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Therefore he's 'Pretty Gash', yes?

Where is all this talk of Hoedt coming from? Can only see him coming if we shift VVD, which we won't. And even then, there aren't any strong links to Hoedt what so ever.

Monaco want Imbula, who would then become available should Stoke get this kid.

Good info, cheers. Interesting you mentioned Stararo, as he was heavily linked to us last year for a similar sort of fee - same with the Assamoah guy you have. Seems like you have a few midfielders who interest us!

Have seen it dotted around in a few places. WHU fans seem to think that Ogbonna and Reid are the first choice this year. Club are apparently trying to find a CB, hence the rumours of Fonte's demise.

West Ham looking to dump both Fonte and Snodgrass, but finding it hard to find 'takers' due to their high wages. ''Apparently''.

BREAKING NEWS Southampton have agreed a deal to sign Mario Lemina from Juventus, according to Sky sources. He’s expected to undertake a medical on Monday and will cost the club £16million, plus add-ons which could rise to £20m. Juve manager Allegri confirmed today in his post-match press conference player will leave. We understand Southampton beat off interest from Stoke to sign the player.

He actually did. As well as some other NPC players. I think he's like 12 or something, very immature.

Sounds promising though.

Don't know much about him, but reading up on him and watching a few youtube clips (as is standard..) he looks bang on what we need alongside Romeu. And probably the sort of player we've needed for at least the last couple of seasons.

Pre-season games are always a bit of a non-event! This was decent for a pre-season game to be fair, but the 2nd half was drab to say the least. Big positives to come out are Jack Stephens continuing rise and Gabbi's sharpness - that finish was first time, bang. Sniffing in the right places as well. Tons of goals in this lad. Good game from Davis as well I thought, played more advanced (where he needs to play) and we saw the benefit. So, that's pre-season done then. Another long season incoming...

Don't think he can be classed as an attacking midfielder, he's more of a powerful DM, box to box type.

He's not good enough for us Apparently.

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/it/calciomercato-southampton-trattativa-chiusa-per-lemina-le-cifre Seems done. Well that came from nowhere.

Gathering significant pace Fabrizio Romano Verified account @ FabrizioRomano 21m More Done deal for Mario Lemina from Southampton from Juventus. € 18 / 20M, medicals soon # transfers # SaintsFC

We only had 6 European games because Koeman achieved that for us the season before, it wasn't anything Puel achieved. I keep seeing this written by people ''Puel did a great job, got us further in Europe than before''. But that was only because Koeman got us 6th. Puel did as much as he could to **** up the group, and given it was a year when Inter were ****, it was a shambolic effort to not even get 2nd. The away games at Ber Sheva and Sparta were the thing of nightmares, and then you have the home game which was the most obvious ''let's not lose what we have' tactic ever.

He hasn't even been called up to their latest squad.

He's always been quite an injury prone player to be honest.

Yeah, a pretty ridiculous thing to say. Signing players really isn't what it's all about.

You've pretty much named them all right there. 5 out of 18 successful additions.

Talking of McCarthy, has he died? I hate the way our club just brush 'bad injuries' under the carpet. We never really knew what was up with him last year, he just disappeared. Seemingly it has happened again.

What should we have done then? So many experts on here who should be working for Premier League clubs seemingly.

Has it really? They've wasted a fair bit of $$ on crap. Jansen, Georges-Kévin N'Koudou, Clinton Njie (who has since been sold), Sissoko, Fazio (who has since been sold), Pau Lopez (left), Wimmer (they want rid), Yedlin (since sold), Stambouli (since sold) They have aquired 5 players out of the 17/18 they signed in that period who I consider first teamers and who have improved them since Mitchell has been there. Son, Toby, Victor, Dier and Ali. (Dier and Ali may have arrived before Mitchell had got there) So really, they have signed as many duds as other clubs in this league. But the black box is nothing more than a glorified database locked away in a room, we've spent a lot of time putting a lot of data into it i would imagine - so we possibly have the advantage over a few clubs in knowing more about a player before we sign them, but at the end of the day you can have all that kit and stats knowledge, but if the money isn't there to buy the players then it's a mute point.

Defrel was one I reckon.

And it happend. As expected. Apparently, this is all hear-say, but rumour has it that a Qatar source paid Neymar's representatives, who have then in turn paid Barcelona - the fee won't actually be seen as coming from PSG. Nasty, ugly, unfair world of football.