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Black Lives Matter surely has to be one of, if not the greatest political group name of all time. It’s impossible for someone to say they don’t agree with Black Lives Matter without someone immediately asking them why they do not believe that black lives matter. Masterful.

The optimist in me says the reason we’re seeing these quotes regularly is because he’s the player the press are interested in. We don’t get an equivalent quote about Bertrand every week. Contract talks are progressing as normal and it’ll be announced soon. The Saints fan in me says this doesn’t look great and unfortunately we’ll have to sell in the summer and hope for the best.

Klopp without a doubt, complete prick and a poor loser. Thinks the world revolves around him and the media wank him off constantly which makes me want to vomit. Rodgers also an arrogant prick, don’t like him. Love Wilder and Warnock, so clearly it’s a matter of opinion!

Fair point! Missed the bit about clubs. But maybe the writer was just using ‘previous clubs’ generically. Cedric often posts about his Portugal teammates.

Probably a bit late in the day but would be great if we could keep at the level we’re at and give Ori a chance of getting a cap for Spain. It’s not the best squad they’ve ever had, Adama Traore gets in it at the moment too.

Hojbjerg springs to mind, from his Bayern days. Definitely Cedric with Ronaldo.

I’ve been really impressed with Djenepo’s commitment to the team the last two games. He has sacrificed his desire to go forward with a willingness to help out and double up on the most dangerous attacker. Saint-Maximan and Traore both did little damage in either game, when in the past they’ve scored or caused real problems. Add to that him putting a great pass in to Adams that led to the goal, he more than played his part.

Agree - he is just getting better and better. He’s gone from not really finding his feet, to somehow being the perfect partner for whoever he’s paired with. Some of his passing is superb.

I think Wolves were always going to be one of our toughest tests because they are happy to negate the opposition and have the quality to do it. I actually think there are better teams who we would fare better against because they would want to go toe to toe. Happy with a point, although i’ll be replaying that Walcott chance over and over in my head all week.

Exactly - and on the other foot, I think Burnley struggle to even get 5 on the bench, let alone use them. Liverpool have a squad of 25 top players, if Klopp really cared about his players he’d start Shaqiri and Origi every second game instead of Salah and Mane. But he doesn’t, he wants to win the most games he can, understandably, but the league shouldn’t make it easier for them just because they’re complaining.

I knew as soon as Keita went down injured last night it’d be all about the need for 5 subs. He’s played 326 minutes for Liverpool this season, 50 of those last night!! Hardly a victim or over-exhaustion. Likewise Ross Barkley, injured after 2 minutes on Saturday for Villa, doesn’t play international football or European football. But as usual, the big teams will get their own way. Look forward to losing to City late on once they’ve brought on 5 £50mil+ players and we’ve brought on Obafemi, Long and Valery.

Fantastic signing, one of my favourite ever Saints players, was underwhelmed when we signed him to replace Shaw but how wrong was I! Has taken some stick in recent years but we’ve been lucky to have someone of his quality occupying that position for many years, especially considering we sell anyone decent! Hope we get him tied down to hopefully end his career here, but if not then at least a couple more seasons.

Will be a travesty if a 29 year old midfielder of his quality and character leaves on a free. But I have a feeling he will return to Spain at the end of the season. Hope i’m wrong. But regardless, what a fantastic contribution he’s made to this team in his time here. £5million and if he carries on in this form he will be in the running to collect his second player of the season award. I love the guy, and he was centimetres away from putting us in front in the cup final against United too with his header off the bar.

Man City’s squad is worth about a billion pounds, if they wanted to protect their players they could play a completely different 11 in each game and they’d still probably win most of their games. 5 subs would hugely favour those clubs. Assuming everyone was fit, if City used 5 subs yesterday who weren’t in their starting line up, they could’ve brought on Aguero, Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, Foden, Fernandinho. Keep 3.

It does get frustrating to have our best players and staff picked off over the years, but I often think how lucky we are to have seen some of the fantastic footballers we have seen in recent years. Van Dijk, Mane, Schneiderlin, Lallana, Wanyama, Alderweireld, Lambert, Tadic, not to mention the managers. Bigger clubs than us can only dream of having seen such quality wear their shirt week in, week out. Tonight is another night where I feel lucky to be a Southampton fan, I am absolutely in love with this team. A mix of incredible workrate and teamwork, with great quality and a superb manager. I don't even want to pick out individuals because it is just such a brilliant team. A lot of clubs will never understand how it can be exciting to be top of the league for what we know is likely to be just a few hours. But for me it just sums up what it's like to be a Saints fan. It can be tough, but it can be absolutely brilliant.

Stephens is a right footed centre half, playing at left back having been out the team for weeks. Give the lad a break! He’s playing it safe, which is completely sensible.

Valery well out of favour, Kayne Ramsay the sub full back

It really wouldn’t surprise me to see N’Lundulu up top. Ralph always used to love chucking a kid in and seeing what he can do. Maybe he’d be concerned about the message it would send to not play a striker to replace a striker. Either way, haven’t been excited about a Saints game like this for a whole. 1-0 defeat incoming I guess!

I agree to some extent, but Swansea away the other year, and Sheffield United at home under Pearson, the pure relief and elation is hard to forget. The good thing with Saints is you never know what you’re gonna get, so we’re lucky we have had a bit of both!

Romeu/Armstrong in CM? Has been done before I think, in fact I think Armstrong going in there was the start of our resurgence last year? I may be imagining it though. Two of Djenepo/Redmond/Theo on the wing, and N’Lundulu getting his chance up top. Unlikely i’m sure, but never know!

Just be grateful he didn’t stamp on any of our players’ heads. Fell out with Eddie Howe at Bournemouth, imagine that takes some doing!

Finally a strong looking bench!

Presumably you’ve got the stats to back up the fact that Adams isn’t quick. Didn’t know Burnley CB’s were the barometer of speed.

Also worth remembering that we beat Chelsea away last year with Adams and Obafemi up top, and I personally thought they were both brilliant that day. So we do have a bit of variety up top now, if N’Lundulu can be a genuine option too I think we’re pretty well stocked.

Last time I heard (a couple of years ago) the number of black football coaches with the necessary level of coaching qualification to be a professional manager was absolutely minuscule. That may have changed now, but it’s difficult to justify complaining about opportunity when there’s no one in a position to take advantage of the opportunity. Kieron Dyer was on Sky last Saturday bemoaning lack of opportunity. Then asked how he’s finding it he essentially said ‘oh it’s okay for me, i’m at Ipswich where I knew all the coaches and that got me my opportunity’. So what you’re saying Kieron, is that you got a chance because of who you knew, just like 90% of people in your industry.