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Yes some do look like duplicates. I always thought the idea was two for every position and the ideal squad ( with our four goalies ) is c26. Will is going to be hard pushed to get to 26 in this window!

Got a feeling that there is a big timing problem with signing ALL the names rushed out in the last 48 hours. We may need settle for 1 or 2. Fellows, Azaz, Scienza, Guilovogui and Jander are five new players supposedly Saints seriously want. What we all know though is there must be leavers first - and the noise about the leavers is < the noise about the joiners. BBD, Sam Edozie Joe Aribo and Will Smallbone are all waiting in the departure lounge whilst apparently Cam Archer is of interest to PSV - but really there’s only whispers not the big noise we are seeing about the possible joiners. “Trimming the squad” cannot happen unless they move on. Not time to get over excited about the window as I suspect that we will shortly lose and /or loan out another of our high value assets currently under the radar - a CB most likely. Being left with a squad that blatantly has so many wantaway and unwanted players in it will be hard to manage so fingers crossed we are able to rehome them!

Wrong website for that kind of thing. And you probably need use a vpn if that’s your particular area of interest though frankly I have no idea what you are talking about. Only that it sounds disgusting and really you ought to seek help.

Blokes first game will be at Anfield 😂 .

Probable line up for Watford ( subject to our bid for Nicolas Jackson not getting over the line) Donnarumma Mads. Maquire. Stephens. Shaw Jander Charles. Robinson Azaz Fellows. Scienza

This is bittersweet. Who does not love Wee Man? Objectively speaking though, this guy has to get the nod at LW and Ryan, frankly, for the level of club it seems we are aspiring to, should be a squad player not a starter. Still bittersweet though.

God it’s all getting too much. Leo Scienza now according to fab Romano?

Thank you again my double implant dental surgery and brain still under sedation from it this lunchtime is not a good enough excuse - certainly on this forum where mild temporary brain impairment can be considered an advantage probably even an asset - but in any case math was never my best subject : £24not have to go to food banks weekly salary it is. 😆. Details are important!

Thank you MLG - if he’s only on £28k I’m sure he’s not queuing up at the food banks and it’s still a big wedge towards Finns salary.

Yeah that two goals in 38 matches from our alleged best finisher does rather stand out a bit. Lovely man - perhaps too nice - but I’m sure we can do better.

I disagree. Adam looks like a hungry Squirrel. Damian looks like a cuddly Panda and Ross looks like a lost giraffe. Don’t know where you get your rabbits from. FWIW Cameron is more of a cheeky chipmunk in my eyes - oh- and BBD looks like a giant stuffed toy.

Occams razor time @trousers Cameron is always Cameron. But the players who are meant to provide for him are many and changeable. What is more likely - that multiple professional standard footballers ( I’m talking dozens of players from our defence and midfield through to fellow attackers) cannot find Cameron with a pass or that he is at fault? The most likely explanation is the one you should make your favourite.

Ah ok. He has a 2028 ending contract and is on reputed £40k per week. Does well there and we can still sell him good price in 2026 - or retain for the EPL. His wages pays for Azaz for a start! I’m still pro letting him ( and BBD) leave.

It’s not madness to sell Cameron. It’s absolutely the best time. He has gone missing so many matches and been invisible for so long in matches - then scores a beauty. I hope PSV watched that goal and thought he looks like a £15m player. I’m taking the money because since he’s been at Saints he has NOT looked that player week in week out. Once every ten or fifteen matches perhaps he scores or does a run that comes to it but, frankly, he’s not been threatening and if that goal v Norwich means we get a decent fee I’m in!

Not heresy. I don’t think we will start that way - still the 3cb route for this probably and only Mads for certain should start - but I can see Will giving the two championship based newbies a run out whatever formation used. Wee Man and Jay might be told to give it full gas up and down and then expect Azaz and Fellows to come on for last thirty as an example.

