Willo of Whiteley

Bazunu is fine for this league. Not great by any means, but fine, and I’m certainly more comfortable with him in goal than McCarthy. If he has got a good ten outfield players in front of him I’m not concerned, but some on here like making a mountain out of a molehill.

£40M for a teenager is excellent. Bags of potential, but still enough time in his career to screw it up like many other young English talents. He WANTED to leave. Therefore we’re better off without him. I hope he doesn’t get homesick. 😂

Priorities 😅😉

They have a week to make something amazing happen - I don’t see it 🤣

I think the most frustrating thing is we can all say how simple it can be. Target and buy players that have played at the required level or are on the fringes already at a higher level. Don’t target unknowns or youth players and expect them to work. They have to really pull something out the bag over the next seven days and I honestly don’t see it.

Heard from a mate Dibling medical is done, could be announced later tonight.

Based on the Norwich replies on Southampton’s tweet announcing him, fans appear to be glad he’s off the wage bill

You would think that if Aribo and Edozie are being left out of the squads they’re “close” to going. “You’d think” 🙄

JJM wanted something like £10K a week from what I heard as a 16 year old and the club rightly laughed him off. Another one that was poorly advised, but again he probably is more than comfortable on Chelsea salaries.

Has anyone ever had a Google on how Jimmy-Jay Morgan and Kamari Doyle are doing? Or Alexander Jankewitz? Weren’t a couple of those in the same age group as Tyler Dibling and Jay Robinson?

£40M for a player with two goals and doesn’t want to be here? Take it and run. Good deal. He could turn into another overrated English player very quickly. But he could also do well.

Let’s have it right, Carlos Alcaraz was ok, he was a diamond in a turd during what was a very poor year. He was not “perfect” by any means. People hype him up the same as Armando Broja 🙄

We’ve enquired for Rak-Sakyi, but we aren’t the only ones. He wasn’t in the Palace squad today.

The club could’ve been proactive in targeting players early. Looking at players going out of contract etc. But nope we’re probably haggling over an extra million or two just to get the deal over the line

Brave comeback. Bet he’s full of pride and gratitude after that performance

Our squad is worse going into this Championship season than two years ago

I stopped reading after Alan Nixon, he’s as reliable as Alex Crooks.

To a point I agree. But he could’ve stuck Armstrong out wide, he could’ve played Sugawara RB, Fraser out wide, he had three other strikers to select etc etc

This will be a loss, and spark a panic buy of two players on the final day of the window.

I wouldn’t write him off, but Jesus Christ you can’t deny those tactics were awful today? Surely? How many people looked at that team sheet pre-match and thought “AA solo up front, Fraser at RB, three CBs, a back five? At home, yeah we’re winning this”?

People will say reactionary because of yesterdays game, but it’s been plainly obvious for a few months now we needed an established striker, a couple of established wingers, maybe a new CB and GK whilst clearing the deadwood. It doesn’t take a genius. Business should be done early, even if it means you pay a little more to get it done sooner. No point haggling over the odd million.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, we don’t target the right players. Sport Republic try to be cocky and clever, their success rate has got to be only 5%. Most of the signings in thier era have been dogshit. Take Leeds as an example, big club, in the Championship buying semi-experienced fringe Premier League players: Dan James, Joe Roden, Ethan Ampadu etc. Players that will dominate a league like this and kick on. Look at our signings, a couple of untried and unknowns from a foreign league who have “potential”. Southampton are a big fish in the Championship, so why is the club philosophy to buy untried players from abroad? If you’re serious about promotion you go and get players that will get you promoted. It’s not rocket science.

Or eleven

Three CBs or five at the back supposedly closes up shop if you’re defending, but you need to have defenders that are good enough, that we don’t. There is no benefit in playing a back five, you lose an attacking option. Sitting in the Chapel end today, the amount of times Fraser or Manning had the ball and there wasn’t a single player to play a through pass to. Armstrong made runs but that’s all he could do. Downes and Charles are basically the same player, both were playing no further than maybe five yards ahead of the CBs. Throw Matty Fernandes who dropped very deep pretty much most of today and we effectively had three CDMs and three CBs, Armstrong on his own against two 6”4” centre halves and Fraser and Manning out wide with seemingly no one to pass to. If these amazing tactics are to whip it into the keeper and play a diagonal ball for ninety minutes it’s going to be a long season.

We need four or five players and we need the deadwood to go. Dibling, Edozie and BBD gone. ABK gone. A CB gone.