Virgil Van Dijk

FABs were defo for girls iirc. Zoom was the lolly to be seen with, for the aspiring astronaut about town.

Virgil Van Dijk is a twat with a spazzy name.

 

Not that you're bitter at all

Weren't Zooms essentially rocket lollies?

 

Probably on both counts.

Ice lollies, like football, were better when I was a nipper. England won the WC and the knickerbocker glories in Rocco Forte's in Bournemouth were 3 foot tall.

 

Source close to the player = his agent no doubt.

Trying to up the pressure on Soton, despite no bid being made. There's a great opportunity for some proper popcoring of the Kopites by Chelsea here......offer £70m and make them pay through the hooter

 

'source close to the player' leaks this.

Wow, didn't see that one coming...

 

He should just hand in a transfer request. He won't though due to finances.

 

Why is he so keen on joining Liverpool? Has he really not had a better offer? That would be quite telling.

 

There were rumours that we were interested, but don't know how true they were.

 

If he refused to hand in a transfer request then I would refuse to sell him.
**** him. Keep him in the squad this coming season and use him as a sub, to make sure no big teams come in for him.

 

I sincerely hope that's the line the club takes, if he continues to act the spoilt ****er.

Shame though, as he's gone from potential Saints legend (yeah, I know, but that's worth something to some of us) to total pariah in one summer.

We can't let him go to Liverpool though, it simply cannot happen. Look at their squad ffs - Lovren, Lallana, Clyne, Mane; you think you're adding VvD to that list? **** right off, if you don't mind, you scouse ****s.

 

Erm.... very little players make it to that status. Basically apart from Sir Ricky, if anyone leaves your club they are immediately a pariah.

Even Fonte who should be an absolute legend for your club has been given the **** treatment on your boards

 

I won't bore you with a litany of club legends from the past, because I suspect you mean in recent years.

As for players that have left, Walcott and Chamberlain never get any agg at St Marys. Neither would Bale should he ever return.

 

I do mean in recent years. it seems the more successful you guys have become, the more you hate anyone leaving your club (unless they leave at 2 years old)

 

Boss rant that Archers.

 

Possibly. No set of supporters want to see their best players leaving every summer.

But there is still a right way and a wrong way to leave a football club. VvD appears to be behaving like a right dick. For a professional to rule himself out of practising his profession for his current employers, is pretty contemptible imo.

 

Hear hear. He signed a contract and he should honour it until the clubs thrash things out.

 

I'd imagine he's still getting paid by Southampton so absolutely

 

That is true, and VVD is a dick and half your players have been dicks about moving on. I was just countering your part about becoming a S'ton legend as (if your board is anything to go by), there is no ever correct way of leaving your club in recent times unless it's you guys who want to get rid or they are on a big downhill slope, which is highly unlikely as legend status will only be attained if a player is actually decent. So unless a guy does a matt le tissier (which has probably happened once or twice) in the past 30 years, i don't think anyone will attain that with you guys

 

Fonte is a legend

Your last paragraph is correct because since a bit of (relative) success our fans have become some of the most spoilt and self entitled in the country