Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Sounds like Higuain to Chelsea is imminent. Hopefully, he chips in with a few goals against those around us.

The content on this fine forum or in terms of imminent deals being announced? Have Everton got a spare seat on their coach now Niasse has gone to Cardiff?

Blew another 2 goal lead & got what we deserved. Oh well, a decent potential cup run blown. Need a win against Everton now for this to have been worthwhile. Just a shame it's a home game...

Seems like Bournemouth's imminent signing of Mepham is near enough for even the BBC to have noticed and they credit us with an interest too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46894058

Not really a defector but Steven Caulker has a new club... https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46882017

Linked with Cardiff earlier today. https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/2019/cardiff-have-e13m-bonuses-bid-for-mbwana-samatta-rejected-by-genk/

According to calciomercato.com, he's had his medical this morning.

I wonder if our recruitment focus needs to shift away from Italy to other, more successful hunting grounds on the continent: Gabbiadini: hit then miss Lemina: hit and miss Ramirez: hit(ish) then miss Hoedt: complete miss Osvaldo: complete headcase (unfortunately because he did look like he could cut it IMO) In fact the only ones I can think of who came to us from Italy's top flight, who did ok, were both British: Paul Rideout and Joe Jordan (and that goes back 25-30 years). As others have said, thanks for the Cup Final and keeping us up, though, Gabbi and good luck back in Italy.

Quite fancy an Accy Stanley away day. See off FLDC and it'll be the chance to go somewhere I've not been before. And a decent Cup run is on here, too.

Can you provide a timeframe please? Have I got time to pop out to lunch before we announce someone?

This.

Interesting rumour popped up on one of the Fb sites this morning...

Even if the Ings deal eventually costs us £20m, it looks like a far better deal than the Solanke one. Time will tell, though.

Wilson to Chelsea?

Finally, the return of Jonathan Forte is imminent!

Thought Gunn would get a game against Derby in the Cup but his performance against Chelsea tonight might have taken the shirt from McCarthy for a while.

First song they played after "THE WIN" yesterday was the old Jay Rodriguez 'just can't get enough' song. Fits Hasenhuttl nicely we thought???

Adam Blackmore has just tweeted that Ings, Long and Cedric have all returned to full training and could be back in the squad for Sunday.

I believe the plan would be for a move into one of the corners but this is an exploratory move by the club, in the first instance, and subject to necessary approvals from the police and Safety Advisory Group. My remit is to feed back thoughts from whatever sources are available to me.

A question we've been posed as a Saints Voice panel. We've been asked to get feedback from the fanbase on a POTENTIAL move of the away fans from their current area of the Northam to "somewhere else" in the stadium. What do you think of a proposal to move away fans from the Northam? I must stress this is only an exploration at the moment but Southampton FC want to know your thoughts and opinions? Any thoughts you'd like me to share on behalf of the forum?

If he delivers on his promise of aggressive pressing & attacking football, I think the fan base will naturally get behind the team.

"Did you see Charlie's face when he said close him down..."

I'm sure I read somewhere that Ralph was all for removing Pellegrino earlier but it was Les who wanted to keep him to see if he could turn it round. Whilst I'm, clearly, not all for recruiting managers on an annual basis, at least Ralph has recognised sticking with Hughes for a similar length of time was likely to leave us in a certain relegation battle and bringing in someone who takes us back to our Pochettino and Koeman-style philosophy early enough, gives us the chance to recover this season a little. Fair play for that and welcome Ralph H. - best of luck. You won't please all of us all of the time but if you can at least get us winning at home, you'll get most of us onside!

I hope he comes in and works out that most of our deep roster is a waste of space...

"Right, Charlie, I want you to chase that guy with the ball" "But, boss, he's just going to pass it back to him" "Well, then I want you to chase after him, too" "But he'll just give it back to the first guy" "And then you chase after him again" "But boss, I'll be fooked & out for the season after that" "Every cloud, Charlie, every cloud..."