Tokyo-Saint

Shouldn't this be in the worth a squirt thread?

When saintsforever was up and running, I made up the Delgado song and it was sung. I think my Balotelli was better but it didn't catch on.

I do not live in Southampton anymore, meaning I have to travel to all home games as if it was an away game. Does this give me more hardcore fans points than the others?

Examples

Taken from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/premier_league/article6525429.ece after 2 second Google search. “Teams such as Everton could be playing big matches within three days of each other,” Ian Todd, the president of the Football Supporters’ Federation, said. “The quarter-final second legs of the Europa League are on April 8 and the FA Cup semi-finals are scheduled for April 10-11."

You can see his coach now, "if you insist on having a big entrance, then for gods sake keep it tight in the first couple of rounds!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOHxFGMf078

We saw him after the game yesterday, in full tracksuit walking round by the front of the building.

Exactly. I was a student at the time but the players were out drinking more than the freshers. There was a massive drinking culture amongst the players at the time, Beattie, KD, Oakley were always either at the Rhino or if it was student night (Wednesday I believe) they were at Ikon. Claus was not in the same group but drunk more. While the younger players were into posing in full length leather jackets and picking up straggler girls at 2am, Claus was more of a serious drinker. He would be in jumping Jacks till closing and then off to the Casino with a fag in his mouth and a couple of sado hangers on. He is actually a nice guy, a few of my mates play football with him, just LOVES to drink.

How does that song go that David Connelly doesn't like? Maybe he'll like it?

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/54187/rabbi-disguise-edl-leader

I heard that one of the add ons is that we get £25k if he ever wins the Grand National.

I would say that is a good deal for us. Not the best graduate from the academy in the last few years but should pay for it's running costs for a while. I think he will end up lower championship, I could be wrong but even if I am, there is usually a sell on clause with these deals.

ANYTHING on the boobs means tramp in my book. Straight to the Jeremy Kyle waiting room for you love. I do agree that a small one on the ankle or wrist can be sexy though.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzz boring. Lets keep winding up Turkish until someone posts a thread about favourite half time pie or whose name they have on their football shirt. That is the only way to get us through this international break.

Oh, by the way Does Brolin count as 2?

