S-Clarke

He doesn't need to be a fan of Southampton to realise that his best chance of investment return is for us to be a Top Flight team. If he wants to lose money by the bucket load, he can stay in this league. It's in his business interests for this club to be at the highest level for 1) marketing opportunities, 2) sponsorship opportunities and 3) better access to young talent in order to get those sell-on-fee's. None of that happens in the Championship.

Really warped logic to be honest. Good businessmen know that the fortune comes from being in the PL - the model of buy the best young talent and sell for a profit only really works in the PL. If we hang around in the Championship for too long then their investment is up in smoke and they'll be losing money every week with no talent to recoup on, as good young players won't want to join an also-ran in the Championship.

As long as he's adequately replaced then so be it, but if he's not then major questions will have to be asked - as they'd have dropped a striker bollock on the 2nd deadline day in a row.

Makes me wonder why they are even bothering to waste Udinese's time, they want £40m for Beto. Probably just club propaganda to appease their toxic fanbase.

You looked a decent side in my eyes, a real threat on the break with pace. You'll cause more teams problems this year no doubts. You were night and day when compared to Sheffield Wednesday for example.

So a week to go - only 3 or 4 working days if you don't count the weekend or bank holiday. Still lots to be decided in my eyes. Outs - Lyanco? Moussa? Adams? ABK? Aribo? Sulemana? Onouachu? McCarthy? KWP? Tella? In's - RB - If KWP is sold. CB - if one of the CB's is sold CM - Need one of those whatever Attacker - If 2 of Moussa/Sulemana/Tella are sold, we need 2 additional attackers. ST - If Adams and Onouachu leave. As a squad, I think if we keep what is here today and add an additional CM then we're pretty much covered. That doesn't sound too daunting. But....if we get late bids for some of the questionable ones above then we better have our ducks lined up, as we will need replacements sharpish.

£10m for Aribo, for real? £2m tops I'd have thought, but a loan is the most realistic option. No way we make a profit on him if we sell him, almost certainly a loss.

Someone needs to put them down and start again, they're in a right old mess. Apparently they were only offering £5m up front of Che, the remaining 8-10m was spread over a few years (that shows how utterly skint they are). They wanted Gnonto as well, but as Leeds wanted actual money, they couldn't get him.

''I'm not disputing that he can score at this level'' ''He's just a shit finisher, been stinking our front line out for years'' Hmm, yeah.

In that case I reckon we had Lumley, ABK, Bree, Mara, Aribo, Lyanco, Perraud, Moussa involved from our first team squad. Simeu is injured, so he wouldn't have been picked. Hopefully Ballard nicked a couple of goals.

Eric Black has stolen all our money.

Recent foreign imports haven't been great for us, not the big fee ones anyway. I think we've had more success with the likes of Ings, Romeu, VVD than we did with the likes of Lemina, Hoedt, Vestergaard, Carillo....etc etc, list goes on. Even our promotion years we had a strong core of English lads and guys picked up from the English leagues - Jos, Fonte, Hammond, Cork, Fox, Lambo, Lallana, Butterfield, Chaplow etc. The 'sexy' foreign signings like Tadanari Lee, Steve De Ridder and even Papa to an extent didn't really work out. (I loved Papa, but he was a bit limited!)

Looking at the Brentford 11, they were pretty strong - so that's a decent result for us all considered. I'd be interested to know who played/scored for us. Brentford: Strakosha; Roerslev, Ajer, Zanka, Bech; Onyeka, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard; Olakigbe, Lewis-Potter; Brierley

By all accounts we are about to sign Johan Hove from Groningen. I also think there is an element of fans being more excited by foreign names. If we were interested in Nathania Woodstinio from Hertha Berlin I'm sure people would be lapping it up. There are a lot of ways to waste money, but signing players who the manager knows, trusts and fit the style we are employing seems a fairly sound tactic to me. If we complement that with some additions from left field then all the better.

Even if they did consider loaning him out, there are at least another 17 PL clubs, at least 17 La Liga clubs he'd go to before we are even in the equation.

Fair enough if that's the case. Still don't think we should be selling him mind.

Fair enough, read that wrong in that case. I reckon there will be a mutual decision to be made though, I can't see any club paying a transfer fee for him.

Apparently Birmingham have a sizeable sell-on as well, not sure if it's on the profit or overall sale. So we're not seeing all of it either.

Man Utd have released him though, so he's a freebie. I doubt he'll ever come back to England.

Saudi seems the obvious bet, given the managers over there with knowledge of English football (and they'd have the money, obviously - not that I think he is in a position to be demanding silly bucks)

He was one of the best young prospects when he was in this league before, a proper standout when we played Swansea in the cup. He is a shoe-in to be a mainstay all season in my eyes, him and Shea together could work brilliantly - with Alcaraz just in front. Good to get some first team quality in the door.

The moment he did what he did, he threw what potential career he had out of the window in my opinion. The case was thrown out, but he was never by any means proven innocent as far as I can tell. Just listening to that recording was enough to show up what an utter cunt he is. Where he ends up next will be a circus and it's the sort of circus we don't need. Forest Green like to do things different all the time, so maybe he'll end up there. In all seriousness I think he needs to go abroad, I don't ever see him being able to recover in England. He'd be subjected to abuse in every single game he played.

I've always liked Che, I don't think it was fair how we hung him out without a main striker though - we kind of set him up to fail, as in the PL he's a very capable support man - but cannot be relied on for goals. At this level I think he'll find he has more time and he'll get more goals, so that's why I'd be keen to keep him. And I hope more than anything that you a re right about the recruitment, but it's a little bit of blind faith at the moment. A hell of a lot needs to happen in just over a week and all we're seeing are links out, which is the worrying aspect.

I think a lot of the pessimism here is our lack of faith in recruitment. It may be that £15m is a good deal, but the faith people have in the clubs ability to replace that player like it's a doddle worries me. We could quite easily lose Che for £15m, pat ourselves on the back, and end up in a deadline day loop like last year where we fail to get any of our targets. I personally think we're hitting the point where first team sales need to stop, as we simply won't have time to adequately replace. If we had faith in our setup to find the 'next' Adams or a better Adams I doubt there'd be as much pessimism, but we're heading into a bit of an unknown with no midfield and no proven strikers which is quite a horrific place to be in 3 weeks into the season.

Fair if you're a PNE or a Bristol City for example, but as others have said we have just made over £100m in player sales. If he walks for free next summer he walks for free, that's just a risk we can now afford to take given the money we've brought in.