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I wonder if the two players we bid £25m for were this window or if that’s still Gakpo and Ramos? If it is this window then surely as that’s what Bompey paid for Jackson he’s one of them, with them just offering more wages? Regarding the use of Twitter by fans to moan about signing a striker, majority of premier league teams will have been doing the same? We are bottom of the league with less than a goal per game. It’s obvious to someone without a Twitter account we are desperate for goals 😂

I recall this guy reportedly rejected Saints and Everton as he didn’t want to be in a relegation battle. Are we really less attractive that Rennes? Does this free up Sulemana to move now?

Are Everton just following in our shadow all window?

Doesn’t look like he’s played 90 mins recently for Rennes, lots of cameos off the bench. Looks like he’s absolutely rapid though.

We seem set on bringing in a wide forward don’t we?

Definitely a gamble, I’d agree with that. He did seem to be our first choice though, so it’s obviously disappointing to see him go to Bournemouth. We will see how he does there soon enough and whether we were right to walk away. Orsic looked terrible last night didn’t he? Offered no defensive workrate (not his primary role tbf, but was needed with Newcastle’s pace in Almiron) and he just looked lost positionally. Didn’t really see the explosive pace he displayed in Qatar either. Very underwhelming full debut but it’s far too early to write him off.

I expected more from SR in this window, as the article says on Jackson. “Southampton are sleeping”. Blind hope that we have some rabbits coming out of the hat in the next 6 days, losing belief though as top targets (reportedly) haven’t worked out, again!

So we basically hesitated over £3m and lost the guy we’ve been trying to sign all window to a relegation rival. Marvellous.

Does feel like Moffi and Jackson were our top targets and we were outbid for both, plus outbid for wages on Ings. SR are clearly willing to spend but not paying over the odds. Which obviously doesn’t suit the January market and our current desperate position! I suppose the Danjuma and even Mudryk situations show how difficult the window is to complete deals for wanted players. I’m done with Che after last night latest 1v1 miss. He is not good enough to play as a lone striker in the PL. we simply must bring someone better in, even if just a loan, to have any hope.

Perhaps an opportunity to bring in a proper striker has presented itself, causing us to cool off interest in Jackson as the money is going there instead? There’s no reason you’d sign for Bournemouth over Saints (unless they are paying crazy wages?). There’s also not going to be a budget to spend €25m on 2 attacking players. Wishful thinking, I know… but we've been linked to Jackson for so long and it’s been dragging its feet for a while. Whether that’s negotiations or perhaps there are other irons in the fire we wanted to try.

Any striker links, all gone very quiet???

This is fair, we may yet bring in an exciting CF, so let’s wait until 1/2 before judging the window. It does seem though like £15m and the known entity/proven goalscorer that is Danny Ings was the logical solution to our goalscoring problems though. Tried looking up latest Moffi news on Twitter and I can’t see that WHU’s bid of £25m was rejected. Could they really sign both?

Did I mention I was fuming?

Fuming. Agree that Ings and Wood strengthen our relegation rivals, although over a full season WHU should be comfortably finishing higher than us with their squad. Does Moffi really want to stay in France then, would appear so if WHU bid £25m and then moved on to Ings? Who is scoring our goals Sports Republic? Sign a proven goalscorer or drop.

Looks like this is happening 😭

£10m plus his wages sounds reasonable to get the goals we need… Bring him home Saints!

We seem to have a few new links last night/this morning, especially in midfield.

Sunderland 😂 that’s an odd one isn’t it!

If we had signed this guy after his solo goal at St Mary’s in preseason this would have been greeted with more enthusiasm. Our predicament does mean this is only acceptable if he’s not the main striker and is one of 2 more attacking players coming in. 14 apps in La Liga this season 2 goals and 2 assists. In 9 of which he played 65 mins or less and only completed the 90 mins once. Goal every 397 mins, roughly every 4.5 games. Has played CF and LW/RW. Transfer Market has CF as his main position, which is worrying if we’re holding any hope for him to sign with another CF. I think Danjuma, also linked with the PL (Everton and Bompey) is the better player. On a more positive note, we would be a fast team on the counter with Orsic and Jackson in the team. Just the question of who is putting it in the net!