Baird of the land

Agree, just hoping its just utter naivety on his part.

Agree completely with all of this.

Wanted to believe in an ambitious saints, but yeah that's the impression i came away with too.

I'd have liked a little 'we aim to retain our key players' attitude. Instead there was some waffle about remembering about potential purchases right after he talked about how other clubs are much bigger with money to spend.

Krueger on Saints player hardly filled me with confidence about their desire to retain our players.

Hoping the 3 get in the 23. Rickie scoring again in front of Roy certainly must have helped whilst Carroll did nothing. Would have liked Cork in the squad. Maybe for the best since Saints are being so poor at dealing with his contract situation though.

Yeah really hoping those 3 make it. Carroll once again did nothing whilst Rickie(in front of Hodgson) scored so surely he must get that 4th striking place. Would love cork to make it too but that's not gonna happen. Not sure that clyne will make the reserve list though.

Decent result & its been a great season. Needed a second in the 1st half when Giggs got the midfield balance completely wrong & we had them on the rack. Hopefully Lambert, Shaw & Lallana did enough to convince Hodgson to take them to world cup. Also hope that Lallana/Shaw standing ovations aren't the last time we'll see them in a saints shirt. We need to keep this team together & add a little extra quality and we can push on next season.

20M would be an awful deal for Saints. Double that & we'd be in the region that a england international in his prime who's just been voted one of best players in the league should fetch. Don't want to sell him but if he forces his way out then we should be properly compensated and not robbed blind.

That squad really misses a real ball winning midfielder and even if you accept Gerrard in that role the lack of cover is scary. Lampard ones confuses. He doesn't seem to be scoring goals anymore and he's never been particularly good defensively, so why take him other than he'll be a good tourist. Wilshere also grates on me, someone who gets in due to their name despite utterly mediocre performances over last couple of years domestically and internationally.

75 million would be a travesty imo. As to the replacements redmond(got potential), Caulker(good young cb), Rosler(looks like a deent up andcoming manager) Suppose Ruddy's steady but given we've Boruc a 27 year old keeper seems an odd buy. Bertrand has been rather poor at Villa Hernandez has been poor at man U and doesn't seem to suit a one up top system. Maybe if we completely changed out formation we might be able to re-ignite him.

Yep coupled with inflation due to new tv deal some of the figures being banded around are deeply insulting imo.

If we're planning to sell our best players the ambition better be 16-18th then because there's zero chance of achieving 6-8 without retaining our talent and a reasonable level of investment in new transfer funds.

Nice to see. Now to get players and manager who have 12 months to run signed down to longer contracts.

Yikes so beware red weddings then.

Someone stable who got us promoted twice and had us doing ok in the prem is somehow not acceptable if saints new board have decided to abandon the previous ambitions! Personally I hope we don't sell our players and move into mediocrity.

If they sell off the family silver and poch walks and the plan is to just stay in the prem now rather than try and compete, Adkins return would make the most sense.

Sun is a disgusting paper. I'm assuming its lies unless they have direct quotes from Adam.

Gotta hand it to scudamore. Stand back and hand dyke enough rope to hang himself with and then you can come along and be the reasonable hero who is against the destruction of the football and your suggestions will likely slide through.

The current design has grown on me somewhat. The above proposed looks much worse IMO. Still dreaming of rank xerox design.

Hoping he gets chance in 1st team squad next season as he seems to have really impressed the Swindon fan I know.

Yeah that's pretty much where I am. If the new board has said one thing and then gone for a sponsorship deal that's the opposite, continuing to put us at the bottom of the table commercially, that's not good.

Looking at the sponsorship league table(above) you would very much doubt we've moved up at all despite our higher profile this season & and all the chat about focusing on commercial streams of income. Really hope I'm wrong & they have paid a large sum.

Remember United agreed a deal for Hernandez before he went on to play impress at World Cup. I personally want Saints to hold onto Lallana but even if they were to sell, selling now and for the pittance quoted would be nuts.

Yeah Jack Cork repeatedly did well on loan in the Championship, yet Chelsea showed no interest in playing him in their 1st team because they had millions they could spend on proven foreign imports. This B league idea will do nothing for getting prem clubs to play their youngsters but will destroy the football league.