Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Amazing. The article makes even less sense when translated into English!! LUPOLI, the ready Southampton to take it 15.01.2009 12,48 of Conterio Mark E' in program for this afternoon an encounter between the leadership of the Southampton and the agents of Arthur Lupoli. The player, that he has given l' goodbye to the Norwich with months d' advance payment, is always of property of the Fiorentina but the Saints seems disposed to find it from, quickly on loan oneroso. To care, yesterday, Pantaleo Corvino it does not have intentional to cant itself but it is clearly that the future of Lupoli will not be in river all' Arno.

I see what happened there. Dos Santos is going to Paris SAINT Germain, somewhere mishears a whisper and, hey presto, he's going on loan to SAINTS. Easily done.

Sounds like this whole Lupoli thing could be on then. I seem to recall him playing wide right or up front when he was at Derby, so right side of a front 3 would be ideal. Has scored a few in the past so could turn out to be a really good signing.

Returning to the initial post - how confident are you that this is true MB?

Delia, reinstate him right now. I insist!

Maybe the plan is to go from having the youngest side in the League, to the oldest, to see which performs best. If it is the latter, we will, no doubt, abandon our youth policy and return to Rupert's Secure Retirement days, to provide a place for ageing stars to have one last hurrah!

Experienced players in, Saints win. There's a link there I'm sure but I just can't work out what it is!

http://www.saintsfc.co.uk/articles/article.php?page_id=11196 Jan seems to be hinting at further transfer activity at St Mary's (near the end of this article). I wonder if he means players in or players out (or even both)???

A new defender is acquired and there are Saeijs of relief around St Mary's!! Or maybe it's just a cunning plan by Rupert: if the fans start to chant for Jan P. to go, he can send Mr Saiejs back to Holland instead... Seriously, though, welcome to Southampton, Jan. We need a leader at the back & I really hope you're the answer.

I really hope Saints are serious about using him because boy do we need some inspiration from somewhere. I'd like to see him played in the hole, just off the central striker, particularly if Lallana is sold.

To be honest, that's the way I see it too! Scary that it's looking like we're going into these crucial games with Perry as our only decent centre back.

As the title says really, seeing as the Christian Dailly rumour has died a death...

Does the lack of any news mean we can file this in the Paul Allen folder of unfulfilled rumours?!

Unfortunately Bristol Rovers would want us to cross their palms with silver. And we ain't got none.

Has our Church Newpaper been delivered yet?

The Sunday Mirror has Pearce in our predicted team! Are they not up to date on all things Saints? Are we no longer big news?!

Hold on - let me call the missus. I knew I could be right one day...!

Thought Burley brought him in?

Someone suggested, on another thread, that Franco di Santo could be on his way from Chelsea.

Rupert points to our ability to hold onto our current top scorer, David McGoldrick, in the face of multi-million pound bids, as evidence of our ambition.

Has his loan expired now or is it about to?

Happy New Year to all! Here's hoping 2009 will be a vast improvement on 2008 for Saints. Rupert Lowe leaving the club would be a start...

Too long.

Too long.

My teamsh are just like a plane. Eventually, they alwaysh go down.