I would say it was debatable that all of these were big money or even high profile at the time. Anyway, I'll play: 50 Stan Collymore, Liverpool to Aston Villa, £7m, May 1997 The striker scored just seven goals in 46 league appearances for the club he supported as a boy. 49 Khalid Boulahrouz, SV Hamburg to Chelsea, £7m, August 2006 48 Eddie McGoldrick, Crystal Palace to Arsenal, £1m, June 1993 47 Mark Hateley, Rangers to Queens Park Rangers, £1.5m, November 1995 46 Darren Huckerby, Coventry City to Leeds United, £4m, August 1999. 45 Georgios Samaras, Heerenveen to Manchester City, £6m, January 2006 44 Massimo Taibi, Venezia to Manchester United, £4.5m, August 1999 43 Titus Bramble, Ipswich Town to Newcastle United, £5m, July 2002 42 Fernando Morientes, Real Madrid to Liverpool, £6.5m, January 2005 41 Francis Jeffers, Everton to Arsenal, £8m, June 2001 40 Michael Owen, Real Madrid to Newcastle United, £16m, August 2005 39 Chris Kiwomya, Ipswich Town to Arsenal, £1.25m, January 1995 Signed in the dying days of George Graham’s reign and later allowed to leave for nothing. 38 Massimo Maccarone, Empoli to Middlesbrough, July 2002 Views on the Italian range from not picked enough to not good enough. Either way, 18 league goals in four years was a poor return for the striker, who was allowed to leave on a free transfer. 37 Gerry Creaney, Portsmouth to Manchester City, £1m, September 1995 The Scottish striker was a prolific scorer at Portsmouth but misfired at City. 36 Jon Dahl Tomasson, Heerenveen to Newcastle United, £2.5m, July 1997 Played as a striker rather than his more familiar attacking midfield role, the Dane was out of position and out of luck. 35 Ned Zelic, Borussia Dortmund to Queens Park Rangers, £1.25m, July 1995 Blamed the hard English ground for his injuries and quickly returned to Germany. 34 Dean Saunders, Galatasaray to Nottingham Forest, £1.5m, July 1996 The striker who specialised in relegations endured a barren run in front of goal as Forest plunged from the Premier League. 33 Eoin Jess, Aberdeen to Coventry City, £2m, February 1996 An unsuccessful spell at Highfield Road had the Scotsman scuttling back to Aberdeen for a third of the original transfer fee. 32 Paul Furlong, Watford to Chelsea, £2.3m Chelsea would spend this on a team bus nowadays but it was their record transfer fee in 1994. The striker’s spell was characterised by howlers in front of goal. 31 Ramon Vega, Cagliari to Tottenham Hotspur, £3.5m, January 1997 The Switzerland central defender gave Tottenham fans countless nervous moments. 30 Salif Diao, Sedan to Liverpool, £5m, August 2002 Gerard Houllier, the Liverpool manager who signed the midfield player, compared him to Patrick Vieira. Well, he is tall and from Senegal, but otherwise... 29 Milan Baros, Liverpool to Aston Villa, £6.5m, August 2005 Nine goals in 42 league games was not what Villa had in mind when signing the Czech from Liverpool and they were happy to offload him to Lyons. 28 Faustino Asprilla, Parma to Newcastle United, £6.7m, February 1996 The Colombian was a fine player who enjoyed some good times at Newcastle but his mid-season arrival appeared to unbalance a team that had seemed destined for the Premier League title. 27 Kevin Davies, Southampton to Blackburn Rovers, £7.5m, June 1998 The burly striker is having more luck down the road at Bolton Wanderer but at Blackburn he managed just one goal in a whole league season. 26 Andriy Shevchenko, AC Milan to Chelsea, £30.8m, May 2006 The Ukrainian may yet justify his fee but so far his arrival has contributed little apart from prompting a change in formation that arguably hindered Chelsea last season. 25 Stephane Guivarc’h, Auxerre to Newcastle United, £3.5m, June 1998 The World Cup winners’ medal that the striker collected with France needed to be seen to be believed by frustrated Newcastle fans. 24 Glen Johnson, West Ham United to Chelsea, £6m, July 2003 The first signing of the Roman Abramovich era has still to establish himself four years and one loan spell at Portsmouth later. 23 Corrado Grabbi, Ternana to Blackburn Rovers, £6.75m, June 2001 The Italian striker scored two goals in 30 Premier League appearances. That’s £3.38m per goal. 22 Adrian Mutu, Parma to Chelsea, £15.8m, August 2003 As if six goals in 27 league games was not bad enough, the Romania striker was sacked after failing a drugs test for cocaine. 21 Tore Andre Flo, Rangers to Sunderland, £6.75m, August 2002 Four goals in 29 league appearances by the Norway striker helped Sunderland towards an ignominious relegation. 20 Joey Beauchamp, Oxford United to West Ham United, £1m, June 1994 The Oxford-born winger was so homesick after joining West Ham that he left two months later without playing a competitive game. He returned closer to his roots with a move to Swindon Town. 19 Hugo Viana, Sporting Lisbon to Newcastle United, £8.5m, June 2002 The young Portuguese midfield player spent most of his two years at the club on the bench. 18 Andrea Silenzi, Torino to Nottingham Forest, £1.8m, August 1995 The Italian striker was so poor that Forest allowed him to leave for nothing. 17 Florin Raducioiu, Espanyol to West Ham United, £2.4m, July 1996 Lasted only six months after missing training to go shopping. 16 Sasa Curcic, Bolton Wanderers to Aston Villa, £4m, August 1996 Fell out with Brian Little, the manager, amid accusations of a wild lifestyle off the pitch. 15 Alex Nyarko, Lens to Everton, £4.5m, July 2000 Complained that the English league was too physical. Walter Smith, his manager, appeared to side with the Everton fan who ran onto the pitch at Highbury to confront the Ghanaian over a supposed lack of effort. 14 Ade Akinbiyi, Wolverhampton Wanderers to Leicester City, £5m, July 2000 Known to some Leicester supporters as Ade Abadbiyi, he was lampooned by fans across the country for his desperate misses. 13 Chris Sutton, Blackburn Rovers to Chelsea, £10m, July 1999 The striker was a regular goalscorer with Norwich City, Blackburn and Celtic but never recovered from missing a couple of sitters on his debut for Chelsea, for whom he scored once in 28 Premier League appearances. 12 Jean-Alain Boumsong, Rangers to Newcastle United, £8m, January 2005 Somehow made it into France’s World Cup finals squad last year but Newcastle fans were relieved when the error-prone central defender left for Juventus. 11 Juan Sebastian Veron, Lazio to Manchester United, £28.1m, July 2001; United to Chelsea, £15m, August 2003 To spare the Argentinian from appearing twice, these two moves have been placed together. If anything, Chelsea’s signing was worse, given that they knew Veron had failed to adjust to English football. 10 Darko Kovacevic, Red Star Belgrade to Sheffield Wednesday, £2m, December 1995 The forward made no impression at Hillsborough but promptly became a prolific goalscorer in the Spanish league with Real Sociedad when he left. 9 Robert Fleck, Norwich to Chelsea, £2.1m, August 1992 The Scottish striker was a cult hero at Carrow Road but a carthorse at Stamford Bridge, where he scored five times in 40 league appearances. 8 Bosko Balaban, Dynamo Zagreb to Aston Villa, £6m, August 2001 The Croatia forward did not start a league game in his two and a half years at the club. 7 Sergei Rebrov, Dynamo Kiev to Tottenham Hotspur, £11.5m, June 2000 The player who formed an outstanding attacking partnership with Andriy Shevchenko at Dynamo Kiev lost his radar after joining Tottenham. 6 Marcelino, Real Mallorca to Newcastle United, £5m, June 1999 Dubbed the “lesser-spotted Magpie”, he played just 17 Premier League games in three and a half years at St James’ Park. 5 Steve Marlet, Lyons to Fulham, £11.5m, August 2001 The Frenchman provided just one goal per five league games, fell out with Chris Coleman over his refusal to play out of position and spent two years on loan to Marseilles. 4 Tomas Brolin, Parma to Leeds United, £4.3m, November 1995 Injury had left Brolin overweight and over the hill but Leeds paid well over the odds for the Sweden striker. He left two dismal years later when his contract was cancelled. 3 Albert Luque, Deportivo La Coruna to Newcastle United, £9.5m, August 2005 One of a host of expensive signings by Newcastle to have disappeared down a black and white hole. The Stevens Inquiry placed a question mark over the transfer and the rest of the world placed a question mark over why Newcastle bought him at all. 2 Valerien Ismael, Strasbourg to Crystal Palace, £2.75m, January 1998 Hopeless in South London, the French central defender has since won the German league and cup double both with Werder Bremen and Bayern Munich. 1 Per Kroldrup, Udinese to Everton, £5m, June 2005 Everton paid a fortune for the Denmark central defender but then showed no interest in actually playing him amid suggestions they had suddenly discovered he couldn’t head the ball. Made one league appearance before returning to Italy.

