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No mention of Saints on his Twitter bio anymore. Released? Would be a shame - he's got talent, but a lack of physicality and injuries have held him back here. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

We're on the board. Bank the points, move on. Really poor performance, if we're being honest with ourselves, which raises more questions than it answers, but a win is a win no matter how lucky. The manager needs to find a way to get Redmond, Djenepo and Boufal into the XI. If it means playing them as the front three and benching the labouring Ings and seriously short of quality Adams, so be it. We desperately need their speed and technical ability. Our midfield options are woeful - functional on a good day, a bunch of cloggers on a bad day. Hope this new assistant coach has got some ideas... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

How are we so bad against ten men? This is a shocking performance. Brighton look like carving us open every attack. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Defence looks terrible. Danso has been fine but isn't a left back in a million years - surely Cedric would be better suited. The major concern is how atrocious we've been on the ball. Once Lemina is sold, these are all our midfield options. Yikes. No remotely competent linesman should've needed VAR to intervene on the Brighton goal. Burn has been deliberately blocking Gunn on every single corner. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

They won the league two years ago and reached the champions league semi finals. Don't let a season in the doldrums detract from the fact that they're one of the best clubs in France who'll be back competing at the top soon enough. Quite a nice place to live, I presume, too. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Don't think much of him as a player, but our midfield numbers are already paper thin (assuming Lemina is off too). Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

At least we're up and running in the "For" column this season. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Men against boys this half, sadly. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Still overpriced. Let's hope we can con them into an option to buy agreement and he inexplicably has a purple patch of form. Turkish clubs have sometimes tended to be quite prone to throwing good money after bad. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

They'll probably be three up by half time, so can cruise the second half in their slippers and smoking jackets. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

No point playing five at the back if we're just going to haemorrhage goals anyway - all we're actually succeeding in doing is weakening our attacking options. Only Yoshida and (supposedly) Danso can run, and of the rest only Bednarek is s somewhat competent defender periodically. The manager needs to settle on a pairing from those three and run with it. Bolster the midfield instead. Sit Romeu in front with a limited holding role. Vestergaard and Stephens are a write off. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

He is, but those two are actually fit and available to play more often than the odd week here and there. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I mean, we've added a Championship player and two kids - did anyone really expect a massive increase in the quality of performance from basically the same crap squad that have almost relegated us two seasons running? FWIW I like our three signings, but the fundamental weaknesses remain as stark as ever: we have a bunch of individually horrible centre backs who are somehow even worse as a collective. And there's not a lot of quality on the ball throughout the team to really do much of any worth with our monopoly on possession - and we're presently shipping out midfielders for fun to limit our options further. I think Vestergaard might even be poorer at defending than Stephens. It's the expectation that at £20m and 6' 6" he might actually be good at something - anything - that constantly disappoints. Going to be another grim season, folks. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

0-0 h/t. Been quite tidy without doing anything too special, but we all know how these games against cloggers go for Saints: we'll play all the football and lose 1-0 to a scrappy set piece or massive defensive brainwave. It'd be nice if Danny Ings contributed something of note, but maybe that's asking too much of £20m worth of knackered body parts. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Sounds believable. He signed a new five year contract in December. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

You'd think the partnerships would be Danso and Vestergaard (quick but raw paired with experienced but slow) or Bednarek and Yoshida (slow but steady youngster paired with mobile and experienced). Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Nothing they could have done about Alderwiereld. He didn't want to join us, bottom line. Spurs went around us and offered him a better deal on the sly - the legality of that is what had us impotently wringing our hands. But ultimately you can't sign anyone if the player won't agree to it, regardless of what arrangements you think you've got in place with their club. That was true then and it'll be true with Danso. If he does well for us and another clubs gets in his ear, unless we have a contractual agreement with the player himself, history will most likely repeat itself. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Young French keeper Illan Meslier has joined Leeds on loan. Notable only because he was rumoured to have been given the Staplewood tour earlier in the summer. And, I suppose, it means Leeds won't be taking any of our keepers off our hands. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

They've only got around 10 games to play before the play-offs begin. Even if he started every one, Sims won't get a lot of football. Odd. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

I suppose denial comes before acceptance. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

They'll be raided for Neves soon enough, and Moutinho isn't getting any younger. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Also possibly not relevant but interesting nevertheless, Leipzig need to add at least two more Germans to their squad to meet Bundesliga rules, so a couple of foreigners probably need to be sold/loaned out. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Martin Hinteregger signs for Eintract Frankfurt. Only vaguely linked to us - possibly on account of being Austrian - but that's another CB to cross off. Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Villa sniffing around Phillips at Leeds for around £15m... Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk

Lazy bit of scouting. "Find us a rough diamond." ** Google's "diamond" ** Sent from my F3311 using Tapatalk