Charlie Wayman

Or perhaps, bearing in mind the number of Academy boys that have been released this year without being offered professional terms, they were not all that good and more suited to the old English long ball game? Blackmore suggested this action is not linked to Pochettino but surely they would have reported indirectly to him as head coach & manager. If he decided a change at grass roots level was needed to ensure the flow of youthful talents like Shaw then he would have had a say. Right now the Academy's reputation is on an all time high so what better time to attract the best kids in the country and therefore the best coaches to develop them. Clearing the decks in this way may indicate MP getting things going his way and so a good chance of staying, the lack of urgency in any announcement about his whereabouts next year on the other hand suggests the opposite although there will come a time when he will be forced to decide either by us to ensure our pre-season integrity or by another club for their pre-season integrity. MP arriving at Spurs for example with only a couple of weeks left before the season starts at beginning of August would not really work for them any more that having to find and imbed a new manager in July will not work for us. There's just a chance that MP is awaiting my decision on whether to renew my ST before he decides o stay on. This is a bit of a cat and mouse game as I am waiting for him!

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Amazing really, the Scousers finish 2nd but still want to buy half the team finishing only 8th. Sounds like looney land up there to me.

Sad to see him go but no sentiment in modern football especially in the Premiercrap League

Anything with more than four letter words or a verb will be taxing for the Northam, refs being an exception!

It rather assumes that we know why the Academy has been successful whereas it could all be just good fortune and luck. Cat in a bag? Or, Cat in a box? Open enough oysters and you'll likely find a pearl. I'm all for marketing bulls.h.it for the highest price you can get. BBB has been a successful maxim for more years than I care to remember

Absolutely fantastique! This gives me as much pleasure as the inclusion of our golden trio in the England squad.

Brilliant.

Horse droppings, nothing more nothing less. Total Ballacks in fact!

Who are you then, the font of all knowledge or just a village idiot? Your views are irrelevant.

Clear handball by Vidic denied us the win we deserved. Ref as usual in awe of ManCrap and gave them far to much from the start. Fed up with useless bloody refs and their biased attitude towards the BIG teams.

Waste of bloody money. Couldn't they wait until Monday to go on holiday?

We should keep him for the nation not allow him to leave the country. Somebody must come up with the money to keep him here. Does anybody really want to live in Liverpool? I thought the Ferry across the Mersey was a refugee escape route.

Talk about evasive tactics. Can't imagine Big Sam would fart about like this, he 'd say either " I'm buggering off cos all the fans are Mongs" or "Of course I'm staying what kind of daft bloody question is that?" Precious or what? They talk about player celebrations being narcissistic!

“I’ll always love the Club and I just want to keep progressing with the Club. I just hope we can make strides forward in the summer and just keep going from step-to-step and doing well.” Read more at http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/news/article/07052014-adam-lallana-fpots-award-1540882.aspx#7c31PrrZOY3ToTR1.99

Just suppose we fielded 11 English players all good enough to play for England, would Hodgson have the bottle to pick a whole England team from just one club? Just asking. If that is RK's vision I'll have £7.50 worth.

For the first time in years there will be nothing special about a visit of Man U, now a team of fading sometime stars and relatively unknown journeymen. With van Persie on his way to St Mary's the only high spot might be how he compares with Lambert who may have to make way for him. 4-1 to Saints seems a good bet if our A team shows up. Historians will appreciate seeing Giggs in a manure shirt for the last time but he will be best advised not to give up his day job too soon as predictions of his rise to Manager are premature and wide of the mark. A season or two at Wrexham beckons.

Have we ever had a really great player that we signed on from elsewhere and didn't develop in-house? Keegan maybe, Wayman from far back... not many other than that.

In the old days nobody gave a stuff about who turned out for Saints so long as they wore red and white stripes and there was one hero to idolise, Charley Wayman, Eric Day, Terry Paine, Ron Davies, Mike Channon.....

I doubt it but if Roy Hodgson buys next season's ST then Lallana will definitely stay.

It's all made up by the UKIP party to wind us up.

Looks like England have a new captain...

You know you can't say that and the mods know so why aren't they doing their job and censuring you for racism?

Always one party pooper! You must be miserable when things go well.

Wonderful stuff, everyone on form, a joy to watch. Best game of the season by miles.