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Pleased with this. Here's how I see it - Harry knows a good player when he see's one. So Spurs bring him over on loan to see him in training, for a few months, sign him up & immediately send him to us.

 

If he wasn't any good, they would've sent him back to Italy without signing him. Really looking forward to seeing him play.

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Thoroughly agree with you on Harry knowing a good player when it comes to midfield and forwards. Defenders he's not so hot, at least during his time at Saints.

Having been a winger himself I think he understands that position better than most.

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Does this mean we have to be (even slightly) grateful to Redknapp? :/

 

I'm not as anti-Harry as most on here. His big mistake was trying to work with Rupert and his futuristic ideas when he's as old-school as they come. I don't think he bears us any malice and he might even feel a tiny smidgeon of guilt every time he watches Bale play. And then again ...

 

Having said that, Harry's out for his own best interests and sending Falque to us reflects them because of the playing styles of the two clubs. Even if Levy handles the deals for Spurs, I can pretty much guarantee you that this one wouldn't have happened unless Harry was cool with it.

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Anyone concerned about pronounciation should watch Disney's Aladdin.

 

Or if you wish to be somewhat more cultured, watch Shakespeare's Othello.

 

Interesting signing, looking forward to how he does. It's likely to take time for him to settle so I hope we can give him that time as fans.

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Looks to be pretty much totally left footed going on that vid. Means if he plays on the right it would make us narrow with him cutting in and Lallana doing the same on the left. Although we could start to change them around midgame to make the game wider/narrower at our choosing and to keep the opposition on their toes.

 

Interesting signing and looking forward to how he plays. :)

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If only Adkins' interviews could be more convincing. At least the interview on Falqué didn't have the hairy old cliches about the bus and the building but if Adkins doesn't want to answer a question, why doesn't he just say so. Instead we have a question on where will Falqué play answered by saying he can play anywhere, and asked if he can speak English, Adkins says his Spanish is good and he can speak Portuguese. So, no English then, but why not say so, and say if having committed to playing in England, learning the language will be something he will do, which surely is the case.

 

The point about Falqué is that he is only here for 3 months so his signing can only have one purpose, to improve the team for the promotion run-in. That should mean Falqué will take one of the four midfield slots, although not necessarily the same slot every time, but he's got to be on the pitch or there is no point to his loan. We read elsewhere that Falqué performs best behind the strikers and that he's not comfortable in a 4-4-2. So will we be playing the diamond to accommodate him, does that mean giving up on width, and which of Lallana, Morgan, Hammond, Cork and Chaplow are likely to lose out, as well as de Ridder? Oh, and what about Guly? If he's displaced from the front by Lambert's return, an in-form David Connolly and Tadanari Lee, is there a place in midfield for him? Does Adkins believe that in a few weeks time it will be apparent which is his strongest eleven? Seems there's no point any interviewer asking Adkins these questions as he will only answer in riddles yet surely he could be more frank in his replies without giving anything away if he just acknowledged that there are decisions have will have to be taken, that a lot will depend on how players perform and how individuals respond to the competition for places, and that the fans will see the outcome as team selections are announced.

 

As for those who are 'gutted' that our loan signee, who we haven't seen play yet, isn't here with the prospect of a permanent transfer, surely that is completely immaterial. All that matters is promotion. If we are in the Premier League next season, the club will have some hard decisions on which players are capable of stepping up to the higher level and team building will be key, so losing our loan player, if he's been as good as his pedigree suggests, will just mean one more place to be filled, either by buying in or bringing up a player from the under-21s, but by then Falqué will have done his job if he's helped get us promoted.

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If only Adkins' interviews could be more convincing. At least the interview on Falqué didn't have the hairy old cliches about the bus and the building but if Adkins doesn't want to answer a question, why doesn't he just say so. Instead we have a question on where will Falqué play answered by saying he can play anywhere, and asked if he can speak English, Adkins says his Spanish is good and he can speak Portuguese. So, no English then, but why not say so, and say if having committed to playing in England, learning the language will be something he will do, which surely is the case.

