Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

'Ronaldo tells Juve he wants to leave amid Man City links' http://www.skysports.com/share/12391639 Could Cristiano be heading back to England with City?

Or a great chance for a talented young keeper to shift AM out of the team pretty quickly after they arrive by just doing the basics well?

I remember seeing him on an episode of Play to the Whistle and, during the show, he feigned an injury at one point, which brought silence from the other celebs before he bursting into laughter at their reactions. Seems to be a real character which is nice when you look at the coached, robotic responses from most players nowadays.

Decent performance. Plenty of graft and some good technical ability from Saints too. Livramento looks a sensational talent and that was absurd for such a young player in only his 2nd match. Adams was excellent up top and I felt a partnership was starting to form with Adam Armstrong. Shame the latter missed that chance - it's probably a goal at Championship level - but this is the start of his career with us and I'm sure he'll acquire that Premier League finishing sharpness in due course. Perraud looked promising too and hopefully our transfer business will be having a positive impact on the first XI/squad. Good to see the tenacity coming from JWP and Romeu and Moussa seems to be benefitting from a regular start and I don't think Utd enjoyed how unpredictable he was. Sadly I don't think I enjoyed the similar levels of unpredictability from McCarthy! And special mention to Jack Stephens who could be seen talking to Tino and Salisu throughout the game. He might make the odd mistake but don't underestimate the value of someone doing that alongside a very young, new defence. Feeling a fair bit more confident about the season now if we have 90 minutes performances in our locker...

Good stuff. Was he at the game earlier I wonder?

Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott...

Brighton have signed a Japanese international before loaning him out to another Tony Bloom owned side... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-9879557/Brighton-complete-signing-Japan-star-Kaoru-Mitoma-four-year-deal.html

Mowbray on Armstrong: “Adam’s been in this morning basically saying his goodbyes to everybody. There’s not too much preventing the deal going through now” [ @BBCLancsSport]

He was saying it last week (bigger fee then) when others were saying Palace. Time will tell I guess but at least we can speak to the player now and we must be reasonably confident if we're arranging medicals etc.

Good point. Armstrong has done it on a cold week night in Stoke and Messi clearly hasn't. 😂

Armstrong bid 2??? https://www.lancs.live/sport/football/transfer-news/blackburn-rovers-southampton-armstrong-future-21259018

Liverpool interested in Danjuma? https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/15781112/liverpool-danjuma-transfer-bournemouth/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=sunfootballfacebook050821&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1628105167

Sorry keyboard warrior, I made a mistake. I'll do better next time.

Having a medical on Monday at Palace according to this Guardian journalist...

I can't remember who it was that posted it but they said it was always about money with Danny. Can only be this because it's not about European football (certainly not this season anyway!). Let's hope we re-invest the rumoured £30m wisely on at least 2 forwards.

The Inter Milan Ultras have apparently responded to the rumours of Chelsea trying to bring back Lukaku: I'm wondering if our 'lads' need to "wade in" on the JWP front? Perhaps along the lines of "A sustainable club makes us mightily peeved" or something equally as threatening?

Wrong thread...

SSN saying Arsenal have lodged a player/s plus cash bid for James Maddison. I wonder if that includes Ainsley Maitland-Niles, as I'm sure I recall Leicester being reported as interested in him (like us) earlier in the window.

Will Ferry: Crawley Town sign Southampton full-back on loan - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58080203

If he came in as the attacking midfielder and Armstrong dropped in as an alternative no. 6 maybe this could work. I always feel we lose something when Stu isn't playing as a no. 10 though. Oh god, no. 6, no. 10 - I've gone all "Ralph"... 🥴

Mateusz Pereira 'speaking out' after his effort has been questioned at WBA ahead of a possible move 'somewhere'. Are/were we ever interested?

Spurs after Conor Coady. Not a surprise with Nuno now in charge, I guess.