Saint Garrett

Agree, but they are a bigger club than us, and spend money left right and centre, even if they are a mess of a club. Can't see it happening mind.

You say that, but City and Everton are currently playing without a striker, and I think Ings is better than Abraham, Lacazette, DCL, Jesus. He wouldn't be first choice at Man Utd, Spurs or Liverpool, but I could see him being first choice at Chelsea, (depending on what they decide to do with Werner), Arsenal or City. He'd be first choice at Everton or Wolves, West Ham too. They're the only ones that are realistically going to have money to pay for him.

Be mainly reserves I’d think though.

Although I do agree, if you look at it from the other way, we're a decent side this season. and we play: Leicester (A) - who haven't been great at home Leeds (A) - leak goals and promoted side Arsenal (H) - we were the better side at their place, and they're well beatable Villa (H) - Good side this year, but already beaten them away Man Utd (A) - Difficult game Newcastle (A) - they're pretty woeful this season, and don't score Wolves (A) - Poor since Jiminez has been out You can make a case for us to win all of the above games, apart from maybe Utd away. If we can get 7-10 points in the next 4 games, we're still set up nicely for a free hit up at Man Utd, and then two very winnable away games

That’s my hope too. Normally we sell before we buy too, so there must be some money somewhere. Hopefully it’s more to do with the accounting period more than anything else. Loan is a worry though.

Without knowing Long’s contract, his renewal seems even more odd now. Regarding the shirt sponsor mentioned above, if they didn’t pay, that doesn’t mean the revenue wouldn’t have been recognised. Potentially. Only £3m seemed to relate to match day income, which in the grand scheme of things, isn’t massive.

Gut feeling say yes. I’d love to have an owner who might stick his hand in his pocket.

Think it’s highly likely that Ings will be off in the summer if he doesn’t sign a new contract, might get £30/40m for him this summer. Vestergaard now has a sell on value, might get nominal fees for Hoedt, Lemina and Elyounoussi, but probably more important for the club to get them off the wage bill.

Bit of a mess that, all the KPIs are pretty demoralising, but not unexpected given the current situation. Not expecting any money to be spent this month. Club definitely needs investment. Whether that’s through selling players or externally...

Would be an odd signing, unless its a cheap 6 month deal for depth, and Smallbone and Jankewitz will go on loan, but I'd be surprised... Odd rumour for them to make up though, and even more odd he suddenly fancies following Saints on Instragram, unless he's doing it to get attention...

TBF, I emailed them, and they replied the next day. And very helpful.

Not going to make it here, nowhere near good enough.

Yes, should be.

I’ve heard otherwise, but no idea whether it’s just a thought or something more black and white than that. Would not surprise to see a break in the season shortly and the Euros cancelled.

Pretty sure the Euros won’t happen

Same price we paid for him I believe. Would be very very strange if he disappeared without playing. I'm expecting him to play, and be first choice for us at some point, but the longer this goes on the more worrying it is.

Think I'd try and rest as many of the mainstays as possible, give them a week off in prep for the next league game. Valery at RB worries me, but KWP must be knackered. Ideally give Theo a rest too, if Redmond is fit, but thin he's still injured. Would like to see Tella and N'Lundulu given starts. Should still have too much for them. Forster; Valery Stephens Salisu Vokins; Diallo Smallbone; Tella Walcott N'Lundulu Long

In fairness, Werner played the majority off the left for Leipzig off a bigger man.

Looked much more comfortable last night further forward. Doesnt seem to sprint though, although I thought he came on and did well last night, there was one moment they broke, and he just jogged back, can't imagine Ralph being impressed with that.

It's funny, how Sky went through so much effort to make sure Tiss never watched a saints game, Merson didn't watch Arsenal etc, now we have Gary Neville regularly commentating on Utd and Carragher on Liverpool. It's absolutely bonkers. Especially like last night when they had Carragher chatting about Liverpool, and Ince chatting about Liverpool...

I’m not his biggest fan at all, but he was excellent tonight, fair play to him.

Exceptional. Did the basics well, made Thiago look bang average. He’s 21. Bonkers. Looks a perfect fit for us.

No idea how reliable this site is....but "HampshireLive" is reporting 3 are missing tonight, but doesn't name who... https://www.hampshirelive.news/sport/football/football-news/southampton-liverpool-team-news-confirmed-4851884 This is the squad they're claiming...which would mean no McCarthy, Vestergaard, Redmond and Long...? Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster, Harry Lewis. Defenders: Kyle Walker-Peters, Yan Valery, Jan Bednarek, Jack Stephens, Mohammed Salisu, Ryan Bertrand, Jake Vokins. Midfielders: James Ward-Prowse, Oriol Romeu, Ibrahima Diallo, Stuart Armstrong, Theo Walcott, Moussa Djenepo, Nathan Tella, Will Smallbone. Forwards: Che Adams, Danny Ings, Michael Obafemi, Dan N'Lundulu.

Just watch it without the sound, it's way better anyway

No idea whether the supposed issues in his private life have caused a problem. I was actually really excited about him in his first season, when he was keeping Cedric out the side playing RWB. He’s not good enough defensively (mainly positionally) to play in a back 4 in my opinion. I’d like to see him go out on loan somewhere and play every week, either in a back 5 or further forward as a RM/RW. But gut feeling is that he will never be good enough to play in the premier league for a top half side.