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Agreed Jeff - lot of abuse aimed at the Board's direction this summer but feel we are now stronger as a club and hopefully the corporate side is picking up too. Genuinely feel excited by this season and think Koeman will be outstanding for us. Very noticeable Pochettino had no plan B against Liverpool (some things never change)

several loan players? 2 including the new signing and 1 we have option to buy. So long as no first teamers (Boruc apart) leave and the 2 guys sign we will have had an excellent window..... Forster looks like an outstanding acquisition and a step up from Boruc Bertrand is a more than adequate replacement for Shaw (and Targett is looking very promising) 2 new Centrebacks so we now have 4 CBs vying for 2 positions and the Belgian could be quite a coup Midfield is strong - very strong. Keeping Morgan will be the best bit of business in the window and we have 2 players for every position. Tadic actually looks like an upgrade on Lallana right now We are perhaps still a bit light up front - with only Pelle and Long as recognized strikers (with Gallagher in the wings) Factor in we now have Koeman and I am delighted - and the Board have lived up to their promise. No fire sale here to see.

Think we won't see him at Saints again. Believe his contract is up at the end of the season - hopefully he can forge a good career for himself. If Saints thought he was going to make it they would have given him a long term contract like Gallagher, Reed, JWp, Targett, etc

This will have ended up being a great window for us...we will end up with far more depth in the squad than last season and replacements for the turncoats, I think, will leave us in a stronger position. To get the 2 having medicals is quite a coup. The biggest coup of the window is keeping hold of Morgan and with Rodriguez to come back this could be a very exciting game. Hopefully there will be some humble pie, and apologies, for the mass hysteria aimed at the board and Kruger earlier this summer.

how s***e does Lovren look? Starting to really wonder if Fonte did actually make him look so good after all. 4 absolute clangers so far against Spurs and his last ditchg tackles (look good on highlight reels) are because he has given the ball away/out of position.

care in the community I think SOG.............. For the likes of Hypo: I was not talking about us winning the League but more his refreshing candor and the way he stands for no nonsense.... Boruc, Morgan and Taider as examples

why is it not realistic? This is shaping up to be a very average league this year. Everton will have distractions from the Europa League, Man U are struggling and only Chelsea are a stand out team so far.

bloody hell.....was at both the Norwich game and Coventry game. Seems like only yesterday.......the Norwich game was incredible and a game that will forever live in the memory. If memory serves me right the COventry game was the first game of the season and we started that year on fire until Ekelund got injured (what a waste!).

oldskoolki - who is going to lose next week? The skates? Certainly won't be Saints................

From day 1, Koeman has impressed me with his forthright views and taking no nonsense. Loved his comments about "hating the long ball"! His stance with Schneiderlin and Taider has been very refreshing and the right thing to do. He also seems to have the knack of changing things up - Pochettino only had 1 way he would play and already we have seen more variety from Koeman and his subs have been very canny (like today). Whatever he says at half time seems to do the trick (at Millwall it was an awful 1st half display and superb 2nd half display). All in all he could be a great manager for us and I truly believe he will turn out to be an inspired appointment. Really think we could be in for a season ast least as good as last year.

lol at Hypo trying to take the moral high ground!

Saint Charlie - you need to get laid. So many of you are total t**ts and cry like babies at the slightest things. Plainly obvious Schneiderlin does not want to be here - probably thought he was scoring an OG. have you seen his Twitter home page? Some of you are beyond hope........ Anyone remember how poor we were at West ham last season under Pochettino? Tadic and Forster look like great signings

what a bunch of bedwetting, hysterical T**ts on here. boo hooo f'in hooo. Taider didn't work out. Question for the usual t***ts: would you rather we kept Taider or Morgan? Just asking like............

Think Pochettino is doing us a favor by refusing to sell us Townsend. If ever there was an over hyped, overrated player he is it.

Can't help being really uninspired by talk of the likes of Redmond and Townsend.......appear to be a big downgrade on what we have (i.e. Ramirez) and not ones to exactly set the pulse racing. very average players and very over hyped

bloody hell....if ever there was a game of 2 halves that was it. Shocking first half and then showed real grit, tenacity and skill to overrun Millwall second half. Pelle looked a different player and playing the ball into feet made a huge difference. Have to say that I think Cork made the real difference when he came on and deserves a starting position based on that performance.

wow....Koeman must have read them the riot act. Looks a totally different side now. Still wasteful in front of goal though.

OMG - Corks first goal for Saints? Great finish and surely he's gotta be offered a new contract? You can see his passion for Saints shining through.

Wow...Pelle looks so slow, clumsy and off the pace. Great effort by Tadic. Him and Forster look great buys.

Truly hope Koeman can turn this game around (performance and result) - we're devoid of any ideas and Isgrove was the one player that had pace and was causing Millwall problems. Cannot think of anything we created through decent passing and movement that half. Truly cannot understand why we bought Long for 12 million based on (albeit the very small sample set so far) his play to date

I truly cannot remember being so dispirited watching Saints play since the dark, dark days. Everything that was built through Adkins then Pochettino seems to have been thrown out of the window. Long balls to no-one, totally toothless attack and not sure what the hell the midfield is meant to be doing but Millwall have the run of 2/3 of the pitch with basically no Saints players anywhere near. Absolutely no class being displayed by anyone. Gutless, guileless and extremely concerning.

Wow, Wanyama......2 monumentally bad decisions in 2 minutes. There is just nothing about Saints this half (against a weakened Millwall team). No guile, no midfield, nothing. Absolutely horrific display so far.

Sure hope we get a proper striker in......Pelle looks like he couldn't hit a barn door from 5 yards out and Long is totally non-existent. looking like 20 million+ not well spent so far.

One word for this (apart from s***e).........................HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF No style, no teeth up front and sadly lacking in every aspect. If they don't raise their game soon it truly will be a very long, hard season. Can't think of a single ball played into the box that has been dangerous so far. Pelle and Long look absolute garbage.

Is Shane Long playing? How did we ever pay 12 million for him?