Alternatively and in addition it’s a wild guess but maybe our new German scouting guy Tim Lederer might know him. Just a random thought. 😁

I guess we have our answer : Jander. That’s didn’t take long did it😉

IF Finn Azaz signs it heralds further signings / transfers and likely formation changes. Why? His best position is as a #10. Saints would be nuts to play him in any other position apart from that - in which he’s proven, objectively, one of most effective in this division last two years. We don’t currently play with a specialist #10 like that. There’s clear knock on implications, especially formations. Just one for now- it’s not uncommon for teams that play a specialist #10 to also have a “minder” #6 . That certainly could be Flynn ( has the engine but not the physicality) or Shea (is that a waste?) or it could be a new role for Sesay that he didn’t know he was born to play! But none are probably as good in that role straight away as a certain ex player of ours just left Barcelona to join Girona I think 😉.

FWIW - for the Championship this is a marquee signing signal of intent “we want automatic “ type of signing. Boro selling him to us - from his stats - I regard as an admission from them and him that we are > than them regarding promotion prospects. Bad for them good for us.

Who does he displace? He is obviously a starter. Other regular starters if here and fit , on current form (imo) : Bazunu, Stephens, THB, Mads, Fernandes, Charles, Downes, Fraser Robinson, and now Azaz. That makes ten. Room for a centre forward basically - Archer presumably or a big guy? or does he cushion the blow of losing Fernandes and becomes a genuine #10 for us??

No apologies required but here’s a very very useful stat 😉that really puts into perspective Gavin Bazunu. There’s been 96 goals conceded in the Championship this season so far ( according to wiki) . Guess how many Gavin has let in?If you were thinking 25 or 30 of those you’d be wrong! Yup, get this, he has only conceded FOUR! Out of 96 in the league! That’s an amazing statistic. Good job Baz! 🤣 NB Another useful FACT /STAT : Nobody scores with a header versus Gavin this season - nobody - he is invincible when it comes to headers. That’s quite some stat eh?

No I think you are not. I Like you and most of your posts and posting style but this is crass. If genuine you’d wait until there was a statistically useful sample - not 3 matches. Or anything from two years ago. You 100% know that. You also know with 99% certainty what those who can be bothered to be activated by your dog whistle will say. So what’s the real purpose? Do you really expect people to have encyclopaedic knowledge of every championship goalkeepers performance in the last three matches or are you really just having a bit of fun activating Gavin haters into a froth for your amusement ? What’s more likely? If you want to find a new way to have a go at a player who was not even playing last night ( why??) I know you can do better than this fake poll effort.

Shameless dog whistling. 🙁. After 3 matches you disingenuously ask who is his better in the league. Come on you can do better - why not try : “Calling all Gavin Bazunu haters here is a thread you can vent your spleen on.”

Yes fully agree we were not good first half and it was v Norwich reserves - so our squad > their squad. Was not intending to over praise but certainly first time I’ve seen certain things ( the swarming press, less gap to forwards etc) under Will Still. Its less than a week since playing at home to Stoke with same 3cb approach the tactic of launching sixty yard balls to Adam Armstrong up by himself against big centre backs or just blindly sending cross after cross into the box was Plan A,B and C. Last nights 2nd half performance showed evidence of quick learning and adaptation by Still- and its execution in a revised, better game plan.

First match under Still that I’ve seen an effective high press being used. We pressed in numbers and in ways I’d not seen since Ralph and Poch times. We need to be fit for it - but second half we were constantly swarming them in possession time and time again. Looked much faster stronger and fitter than Norwich reserves. The whole team seemed to revel in bullying Norwich out of possession. Another thing I noticed was the obvious reduction in the gap between our forwards and rest of the team. MUCH closer to Stewart and Archer and consequently even if the balls to them we’re not won cleanly there was somebody close at hand to mop up or regain possession - or basically stop Norwich doing whatever they wanted. Hope that was a blueprint for rest of season.