Hoovering up relegated talent

[Pidge]

No, they finished 15th the season before we bought him.

 

...and as for the rest of the post, Lambert was an addendum, not part of it's main content... and was included with a clear caveat showing it wasn't a genuine suggestion.

[Iceman]

Writing off all the players from a team due to their league position doesn't make sense. As an example look at Tevez and Masch when they were at west ham. They didn't turn out to be too shite did they?

[MLB]

We were virtually a mid-table side for the last few years. Were none of our players worth signing?

[Iceman]

Medel is worth a shout I reckon. 

[The Golden Eel]

Tevez and Masch are uncommon examples, not really comparable to the usual relegation fare

[Iceman]

If good players were common in relegation threatened teams then it would be unlikely said team would be in the relegation zone. 

[RobbieOR]

No, they finished 15th the season before we bought him.

 

...and as for the rest of the post, Lambert was an addendum, not part of it's main content... and was included with a clear caveat showing it wasn't a genuine suggestion.

 

I said year not season. He had already shown how was capable of playing at the top level.

[Pidge]

Yeah... good player at a perennial mid-table side... kinda my point in the first place.

[Newport]

Writing off all the players from a team due to their league position doesn't make sense. As an example look at Tevez and Masch when they were at west ham. They didn't turn out to be too shite did they?

Most people knew they were huge talents and they were attractive to big clubs even before they joined West Ham though. A move that was a bit of a shock to the football world as well.

[MLB]

Who was in the West Ham team that was relegated that time? I seem to remember they had a few decent players.

[Pidge]

Diamanti?

 

Not convinced by him, but he kept cropping up in the Italy team for a while after.

[Jairzinho]

Hayden Mullins?

[Tony Moanero]

Listen, they are all massive cocklords.

[Tony Moanero]

Mullins was in that West Ham team ahead of Mascherano. Pardew is a bellend.

[Tony Moanero]

Tevez and Masch are uncommon examples, not really comparable to the usual relegation fare

West Ham were relegated in 2003 with players including Carrick, Defoe, Kanoute, a young Glenn Johnson and Joe Cole (when he was decent) .

[AngryOfTuebrook]

OK - Hot quiz popshots, which players from teams relegated in the last 10 years were signed by top teams and improved those teams....

 

 

Go.

[Tony Moanero]

Defoe and Carrick - Tottenham.

[polymerpunkah]

enrique?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Defoe (Spurs) Carrick (Utd) Cole (Chelsea) - 2003.  Out of bounds.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

enrique?

Not relegated.

[Trucker Paddy]

We signed Alonso from a mid-table side... you buy players with the right skills, it doesn't matter where they are from.

 

Were you one of the people moaning off the Clyne rumours because you've never noticed him despite him having two excellent games against us and generally being one of the most prominent young full backs in English football?

 

Fact is that in Lallana, Shaw, Clyne, Ward-Prowse, Chambers etc. They have a group of Premier League ready, talented players from a proven youth academy (true of Clyne as well, just not from Soton) with big potential and plenty of time to adapt to a big club. On top of that you have Schneiderlin who is a good, strong, battling midfielder and some good strikers you could see fitting in our squad. So it's not such an insane suggestion and doesn't bear comparison with wanting us to sign Delph, Shane Long or Curtis Davies or some shite.

 

Personally I'd quite like Schneiderlin and think Clyne could be a feasible target with Chambers looking good enough to take over. If I thought we had a chance at Shaw I'd be in for him too.

 

I'd also give Lambert a season if we could get him cheap, but mainly for the sentiment.

Your 1st sentence alone you made a bollocks of, alonso was the reason his team nearly won the league a year before, Southampton are a midtable side at best, bar shaw not one of them will ever play CL football

[Russ Atmosphere]

Your 1st sentence alone you made a bollocks of, alonso was the reason his team nearly won the league a year before, Southampton are a midtable side at best, bar shaw not one of them will ever play CL football

There are several players in that team that already have.

[Brigant Moloch]

Fulham: Mitroglou
Cardiff: Caulker, Medel
West Brom: Yacob, Vydra, Sessegnon
Norwich: Van Wolfswinkel, Fer
Stoke: NZonzi
Villa: Okore
West Ham: Morrison
Swansea: Michu, Taylor, Bony

[Tony Moanero]

Defoe (Spurs) Carrick (Utd) Cole (Chelsea) - 2003.  Out of bounds.

Carrick (Spurs)

[Pidge]

Your 1st sentence alone you made a bollocks of, alonso was the reason his team nearly won the league a year before, Southampton are a midtable side at best, bar shaw not one of them will ever play CL football

 

Yeah and I've already been through that nonsense with Robbie, funny that you both only seem willing to contend with the ancillary parts of my post.