Southampton Banter Archive July 02 2013

02 Jul 2013 20:42:00
Wanyamas dad has come out nd said in his own words "I expect my son to make a sober decision in the coming days" is this a sign his dad has told him that the offer he turned down from saints was stupid to turn down {Ed003's Note - or maybe he has been in the pub}

02 Jul 2013 16:38:31
Alright lads, Nicola Cortese here, Mauricio Pochettino will be sacked in the coming days after he was seen to be admiring one of Matt Le Tissier's goals, muppet. His replacement will be James Corden, top manager. Also, Rickie is on his way to Scouseland and Luke Shaw is off to Chelski. Finally, we will be bringing in Lionel Messi to partner Artur Boruc who has asked to play up front. bants

Sounds like a solid rumour to me

And jay spearing for a keeper, got all the right attributes.

And jay spearing for a keeper, got all the right attributes.

You spent all that time and typing space for this pile of s**t! lol funny post though fairplay

Seems to be in line with most of the previous posts.!

Forecast to play CB

02 Jul 2013 14:29:06
just I thought but would guys be happy with this table at the end of next season, By the way i'm being realistic here.

1st) Chelsea
2nd)Man City
3rd) man utd
4th)Spurs
5th)Liverpool
6th)Arsenal
7th)Everton
8th)West brom
9th)Southampton
10th)Norwich
11th)Swansea
12th)Villa
13th)Fulham
14th)Cardiff
15th) Sunderland
17th) palace
18th)Hull
19th)Newcastle
20th)Stoke

I see stoke going down and Newcastle this season and I reckon it will be a closely fought relegation battle between all 5 clubs (between 16th place and bottom) with only a few points in it at the end of the season :) this is just my opinion if you disagree with any just say where you think teams will finish

You missed someone out mate, no 16 is missing!

Disagree entirely. Not got time to fully critique, but two big points:

Arsenal below Spurs and Liverpool? They're quite keen to sign big this window, and it's their big chance to close in on top 3 due to the manager roundabout going on. Can't see them slipping to 6th.

West Brom losing Lukaku, will be lucky to get top 10, let alone best team outside the 'big 8'.

Stoke and Newcastle will hover around relegation, but won't prop up the rest of the table.

See no reason Swansea will drop to 11th next season, they played very very good football whenever I watched them last season, and they shouldn't lose many players (unlike last season) and Laudrup is smart in the transfer window.

Thoughts?

Norwich and swansea will finish above
southampton
both of them are making some good
signings
southampton getting lleft behind again

Your missing west ham only 19 teams suppose west ham could slot in at 16 th

Bottom 3 -Hull
Southampton
Norwich

Ermmmmmm West Ham?

I'd say most likely bottom 3 is Hull, Sunderland and Fulham based on current squads. Sunderland seem to be losing out a fair bit so far this window and without Mingolet they could be in real trouble. Fulham will struggle with ageing players too.

West Brom are too high and will struggle next season a bit more without Lukaku. Although will probably still be a top half side.

Everton may struggle in the post Moyes era. Could drop significantly or maybe push on. Nobody really can know what effect that will have yet so 7th really would be a stab in the dark with them.

Arsenal I think are going to improve this season and make that top 6 incredibly competitive with potentially any taking the league title.

Just to point out Newcastle not likely to go down and Swansea are likely to finish top 10 at least.

I agree with above post saints do seem to bee really slow in the market. Don't agree they will be relegated has to be hull, palace and possibly fulham.

I doubt Newcastle will get relegated, I reckon Stoke, Cardiff and I'm gunna go for Fulham, not sure why but just got a feeling they won't do so well this year with an aging squad. I don;t think Everton will be as good, I don't think Martinez will get the same that Moyes got out of them, I reckon title will be close and like this:

1. City
2. Arsenal
3. Chelsea
4. Man Utd
5. Liverpool
6. Spurs
7. Saints
8. Everton
9. Swansea
10. Newcastle
11. Villa
12. Norwich
13. West Brom
14. West Ham
15. Sunderland
16. Hull
17. Crystal Palace
18. Fulham
19. Cardiff
20. Stoke

My wish list, messi, Ronaldo, roony, neymar

I'm not going to try to predict the whole league - too many signings still to be done, so I'll reserve my judgement till later on. However, I will go out on a limb and state that we will get approximately 55 points. This should place us around the 8th in the league, and hopefully just outside a UEFA Cup place.

If we sign some of the potential players previously listed I could see us ending up with a euro slot, but I feel that might be a step to far with a squad with too many weaknesses - look what it did to Newcastle last year.

As for relegation, I believe Palace, Stoke, and Norwich will go down.

Why the overated rooney?

02 Jul 2013 13:28:59
Just been down the co-op and bumped into jimmy the bloke from the burger van outside at Mary's. It's thought an signings will be made by Friday.

4 signings expected. 2 man city players, jolean lescott and Scott Sinclair. And it's thought an African will help spearhead are attack with Richie next year as Nigerian Randy martins and Abdul majeed the Ghanaian are high on a list

BOB THE BOMBER :-

I just bumped into Gavin from Autoglass.

He just confirmed that we will be signing Banega, Wanyama, Hooper, Austin and Damiao on Friday.

I just bumped in to your old English teacher and he confirmed the rumour that you have no grasp of the English language. 100% true because I made it up myself!

02 Jul 2013 10:10:43
Eds, any truth in saints being interested in damiao and are we in for a top class striker. Thanks. COYR

02 Jul 2013 01:58:30
Saints target Banega has been told by Valencia to renew quickly or get transferred. Tutto link
Here is hoping NC can do his magic!