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Isn't he on trial with L'Pool with a view to signing? I think people are in danger of jumping onto the bandwaggon with him.

He'll be magically fit enough to start their 2nd game though. A pretty big disaster for him really. With all their attacking players, by the time he's back, he could find himself way down the list if the other players they've bought perform well.

Chambers is an odd one, not entirely sure what that one is all about. More to it than meets the eye, I imagine.

Seriously, grow a pair. Players go, players come. Managers go, managers come. Chairman go, chairman come. Owners go, owners come. But it's still Southampton football club, we're still supporters of that same club. Since when has a club been just about the players we have? We'll have new hero's next year.

Always makes me laugh when people say we are a laughing stock. Who the hell actually cares? We're a non-entity in this league, we're not one of the big boys who everyone will look at. No one gives a **** at who we sell or sign, in fact the only laughing anyone would be doing is how much the clubs are paying for the likes of Lallana, Chambers and co.

No, this is an asset strip FFS. What are you on about? Oh, sorry. I just did a Richmond.

Nah, It was Marcos he said. After saying that we needed a new left back, we will get one, and it will be a high quality one. Total slip of the tongue, and probably our next signing.

Lots of hyperventilating this morning. Let's just see who the replacements are. If they're of the level of Tadic, Rojo, De Vrij...then we're in a decent position.

Utter class player, was mentioned a few weeks back and said he'd be well out of our reach. Much bigger clubs tracking him. So fair play Saints. Can cover LB and CB, but is a very good left back - attacking wise.

In an asset strip, you don't replace assets with high quality replacements. HTH.

Still many more opportunities for him to get game time here though. I think he's cocked up his career. Maybe not ££££, but his career will go the same way as a few other young full backs they've bought. What a waste.

Marlon King. We can pay his bail, or something. Or maybe, as a tactic, we can buy up all the players who usually score against us and just stockpile them in the reserves. Just like Chelsea do with all the young European talent.

Koeman doesn't feel he's ready, when answering a question about Targett he said.....''Yes, well, Marcos.., umm..Targett did very well, but we will see. we will get a new left back''

It's not an asset strip. If it was an asset strip we'd have replaced Lallana with Isgrove and Rickie with Gallagher - but we've bought 2 players for £20m. That's not an asset strip. I'm still pretty confused about what the motives are though, an incredibly unprecedented situation.

To be honest, hanswhatshisface opened the door. You do not make a public statement to say that we're in a difficult financial situation. The players will listen, and so will monitoring clubs. It seems as if we are/were in a very difficult financial situation, as it's the only sense I can make of these sales. Callum is an odd one, seemed happy enough here and he won't be first choice at Arsenal - just another Carl Jenkinson, occasionally used. Very odd move for him. I wonder if the club have actually forgotten to say no? or are they actually welcoming these bids to clear our massive debt?

I heard that and my ears *****ed up too! We now need 2/3 marquee signings, not 1, 2 or 3. We've pocketed an insane amount of money, so now we can reinvest it. If we don't, then we've clearly got some insanely bad financial issues. The £18m or so we've spent so far isn't even touching what we've received in transfer fees.

We must have been close to administration again or something.

What we learnt from tonight: Tadic is pretty handy, works his arse off. Lloyd Isgrove is very talented Pelle has some great movement and touch. We play with much more width. Targett looks a prospect. 2nd half team a bit of a disorganised mess at times. Mayuka is still pretty damn hopeless.

Mayuka is pathetically rubbish.

Good player, good sign up. Will be a big part of our season.

I think it's hard to get carried away, or overall negative - whatever happens in a friendly. They're not competitive enough and the quality is much lower, BUT...you do get a gimpse of what the players and the system can offer, and I think Tadic and Pelle will be huge threats for us. Pelle likes to get involved and seems very mobile, quite quick as well. Tadic just oozes class.

Like the way we're still pressing high, Pelle looks like Lambert MK2 and Targett looks like an able replacement for Shaw.

Crap signing IMO.

Umm, ok.

I like the look of tadic, works very hard off the ball.