Greenridge

Maybe we should join forces with Hull to see if we can get a team on the pitch for the weekend. Hullhampton FC.

Looks like Stoke are going to sign Phil Jones which may be the start of CB musical chairs.

Ross Wilson then.

It's been moved to The Lounge.

The Echo reporting he'll be allowed to go out on loan but want to sign a replacement in this window. Whether that's a loan or permanent is not mentioned. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/14697042.Saints_will_allow_J_Rod_loan_move/?ref=mr&lp=1

That comment might apply to Jay. It certainly doesn't to Jose. Nice try though.

So you're saying he meant that we have the best pool of midfielders available to chose from in the Prem, yes?

I think you've probably answered your own question there. He maybe 'fit' but he's clearly not match fit and it must be considered highly unlikely he will ever return to the form he had when he was selected for the WC. His game was largely based on pace. Whether he can reinvent himself to an alternative style remains to be seen and perhaps is his only chance to return to the first team. All supposition of course on my behalf.

That's what it looked like to me. A trip. No complaints.

Let's hope this doesn't get too messy.

We didn't touch the ball in the first 10 minutes.

Fonte welded to the floor.

I'm glad we agree.

You think making a trading loss of £85M as in my example is not relevant? Ok then. Saint-Fred seemed to be trying to demonstrate that we should look at player purchases as being the metric to reflect the Club's investment and that this gave us greater depth of squad. But of course you can't disregard how those purchases were funded or the net effect on the squad depth if you ignore sales both in number of players and value.

Oops my bad

I wouldn't worry too much. 100 pages has only yielded three signings anyway!

Net spend is irrelevant? So, by your reckoning we could sell all 11 players for let's say £10M each but buy one player for £25M and therefore we have, by your unique accounting metric, invested £25M into the team (of one) and increased the depth of it? Wrong said Fred.

Err, no. According to the following we are 17th. Maybe Saint-Fred missed a 1 out? http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premier-league-last-five-seasons/transfer-league-tables/premier-league-table-last-five-seasons *caveat - date of data not specified.

Is that net or gross?

He got criticised for them as they were poorly thought out and executed PR stunts. He's better to follow Ronan's advice.

That and Fonte staying are the most likely scenario's right now. Hope I'm wrong on the former.

I highly doubt he will be a first choice pick in a years time. Might not even be after the Jan window so his chances of playing in the CL are slim I would say.

I'm not all that convinced about the credentials of any of our 'ITKers'. An awful lot of cryptic nothing get's posted. Maybe I'm just a cynic.

I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if we do make another signing this window regardless of whether Fonte leaves or not. Claude's happy with his squad. Apparently.

I note that the SSN 'whispers' on the Transfer Centre page has seen Jose's move to Man Utd creep from 4.0 to 4.1 to 4.2 in probability since last evening. I imagine there's some intel behind that, or at least a gathering pace of 'noise'.