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Sod Pablo Osvaldo - we should go after Erik Lamela from Roma instead

They will indeed - I meant Jesus Gamez - it's these bloody Christian names - they is all the bloody same!

Kieran Trippier? Jesus Navas? Martin Montoya at Barca can play left and right back! It could well be Peruzzi though.

If he does join Saints i have a feeling it will be to replace Gaston Ramirez. They're not quite the same type of player but Banega would probably fit better with the. 4-3-3 pressing style of football we seem to be looking to play. Unfortunately in this system both Lambert and Gastom seem to be the odd ones out.

I fully expect Jay Rodriguez to start the season as our main striker

Doing it is one thing but you've got to be really stupid to post a video of it that's for sure - it's probably going to cost the contractors a lot of money and quite possibly some jobs - and maybe not just dum and summer

Reading between the lines we're going to play 4-3-3 this coming season with 3 central midfielders, 2 wide forwards and one striker. It means we're going to need someone much more mobile than Lambert to lead the line. I can see us starting with Rodriguez in the middle if that's the case and someone else wide on the left.

To think we got Forren and and Liverpool got Coutinho - I think they got the better off us there don't you Mind you I didn't think Coutinho was all that when he played against us at St Mary's - apart from the goal - but everybody else seems to be raving about him now

Now Astori - Lovren as a centre back pairing has a certain ring to it Sounds like a cheap fizzy wine!

Hair today. Gone tomorrow

Well I'm guessing he is trying to hint it's Erik Lamela! Sheesh = kebab = Lamb = Lam Fab Lolly= ???? Estrella = La But then it's hot outside and I've been out in the Sun. Not to sure of he secret code though. We have been linked with him on rumours sites and in the Italian press and he is valued at £24 million or so by all accounts. I still find it hard to believe though.

If they do Norwich will have had a good transfer window so far. All they need now is another striker - Hooper probably - and they will have had a great summer. Swansea look to be having the same. So far I'm a little bit disappointed with Saints this summer - same crap sponsor, bad expensive home kit, and a lack of signings. Can't say that the possible signing of Wanyama is exactly wowing me either. Banega would do i think though - and Naingollan probably too. Signing Damiao would probably mean I'd need to go for a lie down in a darkened room. I'd put a £12 million bid in for Rodwell at Man City over Wanyama. Mind you none of them seem to want to come here!

I think it will be Yoshida who parners Lovren with Fonte fighting Forren for a place on the bench - and Hooiveld will be moved on before the summers end.

Maybe it's because we are after Antoine Griezmann

At least it's got a Brazilian restaurant now!

I have a feeling you might be right on that one - he wanted out of Lyon and Lyon wanted rid of him. Any idea who the first 3 choices for centre back were? I am guessing Astori, Victor Ruiz and Hector Moreno if rumours were to be believed.

Marc Muniesa and Erik Pieters are great signings by Stoke - although one is a centre back who can play left back and the others a left back who can play centre back I'd have been very happy with either of those signings

How much did we pay for him? Anyone remember?

Please not Defoe - he played for the Skates - it always ends in tears when we sign one of them

I'd easily believe that they sold more shirts this morning than last season as the home shirt is a lot better than last seasons Forest/Liverpool retro kit. And this seasons away kit is an awful lot better than last season white with red pinstripes. Still I'd prefer red and white stripes, quarters or even halves than just a plain red shirt. If they added a bit of black to the shirt and given us black shorts it would have looked like the centenary shirt and they could have got away with it.

Surely Poyet got what he wanted which was to walk away from Brighton - he was just hoping he could walk in to a premier league job at Fulham or Swansea Poyet and a Brighton deserve each other - the most histrionic set of fans we've ever had the misfortune to encounters - and one of the most self deluded mangers ever. Gus Poyet will be remembered as the man who introduced all that is bad about South American football to the championship - the diving, time wasting, the appealing for cards, the bad losing, the cheating. He's up there with Pulis and Fat Sam with his anti-football methods

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I'm not against changing the shirt for a bit of variety - and improving sales - along the same lines as Bayern Munich have done lately with a red and white as the base colours. But last seasons kit was truly awful - it looked like an old Liverpool or Nottingham Forest kit with the pinstripes, red socks and shorts. And I don't think sales were that good as a result - and certainly not on the levels of the sash kit and the stripes from the year before. This new seasons shirt looks a lot better to me than the last season Liverpool pin stripe - not as good as the centenary shirt above - but it's OK. I am led to believe it will come with red shorts and red and white hooped socks though. The socks may be its saving grace however and make it a bit more Saintly. I'd like to see us return to red and white stripes with black shorts at some point in the near future as this is the archetypal Saints shirt. But I'd also like to see us use the sash again at some point - and maybe a halved or quartered red and white shirt at some point as well. My favourite shirts are the late 70's barcode shirt and the early 80s Air Florida shirt which are both variations of the red and white stripes though. But they both came with black shorts.

Kieran Trippier at right back and Martin Olsson at left back - both would compete for a starting place at right and left back and be happy to step up to the premier league

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