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End of an era really. Rom, Jack, both been around for donkeys, Jack especially. I assume he gets a testimonial?

Who was the latest we've had? Danny Ings wasn't it?

Reading the Leeds forum they don't think they'll get Gakpo. It seems they are living the buy to sell spending model that we had under Gao. They're also more interested in bringing in a striker than a winger hence the big for the Wolves lad. I think we're in the driving seat for this one but it's dependent on PSV. Still a lot could go wrong. Gone quiet on the exits for Bednarek, Stephens, Valery and Romeu hasn't it! Has Redmond even been linked with anyone? I wouldn't be averse to keeping him as back up anyway. I guess Bednarek is dependant on West Ham selling Dawson. And Dawson wants to leave so that'll probably happen, although they have also been linked with... Vestergaard.

Piss off Leeds. And anyway, I still don't understand big clubs clamouring after Dan James. He's far from perfect, inconsistent, lack of end product. Of available wingers I'd rather Adama Traore or Ismaila Sarr if I were Spurs... or from Leeds Jack Harrison who is probably the better player. All IMO from what I've seen. .

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It's probably just due to years of supporting Saints and being disappointed with so many transfers but I still think we'll miss out on Gakpo somehow. Just a hunch something will happen or someone will usurp us or PSV will stop it somehow. I reckon AMN will be done (someone said he's already in Southampton?) And the City boys and Badé will come in but we'll be left looking for our attacking talent on deadline day. Of course I'd love to be proved wrong as it would be a big statement of intent.

Bazunu KWP ABK Salisu Perraud JWP AMN AArmstrong Aribo Gakpo Adams. Subs: Badé, Lyanco, Larios, Djenepo, Edozie, Diallo, SArmstrong, Mara, Moi …could be.

First training session after deadline day at Southampton…

It’s like someone has nicked the Saints Fc credit card and has gone on a bender.

Blimey. Badé, AMN, the two City lads, and probably Gakpo (SSN just said we’re prepared to increase our bid)… that’s 5 in. I never thought I’d see an end of the window quite like it! Fingers crossed they all come off as we would have double-strengthened our spine this window!

I was going to say, even though there’s no agreement between clubs yet, we’re still able to agree personal terms right? I’m sure I’ve seen transfers where everything has been agreed between the buying club and the player leaving just the two clubs to come to an arrangement… I guess we’ll know when the PSV team is announced later.

And Valery still currently on the books.

Anyone made the “Edozie’s nickname is Fandab” joke yet?

AMN birthday was two days ago, he’s just had a baby and now he gets a move to Saints. Everything going right in his life this week! 🤪

Annual leave and COVID. If it wasn’t for my 4 year old watching Frozen for the billionth time I’d be glued to SSN.

Plus they still have Gomes, Doucoure, Allan, Davies as CMs and Iwobi and Holgate have played there recently. Madness!

35 hours to go and nothing much concrete yet. Still, patience is a virtue. It’s just nice to be one of the clubs that may do something this deadline day.

Onana, Garner, Gueye, they’re really stocking up on CMs.

Brought in for cheap, absolute bargain. If I remember rightly he had injury issues at Chelsea but he had a good Barcelona pedigree and when Morgan and Wanyama and Cork all left he made the transition to first choice seemlessly. Model Pro and always seemed like a really nice bloke. He will be missed... ...I assume this means we will definitely bring in a CM otherwise we are looking very light on the ground with just JWP, Lavia and Diallo.

Yeah I can't see us losing two CBs unless we have a plan to bump Simeu up to the first team after his successful loan last season. It would ask a lot of ABK and Salisu to last all season with just Lyanco as a senior back up, and I still don't fully feel comfortable seeing Valery as a CB. However the fact that Bednarek was on the bench last night over Stephens is interesting. Maybe we want to keep Jan and let Jack go. In the real world we'd let both go and bring someone else in but we are pressed for time.

The funny thing is they're spunking money on midfielders when it's their attack that needs work. Maupay, Rondon and an injury prone DCL are not going to score enough goals to keep them up. Gray and Gordon will drift in and out of form too. Could be in trouble.

4 wins in a row now! 😃 Seriously we seem to have clicked but it's dependant on the likes of Lavia being fit or not. Wolves don't score many but they're a good team although I think I predicted them to struggle pending transfers but it looks as if they're bringing in a striker so they should be fine. A draw would be a good result, a win would be great.

If we are to sign 3 or so players, we'd probably need to hear about the moves today. Rarely (though it's not impossible) do deals just suddenly happen on deadline day (tomorrow), they're usually set up in advance and then completed on deadline day. Personally I'd be slightly surprised if we brought in 3 now, although we probably do need 3/4. Anyone in this country can basically be pursued on deadline day due to travel but someone like Gakpo needs to be largely agreed today. It'll be a big day. My prediction? Outs? Bednarek and Romeu probably, maybe Redmond. Ins? One CM, one attacker (either a 10 or Str). We may sneak a late signing on Thursday, someone localish like Vale from Chelsea (although I did notice he was on the bench last night).

4231 has always been my favourite formation since Pochettino introduced it. I'm glad Ralph has given it a go... it certainly seems to have brought the best out of Armstrong.