SNSUN

Well bugger me!

Bum.

No Vokins or Simeu in the U21s tonight. Loans out?

Not much creativity or pace there but it looks solid enough. I can't see a thrashing like last season as long as we keep 11 men on the pitch. Chelsea are still a good team though so a point would be a great result. COYS.

We tried to negotiate with PSV but they wouldn’t have it, so we had to beat them to death with their own shoes. Nasty business really. But sure enough he signed the contract, Gakpo joined Saints, and he went on to have a great season.

It’s almost win/win tonight, if we win we win, if we lose it’ll force the club to bring in the players we need. I just hope that if we win the club doesn’t suddenly think we’re ok for the campaign with the players we have, because we aren’t. Although there is the January window…

Liverpool are kings of getting big money for their crap. Garner may see the Casemiro signing as blocking his path and force the move. I’d take a loan with an option or obligation. AMN may offer the versatility we need but Garner seems more Saintsy.

Way!

No transfer news is dull. I’m putting on Wayne’s World 2 until something happens.

No MLG no party. 😝

A MOTM performance tonight in a win for Saints would alert the big boys. He was the best player on the pitch on Saturday and you couldn’t even choose him on the BBC Team of the Week. 🙄 If he’d scored one of his chances he’d have been picked by Crooks for sure. Personally I hope he goes under the radar for as long as possible. Already you can see ABK and Salisu will make an excellent pairing this season. Hopefully they can stay fit. A back line of Tino, ABK, Salisu and KWP sounds tasty.

I’m a Berkshire boy, born and raised. Get to a few home games a season but the football experience (travel, ticket, food and drink etc) isn’t cheap anymore, but as a shift worker I struggle to make many games anyway and my 4 year old also makes life difficult. When she’s older I plan on taking her to SMS (before the wife takes her to Carrow Road and she swings that way instead!)

Get well soon! Mine’s like a bad head cold but I’m better today than I was on Sunday. Nothing a few Saints transfers can’t fix!

Mind you Fulham are signing Willian which is a dodgy move. At 34 you have to wonder if he’s not past it. Forest are… well nobody has seen anything like what Forest are doing. Bournemouth have a little quality but this is probably the toughest league in years and I just struggle to see them surviving. Whoever the new manager is, if he keeps them up he deserves a knighthood. I suspect it will be Dyche.

£25 million up front with say £10 million add ons possibly. West Ham’s Paqueta deal included like £13 million of add ons so it’s possible. I can see this deal happening, it has the kind of feel as to when Man City signed Robinho shortly after they got their Billions. @SuperSAINT you’re going to be a busy bunny the next two days. I’ve just got COVID so I’ll be glued to SaintsWeb!

Nope, a week earlier. Incidentally Carillo is available on a free transfer. Bargain. 🤪

Or he got wind of Saints’ interest and deliberately played badly to put us off the scent... 😉

“Cody, that team from England have bid for you!” “That’s good enough for me, goodbye lads!” Later… ”We will shortly be landing at Southampton airport…” ”Wait, aren’t we supposed to be going to Manchester?”

It’s be #saintsy to sign a full back that couldn’t play full back…

As it stands, the players we have for each position are (their main positions) GK: Bazunu, McCarthy, Caballero, Lis RB: KWP, Livramento, Valery LB: Perraud CB: Salisu, ABK, Lyanco, Bednarek, Stephens CM: JWP, Lavia, Romeu, Diallo, AM: Djenepo, Moi, SArmstrong, Aribo, Redmond, Walcott Str: AArmstrong, Adams, Mara Ok, we have some versatility (Djenepo, Valery, KWP able to switch sides, Aribo as a striker) but we’re still lacking at FB and in attack. Personally I still think we’ll see Bednarek leave which leaves us with 4 CBs, plus Valery or Simeu stepping in if needed. Selling Romeu would definitely leave us light in CM IMO, unless JWP has another season where he plays every minute. Two more players would be enough for me pending any more players leaving, a full back and another striker. Then spend money if needed in January. Shipping out some deadwood is also needed. With three days to go it doesn’t seem like we’re going to bring in 4/5 players, but hopefully we can get a couple we need. AMN would definitely add some extra versatility. I said it last week, I definitely think we’ll be one of the active teams on deadline day.

There are no easy games this season so I'll phrase it this way... this is the last of our tough fixtures before we move on to the more "competitive" fixtures, otherwise meaning games we have a chance of winning. Therefore we need to keep up the performance levels against Chelsea that we showed against United. We've had a tough start to the season and looking at the start beforehand (including Chelsea) 4 points from those fixtures is probably close to what we could have expected, so any extra we get tomorrow is a big bonus. Then we move on to Wolves, Brentford, Villa and Everton and to teams more on our level. 7 or more points from those would be a great haul. Chelsea are a bit in disarray and don't seem to have much cohesion in signings but Koulibaly and Sterling were both decent signings. They don't seem to have got out of second gear yet and I think they'll be active on deadline day so we've probably caught them at a good time. 1-1 would be a decent result.

We wuz robbed. Wait, is this the match reaction fred? 😜

And there goes my stream. I'm blind for the last ten mins. Come on Saints! Not out of it yet!

Saints struggling against United's 12 men. Makes the equaliser even sweeter…