goodymatt

Anyone else think Paul looks a bit similar to Benteke in playing style?

I’ve just listened to this, in summary: Sulemana - similar style to Mbappe, needs patience and won’t save our season alone but with Onuachu could be the combination to help us stay up. Salisu - first name of the Ghana teamsheet. They see him as a VVD type player. Expect him to leave us this summer.

Big Paul is in the country, get him in the squad for Saturday.

I reckon he’s prioritised the league to avoid Lavia playing 90 mins midweek and then another 90 at Brentford? It was a cup semi final man 🤦‍♂️😭

That sounds promising!

Do we think this guy was second choice to Nicolas Jackson, having lost out to Bournemouth before his failed medical. Or did we drag that out as we had other irons in the fire such as Sulemana?

We have indeed.

We are 2 points from safety (with a bad GD) with 18 games to go. Basically we are 1 win away from safety, having spent the most of all bottom 8 teams in this transfer window (which worked out ok for a Newcastle this time last year). I struggle to accept this ‘we are down already’ view, given we have almost everyone to play once. Yes we had a nicer run of fixtures lately but that doesn’t change that we still have pretty much everyone in the league to play (Bar Everton who we beat and Villa who are in great form atm), pretty much the same for all teams? I agree that the manager situation remains a concern, I’m on the fence re Jones atm (he wasn’t anyone’s choice amongst our fanbase). He now has the tools to survive IMO. I expect it to go all the way but we have more than a small chance of survival. Do we think that all of the bottom 8 teams are going to put together European form? I seriously doubt it. Marginal improvements will make a big difference and we’ve strengthened well in this window, on the face of it at least.

Nice goals tbf, clearly consistency is the question from his time in France but he has an xfactor.

I voted 8. Alcaraz gives us the driving forward CM we were missing. Orsic, although starting very slowly should be a decent signing. Sulemana and Onuachu give us an abundance of pace and power we had otherwise been missing. Hopefully Paul keeps scoring goals. Bree is cheap cover and with KWP picking up another injury last night (let’s hope it is just a precaution as Jones said) it was a sensible move for a player the manager knows. Not sure we really needed Bednarek back. Not like Saints to spend £60m without any sales, having spent a fair amount in the summer too. Let’s hope we have enough to get out of trouble, I think it’s going to be tight regardless of a decent window. other than Everton all of our rivals have strengthened too.

Translation: Official communication Onuachu and Southampton will be for tomorrow morning, but it's okay I'm told. ✅ #thedayafterdeadlineday @hlnsport So looks like both have gone through fine, just waiting for official announcement.