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We were able to keep hold of AOC and JWP whilst we were in league 1 and Portsmouth (their home town) were in the PL. NB, before some smartass points out we sold AOC, I mean when he was still a youth team player.

Been linked with a £24m move to Arsenal or United. Looks to be a great player, however one we may not be big enough to sign.

Stopped reading at this point...

Stoke

Austin. Better all round player, still not convinced by Pelle

The more worrying thing is Clyne and several saints fans thinking he deserves to be England's first choice RB after his recent performances.

I wouldn't say those two finishes were lucky. Both superb. Had a bit of luck the first one ran to him but two absolute worldies

Scouts have been in Denmark watching CB Patrick Banggaard

Always worth a laugh this forum and the #Saintsfc hashtag on twitter at England games. If RH doesn't select the who Saints team he's clueless....

Gylfi Sigurðsson would be a great signing, we lack goals from Midfield.

It's opinions, you can't have a wrong opinion. Not a confidant of NC at all.

He's still technically on loan until 30.6.15 so that's probably why. Elia's gone off to get married and isn't involved in International matches so probably explains the lack of mentions.

Completely agree with all of this.

The board expected us to win League 1, as did I. Not exactly a shock that 2 people have the same opinions. How many times do I need to say this. The Championship I expected us to win around xmas time after our great start. Perhaps read what people write instead of skim-reading. I've never said the board expected us to win the Championship.

All depends what he's after. If it's the money, fair enough. But if he wants first team football, he'd certainly get it at the 3 clubs mentioned.

I'm not trying to pretend...

No. Keep him but he won't be first choice.

He felt as if NA was the best bloke to get us to the PL.

Front 3 of Jrod, Manè and Whomever the new striker is. Upgrade on this season

Another angle then, Wayne Rooney is well on course to be the only player to score 50 goals for England, does that automatically make him England's best player/forward? Eddie Howe was first choice of both Reed and Cortese. After that didn't happen Cortese wanted NA, Reed opposed. I don't know for certain who the other manager was on his list but it wasn't NA. Just to clarify, I never said the board expected to win the Championship. That was merely my opinion based upon us being at the top for so much of the season. Hard to please.

Please not Okaka, we alredy have 2 Italian strikers with distinctly average career goal-scoring records, we don't need another.

Nope, I'm not saying Adkins was bad for Saints at all, simply that he failed to reach the set objectives in his first season. Too many people are putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5. Funny you should quote Reed, when Pardew left he had a list of 2 managers, Adkins wasn't on that list. He was a Cortese signing (his 2nd choice also). Our objectives were to win the league that season, we didn't. It's also key to remember that what is said to the press/public is very different that what is said behind closed doors. Can you really see a senior club figure come out and say "We're really ****ed off we didn't win the league" after getting promoted? I get what you are trying to say, that because there are only two others who have managed to do what Adkins did he must be good. Not necessarily. Ronnie Moore is one of a select few managers never have been relegated, does that make him one of the G.O.A.T? I refer to my above point, Adkins did well but failed in League 1. The season we were down there wasn't really a decent season. Yes Huddersfield went on one almighty run and Brighton had a good season, but look at the players in that league and where they are now, only 3 non-Saints players have gone on to have decent top-flight careers (off the top of my head they are George Boyd, Ashley Barnes and Glenn Murray) whereas we have/had 8 in our squad alone.

Don't let Alex Crook/Simon Peach hear you say that.

This is a very accurate comparison. See also Lukaku. Great physical attributes, incredibly frustrating as he should be doing better throughout his career. Don't really think we need him if we're keeping Pelle. Far too similar players IMO.