 

The point about Falqué is that he is only here for 3 months so his signing can only have one purpose, to improve the team for the promotion run-in. That should mean Falqué will take one of the four midfield slots, although not necessarily the same slot every time, but he's got to be on the pitch or there is no point to his loan. We read elsewhere that Falqué performs best behind the strikers and that he's not comfortable in a 4-4-2. So will we be playing the diamond to accommodate him, does that mean giving up on width, and which of Lallana, Morgan, Hammond, Cork and Chaplow are likely to lose out, as well as de Ridder? Oh, and what about Guly? If he's displaced from the front by Lambert's return, an in-form David Connolly and Tadanari Lee, is there a place in midfield for him? Does Adkins believe that in a few weeks time it will be apparent which is his strongest eleven? Seems there's no point any interviewer asking Adkins these questions as he will only answer in riddles yet surely he could be more frank in his replies without giving anything away if he just acknowledged that there are decisions have will have to be taken, that a lot will depend on how players perform and how individuals respond to the competition for places, and that the fans will see the outcome as team selections are announced.

 

As for those who are 'gutted' that our loan signee, who we haven't seen play yet, isn't here with the prospect of a permanent transfer, surely that is completely immaterial. All that matters is promotion. If we are in the Premier League next season, the club will have some hard decisions on which players are capable of stepping up to the higher level and team building will be key, so losing our loan player, if he's been as good as his pedigree suggests, will just mean one more place to be filled, either by buying in or bringing up a player from the under-21s, but by then Falqué will have done his job if he's helped get us promoted.

 

IMHO it seems NA is starting to think a little further ahead.

 

The "standard" formation these days in the EPL is to play variations on 4-3-3 and 4-5-1, but basically with a lone striker

 

With the extra "attacking" wide player coming in, this now gives us a midfield 5 - 3 strong CM's with the rotation of AL, YF, SDR & Guly.

 

AL took some time to get back to his usual standards after his foot injury and some are starting to think that Guly is in need of a break, and NA rotated his CM's regularly earlier in the season.

 

With the nature of the 4 "extra" AM's we also have the option to go to a diamond but also to have two up top with Lee AND we have that cover now (and the makings of the squad cover in each position that we would need when we hit the PL)

 

All of which is then blown out the water with the Hooper interest.....

 

 

Hmm confusing

 

But next season would expect to see much closer to the one up that the majority of PL clubs use these days

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Southampton have acquired the services of Spanish starlet, Iago Falque on loan until the end of the season, after Spurs completed a permanent transfer for the winger from Juventus.

 

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10280~2579341,00.html

 

So, who have Spurs lined up to get from us at the end of the season

 

'Arry boys gives with one hand ..... etc etc

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If only Adkins' interviews could be more convincing. At least the interview on Falqué didn't have the hairy old cliches about the bus and the building but if Adkins doesn't want to answer a question, why doesn't he just say so. Instead we have a question on where will Falqué play answered by saying he can play anywhere, and asked if he can speak English, Adkins says his Spanish is good and he can speak Portuguese. So, no English then, but why not say so, and say if having committed to playing in England, learning the language will be something he will do, which surely is the case.

 

The point about Falqué is that he is only here for 3 months so his signing can only have one purpose, to improve the team for the promotion run-in. That should mean Falqué will take one of the four midfield slots, although not necessarily the same slot every time, but he's got to be on the pitch or there is no point to his loan. We read elsewhere that Falqué performs best behind the strikers and that he's not comfortable in a 4-4-2. So will we be playing the diamond to accommodate him, does that mean giving up on width, and which of Lallana, Morgan, Hammond, Cork and Chaplow are likely to lose out, as well as de Ridder? Oh, and what about Guly? If he's displaced from the front by Lambert's return, an in-form David Connolly and Tadanari Lee, is there a place in midfield for him? Does Adkins believe that in a few weeks time it will be apparent which is his strongest eleven? Seems there's no point any interviewer asking Adkins these questions as he will only answer in riddles yet surely he could be more frank in his replies without giving anything away if he just acknowledged that there are decisions have will have to be taken, that a lot will depend on how players perform and how individuals respond to the competition for places, and that the fans will see the outcome as team selections are announced.

