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Has to be Hammond and Morgan in the middle next game - and leave James on the bench at best I thought Hammond looked good - better than the alternatives anyway he got better as the game went on - probably trying a bit too hard against his old team initially

I thought he looked quite cultured today - didn't put a foot wrong really and played the ball out from the back. We should buy him if we can Thomas played well too - with Harding, Murty, Perry and Jaidi we are looking good at the back still feel we could do with a proper 20 something right back to give us a bit more going forward

I think Waigo will be played as a striker in the long run and Gradel will come in to fill the right winger position - with Saga leaving! I see there is no Saga on Saturday as he is away with the Polish squad - a good reason to get rid of him on loan to a CCC side as he will miss a number of games this season for that reason! Looks like Lallana may well play off Lambert on Saturday then - that's if Waigo doesn't get cleared to play before then!

hopefully there will be a good walk up if the weather is good on Saturday! a good crowd, some new players on the pitch, a few goals and a first win of the season would make it a great day! a large and vociferous crowd could make all the difference on Saturday

I think he'll go on loan to a CCC club in the next week or so it's a world cup year and he wants to do his utmost to keep his place in the Polish national squad he works hard but his touch and confidence seem to have gone a bit plus his pace has gone a bit as well - at the last home game they were a number of occasions when he recieved the ball and laid it off when in the past he would have spun his marker and gone for goal

Awaigo is going to play alongside Lambert to give us that pace upfront we've all been asking for! Saga is going to be on his way to Boro, Leicester or Notts County I can still see us bringing in Max Gradel or a fast pacey winger on loan

The Umbro home shirt is the best kit we've had for quite a long time As for Saints turnover it's probably something like £12 million so Liebherr could well be funding us to the tune of £5 million per annum Our turnover in the CCC was about £15 million I think but we've reduced our wage bill on and off the pitch and we have no debts and no mortgage on the stadium (it was paid off as part of the agreement taking us out if administration)

Joe Keenan and Quincy Owusu-Abeyie are both on free transfers. Keenan can play anywhere across the middle and Quincy is a left winger/forward

Bought 4 tickets for Saturdays game this morning at a very quiet St Marys! Ticket office said that so far we've only sold 13,000 tickets with Colchester only selling 80! (I had to ask him to repeat that) It will be my first chance to see Trotman and Hammond so I'm looking firsts to the game. Even more so if Jaidi and Awaigo play. Hopefully the new signings will boost the gate a bit now! Although with England playing we could suffer.

I don't think we finished yet! I wouldn't be surprised if Saga and Morgan went out on loan for the rest if the season - and maybe one or two players coming in on loan. Perhaps the swap with Leicester - Saga on loan for Gradel on loan will still happen. There are are also a few free transfers still out there - Joe Keenan and Owusu-Oweybyu (or whatever his name is) have just been released. The Dutch bloke tore us apart when he played for Brum City.

Serie A is falling apart at the moment - a lot of the clubs have big financial problems. Roma are bottom of the league and in real financial trouble for example. Only Juventus, Inter and possibly AC Milan are in good shape. Fiorentina aren't doing too bad though. A lot of the Stadiums are awful as the clubs don't own them - they are usually owned by the municipality and in bad shape. There is also no collective TV deal so apart from the big 3 money is tight for most clubs. Perhaps the Viola needed to make dome space on the wage bill and we just got lucky! I'm hoping he's got the pace we need up front and can adapt to the English League 1 football quickly and easily!

Can't loan any players for a week as the emergency loan window doesn't open until then but according to the BBC the emergency loan window only applies to the Premier League and the CCC - not League 1or 2 if this is true we can only sign unattached players now

Still missing a proper right back as Murty at 34 will probably spend more time injured than on the pitch also a right winger as Melis is a bit too young just like last seasons squad and real pace upfront

i thought we'd had enough of Dutch experiments not exactly going to cheer us up if its true is it he's got a bad boy reputation and seems to have failed at more clubs than most players have actually had when was the last time he was actually any good - probably at Ajax before he believed his own hype I don't see what he'd add

I was hopeful with new owners and a decent English manager - and maybe a bit of money - we'd right off the -10 in the first 5 or 6 games and push for the play-offs however I think I underestimated how bad the team we had left from last season actually was Lambert and Harding were a good start - and Murty was good signing as cover for right back but having watched the first few games it became obvious we needed to bring in about another 7 new players including a right back, central midfielder, a right winger, 2 centre backs and 2 strikers before the end of the transfer window Hammond was another step forward, Melis just like for like unfortunately but we are still lacking a right winger, a pacey striker or two, a first choice right back, and another centre back the squad has no real depth - and without these extra players we will really stuggle this season - particularly when injuries kick-in even without the -10 points the current squad would struggle in this League (and on current form we are in for a relegation battle) with the -10 we are in for a long hard season I hope I'm wrong and the club pull a few rabbits out of the hat to prove me so

