Saint Garrett

Anyone know anything about them? The new players: Kameron Ledwidge Sean Brennan Kornelius Hansen Will Ferry Daniel Bartlett Christian Norton Oludare Olufunwa Kayne Ramsey Taymar Fleary

Do agree with this. That was our last summer of first XI quality signings, rather than investing in the future. However it is the model and maybe they feel that it costs too much to be signing top internationals to improve our first XI now, as our first XI id arguably better and easier to improve on the positions. We also had the impact of Europa league for the last few years, so we needed a thicker squad so I can see why we built the squad up a bit. Would be nice to bring in a few top players though who will walk straight into the side. Fees are just utter madness at the moment though, an average prem player is going for £25m this summer and a decent one for £35/40m+. If we can find value abroad then so be it, but when a prem side is interested the transfer fee seems to rocket straight away. Even if we don't sell anyone, we could still do with a DM, and a AM/Winger. If we get to a place where we have something along the lines of the below, we look in pretty decent shape...don't think we need huge surgery tbh unless we're going to let a few go. Forster/McCarthy/Taylor/Lewis Cedric/Pied/Valery VVD/Yoshida/Stephens/Bedarnek Bertrand/McQueen/Targett (Maybe either of the latter go out on loan in the championship) Romeu/NEW/Hojbjerg/Davis/JWP/Reed Boufal/NEW/Redmond/Tadic/Sims Gabbiadini/Austin/Long/Gallagher

Because he's a f*cking idiot.

Probably going to happen that one though surely? Lacazette to Arsenal and Giroud to WHU, will be a good signing for them.

Not fussed by Austin if I'm honest, too injury prone and doesn't offer enough as a lone striker IMO.

Certainly seem to me our options will be VVD (New) Yoshida Stephens Bednarek

Good news if true, no point letting him leave when he could be a genuine asset to us next season. Gabbiadini NEW Long Gallagher

Certainly would be trying to sign a first choice CB to play alongside VVD, and a replacement for VVD if he leaves. Not sure we need this new bloke, which says to me we won't be signing a first choice CB. VVD (NEW) NEW Yoshida Stephens

Always find it strange the attention Sammy Lee gets from our fans and that Eric Black is the route of all the problems at the club? Based on what? Find the hate towards Eric Black a bit weird if I'm honest.

Where does it say Bertrand is likely to go? I'd say its not likely, and I'd say VVD is pretty unlikely unless we get huge money for him. When we say they're not going anywhere in this window, it normally means they go nowhere. I completely understand the clubs decision if someone offers us ca £70m

Can we have kit photos as well please, this might even be the start of the 2018/19 kit thread

Yep - no idea how I forgot those!! ha

Hmmmmm really? Martina? Clasie? Stekelenberg? Elia? VVD - obviously a brilliant signing.

TBF none of our strikers looked great in last seasons system, would be keen to see how he'd perform in a more forward thinking, high pressing, system, as Poch's system fitted him down to the ground, especially gives Rickie always liked to drop into the #10 to create space for JRod, that didn't happen last season.

Enrique was supposedly going to take over at Chelsea if Conte walked after the Lukaku fiasco! Conte has signed a new contract instead!

https://www.thegamblingtimes.com/2017/06/20/southampton-keen-chambers-reunion/#.WUjtF95MD0Y.twitter Would take Chambers back for sure, not sure about £20m+ price tag though!

Yeah - but thats because hes always injured and on high wages, and supposedly a bit of a trouble maker...! Plus he only had 6 months left on his contract...

Hmm - Although I agree it is madness, all transfer fees are, seems that £10m gets you a less than average Prem player these days. Both should arguably be around the 15m mark, Sakho probably slightly higher due to experience and how well he did at Palace. Fee driven down a bit because of his situation at Liverpool + high wages.

Should have been given a loner spell alongside Romeu IMO. He's not a bad payer at all.

Have stupidly double booked myself, and now cannot go, I have 6 standing tickets available for 1st July at the Alexandra Palace. Selling for face value (£45), let me know if anyone is interested. Will stick them up on the internet somewhere if I don't hear of any interest.

Two good signings who should play constantly - can only be good for English football. Definitely both over priced, but aren't all players these days, especially ones which are moving internally inside England/

Great work by the media team. Kind of cringe, but a bit of fun.

Will be released tonight probably - we always release news in the evening!

Possibly waiting for Arsenal...? Would think he'd be better off coming to a club like us though, having a couple of good seasons and then replacing Wenger in 2019.