hypochondriac

Really important that we had him last year. For that reason we can wish him well.

I don't think it suggests that kwp is staying.

That depends doesn't it. He might have a family and doesn't want to go abroad. He might have a great relationship with Martin and want to reunite with him. I don't think it's likely but it's more than a straight choice between Southampton and an obviously superior option.

If we are still in for him I'd be confident in saying that Martin knows he would be happy to come here.

ABK, Onuachu hand KWP sales should account for some of that. Maybe Alcaraz as well if we have to.

Imo if we sign o'riley, Clarke, Fraser, Ramsdale on loan, Bereton Diaz and another striker we will stay up. We won't be getting all of those players of course but that's the type of quality we will need.

I don't want us to spend loads of money for the sake of it this season but I do think it's going to take something like shelling out on o'riley if its even a possibility to have a serious shot at survival.

Indeed. SAA and him will make our RW stronger. The fact this bloke is also a young player is irrelevant. Would SAA be more encouraged if we brought in a more established RW option? If anything that would give him less chances.

Because that's where he gets his opinions. It's why his actions provoke so many laughing reactions. That and being insufferable smug and with a totally unearned sense of superiority.

If they don't want to sell not sure why this is continuing. I did read that he wanted to come. Maybe a transfer request?

I could be wrong but I'd consider that to be rather unlikely.

Meh

That's a good point. Maybe he wanted more than one year and he's just had a serious injury.

Odd that. I thought he was going back to Scotland or becoming a lawyer. I wouldn't say Brentford was vastly better than us to the degree that it was worth leaving what he had here. People loved him.

Wtf? Why would we not have signed him up?

If he was a Ferrari then we'd have played him.

Maybe but Porro won't be playing every game and they need a big squad like Villa. You can't blame him for wanting to assess his options but there's only about 7 teams who imo it would be worth his while signing for. If they aren't interested then I can't see him leaving saints for a direct rival. That rules out the likes of Brentford, forest etc. We still have a small chance.

Reading between the lines of Martin's latest comments, it would be extraordinary if kwp was still here at the end of the window. Not something we didn't already know of course. I just suppose it depends if a decentish club comes in for him and offers us enough cash. Imo he will go to spurs for 15 million.

Well he wants to come here and we want him. I still see it happening.

Fraser is going to sign just a matter of time. No idea about Brooks.

What I mean is our success relies on specific players doing a particular job for our system and that supposedly better players may not actually be successful doing the job they are asked to do. Hence someone like Alcaraz who is clearly not a bad player may not fit into our system and a tall player not too great with his feet like Onuachu isn't going to fit whereas a player with this attributes may be successful in a different system.

It's just great we got promoted. Imagine how much worse it would be if we'd spunked all that cash and not gone up. We got away with one there.

I see your point but I do think our success is more to do with getting the right players in for our system.

Sounds like an accurate statement thus far...

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