Saint Matty 76

Just the bloke above saying he’d be surprised if we didn’t get him. We’re working on scraps this week fella.

Interesting link and definitely the kind of winger I'd hope we'd be going for. 17g & 13a in the league last year in his second season in Holland. Only our mate Dusan had more G&A (32) in the entire league. Passes the Youtube tricky winger test.

Delap strikes me as the kind of player I'd love to sign alongside a more established striker/winger, but I'm not sure if we do that.

I don't mind McNeil as a player but 38 games with 0 goals and 1 assist last year seems pretty much like the exact opposite to what we need. Forest linked with Dennis now, he's one of the few names going around recently I'd hope we're in for.

It does make me laugh seeing these lads on Twitter freaking out about our lack of attacking signings and then saying we should be all over Dwight McNeil and Ross Barkley.

Lots of Saints fans on Twitter saying we should be in for him, forgetting he's 29 and likely getting more money than Prowse.

I think striker, winger & full-back cover at a minimum. Although I do understand winger probably has some weight on if we can shift any of the high-earnings useless ones we currently have. It also depends somewhat on what system we look to play as well.

I mean we'd die for any one of Olise, Zaha or Eze. Cheikh Doucoure is meant to be really highly rated as well. I don't think Palace are one to be worried. Leeds who've lost their best two players and made a load of punts, Brentford who have lost their best player who turned their form around and Everton who lost their top goalscorer and haven't yet been able to replace him who should be more concerned. Alongside us and the three promoted teams, of course.

Salisu, KWP and Lavia the good players in the second half. Smallbone at a push in the first. Not really anything else to mention individual wise, definitely a few who remain not good enough.

Not wrong there! Just thinking that if we do play that 5-3-2, there isn't really room for another player? It'd be Aribo & Che as the forwards with Perraud/KWP wing-backs and the midfield 3 mentioned. I can't see us not having an additional attacker involved, to be honest.

I don't think I disagree with you there. I do worry about our ability to score goals with this system though.

Lavia won't be sitting on the bench for long.

Oh ffs.

I do like Lavia, and A. Armstrong is looking more comfortable.

Yeah, not a fan of this formation.

Thierry Small could be terrible you know.

Nice start. Good turn and pass from Che into Smallbone who hits the post.

They're signing Kounde instead I believe, so wouldn't imagine anythings changed regarding Colwill's situation.

Feel like I'm just going to keep repeating myself so I'll leave it there, hope the kid does alright.

I mean we can all pick out one example of thousands. Plus I don't think it's remotely comparable considering Musiala was here for a matter of months.

That doesn’t change the fact that he won’t be playing Premier League football in the next few years unless he moves again. I understand the ultimate goal is to end up at a club like Chelsea, but he could’ve done that as a better player. Lots of hypothetical arguments regardless, but I imagine this will be a player we just forget about now.

Their academy player of the year had to seek a move to keep his career moving along. Dibling isn’t even to that level, he’ll have made money but on a professional level, talking about his footballing career, he’ll be finding a way out in a few years and trying to get back to a level where he could’ve been now.

Short term it’s a bad career move. Nothing more to it than that.

A better move than Newcastle, the wage they’ve apparently offered is obscene so we were never going to compete on that front. I said it before but even if he completely flops (which lots of promising players at this age do) he’s going to earn £2-3m minimum if they’ve handed him a 4 year deal. I can see why you’d do it but I’d struggle to say it’s a positive career move for him.

The Rory Delap’s son vs Vincent Kompany lure.