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I do think Harry is a good manager but I believe he's crud with finances, his football clubs and his own. It's like on Football Manager (for instance) where you get a budget to spend, blow it, and then ask the chairman for more (or do everything in your power to manipulate the budget to bring in that extra player.). I still don't like him, he's a cockle and will always be. He has a face you want to slap. (Only if you did that, it probably wouldn't stop wobbling.) I hope the MOTD set can cope when Saints win, I hear a Redknapp twitch measures 6.8 on the Richter scale.

No Hart or Richards helps a tad, so we could grab the odd consolation goal in a 4-1 tonking.

Who cares about the fee? This would be a good signing for us, and his future fee will only rise. Yes we still have the memory of administration ringing in our memories, but we're run by a banker now. I think he knows what we can and can't afford. From Wiki: "His most recent position was as an executive at Banque Heritage in Geneva where he managed the finances of billionaires" I think he's best placed to decide we can spend £6 million on a winger that can only improve us.

Maybe Maybe Maybe. I can make up stuff with Maybe. Maybe we'll sign Lionel Messi. Maybe Rupert Lowe has been honing his centre back skills and is now all set to play for us. M

I'd rather we sign Phillips than Jarvis purely on the basis that it'd p!$$ Holloway right off. Other than that, I'm not fussed really, although Phillips is younger and cheaper.

Very sad but I guess it's a sign of the times. As a youngster I read both the Beano and the Dandy but The Beano was always my favourite. Soon enough I switched allegiance to Buster, which has also since closed down.

Thanks for the update! Massively looking forward to that.

I think we can nick a result with the team we have. We've got quality in the team, and in spite of us bemoaning our lack of bringing in a CB, Jos and Jose are far from the worst CB's in the world. My view is we have 17 days to bring in recruits, not 4, so there's no immediate need to panic. (An injury to Jos or Jose against City and I will of course change my mind!)

Naturally they should go into every game thinking they can win it, cupsets happen, so can leagupsets. (A new word, it won't catch on.) We're just being more realistic as fans, especially ones that support a team that has had so many ups and downs as we've had in the past. Guly's inconsistant. :-D

We could've signed Buttner, 2 CB's, a quality keeper and an amazing right winger this summer and we'd still struggle to get more than 3 points from our first 4 games. It's who we sign before the deadline and how they gel that will shape our season. I'm pleased our run in is a darn sight easier than our beginning, we always seem to start a season badly/slowly and that would have been the case had we 4 easier games in the first four. We need the winnable games when we're on a run of form, it's our fellow relegation candidates that we need to be beating, not the big boys. (though that would be nice!)

Norwich won't. Wigan will. Swansea might. I still think we're relegation fodder as it stands. What we need is two or three other clubs to start badly. As good as Lambert is, I actually think his move to Villa is downgrading. I can see Villa struggling. There's always one bigger team that slips down. People say QPR are going to be fine this seasono because of the players they've signed but I think that they're largely average, past it players. Their team is also cluttered. It could be them.

Looks good, quality review too. Incidentally Duncan is there any plan to update: It's "the Bible" and I'm completely addicted to it, especially when an old name gets mentioned on here. We've had quite a few players come through our doors in the last 21 years!

If we sign a decent centre back by Friday, my league prediction for the season will go from 19th to 17th. If we sign a centre back and a winger, my prediction will rise again to 14th. If we sign two CB's, a GK, a RM and a LB, I'll spunk in my pants. (And my predo will go up to 8th.) If we don't sign anyone? I just hope we surprise a few teams with our fight and determination.

I'm surprised more teams haven't tried raping Malaga of their assets. The Daily Star linked Man Utd to a couple of their players yesterday, Eliseu and Monreal. Both are left sided defenders but I've been doing a bit of reading and Eliseu, while 28, is an attacking left back that can play left wing too. That seems like the sort of player we've been after. (See Buttner.) We've already nicked one Man Utd target this summer (however true that may be), so if we're linking ourselves with impressive targets like Ramirez, should we have a pop at Eliseu? TransferMarkt.co.uk has his value at £3.5 million. Not bad. Wages would be the only issue with this...

Is this Football Rumours?

Surely out of our reach. A Keegan-esque signing if ever there was one in the modern game. Born in Fray Bentos too. Lol.

He'd have been closer to a half had this thread been started before Paul Smith was released.

I thought we were Stokes'...

Exactly my earlier point. 3 of our first 4 games are tough as hell, and we'll do very well to even pick up a point from them, so even a couple of panic additions this week won't make things different. There's 3 weeks left of the transfer window, I'd rather we bide our time and bring in the correct signings. If we make the correct signings this week, well that would be the perfect scenario. But I don't see it.

I can't believe we stuffed up our chance of getting into the fantastic League Two. Gutted I was. We had -10 points too and we stuffed it up. I hear that League Two is a brilliant league, according to my dad, the Torquay fan. I'd love nothing more than to see Saints get relegated three times. Pompey can do it, so why can't we? They've always done things better than us. Tsk.

Really? So if I ask what your favourite cheese is, you'll tell me what the exchange rate is in Canada? :-)

Bearsy, One TMS infraction point for not talking in a Bearsy-like fashion. Another for taking this thread off topic. And one for me for adding to its off topicness. Kind regards, 'Itler.

Cork and Morgan have both played CB in the past. Again I'd crap my pants if we resorted to that too. Fox played centre back last year too. However the last thing we want is makeshift centre backs. That's worse than the crud ones that got us relegated in the first place.

It'd be good, and somewhat of a relief, if Seaborne went out on loan. He looked good in League One IMO, but has yet to show me he's capable of playing at a higher level, let alone a level with some of the best footballers in the world. Good recovery experience for him if it happens. So, Fonte, Jos and Stephens. If that were our only centre back 3 this season, I'd crap my pants. Stephens is still learning the position. Two more centre backs MUST be brought in if this were to happen, and hopefully even if this doesn't happen we'll still see 1 in.

Four pages away? There'll be suicides by then! Unless someone spams incessantly, then we may sign someone today...