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Got excited. Deadline day tomorrow, so excited I could pop. Alderweireld would be an excellent defensive addition and would calm fans who don't know how good Gardos is yet. Keep everyone else and add a winger and we're there IMO.

I think and hope he'll stay but it'll be a long 24 hours. The sad thing is that every transfer window we'll be cacking ourselves that he'll leave. A replacement for him will be difficult to find.

I like Koeman like I liked Adkins, both seem to be nice chaps. :-) van Gaal? Grump.

Meh 35 game winning run coming up. Title's ours people.

When I fancy a pie at the game, I always pop off to the nearest Tesco to buy one.

Assuming Gardos is as good as we all hope he is, and everyone stays, then for me a winger/attacking midfielder is key. Long, Pelle, Gallagher, Rodriguez and even Mayuka cameos should be enough up top. Though of course another striker would be welcome!

Scratch that, he was the puppet show master. :-)

Wasnt he the whale in Pinnochio?

Got us down for a loss today but if it kicks us into last minute transfer dealings it won't be a wasted match. I just served a West Ham fan at work. I did not wish him a good day.

2 in, 1 out. Redmond one of the 'ins'.

...and yet we see how much success Newcastle have had with the French market and I wonder why we haven't raided that since... Morgan is it? I guess we have to hope for better luck with the Eredivisie.

Odd but we're not exactly short in the central midfield department. Morgan, Vic, Cork, JWP, Davis and Reed should be more than enough to see out the season. We need attacking midfielders, players to play in the front 3, not central midfielders. I had hoped Taider could adapt to play in the attacking trio, but now we'll never know. I definitely hope there are some signings coming up, aside from Tadic and possibly Ramirez I fail to see us create many goals until perhaps Rodriguez is fit again. Can we afford to rely on the youth?

I don't know how true it is, but I read he's available on a free? Probably huge wages but if he's free it'll be a coup for someone.

I can see us making a decent fist of this tie but losing. Annoyingly I was out with my Arsenal supporting mate when this draw was announced as we'd just watched their Game against Besiktas. "A bye to the 4th round" he claimed. Ergo I'd rather like us to win. Would love to go the the Emirates but am on extreme earlies annoyingly. Maybe I'll try and swap them.

His name was Hugo Seckter until Koeman started pronouncing it.

Brek Shea? Barrel truly scraped.

I'm looking forward to seeing Luke Shaw up against Europe's elite....... Oh.

If we sign a replacement for Gaston, I'd be fine with this but I have a feeling he could offer us something this season, and so letting him go without replacement would be crazy.

It was deliberate. In fact Long doesn't have to do anything else in his Saints career, that bit of skill was worth £12 million itself.

I'd imagine the one player is a winger, and the two players are a winger and centre back. We still lack depth at right back too. Then there's any 'outs' we may have to endure, those would need new signings for too. 1 or 2, so Koeman says, could be a turn of phrase as Greenridge states.

Outstanding contribution and looked eager to smash in the fourth too.

Celtic fans on one of their forums think he's off. Apparently Newcastle interested though... Edit: meant to quote the Van Dijk post above. Oh well...

Playing some OK stuff in between my stream freezing. Is that a hat trick of assists for Reeves?

Blimey o Riley that's a strong line up. Fingers crossed it'll do the biz. I forgot what predo I went for in the prediction league and I can't be arsed to check but I'm going for a simple 2-0 Saints win.

Anfield's Hooiveld?