Saint Charlie

Bournemouth playing with the kind of positivity, spirit, total support from the fans and passing footy we have the last couple of seasons. So much pace in the front players, a good, calm Manager. Good chance of staying up IMO.

But still true Wanyama wants to leave. Which is the key point really.

This should clear it up but will need to wait til tomorrow for breaking news: @BroadcastMoose: Lot of rumours @SpursOfficial target @VictorWanyama has asked to leave @SouthamptonFC - I'm seeing them at @WatfordFC tomorrow so will ask

Money has also enabled a brilliant last 5 seasons for Saints. No other reason the best players of the likes of Feyenoord, Sporting and Celtic are happy to leave those clubs for ours.

Fair point but then might as well not both having football forums. Fans love transfer gossip/drivel. If we stop threads about it then whats left to comment on apart from Betfair joining as a new commercial partner?

Only in his mind. Sadly its just another fake account.

Back for WBA most likely.

We won't sell. We might just have a few ****ed off first teamers. Lets hope they react the same way Morgan did. Far from ideal, nothing we can do about it, but doesn't have the feelings of a positive start to the season that we have had a lot of recently. Key player injuries of course don't help that!

Should we bother keeping players who don't want to play for the club? With Morgan it was maybe a little different because of the history he had with us. Would rather have players who want to be here rather than one going through the motions until leaving next summer.

It's Ron!

Also an element of once you let so many go, and teammates see them all playing in bigger games for better teams, then you can see why others want a piece of that, even potentially Fonte. Do you think Wanyama sees our signings this summer and feels excited that we can better last year? Not that it makes a difference to us wanting to sell, but certainly could make him feel more like this season could be a little wasted in his career, as he knows he will go next summer anyway.

All this crap, Fonte, Mane, Wanyama etc does somewhat make it difficult to have a positive start to the season. You need focused, committed and confident players but it seems at the moment that barely anyone in the first team is really settled, either with their place in the team/form or in some cases place at the club. Only Stekelenburg (who knows he is just here for a year) and probably Pelle fall into the settled category for me, maybe Davis too.

No wonder Koeman and many other PL Managers can't wait for the window to end. Hard to have a fully focused team when 2 or 3 of the starting XI players either want to leave or have had their head turned. Maybe a few of the players feel it hard to really progress when your best teammates are continually sold, and perhaps they don't feel the replacements are good enough to sustain last season's form?

Do think Targett looked better last season than he has this. Attacking game is poor and he hasn't balanced that by just being a solid, reliable defender. Big chance for him at the start of the season and he hasn't taken it. Caveat however - the guy who was ahead of him for Eng U21s in the summer, Luke Garbutt of Everton, has been loaned out to the Championship for the season. Realistically that is also Targett's current level, so lets not be too harsh.

It must be instead (if true) because we don't need 5 senior centre backs, all on decent wages, surely?

Hopefully they do. He would have been a good signing two years ago but not now and it would be a disappointing, cheap signing if it was instead of VVD or similar. Very unlikely we would sign two defenders. For that reason I doubt its true, although the Italian journalist memtioned by the Star seems clear on it.

Also Vlaar is a free agent so could sign anytime. If we are keen on him he could train with us to proove his fitness and then sign once he is near to being available. Why would we waste a few hundred grand rather than do that?

Surely this is bull****.

Not learning from previous games then?

Fonte did also get a heavy knock towards the end of the game.

-------------------Stek------------------- Cedric-Fonte-Caulker-Targett ---------Wanyama-----Romeu------- ----------------------Davis---------------- Tadic--------------------------Mane -----------------Pelle----------------- Mane will come in from the left, but with a more solid midfield they can cover him better.

Seems like Man Utd fan Crook has achieved exactly what he wanted from this comment piece then.

Good presser. Nice and relaxed, smiling and completely dismissing any chance of sales.

He is basically saying that we are after VVD. Think we will get him, but might have to wait til the end of the window. IMO.

@solentsport: SAINTS: On possible incomings, Reed said: "It might take a bit of time but we're working hard, and I'm confident we'll come through with it.