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3 year contract for a player who hasn't made more than 5 PL starts in the last three seasons and no sell on value. Big risk for Brighton, who must be hoping they can keep him fit, as no doubting when fit he is a quality player. Be interesting to see how he does. Feels like a long time ago that he was a good PL player.

Let us know who and then we can answer the question better.

Plus the transfer window officially opens on Monday so no real need to announce anything before then. From the Echo article thats the case with Salisu, will likely be announced next week. New contracts obviously don't count as transfers. Personally don't think there are any real ITKs on here apart from KBilly and Guan, whilst Appy is very good on the early team sheets, probably from a media angle.

The white one is so much better than the actual home one, which is awful. But only a kit so doesn't really matter.

Probably one of the new Academy scholars. As if we would sign Salisu and another CB of the likes mentioned above. We don't need 4 who all expect to be starting. Plus we still have Vestergaard currently. Our 4th CB to replace Danso will be someone cheap, young and who knows they won't play a lot, not a £15m signing.

Pretty obvious that Saints leaked the story about PEH and Everton to get Spurs to come to the table with a serious offer. Notice Dan Sheldon today wording it like this: ..."with the Daily Echo being led to believe Hojbjerg has visited their Finch Farm training base and agreed personal terms." The other day it was: "PIERRE-EMILE Hojbjerg has visited Everton’s training ground and agreed to personal terms after Saints accepted their £25million offer." Led to believe by Saints and handily reporting it.

Sims isn't good enough. Probably a good career waiting in the MLs if he wants it, or Championship/L1 here. Re Lallana reports - pretty much goes against all our transfer principles - file as a load of rubbish.

If we sign any attackers it will surely be a cheapo replacement for Boufal (who will surely leave) but clearly our budget should be spent on RB, CB and CM (assuming Vokins has nailed the backup role at LB).

Hear this phrase every window but what is a "marquee signing"? Presumably a player that everyone has heard of and gets excited about like Gaston Ramirez or Dani Osvaldo, possibly Boufal as well. I would suggest most of Saints' best recent signings have been players that few have known well beforehand. Tadic, Mane, Pelle, Bednarek all spring to mind. Probably our most established recent signing would be Ings, who has clearly worked out well, but its not what Saints need. Either way, its a stupid phrase that should be left for Tony the cabbie from Romford to use whilst calling talkSPORT to ask Ray Parlour why West Ham haven't made one.

Nobody is suggesting we should accept a lesser offer from Spurs. Just that whiost we each wanted one of the others players there was clearly an opportunity to find some middle ground. Reading between the lines there was no option agreed in January for KWP because the clubs couldn't agree on that fee. Its also been stated that Levy personally rates KWP. In addition, he has been playing very well for us, in view of Spurs (who know we are about to receive a hefty transfer fee) and other clubs, some of whom may be looking for a RB. Spurs and Levy are notoriously difficult to deal with, so the fruities on here who think we will get KWP for £8m to £10m are absolutely deluded. If Hojbjerg doesn't move to Spurs it doesn't mean KWP won't move to Saints, but it does make it more difficult IMO as a common interest in finding middle ground has been removed. Spurs will simply want as much as they can get for him and probably won't care if they wait til deadline day to get it.

Everton being interested has worked out well for us, regardless of if he goes there - players usually end up where they want. If he did, there would aurely be question marks over our ability to sign KWP - can't imagine Spurs would love dealing with us, even though we would have done nothing wrong by accepting the best offer.

We sold Targett for at least £14m (some reports said £17m and I can barely recall a good game he had for us. IMO KWP with a few years left on his contract has to be worth at least £15m. Therefore something like KWP and £5m for Hojbjerg represents a good deal considering the latter has only a year left on his contract. If we really wanted £35m then we should have sold him last summer or extended his contract sooner. Usually our incomings are risky as you never know how they will settle from foreign leagues or take the step up from the Championship. In that regard KWP is brilliant as he is already prooving he will be a good signing. If we don't buy him you can be sure someone else in the PL will do.

https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-burnley-set-sights-on-signing-southampton-25-yr-old/ Burnley also linked last summer.

https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-southampton-finalise-8-figure-signing-after-agreeing-35k-a-week-deal/

Got to be in the running for Best Assistant Manager since the restart?

