Joseph Mills

[Mr Angry]

Is it my imagination or do we have the players for 5-3-2, maybe next season?

Cummings RB but can play RM, Mills LB but can play LM


-----------McCarthy or Feds

Cummings Pearce Morrison/Harte Khumalo J-Mills
Elwood Karacan
-----Kebe -------- Hunt/Manset -------HRK

Where would that leave the skipper??

I suspect that we would have a 4-3-3

McCarthy/Feds

Cummings-Pearce-Khumalo-Mills

Karacan-Leigertwood-Jobi

HRK-Hunt/Manset-Kebe

[Ark Royal]

Reckon that BMcD has looked at this as partly solving solving his centre-back problem. Mills will go in at left back and Harte will move to the centre either as first choice or cover for Pearce and Khumalo.

[FiNeRaIn]

1 year contract? Wow, talk about having faith in the player. Whatever happened to straight 3 year contracts when you thought a player would be good enough...you want them tied down.

[ZacNaloen]

We have the option to extend so if he's good it's really a two year contract, otherwise we aren't lumbered with another player on the wage bill.

[TBM]

1 year contract? Wow, talk about having faith in the player. Whatever happened to straight 3 year contracts when you thought a player would be good enough...you want them tied down.

Its 1 year with the option of a further year if he is any good......if he's shit then why would we want him hanging around like Williams is

[FiNeRaIn]

We have the option to extend so if he's good it's really a two year contract, otherwise we aren't lumbered with another player on the wage bill.

Does he have to agree to the extension...or can he leave if he plays well and a bigger more ambitious club like brighton or ipswich come in around the summer time?

[ZacNaloen]

It's our option that we can activate regardless of his feelings.

If he's unhappy at the club though I can't foresee that the club would tell him to lump it though.

[Friday's Legacy]

We have the option to extend so if he's good it's really a two year contract, otherwise we aren't lumbered with another player on the wage bill.

Does he have to agree to the extension...or can he leave if he plays well and a bigger more ambitious club like brighton or ipswich come in around the summer time?

in effect he has commited to 2 years but we can release him after one, or if we think he's done well enough we can activate the final year and negotiate a new contract.

[FiNeRaIn]

Not too bad if the balls in our court then.

[brendywendy]

so the moon on a stick crew think we spend too much on players wages, and then want us to sign an unproven youngster on long term deal costing the club millions over its term?

interesting

[ZacNaloen]

I wish I had the moon on a stick

[Victor Meldrew]

Here's hoping this is another Shorey.
The only downside is that Saints manager was in charge at Scunthorpe and was prepared to let Marcus Williams go on a free-he has now got two full-backs ahead of Mills at Southampton so you might think (bearing in mind how poor Williams has been)that Adkins knows a thing or two about left-backs whereas our manager's track record in signing left-backs is not very good.
Even a 3rd choice at Southampton though is probably better than Harte.

Further update after consulting some cocky "top-of-the-table and we're going back where we belong" Saints fans.
They haven't seen Mills for about a year and he has in some minds become FIFTH choice left-back.
They have Harding,Fox,Dickson and a very promising youngster so Mills was very much surplus to requirements.
From those that have seen him play he is little,more of an attacking left-back and was decent at free-kicks so all round it sounds like Shorey mark 2.
They do like their left-backs-remember Bridge,Bale and sometimes Surman.
I like the idea that he is an attacking left-back,something that we haven't had for a year.

[brendywendy]

is that the harding we could have had on a free after his decent loan spell here?

or did i dream that?

[Royal Lady]

is that the harding we could have had on a free after his decent loan spell here?

or did i dream that?

Read the thread m8. It's people like you who bundle into a thread half way through that is a cancer on the Team board that I love.

[Alan Partridge]

Pretty sure Shorey turned up at Reading as a youngster and not first choice at Leyton Orient.

Southampton do seem to have some decent left backs at the moment so maybe it's just a case of right club wrong time, the fact that he went to Doncaster and played Championship football would suggest he has talent. Reading will continue with Harte for now but it seems as though they now have a more youthful option there as well, one that they know a bit about and din't cost the earth. Again left back is one of them positions where if you can just find yourself a steady one that is no frills and does the basics well you are on to a winner, anything else is a bonus, if your left back is your best player you've got some serious problems.

[Ian Royal]

Superb. If we think he's good enough (and it seems we've been keeping an eye for a while, perhaps decided not to go with it in pre-season then saw how Harte was doing and resurrected it?) then that's good enough for me. A left back is exactly what we're looking for. He seems to fit the bill and we know his brother is talented. Hopefully he's not such a dick though.

Really pleased with the potential for this, 1 season with the renewal option suggests relatively low free and a bit of a gamble. But then I can imagine us being after another left back next season anyway when Harte & Williams presumably disappear, so maybe keeping our options open to improve on him then if he doesn't do well.

[Avon Royal]

LOL are we in the business of signing players who've got a kunt of a brother?

If only Sean Wright-Phillips was more of a bellend.....

[Friday's Legacy]

LOL are we in the business of signing players who've got a kunt of a brother?

If only Sean Wright-Phillips was more of a bellend.....

or even shaun wright-phillips.

i'm very pleased with this signing. the boy was a mcdermott target when he was 12 years old, and just because he hasn't made it at saints doesn't mean we should right him off. he's 21 and has the potential to develop. i'm looking at this in much the same way i did when shorey arrived from leyton orient.

[Victor Meldrew]

[quote="Alan Partridge"]Pretty sure Shorey turned up at Reading as a youngster and not first choice at Leyton Orient.


That's why I said I hope he is another Shorey.
Not being negative but could it be that he went to Doncaster because of his brother being there?
So in a couple of years having followed his brother at Southampton,Doncaster and now Reading he will end up at Leicester?

[Victor Meldrew]

LOL are we in the business of signing players who've got a kunt of a brother?

If only Sean Wright-Phillips was more of a bellend.....

or even shaun wright-phillips.

i'm very pleased with this signing. the boy was a mcdermott target when he was 12 years old, and just because he hasn't made it at saints doesn't mean we should right him off. he's 21 and has the potential to develop. i'm looking at this in much the same way i did when shorey arrived from leyton orient.

Doing a Spacey on you because you picked Avon up on his Sean/Shaun the correct expression is "write off" not "right off".
Also thanks for copying what I said earlier about him being the new Shorey.