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We can dream!

I’d love to know how much our rejected bid was for. What a signing he’d be!

Renan Lodi is a mad signing for Forest. Reguilón from Spurs is a downgrade for Athletico. Would have loved to see Saints bring in this sort of player and improve our LB position but we are not spending €5m loan fee plus a buy option at €30m. It’s been mentioned before but I’d prefer us to do improve LB than just cover RB with a loan. Guess our transfer budget has other priorities. Perraud had a good spell during our best run last season so hopefully we see that version of him soon!

I worry that Casemiro is going to make them a much more solid team. Pleased no Martial and with all the Ronaldo rumours this could even be his last ever game for United. I want to see us go for it from the start and put them under pressure. Think we’ll score but ultimately lose this one, hope Saints prove me wrong! If Perraud is fit then I would pick this team but with Stu Armstrong instead of Adam.

He looks more than capable to help improve our squad. Few clips in there of him bossing the game against us for WBA. The question is whether or not he’s happy playing FB for Saints or not. If he is then sign him up!

Was Ings signed on deadline day? There is still hope but it’s either quiet as we are keeping it under wraps or we have missed out of our main targets and there is nothing to leak. Praying for the former!

Nunez has to be worth much more than just €15m more than his back up surely? Think Ramos has a fair bit to prove before he commands such a fee, I see this as a not for sale like us saying Prowsey is worth £75m and WHU saying Rice is £150m.

Considering that his flexibility to play multiple roles is the biggest attraction to signing him, the views of that particular writer and many agreeing fans in the comments would suggest he wouldn’t be happy covering all those roles? Which is concerning if we are bringing him in to cover for Tino’s injury too, for example. It’s plausible that after his WBA and Roma loans he might have realised to be a PL player he needs to be willing to play multiple roles, but if not we should avoid this, rather than have an unhappy player on loan. I was pleased when this link came back up but reading that article has introduced doubt.

So that’s AMN and Garner where we have been reported to be favourites to sign them at some point. Would it be right to assume it’s one or the other? Perhaps Everton with the money incoming from Gordon can offer Garner a better package?

Che has just scored 4 goals in 100ish mins and hit the post. As well as playing a part in all but 2 of our other goals. For me we cannot afford to sell now. Ideally extend the contract, sign our new record fee striker and see if we still need Che in the summer. However, if he won’t sign an extension or we need funds to buy a new and hopefully improved striker (which does come with risk) our model cannot allow him to go down to 1 year on his contract and be worth less than we paid for him surely? if Che can keep up this current form, the pressure on any new striker will be much less.

I’d agree with that. Shame for us as he seems exactly the type of player we need. Although post injury I haven’t seen him play too much to judge his current level… Just over a week to go now, hoping we do sign a striker, number 10/wide striker, FB cover and possibly an experienced CB, if we sell Bednarek. Lots to do, not feeling confident we will tick all of those boxes by September 1st but should be a busy/interesting week.

That would be why then, CL football it is!

Interesting that he turned down 2 PL clubs (Fabrizio Romano), safe to assume we were one of them. Leverkusen have lost all 3 of their games this season so far and I don’t think they are in Europe? I wonder why they are more attractive to CHO than us?

Just watched this interview with Rickie Lambert on his full career and personal life. Not sure if already shared? Really interesting listen. Saints legend 😇

3-0 Leeds.

One of the best defensive midfielders in the game. You’re being sarcastic right? 😂

Brenden Aaronson looks like a great signing for Leeds.

Mendy with a huge error. Didn’t take Leeds long to double their lead. Can Chelsea do a Saints and come back?

Are the dominos starting to fall into place. Everton linked with the Coventry striker Gyokeres today by Sky and that might suggest they are moving away from Sasa. Zirkzee identified as his replacement for Stuttgart. Austrian link to Ralph. Can play up top on his own. I don’t see United linked recently either?

Ralph talked about definitely signing a ‘game changing striker’ and how they cost more. With add ons a rumoured bid for Delap was up to £23m. Other rumours suggested we had an offer down for Broja all summer, which you’d think would have had to be minimum £25m. “We will never spend £40/50m on a transfer, as it’s not right for our club” is another recent quote. Whoever we bring in it’s more than likely going to be a record transfer fee (£20m+) and the noises coming out of our manager do not suggest it is a £15m youth player. Perhaps I’m letting optimism get the better of me and reading what I want to see in between the lines. Would Watkins be wildly out of that scope if they feel they want to sell? Possibly but not 100% convinced.

£33m would smash our transfer record, but at 26 I think he’d be a great signing for us. If they do actively want to sell him maybe £25m plus add ons would be fair? I’m desperate to see an actual link to a decent striker, we need one yesterday.

I’d take him!

Should be available to listen back to on BBC Sounds