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Wow. Where's the forum MOTM vote?

http://www.football365.com/southampton/9210692/Premier-League-Southampton-chairman-Ralph-Krueger-quiet-on-futures-of-key-players

Osvaldo just before headbutting the pope http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/19/article-2396981-1B46321E000005DC-13_634x456.jpg

Tis. Are people watching at all the cock-ups the other PL league goalies and defenders do regularly?

Got a very good feeling about this game. Similar display as against Fulham, denying Villa a single shot on goal. 2-0 Saints.

Tis. Quite unlikely that someone who is regularly playing for Italy is a complete ****e. There are examples of players with a big price tag that have started to blossom only after the first or even after the second season in the prem (etc. Drogba). In Pochettino we trust.

Google-translated from: http://www.iltasanomat.fi/valioliiga/art-1288619133119.html I remember very well in 2002-03 Southampton and somehow feel that now, 11 seasons later, there we are on the same track - in fact, even perhaps to an even higher on the fly. Then we were in ancient times with Southampton in the fourth, when the autumn was already well under way and everywhere all the time expected, because the spending freezes and starts to decline. Okay, in the end we ended up in eighth place, so a bit of the spring came down. None of the crash, however, never came. Now is the time to Southampton in a similar situation. It's been a very good start to the season and do not have to be long looking when you find the reviews already on the team's flight is canceled and the investment falls gradually to be there, "the right" to set the table. The real point is widely considered to be somewhere between the middle and putoamisviivan, but in fact I would not be so sure about that team in today's game there is around. Just accidentally Southampton current position is not rock, and I see quite a fully realistic position in the top six among the end of the season, which would be a really great performance. The root cause of this assessment is the fact that Southampton simply playing very good football. In addition to the team self-confidence is clearly high, it does not play as a lower middle caste of the team, but rather than a team that are serious about playing the Euro places. Southampton as many as three players received an invitation to England national team, but this is by no means a cause but the consequence of it. No Saints player in the squad have been idle paper fight for the top places in the Premier League, but when things are working properly, then the player will come up. Southampton is in fact at the moment very well coached team. The manager Mauricio Pochettino have to really take my hat off, he has done a fantastic job. And the "manager" is a misnomer in this context, namely, Pochettino is, above all, a coach, a man who makes the players work hard from day to day practice course and run with their own ideas and games to players from the grassroots up. And obviously correct. Pochettino is a good example of a traditional English culture is a manager, it might not be the most effective way, then that. Week in the office, maybe one or two briefly on the sidelines and then the other reports on the basis of selected team and tactics. No, I think we are in Southampton ahead of the others and that is why I also believe that many would expect downhill may not be coming. Southampton is the first surprise of the season and I think the team is well equipped for the final surprise of the season. Antti Niemi

I would be far more interested in reading thoughts about how the squad could/should be rotated in case Shaw is injured/ill.

Just read an interesting piece yesterday on transfer fees, pointing out that a year ago in June the record transfers of e.g. Spurs and Arse pretty much matched with what we paid for Dani...

Very decent of Bale not to celebrate his goal against his former club. At least not more than 5 minutes.

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Still eagerly waiting for the translation..

Today's goals, including MOM-save from Jääskeläinen (or was it a save, hawkeye?) http://livefootballvideo.com/highlights/england/premier-league/southampton-vs-west-ham-united

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My guess is wee. Number two was coming towards the end of the game though, hence De Ridder substitution.

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Easy to blame Guly and the NA tactics: I think the problem was in 1) lack of confidence to play the usual short ball (which NA tried to influence with changes) and 2) with the skill, aggressiveness and überconfidence of Stoke players. Still, must have been the best time to play against Stoke: their defense was appalling on the first half and we were gifted at least two goals. So in that respect a very good away point. Still very very gutted obviously.

Have they edited it now? I'm reading: "...and forward Rickie Lambert, who was signed by Pardew for Southampton." Correct, just poor order of wording. Generally, I think BBC reports are usually class compared to many others.

Moisander sold today to Ajax with less than £2.5m. Let's sign him next time (after his spell at Barcelona...)

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Moisander from AZ Alkmaar would be a great signing: might even be a repeat of Sami Hyypia -story when he moved from Willem II to Liverpool with a ridiculously low price. Moisander is generally regarded as one of the best CB's in the Eredivisie, and has made it clear that he wants to move. Ajax and Anderlecht have previously shown interest but it seems now that any action has gone lukewarm. Moisander just expressed his frustration yesterday in the papers. Most probably we could get him with a reasonable price also.

Even the main Finnish newspaper Helsingin sanomat picked up the story, hilariously building on the Saints/Pompey contrast. Even more hilarious google translate below: In different directions along the southern coast Southampton rises to the FA Premier League, the local resistance falls to number one in Portsmouth League. More intensive in the south coast of England derbyä not likely to see for a long time. Southampton's St. Mary's Stadium is only 26 miles from Portsmouth's Fratton Park, but the fans were lost yesterday, September folded a short distance away games. Fierce local rivals played this season, right-pound level, but Southampton secured the return to Premier League after a break of seven years. Next season are separated by a whole set of stairs, as Portsmouth's number one fall to the third level League was confirmed in the past. Even the early 2000s in Southampton and Portsmouth were at the same time average on the Premier League, but both slip out of the swim first division and the economic difficulties they plunged into liquidation. Southampton fell in 2005, Portsmouth in 2010. Today, neighbors directions are diametrically opposed. Southampton's rate of increase is furious because last season it was playing even triplet levels. In turn, hold on Portsmouth Premier League after falling just two seasons In championship before sinking into the depths of League number one. Southampton will rise directly. It secured the second place Reading in the wake of winning the final round Relegation team Coventry 4-0. Paint Teossa managed, among others, the Dutch stopper If Hooiveld, who played for Inter Turku on the periods 2007 and 2008. Southampton owes nousustaan ​​coach Nigel Adkins, which has led to the team of two successive rise. Southampton had the whole season and the leading duo had a series of the most powerful team of 85 paint 46 matches. An experienced roller down the Aryan Rickie Lambert, 30, won the overwhelming maalikuninkuuden 27 osumallaan. The third Premier League club shows a rising playoffs with a semifinal pairs are Cardiff, West Ham and Birmingham Blackpool.

Since there's absolutely nothing that I can do to influence the result, I just wanted to contribute to the longest build-up thread ever (or to be...)