 

As for those who are 'gutted' that our loan signee, who we haven't seen play yet, isn't here with the prospect of a permanent transfer, surely that is completely immaterial. All that matters is promotion. If we are in the Premier League next season, the club will have some hard decisions on which players are capable of stepping up to the higher level and team building will be key, so losing our loan player, if he's been as good as his pedigree suggests, will just mean one more place to be filled, either by buying in or bringing up a player from the under-21s, but by then Falqué will have done his job if he's helped get us promoted.

 

This signing is also about improving the squad !

Recently our bench has been pretty lightweight with limited options !

Whether Falque plays regularly (and in which role!) is dependent on who is fit, who is on form, who is suspended etc...

As far as I see it, we have more permutations available than before and this can only be a good thing !

Same applies to Lee and anyone else we might sign within this window, it adds to the concept of 'strength in depth' !

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I think this deal has been orchestrated by Harry. He got us relegated and wants to help us get promoted.

 

Although I'm not sure he would want that over his beloved West Ham??

 

Maybe we were trying to sign him permanently, maybe there's an option to purchase next year at a fee agreed over and above what Tottenham paid.

 

Maybe I haven't got a bl**dy clue!!!!

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I think this deal has been orchestrated by Harry. He got us relegated and wants to help us get promoted.

 

Although I'm not sure he would want that over his beloved West Ham??

 

Maybe we were trying to sign him permanently, maybe there's an option to purchase next year at a fee agreed over and above what Tottenham paid.

 

Maybe I haven't got a bl**dy clue!!!!

 

Harry doesn't care, he just wants his player to get a good standard of football somewhere that suits the player. This way his player improves which is all he is bothered about, and rightly so.

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If only Adkins' interviews could be more convincing. At least the interview on Falqué didn't have the hairy old cliches about the bus and the building but if Adkins doesn't want to answer a question, why doesn't he just say so. Instead we have a question on where will Falqué play answered by saying he can play anywhere, and asked if he can speak English, Adkins says his Spanish is good and he can speak Portuguese. So, no English then, but why not say so, and say if having committed to playing in England, learning the language will be something he will do, which surely is the case.

 

The point about Falqué is that he is only here for 3 months so his signing can only have one purpose, to improve the team for the promotion run-in. That should mean Falqué will take one of the four midfield slots, although not necessarily the same slot every time, but he's got to be on the pitch or there is no point to his loan. We read elsewhere that Falqué performs best behind the strikers and that he's not comfortable in a 4-4-2. So will we be playing the diamond to accommodate him, does that mean giving up on width, and which of Lallana, Morgan, Hammond, Cork and Chaplow are likely to lose out, as well as de Ridder? Oh, and what about Guly? If he's displaced from the front by Lambert's return, an in-form David Connolly and Tadanari Lee, is there a place in midfield for him? Does Adkins believe that in a few weeks time it will be apparent which is his strongest eleven? Seems there's no point any interviewer asking Adkins these questions as he will only answer in riddles yet surely he could be more frank in his replies without giving anything away if he just acknowledged that there are decisions have will have to be taken, that a lot will depend on how players perform and how individuals respond to the competition for places, and that the fans will see the outcome as team selections are announced.

 

As for those who are 'gutted' that our loan signee, who we haven't seen play yet, isn't here with the prospect of a permanent transfer, surely that is completely immaterial. All that matters is promotion. If we are in the Premier League next season, the club will have some hard decisions on which players are capable of stepping up to the higher level and team building will be key, so losing our loan player, if he's been as good as his pedigree suggests, will just mean one more place to be filled, either by buying in or bringing up a player from the under-21s, but by then Falqué will have done his job if he's helped get us promoted.

