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Yea, I would be more excited by these two signings over Downing at the moment

One thing is for sure.....we've been gazumped for some terrible players in the past!

Gazumped or pulled out?

Depends how far back we're looking. I can't really think of any under NC but Dawson and Reid spring to mind when they went to Spurs from Forest. Maybe the Mido deal as well but can't really remember what happened there.

I would point to last season where the club needed a CB and simply ran their finger down the CB page in "The Big Book of Players 2011/12 Edition" and ended up settling with Jos. We got lucky and unlikely such a strategy will work again.

the cutting abuse about my reading ability is really not really called for.

And I may or may not agree with you come the end of transfer deadline day. I think this is a fairly consistent view of those who have not agreed with your frustrations to date.

Again, talking as if you're coming a position of knowledge and certainty....so we only signed Rodgriuez out of principle now? We can add this little gem next to the NC only chasing Ramirez as a wind up. And you wonder why your opinions are so often very poorly recieved?

Don't polarise what I write.....we all know it's a tried and tested technique of yours. All NA has ever alluded to is the positions which need strengthening......not one person is disputing that. Any manager will also say that they would like signings sooner rather than later, nothing new there. DPS has not just laid out positions but has been critical of the players we have bought in as well. If you're going to continue to use Adkins to justify your position (which is stupid really) then we should all be happy with the signings thus far ,yes? Adkins seems to like them all.

It's all mostly subjective though. The club can't base it's transfer policy around your parameters and what you would like to see. I'm sure every player we have signed this summer have been deemed good enough for the prem and those that we are likely to complete this week sound like they will improve what we already have quite extensively. You've already admitted you have been proved wrong by Clyne and Rodriguez could do the same when not playing in a position which doesn't suit him or us. As for there being "no real excuse" as to why we couldn't have got players in sooner......we're not the only variable involved in trying to bring players in. If you want players of quality whose clubs are fighting tooth and nail to keep them, it's never easy and takes time...as has been shown time and time again. Politics and ultimately money will talk in the end but to suggest that it's easy just waltz up to a club and player and sign them when it suits you is naive. We could have signed loads of players by now granted, but they probably won't be the players which improve the team like those that are worth waiting and playing the games for. Just because you don't feel that the club are meeting your own bespoke parameters, doesn't mean you have to go from thread to thread sounding like a broken record. It's just an opinion which is no more valid than anyone else's. What you don't seem to understand is what you say and how you say it plus the frequency of when you say it makes it sound like you're talking from a position of certainty and knowledge when the reality is very different.

Reports yesterday suggest we sent medical staff to Rome yesterday in order to get the medical out the way. If true, it will have already been done.

Nearly every club in the prem will be doing their business right up until transfer deadline day. Almost always the same every year. Why do you expect it to be different for Saints? Especially when we ARE trying to bring in quality, not just players to make up the numbers. The thing is DPS, you complain about not being able to voice an alternative opinion but some elements of what you have been posting this summer just comes across as someone who is looking for things to complain about as your gripes tend to shift and change on a daily basis.....so far you've been unhappy about the quality of the players we have bought in, the lack of transfer rumours (hence this thread), the lack of quality rumours, lack of prem experience and the fact that we haven't done all our business. A side from signing some players in your suspect looking list of "good" tranfers on July 1st, I'm not sure what would make you happy.

More like a WUM list. Where is Lens? You said he would 100% sign. You should be bannished to the UI

Speak for yourself Minty......I'm the last bastion of truth and reason on this forum

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Little bit short on prem experience there clarkey. Throw in Kevin Kilbane and then we'd have a team.

Gaston is a very talented footballer and Southampton Football Club is a great place to come to work to each day. He'll join the other talented players we have here and will try and be the best he can be. We've got the facilities and the staff to make a difference and I'm sure the fans will enjoy watching him play games of football. That's what it's all about isn't it?.... Smiles on the faces of our magnificent supporters

Nonsense, SOME journos will be closer to some deals, not to others. As much as they are ridiculed, it is their job to know what's going on or what could potentially be going on. How else would we even be talking about Ramirez?

Exactly... And even if things don't come off, doesn't mean his info wasn't correct at the time

He's starving

I do as the iPhone tells me.

Did you not read justmike? This is a thread about gaston Ramirez, not DPS 4 GCSE's

I agree, Lambert is a centre forward. As is Rodriguez.

FFS, Miltonroader has done it again

No, I don't think he's made much impact yet at all. I think us signing the right players to play around him and Lambert is key to bringing the best out of him. From what Ive seen, he's got a good touch and can hold play up but unfortunately has been playing the centre forward role with his back to goal on the left which is useless, especially as Fox never goes on the overlap.