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Im not writing him off, merely pointing out that hes not a given to start now. Thats what we want though. Vestergaard has stepped up, Stephens is still a good option and Salisu is still to come in

Great point, especially after the first half hour. Think we got Chelsea at a good time, they look a shambles at the back. Adams goal was laughable but take it all the same. Bednarek could go from our first choice to fourth choice CB in no time, was poor today

Wonder if we'll look at any championship full backs in the next 10 days to provide cover since we missed out on Williams.

I think he'll be demanding that he starts. Wont be leaving Everton where he cant get a game to come here to sit on the bench. Not for me

This. Makes no sense as he would be second choice here too

175k a week 😳 already Im getting a feeling of billy big balls about him. Not a mission we would be looking to make anything permanent about it either. Would rather we loaned or bought somebody who could be a longer term option for us

If hes on his way, then its very unlikely. Club wont want to risk him getting injured and scuppering any potential move before the deadline

Leicesters recruitment in recent years has been excellent and something we can only aspire to be like (or return to). They pipped us to Maddison, we ended up with Elyonnoussi. They signed Evans and Söyüncü, we opted for Vestergaard and Danso. Ndidi, Pereira and Praet other excellent signings. This summer they've identified their targets and are going about their business diligently. Castagne looks a great replacement for Chilwell and now they're looking at Tarkowski/Fofana/Tah (who was linked to us previously) who are all very good players. Also picked up Ünder on loan. Please let our recruitment in the last week show some kind of ambition 🙏

Pelle got his first Italy cap when he played for us. Tadic came from FC Twente so wasnt well known and Serbia hardly have a luxury of players. Im just saying that ruling out a player from the dutch league based on precedent is incorrect. Im sure theres plenty of good players in that league and Veerman may be one. On the Sessegnon point, being exceptional in the championship isnt a guarantee for PL success as we've discovered with Adams. Of course Spurs dont think hes crap if they spent 25 mill, but how much he cost is not an automatic indicator of success. Would I like Sessegnon here, yes, but do i think we really need him, not so sure.

Half of them arent even european fs. You've conveniently omitted Tadic and Pelle, two of our best players in the past 10 years and were both nododys who came from the dutch league. I'm not saying this kid is the answer because I'm honest to admit I know nothing about him. You seem to be an expert on dutch players tho. And why Sessegnon? We have plenty of cover down the left side and hes hardly oozing PL experience. In fact his only real PL experience was in a very poor Fulham side. Dont write off one unknown option and then praise another largely unknown option. #Think

That other option could be progressing in the background and maybe why we didnt commit to Sangare. Maybe a higher profile target who we could get at the right price (alluding to Semmens comments)* *really wishful thinking

https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2020-09-24/training-gallery-southampton-fc-premier-league-24-september-2020 Picture 3 in there

Fantastic! I await the standard "we probably weren't in for him anyways" to save face. I wonder how many players it is now who have turned us down this window

Bit odd that article. They want Koopmeiners because Pablo Hernandez got injured. Firstly Hernandez is an AM, Koopmeiners is a DM (has also played at CB). Secondly, the DM role at Leeds is filled by their poster boy Kalvin Phillips

Recruitment dept could do with a bit of help too judging by previous transfer windows

We are the low balling experts. Not sure I can take that article serious tho when it states that Hojbjerg was making things 'tick' for Spurs against us. He was non existent in the first half and played no part in Kane/Son running riot against us

Hudson-Odoi has been pursued by Bayern for about 18 months now, he will not be joining us. RLC more realistic but not the kind of player we need imo

Leeds signing their third centre back of window, all of whom will likely have started a game before Salisu does. Will take their spending over 80 million with two weeks of the window still to go. All the while we're looking at a loan for Tom Davies. Now its not all about how much teams spend, as the likes of Fulham have proven before, but its still a bit depressing

Glass half full assessment if I've ever seen one. Does the club pay you to post on here?

He doesnt need to go, however he does deserve some criticism for how we've played so far this season. How has the quality of football declined so much in 5 weeks. It looks like hes tried to implement something new (given the high line which we've never seen before) in a few weeks, which the players arent responding to. Same happened last season and he admitted this by going 'back to basics'. Needs to go back basics again as defensively we are all over the show. Cant be expecting to win many games conceding 2/3 or more each game. That being said he also needs backed by the owners so he bring in a DM and more as we are about 2/3 players short

The defending in that second half was every bit as embarassing as the Leicester game. The last goal.....5 players all watching the ball with nobody picking up Son. Then Stephens may aswell not be there when Son runs past him. We've known for a while that defensively we are hopeless, yet right now we still havent addressed it. Yes there is Salisu, but why did we wait so long to sign a CB whos not fit. Still no DM either. It really is a joke and I got accused of being a bed wetter last week too 😂

Thanks, will do 😘

Signed weeks ago. Came on the other night as they were knocked out of the CL by PAOK

RH saying in his post match that with the team we currently have its going to be difficult to win games. What!!??!? This is the exact same team that was on fire just over a month ago. How can it go so wrong in such a short period? Can blame the lack of time with the players, or their fitness, but RH has to take some ownership too. Other teams are in the same position. Hopefully this was a message to the owner to dig deep. On the plus side we've had a big wake up call in a cup game and just one league game in. Plenty of time to rectify it

On paper maybe but we dont know that based on one league game. Theres two or three teams every season who get touted on here as having done great business compared to us but then they seemingly struggle. We've addressed the positions we needed to, permitting we bring in a CM which I think we will. Will take another window or two to fully clear the mess we created with the poor signings we made and cant seem to move on.