If Forster is back here then loaning Gunn out for a season of PL football would be good, but only if he was playing every week.

Deserved win, should have been more clinical but given lads like Ings and Redmond have played almost every minute since lockdown we can let them off. Great for Adams, he has definitely improved. Vestergaard a mix of good and bad, maybe played his last game for us? Some key saves from McCarthy despite his kicking putting us under pressure at times. KWP - must sign.

He is a powerful box to box midfielder who is rarely injured, can run all day and when you make Europa League he will do 90mins Thursday and 90mins Sunday without a problem. He is ideally suited to a pressing style where what he does off the ball is more important than what he does on it. Our Manager loves him and rates him very highly because he is extremely reliable in his off the ball work. On the ball he is ok, occassionally plays some nice passes, mostly standard stuff. If played as a holding player he is a bit unreliable as makes inexplicable errors seemingly through lack of concentration and care with his passing. Besides, one of his best attributes is his energy so its silly to restrain him to just sitting in front of a back four. I'm always happy when he has the ball in the opposition half than in ours. I would have been happy if he had signed a new contract here as he was our captain and one of the players that always started until very recently. For a fellow mid table side like Everton he would be a good signing, not a fancy player but a hard worker with pride and motivation and seems like a great guy. From the outside you lack many of the above types so he would fit in well I think. It does seem that he wants to join Spurs but I would wish him well whereever he ends up and with only a year left on his contract we can hopefully get a reasonable fee and profit on what overall has been a good signing for us.

https://kickgh.com/more/ghanaians-abroad/10115-exclusive-mainz-05-reject-southampton-bid-for-issah-abass# Darling Paul also reporting our interest:

Yeah, quality over quantity. The summer under Poch that we didnt lose anyone vital and added Lovren, Wanyama and Osvaldo really took us forward. Even if the latter didn't exactly work out, the first two did and straight away too. Alao think we will need a 2nd CB signing to be 4th choice assuming Danso and Vestergaard leave. Unless there is an Academy player they feel is ready.

Rennes President in l'Equipe this morning: Regarding #Salisu: “We are working to make it happen as quickly as possible. This track is not the only one, because we know that it has not been acquired (...) We are still in the race. " https://www.lequipe.fr/Football/Article/Nicolas-holveck-president-de-rennes-sur-les-transferts-on-est-dans-les-temps-de-passage/1153117 Rennes have already lost out on a couple of players this summer and I think their recruitment team is new so obviously keen to make a positive impression to their fans...but this doesn't read like a done deal.

Would seem our pals from Brittany are also keen!

This deal makes sense broadly, without knowing the specifics of how each player will be valued. KWP is technically very good, looks fit and suited to the Manager's style and importantly is used to PL football and playing for Saints so there is much less risk than in many of our deals. Zeefuik for example, may settle, may not and if he didnt then we are stuffed again. Also surely this deal can be completed quickly - and that suits everyone involved.

Ralph asked aside from CB which positions we are targetting this summer and rather unsuprisingly he said full back, specifically RB as we only have a loan player and Valery who has been injured a lot. I guess LB depends on i.) Bertrand signing a new contract ii.) Whether he feels Vokins is up to being a PL player, even as backup, at this stage. He mentioned that in these areas there is also a lack of Academy options for him (Vokins aside presumably) so we need to do something there. Was also interesting that he suggested we could do things sooner this summer as we are safe from relegation, whereas last season it was tighter.

I like him, we have found a perfect niche for him as he has good skills for a Ralph #10 particularly when balanced with the more refined Redmond. I don't think he is technically good enough to be a PL central midfielder so this suits him perfectly. Good acceleration, direct, can shoot with both feet and works hard. Even though he isn't a young player he still feels like a rough diamond who has some improvement in him.