Patches O Houlihan

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... 🤞

Interesting way to look at it. You're right, scoring 8 he might easily be top or second top scorer.

Personally I think Arma is better from the right than centrally. The PL is full of big lumps and he just gets bullied when in the middle. Plus if he's there then you can't have a big striker on the pitch to win headers, create knock downs, hold it up effectively. Whether he likes it or not in the PL he surely is an inside forward/winger

That's Tino Livramento isn't it?

If we started Big Les alongside Flynn then he could deputise for Stephens as our third big lad to deal with set pieces.

I could see the team set up like that for the end of the game, but would be surprised to see last year's on field Captain and top scorer dropped for a break out 18yo no matter how good Dibling is. Dropping Archer for Dibling would also be a big call. That's partly why I think we'll see him as a sub to start.