Patches O Houlihan

Maybe you are confusing FarehamSaintJames with Sir Farquhar StJohn?!

Love this 😁

But assuming we stay up. We'd need to have persuaded him to sign a 4 or 5 year contract, because he would need at least two years away on loan before he'd be good enough for the PL surely. Bearing in mind our lack of success with junior contracts recently that seemed unlikely- was always likely to be tempted away by a big money Jimmy Jay Morgan style deal by a PL big fish.

Spine of the team: Aaron Ramsdale Flynn Downes Mateus Fernandes Ivan Toney Looks good to me 😁

More likely to be a genuine deal I would think. Unless we are signing Toney 😉

Think so

But wouldn't it be great if he came back, and could repeat the form he showed in those games for Sunderland in the Championship. A classic "like a new signing"

When the Chinese league finally fulfils its potential 😉 Saudi Arabia is surely the next big thing after the Chinese

Bednarek only has 10 months on his contract. Despite RM assuring us he’s not worried there is the chance that Benarek is off in Jan (or today?!) Having ABK up your sleeve give Saints better room to negotiate Jan’s contract and survive if he departs.

After he was mentioned favourably by Carsley at the England squad announcement I'm thinking the same. "We are Southampton. We can't have nice things” ™

08:30 press conference at Saints. May not be announced then of course

Reading an article this morning I was reminded that Sulemana & Onuachu were both deadline day signings in Jan 2023. If I remember rightly they both came completely out of the blue. Not saying it will happen, but SR have form for it. Of course in an ideal world we’d prefer any deal to add more on the pitch than these did. Am also a bit concerned that Arsenal won’t get their player, and so won’t sanction Ramsdale to leave.

So we'd have Lumley as our only available option if Ramsdale got crocked...

That's not me saying he should go. I'd love for him to stay. But he's gone from being SAA's best bud and making appearances, to being well down the pecking order with a <12 month contract.

I hate those guys 👊

I agree. Here's a screen shot of the post

New one on me. Back in Feb there was an article stating he was looking for a move. Poster has ~800 followers and usually posts in German...

Isn't Meghoma out of favour with the club and running his contract down? Was flavour of the month above SAA for a bit but certainly not now. Remind me what happened.

So at LWB currently that's Cornet, KWP, Taylor, Larios, Manning, Meghoma, Captain Jack. Plus Bree has played there. Meghoma & Manning look likely to go to me. Presumably the purchase of Cornet means no Wee Man?

Presumably if Cornet is on loan from West Ham any move for JWP would need to be a purchase. WH want £25m we sold him for £30. Seems a lot. Would they take £18m? Are we even interested in buying him?

Thanks Dave. So which other strikers are available? Or are we just committing to a winger ie Cornet or the Dutch/Morrocan LGBT aficionado?

Has anyone got any good info about what's happening with Yuri Alberto - whether he's any good? Whether the deal is still on? Whether he would fit our playing style?

Does he do a good Carlos Valderama impersonation?!

Or it could be that they are 5 or 6 hours behind us and there is no new news... 🤞