Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Unless he means a fresh start under a new manager?

What needs to happen now is THEVMAN or Guan to come on and say something is imminent. Chaps?

Newcastle have reportedly ended their chase for Bafetimbi Gomis. Would be a decent addition for us, I'd have thought, if we can't get Damiao or Osvaldo.

£2 million will be good but £12 million would've been so much better.

Either would be fine with me!

'Tis definitely very quiet. Wonder if things will pick up now the squad are back from Austria? Or is it that we just need to be patient because "we are Southampton and we sign players when we want?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football-23447613 Linked with us earlier this month but has now joined Forest.

Daily Star have a story saying Fulham hope to sign him for £8.6m. That's a lot less than the figures we've been linked as offering! They also say we've asked after him but he prefers Fulham.

Can I panic yet?

We were missing Guly. If he'd have scored another hat-trick we'd have won.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/southampton-transfers-gaston-ramirez-wanted-2068236#.Uem2Jlu40TQ.twitter The club replied to my tweet asking when he was expected in Spain saying he was due there this weekend. Be interesting to see if he does show. That article the other day suggests he is going to be so fingers crossed.

I see what you did there.

Surround him with class players like Banega and others on his wavelength and we'll see a vastly better player. Felt sometimes he was on a different page to the others last season and that made him look worse than he really was.

Weren't Zenit linked with Osvaldo too? Maybe he's decided to go elsewhere?

Ha ha! A**e. Teach me for not searching properly first...

Linked with us by Tancredi Palmeri on Twitter. Says Lazio the front runners though. Anyone heard this or know what the player is like? Striker apparently.

Did it make him turn away and run screaming back to Chelsea?

In Prague, back in 2003, I bought a set of Saints FC Russian dolls featuring Beattie, Ormerod, Niemi, Fernandes and Svensson. Nowadays my 4 year old daughter loves playing with them even if she's not got a clue who they are...

Darn...

Is that a hint or some optimistic supposition?

To the Lallana tune (again): "Victor Wanyama, he signs when we like, Victor Wanyama, he signs when we like..." Based on Poch's comments on the OS.

How about recycling the Grzegorz Rasiak chant for big Vic?

Cracking signing. Brilliant stuff. Looking forward to seeing him destroy some Premier League midfields. Right, who's next???

I thought ITK-ers were required to keep their cover in case NC finds out who leaked the news. He'll be sacked for this, mark my words...

Leaving work now and kind of thought this would've been confirmed by now. Any concern is probably just down to my own impatience I guess!