I think you read between the lines of my post wrongly. I am in no way negative about this signing and may be the only person who actually thinks he will be fantastic for us. Have you seen the youtube clips? Also, the comments on the Celtic forums when they signed him? He can not go from being a fantastic player, team leader, great in the air to being crap after 7 games. Put me on the record as saying he is exactly what we want. I just thought it was interesting that Celtic were also after the same player as us before signing Jos. It shows that there must be a lot of similarity between the two players, especially when Kilgallon was on top of his game.

Sounds familiar, taken from the Celtic forum: Hooiveld was a mainstay in the AIK team that recorded a league and cup double in the Swedish season that finished recently. The 26-year old, who can also be pressed into action as a defensive midfielder, was one of the Stockholm club’s most consistent performers and looks to have his career back on track after failing to make it in Holland as a youth. Having begun his career at Heerenveen, Hooiveld moved to Zwolle on loan. From there, the defender moved to Kapfenberg in Austria but only made 14 appearances . Hooiveld’s future did not look promising but a move to Finnish side Inter Turku in 2007 began an upward trajectory. At the Veikkausliiga club, the defender established himself as a first team player and picked up a number of awards in his two seasons, including back to back Defender of the Year awards. Swedish side AIK snapped up the centre-back in January 2009 and paired him with international defender Nils-Eric Johansson to great effect. The Stockholm club completed a league and cup double after beating rivals IFK Gothenburg in back to back matches at the climax of the season in November. The Dutchman could help to solve what has become a problem position for Mowbray since he took over as manager at Parkhead. The Celtic manager has rotated Gary Caldwell, Glenn Loovens and Steven McManus in the centre-back positions but has been disappointed with some of the goals that have been conceded in the first half of the season. Sheffield United defender Matthew Kilgallon had been linked with a move to Parkhead but announced this week that he would be remaining with the Yorkshire club until his contract expires at the end of the season.

If you look at the comments from AIK to Celtic just as they sold him a fan says, "yes he is a good player, too good for Celtic". Seems very popular amongst them but just that things did not work out at Celtic.

Scrap that, just been on Wiki and it looks like he has signed for Evian. Maybe his info was out of date, either that or he was winding me up as I was pressing for info I shouldn't have been.

Never really been in the knew about anything to do with the club before (although I used to work at the Dell when I was young). However, I have an old friend who shall remain nameless but works for the club (I won't say in what capacity to protect him) and just had a chat with him online. Anyway, he said we have been watching Cedric Mongongu for a while and may make a late bid. He does not know if we will or not just that he is someone we have been watching closely. According to my mate, Arsenal were looking at him for a while a few years ago and Blackburn more recently. Don't shoot the messenger. I had never heard of him before but a quick search on Google showed that Blackburn were indeed linked with him in the summer. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/blackburn-close-in-on-defender-cedric-mongongu-2313527.html He also told me that Wade Elliot (who in my year at school) wanted to finish his career with Saints but that we were not interested when his contract ran out in the summer, so he resigned for Burnley.

If we are including Puncheon, we would have to up our offer to £5.5m

I went yesterday and it worked very well. Cork is a fantastic right back, very good in the tackle and we all know Morgan's talent. When we have both of them in the team the passing ability of the whole team overall goes up. Also, with Cork at right back, De Ridder was able to storm forward more knowing he had a quality defender behind him. Lets face it both of the regular right backs are lower Championship level. I would give it a go, just to raise the over all level of the starting 11. If we get a quality right back in the future or we miss Cork being in the middle then re-evaluate but it is definitely worth a try.

I am going today, hopefully ok to buy at the ground otherwise it will be a day of shopping in Leicester for me!