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Still think it was a huge mistake to give McCarthy another deal and would love to know what he is earning.

Is that sterling or euros? We paid £12 million for Baz.

This would be amazing but would be surprised if we get him. Both Manchester clubs have been linked with him although he probably wouldn't be a regular starter for them.

Works both ways - when we sign players we don't pay it all up front.

Good point.We are going to need to throw crosses in regularly because we won't often work the ball through Premier League midfields/defences with loads of passes and create chances - even the top sides sometimes struggle with that. If we don't learn quick our forwards will be living on scraps and we've already seen the signs in pre season games.

Stats I've seen show us as having made the 4th most number of crosses in the Chamionship last season.

Who cares, just get one in.

Give the lad a fair crack - he can't do any worse than Mara. Despite all the talk about Tall Paul not suiting RM's system we constantly cross hopeful balls into the box despite having nobody up front who can head the ball. Man City and Utd put in plenty of crosses at Wembley today - it is within the rules of the game. One of the finest sights for me in my years supporting Saints was Ron Davies climbing to head home a series of superb goals.

Or maybe it's QPR or VAR.

So why have we been trying to sign Matt O'Brien?

Maybe time SR woke up to that fact.

Way out of our price range.

Not saying they'd get it but Blackburn value him at £15-20 million.

The problem is we clearly can't afford to shop for players above the level of someone like Szmodics. We can only buy what we can afford which leaves me wondering why we've wasted so much time chasing Matt O'Riley.

Szmodics scored one and had an assist for Blackburn.

Callum O'Hare looking good for Sheff Utd and they got him on a free transfer. Think he'd have done a good job for us.

We'll see.

'Slightly' won't cut it in the Premier League. I get that the transfer window is still open but I'm not expecting any exciting signings.

Have to agree with this.

It's debatable.

We aren't getting O'Riley and never were.

I didn't specify how high a priority I think it is. Someone posted that we need a GK, STR and AM and I simply added that I think we need a defensive midfielder too. To be honest all 4 positions could be considered as priorities in equal measures in my view because currently our first eleven looks very weak.

Have you not seen the lack of a midfield shield for our defence? I'd say it's one of the most important positions and we still haven't replaced Romeu with anyone half competent.

He may have said it but there is no evidence that he'll be putting his money where his mouth is. No problem with that as it's his money to do as he wishes with but no need to make empty ambitions that get the fans hopes up. Better to tell it as it is ie we won't be spending much.

Along with a defensive midfielder such as Skipp.