Saint Charlie

Holloway was in a talkative mood after.Confirmed Southampton have emailed a bid of £5m for Matt Phillips. Had to email it as Pool chairman.. ...Karl Oyston won't answer their phone calls as he doesn't want to sell. Phillips unsettled by it and a bit angry by the sounds of it Tweets from a reporter at the game...

He signed a new long term contract last season.

They play Leeds at home on Tuesday, will be interesting to see if his head is right for that one.

Surely it will play out that a compromise will be reached and Phillips will join us. That's the peril of being in the Championship.

He gets injured so often plus we don't really seem to be going for experience and Caulker played a full season anyway. Doubt we are in for either.

Holloway on Phillips @simonpeach “Soton offered £5m but we don’t need the money. So what can they do? The player signed a deal" #pasoccer

Caulker over Dawson for sure.

A post match Holloway tirade on its way I'm sure...

Basically yes. Does make it a lot more expensive than first reported if you add signing on fees and agent payments.

Me too. Hill is awful. Forte scores for Crawley.

Barnard equalises at Fratton!

Teams don't want to lose their best players, welcome to the big league.

Got to just get it signed soon.

As an aside Forecast on bench for Gills, Harding starts for Forest, Barnard for Bmth, Bart for Notts Co and Lee Holmes nowhere to be seen for Preston. Either injured or tapped up by Bayern as a replacement for Robben.

Norwich and QPR trying to ensure we aren't bottom after tomorrow!

Current situation from the Sky Italian reporter http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.gianlucadimarzio.com/calciomercato/bologna-ramirez-la-situazione/ Sounds positive...

Bologna have a game tonight and Ramirez is definitely not with their squad.

Yep, we know the asking price...up to us to close it if we want him and it suits us.

If we want him that badly it will get sorted. Depends how much NA and NC think he is worth.

That's what I said yesterday. 70% of our fee goes to Bologna and 30% to Penarol. Sure it will get sorted, Saints would have obviously preferred for it to be behind closed doors. The sooner it's done the better. Not like we wouldn't have known this when we moved for him and Bologna have obviously given us permission to speak to the player while we finalise a deal with them.

Saints would have known this before negotiations began. Ramirez piped up about the move but sounded yesterday like NA knew it was ongoing.

Its very rare that a transfer fee of that size is ever paid upfront. This will rumble on.

Where did you hear that? Twitter?

He did. He said he would happily wait to get the right quality on the last day of the window if needed. In fact he said he thinks most of the deals will happen in the last two days and that the Euros and Olympics have delayed things. He was very positive about getting quality players in.

He made a comment about only making offers for players of a certain quality...was telling IMO - they would rather wait for quality than take mediocre players.