thorpie the sinner

Just saw a twitter surge and Liverpool fans ****ing themselves laughing again! Bad day at work, normally don't worry about these sort of balls rumours, but my dark side made me post it! Click on Bertrand on twitter and the links will come up! What will be will be I guess

So hope we aren't in for Bertrand, but fear we are!! Oh dear!! From Rojo to RB in 20 mins, doh

Just can't see ROJO to Saints, but there again, my daughter just kicked over my glass of Irn Bru, it was half full!

Many Thanks Kind Sir, Can I point you in the direction of Kahlil Gibran's 'The Prophet', a wonderful read and bedtime companion

Is it worth F5'ing today Guan? No point if there is no point if you see what I mean lol

Jonathan Biabiany from Parma being linked now by Di Marzio

Most sensible theory I have read in a while! Still happy to start again with players who want to be here

Guan, is Ings a complete dead duck now or still half a chance? Still think with this kind of signing there is a small light at end of tunnel

Football is a mugs game for owners, hence the corruption involved unless u really are worth 300 billion! Really can't see why KL is being vilified for trying to run club sensibly!

Can't believe Guan wont let a day like this pass without a statement of some sort!

mmm. I think Danny will probably be signing a new Burnley contract as we speak! Media have officially made it their business to destroy us this summer, with a little help from certain others

my bladder has just gone mad, recent times tell me that Guan is just about to make an update!

Nope, that's just plain negative! Life must be a disappointment

We can't control the negativity, I am looking forward regardless.

The only negative thing about this scenario is that the wrist slitters on here who are only happy with something to moan about won't be sold, we are stuck with them! cue the happy clapper comments, ********, just a bit of balance and rational thinking wouldn't go amiss, all imho!!

No way on God's earth that Koeman would have come here blinkered to the fact that these players would leave! Shaw was def off regardless of manager, Rickie, too good an opportunity to turn down, Lallana 50/50 but replaced straight away by Tadic, Chambers still behind Clyne, Lovren more than likely replaced by Van Diik who looks the dogs. Spiderman would be the one I would be moving heaven and earth to keep however. So in essence, nothing that would have surprised Koeman, who has been given a free hand to create his side with youth to create the balance! Lets see what the side looks like on Sept 1.

Hopefully after game today, big Ron will give us an update as to where we are with incomings, been quite upfront thus far.

lets not forget K Billy, well its only fair! And I still like Trousers to the minute updates, so he can stay! Oh, and the red panda can stay as well

To be fair, that fits in with all the titbits we have heard, get the impression he wants to do it right though! Might need to wait for Deeny to go to Burnley

Yes, Miss Cates from Gremlins days definitely!!

So my transfer wishlist: Ings - tick Rojo - tick Virgil - tick Forster - tick And could I throw in Marisa Tomei into the mix in her 'My cousin Vinny' days

Can't beat an inspiration poem first thing in morning, and Guan, your updates are most appreciated!

For GUAN If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

I took it to mean that Ings is a Burnley player, but we are confident that in a perfect world he would like to join Southampton! As nothing in football is straight forward, there will be a period of game playing, toing, froing and gesturing before the end game is presented. Who will provide the fatal blow? Who knows, we are confident, we will dethrone their queen and rip their king asunder and victory will be ours! Hand on heart, I think Danny Ings will be a Saints player come Aug 31st!

after the wonderfully lyrical tangent, it ended up with 'are positive!' Getting quite excited now