Miltonaggro

Bollocks, I'll have to click on the link now...

Great stuff, and a warm welcome to Adam Armstrong - Newcastle, Blackburn, Saints - our very own ‘reverse Shearer’. I have high hopes for this one, looks a nightmare for defenders 😀👏

I think that Ralph and the rest of the side often struggled with that too.

Regarding the heightist comments on this thread, from what I've seen of Armstrong in the videos he reminds me somewhat of Kevin Phillips - a right pest around goal and a niggly player for oppo defenders, just what we need. He is also a full inch taller than Phillips and will have a home video security system to monitor tradespeople whilst at work. All of this is progressive.

With Saints as long as he is Jonno Quick he'll be golden!

If Saints get this one and the Chelsea unit over the line there will be cause for an injection of optimism and joy in terms of attacking power.

Thought Saints may have learned the lessons of previous summers but it appears not. Seems Vestergaard will follow Ings so we will likely need a finished article goal scorer and a first team centre half to essentially stand still from the end of last season (when we were shite). All supporters can see that this side desperately needs an injection of new blood. Three or four more in, five including the keeper we aren’t going to get, so final place will be effected by transfer acumen - a flawed and high risk strategy for any club let alone SFC. Add to this a manager who currently looks beaten and frustrated before a ball is kicked and it’s difficult to be optimistic. So, if this seemingly disconnected Board sanction what is needed and we get some backbone and luck (Tella turning in a Pahars type season per se) we could end up around 14/15. No investment or poor investment and I think we are down this time.

Destined to disappear up his own Uranus...

Austin will still be droning on about Saints when he's back hod-carrying on a building site in Swindon aged fifty 'I was on forty-grand a week nipper, Koeman and Van Dijk I shit 'em...' Thick as mince.

I think the club have arranged the big name departures to coincide with the final friendlies, so I reckon JWP will be off up the A34 at around 2.45 Saturday - brace yourselves! I blame Matt Targett as he is clearly the catalyst for this exodus, like Lambert when he went to Liverpool. The thought of the trio strolling down the Bournville Boulevard fills me with dread

Looks like Ward-Prowse was the Patsy all along, they were really after Ings. To be fair to Danny he has made no secret of always wanting to play for Aston Villa and live in the midlands. I have no doubt that he has the potential to be the new Charles N'Zogbia.

They need to get Les Reed to market this for it to be viable - we don't do intelligence, we artificialize it...

The problem is how do you capture those issues in a suitable dignified pose for 10 seconds before kick-off. You don't want to weaken the message to the masses by turning it into a psuedo-political hokey-cokey.

In the latter stages of the EUROs it was more of a 'taking the curtsy' - by October it will likely be just a knowing nod.

Let's hope so.

Looks a terrific young player and something of a coup for the current Saints set up. Would be great to see these prospects blended with some quality experience (like Walcott with Tella) to hone their abilities. I am of the McMenemy era so a degree of romanticism in this regard but would be great, and moreover entertaining, to see and Christ we all need a boost!

What a shithouse!

I think we should hold out for £65 million, or £25 million and Matt Targett.

Par for the course in Thornhill.

Aversion therapy perhaps! 🙂 Hope the nipper does well.

I'm not going to believe this until #Lemexit confirmed on Insta.

That would likely work for Levy, apart from the upper end of that estimate to SFC. Spare and a Heir.

Vlahovic appears to be who they think they’re getting, for around £60m. Current wunderkid perhaps will allow Levy to save some face and buy some time, not sure Ings from Southampton for £15m does that. Whoever they sign I hope it doesn’t improve them.

If Levy imagines Ings would appease their fickle fanbase after selling ‘Arry ‘e’s one of our own’ for £160M he’s more deluded than he appears.

Ex-Portsmouth, so probably likes a tackle.