'Itchen....

Please tell me I didn't read that... I don't believe it... If you're going to use cliches for pity's sake don't mimic Alan Bloody Thicko Shearer! Who in hell's name ever uses a locker these days?

You don't know that, FIFA may decide to ban him outright for three years. Anyway he won't be at Liverpool next year after this latest outrage, I just can't see the Liverpool owners wanting that sort of publicity around their club especially now that they are back in the CL. He might even be in jail for GBH if the Italian defender decides to take legal action.

Perfect replacement for Baines, can't defend, poor positional discipline and clueless long balls into nowhere.

How difficult is it to learn the simple words of our anthem? I mean, come on, they all know they have to sing it before every international footie match so why after all these years is Joe Hart the only one with a brain big enough to remember the words? Maybe it's time we picked a few more ball kickers on the basis of their IQ rather than their 0 to 30 times... We are Ingerland, we are as thick as a plank!

They probably have specific lessons at St George's teaching them to sing the national anthem but the poor dears can't remember the words after two days, come to think about it just like they forget their football tactics lessons two days later. Doh! They are not rocket scientists that's for sure. Most other countries make a decent fist of their anthems so it must be the England players, cr.ap at everything. Do they ever remember anything they're asked to do or are they just thick as planks? Don't you just love the italian anthem...

Just when you think things cannot get worse wit England invariably of course they do. Still the lads had a lovely holiday in Brazil which is about as much as most of them seem to go out there for. There are no penalties for failure at international level so the WGAF attitude amongst this lot will continue to prevail. No longer is it worth arguing about detail there is something rotten about English football which we seem incapable of understanding let alone correcting. E can have no confidence at all that a so-called root and brach overall of the whole FA shebang would come up with anything better. Especially as Spain are also showing signs of turning up only to sign on. Methinks international football is dead in the water, now replaced by the true internationalism of the European Cup & Top European Leagues teams. Good job for Eufa quotas otherwise all the top PL teams would be devoid of England players. Don't fret if you'd rather watch Chile & Mexico you soon will be as a team near you.

Obviously you have no idea of the role of a chairman.

Who ever talks about Chairman once the season has started? I just hope this is all hot air and nonsense because he seems to me to be the right person for this club.

I know this is controversial but I have never rated Adam Lallana. Having watched him endlessly through the years dilly dallying on the ball and losing it time after time through trying to be too clever and tying himself up in knots when the simple things would have been more productive, this season seems to have been an anomaly. Even then he only scored a few goals, many that he should have scored he completely screwed up. If he goes it will be a loss but not as great a loss as say Scousers losing Suarez. I'll miss Lambert more. Selling Left Backs is what we do, it is part of our business model....

Strange decision especially with new management in place and Reed's assertion that they would be involved in all player matters - so why not this one? Methinks something is not fully joined up here still or somebody speaky with forked tongue? Good luck to the lad anyway and it's up to him now to justify the confidence placed in him but these long contracts are becoming a bit farcical in the light of Shaw's likely defection unless we get £10m for every year of a contract. If so, we can get £40m for McQueen right now from the Scousers. Money in the bank!

After last night's superb display that Mexican keeper would be a very good bet.

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If he gets us playing like the Dutch national team we should be continuing our upward curve as they can not only pass and move BUT also Score Goals. Hope he brings some of the Feyenoord players along with him for centre back and strikers.

Hope he speaks English, Dutch is impossible to understand.

I think we get the picture old chap so no need to bang on and on. Time to change the record. Dutch football is pretty good to watch in my book and Holland always do better than us in European & World Cups

I'm glad you cleared that up. I've been wondering all day why the hell Ralf would want to ring Nick. I would have liked Holmes here after the good job he did at Salisbury a few years ago.

Being underwhelmed at new manager appointments is par for the course here, whenever was it any different? Have you forgotten that even quite recently, Adkins? Pochettino?... who had ever heard of them except the real anoraks. By my reckoning we have done rather well with underwhelming characters.

He's not smiling 'though and why the hurry to get home. I would hav e thought he'd stay overnight and see Staplewood and all the other infra-structure, surely that couldn't be done in an over & back trip?

So what has upset Mr Lallana then or has he's been got at by Pochettino's bull shine? The English Messi? Too good for a small club?

Come on now Board, step up to the plate! Please arrange the following tribute to Saints One and Only Ricky Lambert 1.. Invite Ricky to come on to the pitch for a deserved crowd ovation & farewell at HT during the pre-season main friendly against whichever continental club is scheduled to appear at SMS in July / August. Even a club presentation at the time would be appreciated by every fan. 2... Commission a statue of Ricky to stand alongside Ted Bates outside the main entrance of SMS and ask fans to contribute to the cost, maybe the Club matching the fans contribution.

We all feel short changed by the guy's hastiness to quit but these thoughts are best left unsaid. Rise above it all lad, it's only football.

Its probably more to do with FIFA quotas of home grown talent in the BIG teams who have notoriously ignored British players until FIFA stepped in. Ricky will help balance up the numbers at Anfield although in fairness they are one of the better sides when it comes to British players; no doubt we have more than our share and feel we could afford to lose the odd one. I happen to think that Ricky has been pushed rather than jumped, Reed with his eye on youth and the future probably decided long ago that last season was the end for Ricky here. Remember they tried to offload him to WHU in January but no doubt Poch and fans made it clear NFW! Getting a decent fee for Ricky from a top side must have surprised everyone upstairs at SMS and maybe even Ricky himself. I don't buy the cra.p being put around by some anonymous sources that "Ricky always wanted to play for his boyhood club". Ballacks to that! Just spin to make everyone here and Ricky feel good about the move when his ad-hoc interview at Eastleigh airport suggested how deeply he has been affected by having to move on. His parting word to the reporter was "I'm going home!" meaning his home here at Southampton. This is one time when Hearts should have ruled Heads, when hard-nosed business people should have understood that there are some things in life that cannot be measured in £ & $. £9m is nothing compared to the surge in crowd emotion when Ricky comes on at 60 mins as a sub when not starting. Irreplaceable! Ricky is a local and now a national Icon for he represents more than anybody all that is magical and innocent about football, his place was here for ever and shame on all those that played a part in his exit if indeed he was pushed against his will. "Better loved ye canna be Will ye no' come back again?"

Most would condemn the board if they moved too fast as there is a thorough interview process to be gone through; if say 5 candidates were left with their hats in the ring the best two might be called back. So don't be impatient, as long as the appointment is made before the players return from hols and ready for training all should be well. There is still also the obligatory close season trip to Switzerland to come, announcements of pre-season friendlies and the walk on hot coals that obviously spooked one or two of our guys to leave before they had to face the ordeal again this year. At least we find out who are the chickens.

Probably scrutinised by two dozen lawyers before publication to avoid any hint of controversy at clubs leading to legal action against them. It's safe only to say the ball is round