Its not going very well really is it!

it does but football has gone mad! £4 million for Delap was obscene! the £3K a week players in the CCC earn is obscene (its not like we don't all have short careers or have to change career 2 or 3 times nowadays is it) Chelksi & Man Shikh with the £150K a week wages are so far beyond obscene its a different world still if we've got a billionaire we may as well gatecrash the party - even though we might regret it in the morning I bet we'd have fund whilst it lasted I don't know too many Pompey fans that regret spending £80 million or whatever it was to win the FA Cup (and about a decade's worth of luck as well)

Can I have some of whatever your taking?

how about we swap Saga for 'Gradel on loan for the season and £500K' with Leicester I hope there is some movement in and out of the club tomorrow! More in than out hopefully!

modern wingers are more like wide forwards - using pace and width - but cutting into the box, playing a one-two or putting through a diagonal pass for the striker I've never been keen on seeing players runing for the touchline and then hoofing the ball into the box in hope their is someone on the end of it - normally its the keeper we do need pace and width to get behind teams though and create some goal threats!

Rickie Lambert is a big signing for a League 1 club I guess - as we paid a big fee for him and people expected him to move to the CCC but I was talking about big signings in general really. In players like Hammond and Lambert we have made good signings for league 1 but they dont exactly stir the blood do they Hirst was already past it and injury prone when we signed him - and didn't actually play that much for us Palmer did work out better than we expected - I still remember seeing him score from what looked like the corner post from the Milton End and not really believing it had gone in or what I'd seen but both players were past their best and on their way down and that was my point - just like Ripley and Beresford we have never really signed players at their peak have we - well not since the 80's anyway - we have always signed young players who haven't quite made it at another club (Shipperley, Beattie, etc) or veterans on their way out our largest ever transfer fee is still the £4 million we paid for Delap - QED!!!! I'd love to see Southampton spend £8 million, or £10 million or maybe even £12 million on one fantastic player course I'm not expecting it now in League 1 or even if we were in the CCC - but it would be nice to experience that feeling just once more if we ever make it back to the premiership! mind you its not seemed to have done Boro or Newcastle much good over the last couple of years has it! as for now a young fast pacey striker like Craddock, a decent right winger with pace like Chris Hackett from Millwall, a big centre half like Jaidi and a good right back like Ifil would make me happy oh and perhaps a few loan signings from the big boys in the premiership's reserves or academies would be nice! I can just about remember Saints signing Keegan and even for a young'un like me at the time it felt great!

very disappointed - the whole club needs a pick-me up before Satrdays home game against Brentford!

as a Saints fan I've always found the closing of the transfer window to be a massive let down when was the last time we we actually made a big signing - Keegan probably so normally the transfer window closes and as Saints fans we are left sitting there thinking is that it if we do sign someone last minute its always been a desperation signing Kevin Phillps has to be the worst of these for £3.25 million as no one else wanted him and we couldn't sign anyone else - and he didn't want to be here. We drastically overpaid for him as well! Euell and Stern John are up there as well - and pretty much for the same reasons Hirst, Ripley, Beresford, McCann, Le Saux, Palmer to name but a few others! all 3 are players we didn't really need or want! lets hope this window closing brings someting different - I have a horrible feeling it wont though! actually what was the last really good signing we made? Killer for £2 million in hindsight probably - but I don't think any of us were in raptures at the time

Are you a skate on the wind up?

we could get both Surman and Vokes on loan - they're both Saints fans and neither is getting a game at Wolves in the Premiership! (I'm joking about Suran of course but Wolves did say something about loaning Vokes out to a lower league club for a year for his development) we do need a pacy striker to play with Lambert and replace Saga if he leaves - as already said Lambert was a replacement for Rasiak Ideally we need 4 strikers - Lambert, Paterson, Saga and ? so at least one more (2 if Saga leaves) I have a feeling Lallana's best position will be as a second striker playing off Lambert I'd like to see us bring in someone like Tyson or Craddock A front line from Lambert, Paterson, Craddock and Lallana would do for now More worryingly we need a right back to replace Murty and free up James to play in midfield (his best position by a long long way)