 

Personally think we should do away with manager interviews! Not worth the hassle involved in looking for 'straight' answers... ?

 

This getting new transfers in seems like bit of a bother too. Where is everyone else going to play???

 

Lol...

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Talking about formations, I think I'm right in saying that the Academy and youth teams all more or less play a 4-2-3-1 system? I'd like (and wouldn't be surprised) to see it implemented in the first team. Perhaps a midfield and attack that looks something like:

 

-------Morgan----Cork-------

Falque------Guly-------Lallana

-----------Lambert------------

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Looking at comments from some of the Spurs fans they all seem to like him despite being slightly underwhelmed by his Europa Cup performances.

 

Hopefully he will find the games in the Championship a little more open than the Europa Cup where most of the teams just parked the bus against Spurs and he was playing in a team which was a mix of first-teamers, reserve players and youth who won't have played much together.

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I think this deal has been orchestrated by Harry. He got us relegated and wants to help us get promoted

Nice to get a new conspiracy on a thread about a new player!

Of course relegation had nothing to do with Lowe/Wigley/the short sighted fans who kicked off about a return for Hoddle and the 30+ professionals out on the pitch.

Oh and we didn't have MLT to get us out of the sh*te as usual.

I'm no more of a fan of saggy chops than anyone else on here but some balance wouldn't go amiss.

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He may get a few sub appearances, but i wouldn't expect him to play a big part in the run in, unless we have a crippling injury list.

 

To my way of thinking there doesn't seem much sense in him coming here at all if he didn't have real a chance of playing. I suspect that Redknapp has probably gotten assurances from Adkins that the boy will get a proper chance to show what he can do here.

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Personally think we should do away with manager interviews! Not worth the hassle involved in looking for 'straight' answers...

 

This getting new transfers in seems like bit of a bother too. Where is everyone else going to play???

 

Lol...

 

I think that the process is that when we started the season,and everyone assumed we were a mid to lower table candidates, maybe even flirting with relegation, teams were underwelmed when they were about to play us. And we played them off of the pitch and were unbeatable at home. Our away form was, and is, a little derisable, but we didn't do too bad.

Then we got to the top.

Teams then spent times looking at how we played and found ways to stifle our playing style.

Our form started to slip.

When Rickie was suspended that was it for us for three weeks.

No Lambert against Coventry, firts teamers out, Saints are going to lose, especially with kids.

WE won.

No Lambert against Nottingham, even though they are bottom, Saints to struggle.

WE won.

 

With all this 'who's going to play where' I think we are at the stage where we have to once more stymie teams by being unpredictable and mixing the formation about. I personnaly think that is what Adkins was upto with Morgan on the wing, and with the signings so far, and the ones to come?

With No Rickie to mark, who woudl opposing managers mark? With Adam playing in the midfield, then the wing, how to mark him? If our two best players are not the ones scoring the goals, how to stop us playing?

 

Lets see now. Mark Guly, and Connely, and Morgan is scoring, so mark him, and Adam. What about Lee? How to mark him? What about Hammond, he's shooting from range. By keeping them guessing, we only open them up and stop them marking us off the park. so the only solution is to park the bus. But with the pacey players we have, we only ahve to beat the off side trap a few times before we score. And again.

 

 

We are going into the realms of playing the saints way, in the saints formation. Which one is it? Well, lets keep them guessing. Because we can change the formation to suit the cecumstances and we are trying to get the players to do that. But with greedy agents, clubs looking to hold on to what they got, or be compensated for their loss, the asking of silly money is one thing that WILL stiffle us, as we will not pay it!!! Nicola is ahppy to tell them to Fuss Off, and I beleieve that our Jay Rods, Maynards, Sharpes et all will actually be from abroad eventually, as the french, Spanish, Dutch, versions will be just as good, but much cheaper, (or better value for money) that 6m, 7m 8m, for pretty good Championship players, who are average in the Premiership.

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