Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Perhaps this is why we put our pursuit of Armstrong "on pause"...?

So Nice announce the signing of Lemina with a highlights reel that contains nothing from his time at Saints?! Says it all really...

Anyone know what time kick off is? Or what the score is, if we're underway?

A genuine birthday commemoration from the club or a highlights reel to drive up his price?? Happy birthday Danny Ings!! Happy Birthday, Danny Ings! | Southampton FC

I wonder if he's got a knock. Maybe we need to get out into social media land and spread this as a rumour anyway to make potential suitors think twice?

"has a clear pathway to the first team" - he's seen Stephens and Bednarek play then...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9143671/Footballer-career-ended-injury-brother-signed-Chelsea-faces-jail-dealing.html

To be fair, he far outshone our CMs when West Brom beat us 3-0 towards the end of last season...

With this one nearly done too:

A couple of other PL sides adding to their squads:

Hey, what about me???

From the Express article on Brighton's interest in Odsonne Edouard: Celtic have been linked with a renewed bid for Southampton’s Fraser Forster but that looks extremely unlikely - with a new contract offer on the table. The former Hoops keeper, was sold to Saints and then had a successful loan spell back, is in the final year of his contract but has been offered an extension. The ex-England international would need to take a significant cut on his current earnings and as it stands the deal remains unsigned. Forster has forced his way back into the Southampton team under Ralph Hasenhuttl but is still competing with Alex McCarthy for the No 1 spot. The St Mary’s outfit could try to cash-in on Forster if he doesn’t sign but it would require a major financial commitment from Celtic over the next four years. It remains to be seen if they would pay the £2million fee and make him one of their highest earners over the next three or four years. Even then the other issue is that he would still earn more at Southampton while other suitors could also come to the table.

Palace, Brentford and Brighton all after Reiss Nelson - CHDAJFU? https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/15611770/arsenal-nelson-crystal-palace-transfer/

Weren't we linked with Freddie Woodman at the start of the summer? Maybe Fraser out, Woodman in is the plan?

Got friends who are Brighton fans and they were rating White as their third best CB last season, after Dunk and Webster (and that was before any links about him leaving - they probably think he's worse than Dan Burn now!! 😂). It's a large fee and I'm not convinced he'll be the defensive leader Arsenal really need.

That's an odd one. West Ham wanted £45m when United were sniffing around last year: West Ham 'ready to sell Issa Diop for £45m transfer fee' and raise funds amid Man Utd interest in defender (thesun.co.uk)

Klopp saying Minamino can leave but he'd prefer him to stay. Wonder if we'll go back for him again? Jurgen Klopp finally explains Liverpool's plan for Takumi Minamino after Southampton approach - HampshireLive

Southampton are expressing an interest in 23-year-old Manchester City midfielder Yangel Herrera, the Venezuelan has just returned from a second season on loan at Granada, & is valued at ‘up to £20million’ #saintsfc [telegraph]

Origi?

Ok, thanks, didn't see that coming. Ralph must rate him more highly than most on here do!

We certainly seem to be shipping out those we don't want or don't expect to be getting much game time this season. I hope this is a prelude to some proper additions to give us a much stronger pool of players to use otherwise we're just making the original pool into a puddle.

Maybe the new contract keeps him on the roster whilst we work out whether he will ever cut it? Do we know how long he's signed for - I can't imagine it's too long term a deal? A season long loan at a side which made the League One play-offs will at least tell us if he hold down a place and score regularly at that level. If not, I guess we'd be looking to move him on for good.

Yep, that should do it. Anyone got Jorge Mendes' number?

Going to need to get him a Portuguese passport first...

Wolves have lost their rather excellent goalkeeper to Roma, as expected: Rui Patricio: Roma signs Wolves keeper for £9.8m - BBC Sport