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If we want to buy a brilliant young left back who is going to be worth a fortune in future, we could do a lot worse than Josh Doig.

Pompey will play first team players as they don't have a game for 6 days after that and their fans will regard it as one of the biggest games of the season.

We still miss Tadic. He was excellent yet again for Serbia last night. They finished top of their group and will replace England in the top section of the Nations League. What a front 3 they've got with Tadic playing just behind Vlahovic and Mitrovic. No wonder they score so many goals. Elyounoussi was on the losing Norway side, who, even with Haaland up front, were scoreless.

I think Bazunu is a promising young goalkeeper but wonder whether he has been thrown in at the deep end too soon. He let in 2 more goals against Armenia last night, which means he hasn't kept a single clean sheet for half a year for Saints, Pompey or Ireland. Let's hope he gets his first on Saturday to restore his confidence. Nations League: Republic of Ireland must learn from 'absolute madness' of win over Armenia - Stephen Kenny - BBC Sport

To be fair, a single victory does seem like a major triumph for us nowadays.

We need to buy a striker in January.

At last, Edozie. Let's hope it's not too late.

What a home debut! He scored a late winner for Girona in a 2-1 victory v Real Valladolid tonight.

Just watching the 20-year-old Scottish left wing-back, Josh Doig, make his home debut for Verona. Wow, he is some player: a left-sided version of Kyle Walker-Peters but perhaps even better. He's going to cost a hell of a lot more in the next window than he did in this one. Josh Doig and the five full-backs that Southampton could turn to after Manchester United blow - HampshireLive

They'll probably put Dean and Mason in charge of the review.

Time to bin incompetent, biased officals like Mike Dean and Lee Mason. It's not good enough just suspending them for one match and letting them return yet again to cause more problems: "Dean will not be in charge of VAR for the next round of Premier League fixtures after being given the weekend off following the controversial events at Chelsea. The 54-year-old retired from on-field refereeing at the end of last season but has remained involved with the Premier League as a VAR." The Premier League brings in the best players from the rest of the world so why not bring in the best referees as well? As a bonus, they are less likely to be biased for or against particular teams. There have to be better officials out there than Dean and Mason so why not replace them?

We won the last 4 games of the 2015/16 season: Villa A 4-2 Man City H 4-2 Spurs A 2-1 Palace H 4-1 What a great season that was. In the 2014/15 season, we won 8 games out of 9: West Ham A 3-1 Newcastle H 4-0 Swansea A 1-0 QPR H 2-1 Spurs A 0-1 Sunderland H 8-0 Stoke H 1-0 Hull A 1-0 Leicester H 2-0 In 2000/01 we won 5 Premier League games in a row, without conceding a goal: Leicester H 1-0 Bradford City U 2-0 Middlesbrough A 1-0 Man City A 1-0 Everton H 1-0 Molineux must be one of the few away grounds where we've scored 6 goals twice and, of course, Wolves are the only team we've scored 9 against in a league game. I was lucky enough to be at 2 of those games but I'm sure there must be a few diehards on here who were at all 3.

Watchng Erling Haaland play football is like watching the Terminator vs ordinary humans. He's now scored more goals in August than any other player in the history of the Premier League. I wouldn't be surprised if he broke the all-time scoring record for every month of the season.

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Most points won from losing positions? Has to be Southampton's Fightback Kids. They are the best team we've had since 2016.

I was relieved he was subbed when they were 6-0 up at St Mary's in April. The rest of the Chelsea team were content to take it easy for the final half hour and didn't seem bothered about breaking the 9-0 record but he would have gone all out for more goals.

Now this is what you call being good at set pieces:

I liked the MOTM vote, where everyone could vote for their favourite player regardless of how he played. At least that's what I did.

Che Goalvara to score

I feel so sorry for them.

I'd prefer something not like McCarthy, like Caballero or Lis.

The new owners, new coaches and new players are beginning to have an impact. The Fightback Kids, the youngest team in the Premier League, are only going to get better. Of course, we still need the experience of Che Adams, who just turned 26 last month. Exciting times.

He's very underrated by many Saints fans but he's one of the best defensive midfielders in the game. He'll do well at Real Madrid if Spurs are prepared to let him go. They'd expect at least £40 mill for him though.

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