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Would have been 3 without the unforeseen departure of Taider.

Part of Koeman's intensive training program that Taider didn't like?

Townsend.....with implications

Done with an hour and a half to spare.

Potential for the next hour and a half to be a real mixed bag.

He also said the following: @solentsport: #saintsfc Koeman on reports linking Ramirez to Seville: "We need every player. Our squad's not big enough to think about loaning players".

With Mane imminently on board doesn't that the negate the need for someone like Townsend?

If, and it's a big if, the rumours are true then I'm sure the interested parties have taken all those points in to consideration. Personally I hope it's a load of cods wallop.

Based on?

I'd like to think we could attract players over 2 teams that finished below us last year but nonetheless we've clearly done well to get these players on board especially against Spurs if they were genuine contenders for their signatures. Assuming we get them over the line tonight.

You would imagine he's going to be playing for 3 years more than Defoe. I'm really optimistic about Pelle but at 29 he's not the normal age profile we've become accustomed to signing in recent years. Hence my response to BBB when he referred to Defoe's age.

I'm not too sure what any of that has got to do with the comment you made which my post referred to?

29 yr old Pelle.

I'm quietly positive about our squad assuming no out-goings tonight and the two new guys sign but until I've seen the team play some games it's not possible to say for sure at this moment in time.

Toby was at Ajax and as said elsewhere Mane tore Ajax apart last year (watched by RK) according to Feyenoord1908 on the Mane thread.

It would seem that Toby, Mane, Pelle and Tadic are all Koemans own identified targets which leaves Les and our scouting team finding Bertrand, Gardos and Taider (less said the better). Maybe there's an opportunity for some cost-saving.

I think you'll find that is incorrect.

Will they still be relying on fax machines again today? Normally wake up the day after transfer window closes to find some high profile move completed several hours after the deadline.

All these clubs and players flip-flopping around but when they do eventually sign they will have been 'the number one target all along' and 'my mind was set on this club from the start'

No that's not the point. The 'point' is ref post #20 or post #16. Papers are papers, journo's are journo's. The bottom line is there is a mix of BS and accuracy in all media and you have to fight you're way through it to find the truth. But to dismiss or believe everything is probably not the answer.

The discussion with SOG (see his post #20) has turned to the DM in general.

Seems they were wrong about Taider as well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2738133/Saphir-Taider-set-leave-Southampton-just-THREE-weeks-arriving-season-log-loan-Inter-Milan.html

We can dismiss the link to Mane then. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2739393/Southampton-offer-11-8million-Red-Bull-Salzburg-forward-Sadio-Mane.html

Negative articles = made-up trouble-making Positive articles = accurate and objective

I guess you will have needed to see TA and Gardos extensively to take a view on that.