Dusic

Antonio has a woeful injury record the last couple of years.

Long out wide. LOL.

No probs, Jeff Le Taxi.

No way we should be playing Bertrand as a LCB just to shoehorn Targett in as some are suggesting. To play regularly, Targett needs to show he is better than Bertrand. If he can't then he shouldn't expect to play a lot.

If he is a good enough defender to move to Liverpool in a couple of years then that will be a welcome change from what we have now.

Definitely need more going forward. Ultimately will just have swapped Tadic (our most reliable creative player) for Moi, who will likely take a while to get used to English football and added Armstrong who is unproven. Wouldn't say that will solve our attacking problems. I think we clearly need a starting quality striker and then if Boufal goes a replacement for him too.

Can't see JWP getting many starts in that system.

We know he will miss at least 15 PL games so will need more.

Happy to leave it to the Scouts and Recruitment team. If they can't find better than Long and Austin then we might as well scale back the worldwide operation we have.

Anyone else feel we are very weak up front at PL level? Excluding the attacking midfielders (none of whom have proven PL goal records) we have: Austin - Ageing carthouse with dreadful injury record, has missed big chunks of each season he has been at Saints. Wasn't sharp when returning from injury at the end of last season and doesn't suit playing as a lone striker. Long - good at running, terrible at scoring goals, will do well to get 5 or 6 in the league. Gabbiadini - by a mile the best technically but flaky as **** and has zero physical presence. Has long runs without scoring and also isnt really a lone striker. Gallagher - unproven, possibly in last chance saloon at Saints...if he even gets that chance Not exactly options that scream top 10 challengers, and there was a reason we panic bought Carrillo... Clear to me that the next striker we sign has to be a starter and has to be a success.

Seems only to be Sport, which appears akin to talksport.com or Alex Crook as a worthy source having already announced he was joining West Ham. Can't see us needing him and Vestergaard and few other serious Spanish resources have reported it.

Austin misses too many games to be worth £50k a week in the Championship - no way he starts 3 games in a week. As for Long tearing up the Championship...he is ****e in front of goal (always has been, always will be) so I don't think he would, and certainly wouldn't be worth £50k a week in that league. See Villa, my point was that had we gone down we have quite a few players on big cash that it would be hard to shift. Paying half of Carillo's wages in the Championship would have been ludicrous!

Still don't have a good striker. Thats the glaring area for improvement in the squad. None of the ones we have will get more than 10 goals.

About a month to go, funny window so far, have sold our best and most reliable creator but appear to have made two solid signings, albeit unproven at PL level with a third on the way, which looks promising. Nice to see early business as well. Still need: 1 x GK (if we manage to move Forster on) 1 x RB 1 x CB (seemingly Vestergaard) 1 x Wide Attacker (if Boufal goes) 1 x Striker (to start. Long and Austin aren't good enough if we want to get back to top 10)

He was poor. Being on the same level as Shano only proves that!

Absolutely.

We will end up loaning him out for the next 3 years whilet we pay Monaco for him. No chance Leganes are paying all his wages either. Hopefully this entire fiasco was the wake up call they needed. Imagine if we had got relegated and were lumbered with 3 years of Carillo, a couple of years of Clasie and Long and Austin on more than 50k a week. Scary.

Bring the lad home. He is better than anything we have.

Where do you reckon they will finish?

In an ideal world we should have shipped out Long, Austin, Carillo and Gallagher this summer and had a complete revamp forward wise. Will settle for getting rid of Long in addition to Carillo and Gallagher, which would allow for some change, although Carillo will probably need loaning out for three years whilst we pay his transfer off which shows what a cluster**** of a signing it was. Need to sign one high class striker though as Gabbi is flaky as **** and Austin an unfit carthorse.

If we play with wing backs they are so important in an attacking sense. If Cedric missed a few months with injury, is Reed really good enough, at PL level?

Davis still not fit? Didnt feature today.

Which is obviously not the case as his and McCarthy's best form also coincided with working with Dave Watson.

Who plays ahead of him for Denmark?

None of Hoedt, Yoshida, Bednarek or Stephens will be happy not playing so will be interesting to see what the plan is. Also need a back up RB/RWB, could Stephens possibly do that, or does it really need a specialist? As an aside, if only the likes of Targett and McQueen (and many other full backs) weren't so one footed they would have a far greater chance of playing regularly.