Faz

I blame Les

How about, to the tune of Brown Girl In The Ring, "We've got Danny Ings, la-la-la-la-la..."

I'd say that's a winner.

I remember seeing him play for Burnley at SMS and he was sharp with great movement. Everyone is saying he's fit, and on that basis I welcome him, and back him to get 10-12 goals.

We will finish 12th

I hope Ings comes good, I really do. I will be cheering and supporting him, but I cant help but feel we overpaid.

 

hell, Liverpool got Shaqiri for £13m

I bet Ings makes five times the contribution of the touch line waddler

We will finish 12th. Fact. Lump on.

It's not good reading for teams with Chinese investment.

It depends. The piece makes clear that where there is a synergy with Chinese football the position is likely to be more benign. If Gao is setting out his stall to set up soccer centres and bring Saints on Pre-season tours then that may be sufficient.

Mind you, as none of us know the plan, or the precise nature of the financial restrictions I could be a million miles away

It is flat out unacceptable to sell him. That is gallagher, targett and JWP that the club have tried to shift this summer. Completely sold our soul.

Wow. Bad day?

How does receiving a bid on a player equate to trying to sell him?

How does it square with Hughes saying he wants to keep the younger players until Jan to try and give them playing time?

The sky is not falling on your head ………..

I have to say, at £14/15m (which makes the £10m JWP bid even more of a joke) I'd let him go. If we're persisting with 3 at the back, as seems to be the case, then he won't offer enough going forward. Whilst defensively not as sound, McQueen is the more natural winger, and provides decent cover.

Having read through all the recent posts on here, and taking them as evidence of the truth, my conclusion is Cedric is unable to find another club because he had stomach ache (and he's too short). Other than that he'd be gone and is, therefore, automatically rubbish.

One of my favourite players to watch and was very envious of Everon signing him, but game based on pace, power and tricks. If the pace has not returned after the terrible injury/operation then that limits him massively. If it has, then don't understand why Everton would want to sell.

Each to his own. All he ever had was pace, and Everton massively overpaid imo for a player with 9 goals in 90 PL games - £25m was a lot of money all the way back in 2016. Clearly his injury has had a massive impact, and that is sad.

Every time I have seen him he has impressed me. I know a few on here have said he doesn't do it, but I just see a player that makes things happen. He can genuinely beat a man...boy are we short of that attribute. Personally I think he is exactly what we need. It will be interesting to see how he and Mo fair. Similar price, similar position. I think Traore will have a similar impact as Michael Antonio.

Bolasie #2???

In the current climate, £10m is a stupidly low amount of money. If he was playing regularly in the championship for Norwich, they'd have to pay £25m to get him. As it is he has what, 160/70 PL games under his belt at 23/24?? Mad.

Plus he is the poster-boy for the pathway - the only reason to sell is if he wants to leave.

what a weird situation to be in, having to sell to buy

Who says?

'Boro target Bolasie.

Shuhurely some mistake. Saints are the only team the make poor signings.

With the usual type of audience present it will be like a tea party. Ralph 'Waffle/5 Pledges' Krueger and Les will experience more grief picking what colour socks to wear that morning.

Perhaps the "usual type of audience" is more in keeping with our "usual type of fan". If only they could see what we can see, eh?

Seriously guys, stop winding each other up - or down. I suggest you look at every 25 man squad from Burnley down and ask yourselves how many of those players wuld make a huge difference to our team. For sure each squad will have one or two players you would pick, but the same could easily be said of ours.

The challenge is that all teams below the top 6 are much of a muchness until you get to teams like Cardiff, Huddersfield, and one or two more. Momentum and belief will be key.

I at least have confidence that this season the players will undertsand what is expected of them, and will be playing to a plan. I also expect us to be much more aggressive in outlook which, of course, you don't get to see in pre-season. I think we will score more, but also concede more. Should be better than the sterile rubbish of the last two seasons.

The Spurs squad is worth about 1 billion and Leicester won the league 2 seasons back.

 

Bizarre to use them to defend against our transfer fails

If I recall correctly, even Levy agreed they'd wasted the Bale money. It was part of the reason they brought in Pochetino to develop and promote from within, and Mithcell to find better value targets. They have been successful at that, but they certainly wasted the opportunity immediately post-Bale.

How many other clubs our size in the prem have the levels of big money signings(boufal, Clasie, Carrillo) now on loan elsewhere but essentially for the most part still stinking up their wage bill.

Our 3rd choice keeper is more highly paid than most team's first choice too. Man City may be able to get away with that but a club saints size that's gotta pinch.

Didn't we have about the 7th highest wage bill even before this window when we've added 5 & maybe shed 3 senior players.

My guess is all of them. It’s just we dont know the minutia of every other club

VvD money mate. You know that

We are seeing newly promoted sides blowing us out of the water with spending

 

Seems little has been hoisted on board despite Ralph’s comments.

 

He has even mugged off the Fans Forum.

Which of the promoted Clubs have blown us out of the water on spending?

Just been on the pathetically terrible Southampton FC web site.

Have never seen anything quite as hard to navigate and find basic ticket information on. It wants you to register too ...

Laughably bad, I didn’t bother to go after having to jump too many hurdles to find out the ticketing arrangements ...

Crap

Unlike you to be critical of the club

Excellent. Citeh never pay anything under £50m these days.

We need a striker though to outweigh the issues caused by Hughes poor defensive management.

Dalek #2

I think we’re taking a massive gamble if we don’t get another striker in.

 

I don’t care what some of his critics think, but if Austin stays fit he’ll score 15 ish a season. The issue is whether he’ll stay fit and nothing I’ve seen so far indicates that he will. I

 

Long won’t score enough & Gallagher is untested .

 

Looks like we’re relying on Gabbi playing better for Hughes than he did for the whole of last season & Charlie staying fit. Personally, I think that’s a gamble too far when you bare in mind the lack of goals from other areas of the pitch.

 

 

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Just curious, what could have happened to convince you he will stay fit?

my concern is that in Jan we knew our forwards weren't enough so we went out and brought another one (albeit the wrong one) now he is out on loan we are still left with the same forwards deemed not enough still.

I thought we bought because Charlie was injured

Like I said, are people really that bored? There are other things that can be discussed rather than dedicating so much time (Sky made it up 5 days ago!) to a rumour that has much credibility as one posted by anyone one of us. Less in fact. We may as well just make up our own rumours and discuss that.

I thought that’s what happened on here???

No doubt we will now have another unhappy player. A player I suspect has a "Gentlemans agreement" that the club is looking to renegade on.

 

I'm sure we will swing this around so that it's Lemina that looks bad and unprofessional.... It's what we do right?

I'm sure you can swing anything arou d so it's the Club's fault..... It's what you do, right?

Although not quite sure what we're supposed to be "renegading" on