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Not to mention KWP can play left back too, and has done for Spurs. Signing Williams would give us great versitility, although I would like him on a permanent, which I don't think United would be open to.

Based on having Vokins on the bench today over Valery, I suspect you’re right. But JWP and Romeu have built such a good partnership in the middle, it would be worrying to break it up. Let’s hope we don’t have to. Signing Brandon Williams in January (or someone of that calibre) would make total sense for squad depth. https://images.app.goo.gl/qxBFrR92eijpBMUT6 Was a definite red, that was a potential ankle breaker IMO. Ancelotti needs to watch it again. If that red card gets overturned I’d be very surprised. Karen Carney said it was a red. Not malicious but dangerous.

I transferred him out this week! Ffs And Jota, who scored for Liverpool. Chilwell is my highest scoring player with six. Bad week. Unless Kane does something miraculous. West Ham continue to surprise me this season. Their fixtures looked so tough but they’ve done very well so far. Whether they can be as good through the “easier” games remains to be seen.

After that game, Jay Rodriguez, formerly of this parish > J. Rodriguez, latterly in this parish. 😄 Very comfortable win, annoyingly I had to Sky+ it and watch it after it had finished due to agreeing to take my daughter to softplay at 2pm by mistake. (Thought we were the late game for some reason 🙄) Ings my MOTM, 2 assists and he just never lets up. I was also impressed by the Diallo cameo, and no player was less than and 8 out of 10, except perhaps McCarthy who had so little to do! The red card was correct. Nasty challenge even if it was unintentional. If we lose KWP we have issues. Now we see if we can knock Villa off their perch. Top 4 here we come...? 🤗 p.s. been said before, but N’Lundulu is a frigging unit.

Weirdly it's not like we've needed Salisu or Diallo to step in straight away, unlike Walker-Peters and Walcott, both whom we needed to play straight away following their signings. Vestergaard has done OK this season since Stephens was dropped alongside Bednarek (who had a pretty rare poor game last weekend) and Romeu has stepped up and formed a decent partnership with JWP in midfield. As long as the CBs and the DMs play OK, we've been lucky not to have to force and unfit/unready Salisu into the side before he's ready. It would be nice to see Salisu on the bench though, at least then we know he's getting close.

Were we ever actually linked with Del Piero or was that a SaintsWeb pipedream?

Exactly. Listening to Talksport earlier and they were discussing Villa winning the title. If that happens, I'm a baboon's butt. Even Cundy last night was listing half the Premier League that could win it. (Saints were not one of them). Far too many people jumping the gun this early into the season.

Looks so far as if that will be today....

Palace getting what they deserved for defending the entire game. I bet their fans are glad they aren't at the stadium to watch that crap. Speaking of ultra defensive, here come West Ham with a 5-4-1 formation against Spuds. 😖 So much dross in the Premier League this season. Glad to be a Saints fan right now. We have a great manager in charge.

United 2-1 now against Newcastle. 1 more goal for United and we go above Newcastle back into the top half of the table. #littlevictories EDIT: Done.

https://streamable.com/04imq9 Link to the Vestergaard goal (Don't watch if you're waiting for MOTD and haven't seen it). Nicked from REDCAFE https://www.redcafe.net/threads/pl-weekend-fixtures-17-10-20-19-10-20.458226/page-26

Hence the last line of my post. 🙂 Even teams playing not to get beat sometimes score enough to win. I did however enjoy the friendly last week.

No Ings or JWP in the starting line up. Such a boring starting XI, it's definitely like GS is trying not to lose than trying to actually win games. James over TAA? No Grealish? AMN over the left footed Saka? I'm still unsure of Southgate as manager. Makes some odd decisions. Still as long as he keeps getting results, we keep him as manager. England 1Pickford 4Walker 5Coady 6Maguire 2James 8Phillips 7Rice 3Maitland-Niles 10Mount 11Rashford 9Kane Substitutes 12Mings 13Pope 14Henderson 15Saka 16Alexander-Arnold 17Gomez 18Ward-Prowse 19Grealish 20Ings 21Sancho 22Henderson 23Calvert-Lewin

I’m more of an R’s man myself! 🤦‍♂️ Anyone think if he’ll be on the bench against Chelsea? I assume he’s fit if he played for France U21. Or is he not ready like Salisu?

