Matthew Le God

That article is 8 days old.

That is Joe Curtis.

Was that you pretending to be Dalek2003, or your own view? I hope its the former.

I'll bite, please elaborate?

Welling isn't that far from Southend, so it is possible he was in Southend 2 hours ago and joined up with Saints at Welling. But would be an odd build up for a game to be away from the squad, would Southend be watching him play tonight before rubber stamping the deal?

He is in Welling playing for Saints tonight... Southampton FC ‏@SouthamptonFC 31s #SaintsFC XI team versus @wellingunited: Cropper, Young, Mugabi, McCarthy, Targett, Curtis, Moore, De Ridder, Sinclair, Lee, Forte.

As the media team and 1st team manager have offices at the stadium, their presence at their place of work doesn't necessarily mean anything significant.

18th January 2013... It does however make no sense that you would close the megastore to do it.

I did acknowledge he is a WUM.

You didn't answer my question in post #18 and what makes you so certain we won't sign another striker in the next month?

Still a month of the transfer window left for Saints to sign a striker, lots of indicators that is a position they are looking to invest in heavily. Its not like we desperately need one for the opening game, would you not be happy with Lambert playing vs West Brom? Not sure why I bother asking as I'm expecting another WUM response.

Victor Wanyama £12.5m Dejan Lovren £8.5m Say hi to WUM's.

Olivier Bernard - 31st January 2005 undisclosed fee from Newcastle.

Jack Cork 7th July 2011 from Chelsea

Did he? The season before he joined Saints he scored 29 league goals for a team that came 11th in League 1. The next season under Pardew he scored 30 goals for a team that finished 7th in League 1 (5th in terms of points earnt).

He didn't. The 3 North East friendlies was solely under 21's players and the Eastleigh game had Forte, Sharp, Tadanari Lee, De Ridder, Martin, Barnard but not Hammond.

Gareth Southgate was released by Saints as a kid.

Since when do I have to be a mod to have an opinion on this thread?

If everyone created a thread with their thoughts on the transfer situation day to day, we'd be flooded with them. Better to keep it in one place.

Aren't random musings like this meant for... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?44154-Summer-2013-HCDAJFU-Transfer-thread ?

It would be hard to find a left back better than Fox that is willing to play second fiddle to an 18 year old.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/8842607/premier-league-liverpool-deny-reports-that-club-is-up-for-sale Glasgow_Saint, are you the missing source?

Of course they could feasibly play 45 minutes tonight, but in modern sport it would be highly unusual for a sportsman to go from starting full training after a break to playing in a match within days.

Why? They have only been in full training for a couple of days after extended breaks. The rest of the squad have had 4 weeks of training and tactical work in build up to this game.

I didn't say they'd do all 11 changes at half time, but come the final whistle the Saints team may resemble the substitute list bar a few players.