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I was going to post exactly the same. There is no money in Brazilian football. They are not spending £25m on him.

Failing to get Piroe seemed to be the end of the world last summer. It wasn't. Not especially concerned about failing to get MOR this time around, so long as we bring in someone that enhances our attack almost immediately. Far from easy.

This is where paying JJ Morgan and Alejandro Rodrigeuz huge sums of money to stay at the club comes into play. Make that investment and it's possibly us that has a £30m talent on our hands. No guarantees, but let talent like that go and you are never going to have a £30m nipper on your hands. Unfortunately, the likes of Chelsea are just swallowing up every single top youngster out there as they have the funds to pay them. We don't. The rich just get richer these days.

01/02 season had both fictional players and the Korean league. Make of that what you will.

The Toilet is the name of painting by (tall) Paul Falconer Poole.

Glenn Morshower is most famous for playing Aaron Pierce in 24, so maybe Aaron Ramsdale.

I presume Lightning Seeds - Life of Riley.

I'm with you. Not a fan of the Lallana signing, but no complaints about the others. it was great to get Downes done early. We could easily be sat here still wondering if that deal would ever happen. Will Taylor, Wood and Edwards be any worse than Lyanco, ABK and Caleta-Car? I don't know anything about Taylor, but wonder if he offers anything going forward. If we play five at the back, his signing might look a little redundant. I wonder if the cub have been taken aback at just how expensive young talent from the championship (and I include players loaned there like Carvalho in that) are costing. £27m+ for Carvahlo, £25m for Asprilla, £20m Sheaf, £25m for Clarke, £25m for Delap...etc. Huge numbers.

Newcastle have often taken us to pieces at their place over the last four or five years. Joel Linton is a monster in the middle and Bruno is quality next to him. I am not sure who in our side is going to grab hold of the midfield.

I'd be very surprised if that's not the eleven. A question though. I didn't watch the pre season games, but I can see from the Saints website a pre match photo of that 11 in one of the games, so I assume KWP played left wingback in one of the games?

Maybe he wasn't here to get his photo taken? You'd think we'd add him to keep up the pretence that he has been merged back into the squad and will stay unless we get the £10m we want for him.

Loan comes in, Lis goes, loan doesn't come in. Lis stays?

with limited CF options for Saturday, it makes sense to ensure he has a squad number (I presume you need to be registered as a squad player- with a number - to play). Very little point giving ABK one if he is in Germany and presumably won't get a game even if the deal falls through.

What's he like as a keeper? Better or worse than Lumely?

ah. I was looking at the First team page https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/teams/mens-team both missing from there.

No Onuachu there either.

Its stating the obvious, but it's a damn sight easier to sign players that you think will be good enough for the Prem with £60m in you back pocket. What do we do, sign a player in our budget that we fear might fail at this level, or wait until the final week of the window to get a loan in that we can afford that we think will cut it?

Looked a little lost when he played for Wolves. Not easy for foreign players to hit the ground running in the Prem I'd of thought left side forward was the one position we don't want another. We need a guy that can be the fulcrum. Someone with Adams hold up play, but maybe a bit more ability.

where on earth did the heart issue story come from? Very strange.

I'm not familiar with his game, but can't see RM sacrificing touch and passing for 'legs'. If the players offers both, then we would have a winner in my eyes.

Just wondered if we were alone in that fact? Do other sides sign injured, or injury prone players and get almost nothing out of them for their entire contract (we are some way from that with Stewart just yet I should add). Signing an injured player is madness IMO, especially as you only have to wait 4 or five months until anther window opens...just wait until the next one FFS. If the player goes elsewhere, so be it.

I know he doesn't fit our style and I know some loose passes led directly to goals at West Ham (causing him to have a `mare'), but boy could we do with a guy that offers his doggedness when we haven't got the ball. He's a Jack Cork type, that just runs and runs, puts opponents under pressure, gets a foot in, gets an interception...gets the ball back. Our midfield lacks that little bit of bite and legs.

Tremendous talent. Can't see them allowing him to come here, but like your thinking.

we got our fingers burned a little by AA not cutting it in the higher division, so maybe they just didn't see a Prem player. I liked him, but they might be right. Even on a free it int a good deal if he cant play at the this level. Thought he was a better option than Lallana though!

No idea. If the papers say so, then perhaps we did and perhaps we have more than £15m available to spend. Excellent. We have signed Downes since then, so who knows how the budget was impacted.