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From not being able to get in the squad, to now being the striker the nations hope rests on. What a turn of events.

These are terrific quality by the way, a great buy. Good product!

Great, so they're probably putting him in the ''big lump, grant Holt'' category. He's more technically refined and aware than other England strikers to be honest. Frustrating that no one ever actually realizes.

Isn't it great looking at the OS and seeing loads of England articles featuring our players? Lambert, Shaw, JWP, Chambers.....great time to be a saints fan.

There wasn't a ban, they just were told there was no point training with the first team as they weren't in the season plans. Interesting that he has a squad number back though, would indicate he's back to fill the numbers rather than anything else.

It's a possibility, and we do play that - but we are kind of hamstrung without the width of the full backs. Lallana is key in that sort of fluid setup though, when he's on his game he can open a hell of a lot up for us. I think there's still time for a partnership to build up and it's an intriguing one for MP to manage. The talent is certainly there in the front 4, we've just got to somehow make it click.

He certainly wasn't in contention during pre-season and was told he can look for a new club, so interesting. Obviously to fill the void left by Puncheon and the lack of any replacements coming in. Would be interesting to see him in the PL, don't think he's ever played enough for us for anyone to form a solid opinion on him.

Decent player, wouldn't quite call him a legend though! Thought we may have seen a little more of him so far this year, as I was quite impressed with how he played against Soccidad in the Pre-season game.

I think he's going to relish his opportunity on Tuesday, he thrives on big matches and thrives being the main focal point as he's shown with us over the years. I think England may be finding themselves a new hero after this set of internationals.

It's a tricky one, but if you look at how well Lambert played when dropping off tonight, you have to say he has real potential to make a name for himself ''in the hole'' whilst Dani becomes our first choice top end striker. He has a great footballing brain and knows when to pick out a pass. Aware of all that's going on around him. There's no reason why he cannot play in the same team as him, but I don't think they'd both work up top together. I think Rickie would need to play deeper.

2 international games, 2 goals, 1 assist. Pretty good...

So pleased for him, hope he puts in a decent showing and we're not in a position where we fail to win and the entire team is hung up as **** etc. Annoyed at the comments from other clubs ''look at the forward line'' ''have we ever had a worse set of strikers?'' Uneducated idiots.

Based on that, Shaw won't be in the U21 squad for long. He'll be in the full team.

£12m, laughable. Seeing as James McCarthy went for £13m, they're having a laugh.

Why are you even going to the effort to debate this? It's pointless. 3 games, we've only played 3 games. I've seen many a player have a great start, and then become ****, I've also seen players have slow starts and then become stars. 3 games isn't enough time to judge it either way, and to be honest trying to make our our new additions have been rubbish is pretty silly really.

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He's pointless debating with, don't bother.

3 matches in which we're 10th, into the next round of the cup and have as many points as we did in October last year. I'd say it's a pretty solid start. Alot is being made of our failure to score from open play as well, well...we were 1 inch away from scoring from open play on Saturday (lallana). We still create chances from open play, maybe not enough...but it will change, we've got too many good attacking players for it not to.

It's been a pretty good window all being told, although as other's have mentioned our failure to replace Puncheon or even add to that area is somewhat frustrating. But I'd disagree with the view that only Lovren was a signing we needed. All 3 were needed. Last season it was clear to me that we lacked physical presence through the middle of the park. Technically Cork and Morgan were great, there's no denying that, but there were some games where they were overpowered and we didn't have an equivalent type of player to throw on to counteract that. WBA away last year springs to mind (Mulumbu), and also Diame at WHU. We never got to grips with the midfield area in those 2 games and the 2 powerful midfielders they had, kind of dominated. Wanyama will give us that option and will allow us to offer an equivalent in those sort of games, we've already seen in the WBA game that Wanyama bossed Mulumbu...so that's a good start. We also needed another striker. We relied way too heavily on Lambert for goals and we never really had anyone that could share the load. Jay is still a little too inconsistent and isn't going to be a regular goal scorer at this level just yet, so we only had Rickie.....Buying Osvaldo gives us real pedigree up top and takes the pressure away from some of the other lads. It may take time for us to work out the best way to integrate him, but he's a good signing and one we needed without question. Obviously you can't really argue against Lovren. A new CB was required and we got that over the line ages ago. He's an absolute class act as well. What we've done is just strengthened the spine of the team with 3 European level players, and we will see the benefits of that as the season goes on. We can be a bit frustrating to watch in terms of our predictability, but i think there are goals in us and there's still the potential for us to have a pretty good season. Put it this way, 5 seasons ago we couldn't buy anyone. If we did, it was a free transfer player that another club didn't want. Now we're in a position whereby we can keep the players we want to keep and buy the players we want to buy. I think we're as strong as we ever have been, so let's just allow time for the new players to integrate in before writing them off.

Sturridge was injured in the Liverpool game at the weekend, was always pretty doubtful for the england games after that.

Billy, Barnard, Tananari have all been told they are not in our plans. They have not been included in the squad and have been told not to turn up to staplewood any more. Lots of clubs have tried for Billy, but none of them want to match his wages. Personally, I think Billy was a bit of a panic deadline day signing for us.......not the sort of signing we usually make, as it was clear he wasn't ever here for the long-term. We obviously overpaid on him in terms of wages to get it over the line, as he was never massively keen to move down South.

At the end of the day, if you leave your business until the last day then yes - it's very exciting, but also has the potential to be incredibly frustrating. Look at utd for example, flapping around in the final few hours trying for all these different midfielders. It's clear to me that Fellani wasn't ever their main choice, yet they've been forced to completely pay over the odds for a decent, but not great central midfielder. That's their only business, and you'd have to say he wasn't even the sort of Cm they were lacking. If anything, Arsenal and Man Utd's business should have been the other way around. Arsenal are similar, OK they've signed an absolute world class player...but it just screams of being done to appease the fans more than what they really needed. Their defensive is average and their lack of a holding midfielder will mean that they don't win anything again. Crystal Palace obviously had no strategy what so ever. Half of the players they signed were available weeks ago anyway, so why they left it til the last day is beyond me. They've signed some utter panic driven dross as well. I think people are right when they say that clubs who buy lots on the final day, don't really have a strategy for long-term success. On the other hand, we knew who we wanted and where we wanted to strengthen. We got all 3 over the line with weeks to spare. It's a little frustrating we lost Puncheon without replacing him, but there clearly wasn't anyone worth while going for in the last couple of days to replace him. We don't come across as a club who panic, we trust the players we have and the management to make the right calls. We have a long-term strategy which has been proven pretty clear on our signings over the last few years. I think we're much stronger than we were last year and we look a pretty accomplished premiership side these days. All we need to do is learn how to put the ball in the back of the net! But with Lambert, Osvaldo and Rodriguez in attack, we shouldn't have to wait too long....

I don't believe they have any say in that, it's an official FA guideline. The FA would have paid that to us, not Spurs.

Luke Shaw ‏@Luke_shaw3 4m I beg that boy stops

Surprised at how dead it's been, thought it would be a mental day. Lots of talk but very little action.