hypochondriac

I have £20 on at 6/1. Happy to lose it but if not I can go and blow some cash down the pub.

Oh yes look at all these entitled supporters daring to expect reinvestment after selling their biggest asset and best player. How spoilt everyone is!

This signing was not only a good chance to get some more quality on the pitch, it would have galvanised fans and given everyone more of a lift. Without any more signings I can't really see past an inexorable descent into the championship.

Sounds ideal. Formidable scoring record too.

Great. Exactly what we need...

Then move onto plan C with enough time to get it over the line. What do you mean it's the last day of the window and we've run out of time despite receiving a record fee before the window had opened?

Erm thanks I think

You give them a big bonus if we stay up and an easy way to leave if we go down...

So then. A world record fee for a defender and best player and it looks like all we will have to show for it is a big fee for a reserve striker with an underwhelming scoring record whose friends with a manager that is universally agreed to be poor and who has a record low win rate for us. Not really sure where to start with that other than to shake my head and wonder how badly we had to mess up over the last two seasons to get ourselves in this absolute mess.

You can't really say it isn't warranted though. If that occurs then the club have really taken us for mugs.

Unfortunately this was our backup plan after Walcott. Shades of last year when people couldn't believe we didn't sign a Fonte replacement.

Not long to go now. If the window closes and this is the extent of our dealings then its 100% Reed out for me.

Christ now I'm genuinely starting to think we won't be getting anyone else in. There should be protests tonight against the board if this is true. Absolutely disgraceful January window.

Well so far we have sports journalists saying it's off versus and anonymous Web poster telling us it's on. You can't really blame people for trusting the words of journalists in that scenario- even if we end up signing him later.

I regret that the club pulled the trigger before confirming their first choice of tuchel or someone of similar quality. No problem with the sacking itself. Not sure why this is being brought up again.

With promes it's a 7. We may get a lesser alternative and that would probably be 5 or 6 depending on who it is. Without promes or a replacement it's a 2...

You can if they've run out of time to get a replacement.

You have to laugh if true. Classic saints. My prediction from earlier about an inferior player will come true in my opinion.

Rule 1.

I had an enjoyable time even when we were bumbling around near the bottom. The last day escape against Sheffield United was a brilliant occasion. Obviously its good to see saints going on epic runs of wins but equally good is wheb you're not playing that great and you suddenly get some great performances to give you a bit of hope like 6-1 or whatever it was away to wolves.

Because for many people, supporting saints is about having a few beers with your mates and going round the country to watch a bit of football. I can understand that attitude even if I don't entirely agree. I'd like to see us stay up like anyone else but some of the best times supporting saints have been in the championship. Had some absolutely amazing away games that were less corporate and less designed for the modern football fan and thus much more enjoyable. Milwall, forest, Bristol rovers, Coventry, Birmingham, Wigan to name a few.

If We do get relegated, more than anything else I'll be looking forward to see how the club pr machine spins it. Also interesting to see if we bin off Les and Co. I can't imagine Ralph will be having much success selling the merits of a championship club to China...

A draw is absolutely nailed on tonight for me. We will also bring at least one player in but it probably won't be promes, probably someone less impressive. It's the Southampton way...

I reckon with that line from the echo we will get a more underwhelming signing from elsewhere. I don't believe the club would dare not sign anyone else, they know what the reaction will be if they did that.

Bit of a tall order for us to win two in a row after so long without winning.