😆 Well none in the last couple of minutes so seems you've sorted it! 🤞

Repeat 500 errors today. I like the mobile layout but it took me a few "temporary technical errors" to get on the site. It was definitely better in the last few weeks that it was before though. Keep up the good work though Steve, much appreciated

Cliche, but I like players with pace. Whether he has the footballing brain to go with it remains to be seen. Is he any better than Sims?

Liverpool Man City Chelsea Spurs Arsenal Man Utd Everton Wolves Leicester Newcastle Southampton Leeds Aston Villa Crystal Palace Brighton West Ham Burnley Sheffield United Fulham WBA Is how I roughly see it, maybe with a few swapsies of teams close to each other, but predominantly I think we could finish 10th, but more likely 11th/12th. I do think there are at least 7/8 weaker teams than us in the division so if we finish 13th or worse we've had a bad season. Any higher than 10th and it will have been a great season, as I think the top 9 in that table are all ahead of Saints squad-wise.

Thanks @Rebel, you’ve saved me typing a long post! That’s effectively how I see it all word for word. However I do think we have a better position, incrementally, every season from the dark days of Pellegrino and Hughes, and a lot of that is to do with Ralph making use of his meagre resources. Ralph is everything to this club right now, Long May he reign. It’s a 7 out of 10 window for me, so I went good. We brought in KWP to fill the difficult right back spot, knowing he was decent thanks to his loan spell, and strengthened CB with Salisu, who even without playing must be better than Danso, surely!?! Diallo comes in and fills the Hojbjerg spot too, but Romeu and Vestergaard have had decent performances in the last couple of games, so the bedding in of Diallo and Salisu is less urgent. I was worried that we would have no attacking signings but then comes Walcott, and while I’m not gushing over that signing, at least it adds some experience in forward areas. I feel we could have done more in attacking areas, I think we are one AM short of a great squad, and for me the two year contract to Long was an odd decision (One or one and a ‘games played’ clause surely would have done). Also there are questions over the keeper situation (though our hands are tied with Forster) and full back cover. However we still have the EFL window. If we do good business there, I will bump the window up. Incidentally I think we did very well to get Carrillo and Boufal off the books permanently.

Rooney at Everton must have been a while... *Just found this link: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/nov/06/which-players-have-had-the-longest-gap-between-spells-at-a-club

I need to go to bed soon, wish they’d hurry up and announce Walcott! With Boufal gone I’d rather have Walcott than nobody. I guess with the EFL to Prem (and vice versa) window still open for another 11 days, and with us offloading so much off the wage bill today (2 permanently) then we may still see some movement IN in that time. Plenty of jewels there still to be had. Also OUT could go the likes of Gunn, Hesketh and Sims potentially. (Although Personally I don’t mind Sims...)

I think if we'd signed Walcott when we were linked with him before (then he joined Everton) I would have been quite pleased with the signing. But after a couple of years doing very little with them, I question if this is the best player we could have brought in. If we have to sign a loan player over a permanent, I'd much rather we brought Loftus-Cheek in. Does Walcott still have the one attribute that stood out all those years ago? If it is Walcott, sure he'll get my support, but I don't believe he'll add much to us this season. Didn't he used to say he was more a striker than an AM/Winger? I wonder if this is a smokescreen for someone else? Or possibly one of a couple of signings?

I left Watkins on the bench in my Fantasy team! Fuckity fucksticks. Still worth it to see Liverpool suffer for a change. Interesting League so far

We’ve not won by more than a two goal margin in nearly 3 years! (Stat 1.) I didn't see the game as I was working but saw the Romeu goal. Great hit! Nice. We’ve not won 3 in a row in the league since the last Koeman season. (Stat 2.) Would be nice to beat Chelsea and/or take Everton down a peg or two.

It's a shame we're skint, or I'd like to think we'd have been linked with Benrahma. There's a player that would be first choice and properly raise our levels.<<sigh>> I wouldn't be against RLC signing, although his injury record isn't brilliant, Ings has proved it's not impossible to come back from bad injuries, and he's fit currently. He's played for England and he can score goals, he's versatile and a decent age. Plus, if we do only have him on loan, with no purchase option, if he likes it here, maybe a deal could be done next summer with Chelsea and his wages. After all, is he EVER going to be first choice there? It's hard to see it. Also I've always advocated looking at Chelsea for young players that don't seem to get much of a look in there. It worked with Bertrand. TBF With one day left of the window, ANY AM would be a bonus.