Ivan Katalinic's 'tache

Good news, if true. Also sends a bit of a message to Clyne that he's not irreplaceable whether or not Cedric joins as a replacement or as competition. At the reported price, he could be either.

Unless it doesn't work out for you in which case a forum member will come up with an amusing moniker for you to remind us how bad you are. I'm sure it won't come to this though...

First Juan of the summer. Excellent news. An ITK point for Crab Lungs too?

Has Toby's loan officially ended yet? We were still covering his international activities for the Wales game so I'm guessing not?

I'm going for Crystal Palace at SMS. Would be nice to finish the season at home too, seeing as we were away first & last games, last season.

With rumours around we may be after Charlie Austin and other rumours Bologna, or other Italian sides, may look to lure Graziano back to Italy, I wondered who others would prefer if we could only have one or the other? Me, I think despite his barren spell midway through last season, Graziano is fairly integral to our forward play & despite the goals, I don't know if Austin would offer as much outside of the box. Any thoughts?

The new De Pedro saga is upon us???

Sounds positive & Crabby has been right before.

Someone put Van Gaal in touch with tactical genius Roy and get Roy to extol the virtues of Jones over Clyne at right back. Then get Roy to speak to Rodgers and let him know how Henderson is a better option than Clyne too. Clyne then signs a new deal with us, with no other bids coming in for him...

The clearest indication that selection for England is less about those in form and more about whether your face fits (and the prime way for it to fit is to be at a 'big' club whether or not you're in the side every week or not). Odd and I'm not surprised Clyney was a bit miffed.

Sounding promising. Have we anyone on hotel watch?

They're buying the whole club now? Makes things simpler, I suppose.

Cunning Tobes. Put in a slightly less than impressive performance, put off Atletico & rival suitors and we snap him up.

Didn't we steal Toby from under Newcastle's noses when they were supposedly nailed on to sign him last summer? Same again?

Now you've done it. There will be an F5-ing epidemic on Saints Web, this thread will run for 100+ pages and Pilchards will be up a tree spying on St Mary's...

Harsh (but fair S-Clarke?)... His profile reads "Player At SouthamptonFC #Saints". No idea if this is significant and no mention of Werder Bremen at all.

A cryptic tweet from Eljero tonight. A permanent offer from us maybe?

A shrewd release of (mis)information to prompt Clyne to make his mind up?

If I was to clutch at straws, at least Toby still has Saints on his Facebook profile and his pic is still in a Saints shirt...

F**k me. They're even signing our fans now. #obsessed

Great plan. Maybe QPR will be daft enough to swap him for Charlie Austin. If only 'Arry was still there. Triffic.

Frank Lampard. Always scores loads against us. Too old now but age wasn't a restriction in the spec.

Too right. The grass isn't always greener. Trouble is, those words often fall on deaf egos...

I just hope it's Austin and Okaka (if we are after the latter) and not Austin or Okaka...

Excellent. The new Mikael Nilssson. Just call me #quickslag. Oh...