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Back on Saints transfer radar I mean. Mind you I suppose Paulinho and Neymar have had busy summers and still signed for different teams. Dum de dum...

Bueno should be back on the radar after the U20 World Cup finished...

I'm a fan of Lukaku but I dont see any 's on people sucking his manpole. Hes a player still 6/7 years from his peak, hes big and powerful, hes a proven goalscorer in the Premier League. Plus a couple of times last season that I saw him play he was conjouring stuff out of nothing. Im not saying he's the finished article, and out of him or Benteke I'd perhaps still plump for Benteke (even though he's not the finished article either) but he'd still be a cracking signing. We wont get him though, even if he were available I'd see a bigger side after him.

You sure theyre not after Rupert Lowe as Director of Football? :-)

A wasted horses head then? :-)

Well that's a wasted phone call. Still, the 1% chance we have of pulling off this signing will be fun to cling to until deadline day.

The Hammond that's still on our books? Not sold. Yet.

It's fact. The Celtic fans say so and they're used to seeing cabers.

It doesn't scan. It's also a little bit ghey. I can't see the Northam going for it.

I normally agree with MLG, and while I do agree we're looking for the next class of striker up, I'd be more than content with Hooper being our only striker signing this window. I'd rather pay the bigger money for a winger/attacking midfielder and smaller amounts for a striker than the other way around. Any goalscorer, which Hooper clearly is, would be a welcome addition and at the prices being bandied around, anywhere up to £6 million, would be a reasonably good punt on Hooper. You think I may jest but for that reason also I would take a punt on Bent. Even at his age he's a proven goalscorer, and if he was available at a reasonable transfer fee and wage (although I'm not sure whether his wage would put teams off) I think he'd be worth a punt too. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we'll go for either, and as MLG says we'll sign a striker that will make us go "wow", just that I would be perfectly happy if we brought either of these two in instead.

:nod: I hope they wipe the pussy juices off the dugout seats before the team next uses them. (Award for rudest, most childish post of the thread goes to...)

It'll be interesting to keep an eye on Fulham's transfers now. With more money behind them, which I'll assume Jol will be given some of, they'll be looking to make a statement of intent in the transfer market.

I'd crap on the Fratton Park pitch in retaliation but they'd probably be thankful for the free fertiliser.

Poor old Isgrove's new contract has been put in the shade a bit!

Wow, I broke the news first. I officially declare myself ITK.

Never! It's legit. Oh, and doesn't Luke have lovely manicured hands!

It's happened! Here is real, ITK photographic evidence...

My missus is gutted, she had a soft spot for Chaplow. Called him Chappers. It sparked when I took her to see Saints play in League One - I forget who we played now, but Chaplow played on the left and was exceptional. I think he got MOTM. She always hoped that one day he'd join Norwich. She's weird. She also fancies David Bentley. Of all the players in the depths of our squad last season, of all the lower league players that suddenly found themselves part of a Premier League team, the one I wouldn't have been too concerned about getting game time was Chaplow. He always gives his all, and is far from being a poor player. Millwall, or whoever gets him, will have a good little player on their hands.

Some of our youngsters look like schoolkids - I remember Jo "Fish" Mills looked like he should have still been in primary school - but Isgrove looks older than he is. Fully grown? Shove him in the first team!

He's of legal drinking age and they're in a warm country. He'll sign the contract at 8pm, take the necessary press photos, and go out afterwards to get royally bladdered on the old sangria and margheritas. One hopes. Leaving it until they get back to England would cause multiple suicides amongst Saints fans.

I wonder whether we'd target other Kenyans. I'm not sure how good they are in general, I know one plays in France, but most are home based. We did it in the past with Bleidelis and Chala. I'm not saying sign a player just for the sake of appeasing Wanyama, but I wonder if there are any talented Kenyans that could come in that would a)help Victor settle and b) add to our squad. Anyone know of any?

Manchester United Chelsea Arsenal Saints: 11th, poor end to a promising season. Player of the season is JRod, who helps himself to 19 goals and 9 assists. Relegated, in no particular order: Crystal Palace Newcastle Sunderland. North East football implodes. Hull however survive by the skin of their teeth. Cardiff finish an impressive 14th.

I agree it's too soon to start predicting starting line ups, especially still with a month and a half of the transfer window remaining (and over a month until the first Premier League game). Hypothetically though, as the squad stands, it'd probably be Boruc, Clyne, Lovren, Jos, Shaw, Morgan, Wanyama, Lallana, Ramirez, JRod, Lambert. Subs: Gazzaniga, Yoshida, Fox, Cork, Davis, Puncheon, Mayuka. I still think we'll see a winger/AM and a striker brought in at the very least, with possibly another centre back to follow. I know from earlier in the summer we were targetting a right back too, with the loss of Richardson and Butterfield, as competition to Clyne, so I wonder if that will still happen. Happy with the squad otherwise. Eventually if we want to push for Europe we'll need another top keeper IMO.