S-Clarke

You'd argue that the 2nd goal would have been sniffed out by Wanyama. I love Cork, he's been brilliant, but he doesn't sense danger in the same way as Wanyama does in that deep DM role.

At the end of the day, is Wanyama going to be any better than Yoshida at CB? Probably not, but in the league isn't the place to try that sort of stuff. It can wait to pre-season, and let's be honest, the club aren't going to play CM's at CB whilst we have Jos and Maya available - and quite right too.

Lukaku and Kone out for the season.

They simply have no chance. He'd cost around £10m, they don't have that sort of money spare. They may get a loan in.

Vucinc, Luis Muriel, Eder...Astori, Vela......all been linked over the last week or 2 Mirko Vucinic is looking the most likely going on the reports and the origins of the reports.

Or not.

That's why we love him!

Yeah. To be fair, MP said he wants them in before deadline day. So we'll see it either today or tomorrow.

In the first half he pulled their CB's all over the place, which opened up plenty of space. The only criticism I have is that he's not quite refined in terms of his touch, and there were situations last night where he could have done a lot better in terms of holding it up, passing it on...scoring..! but that's not really a big issue as he's only 18 and it will come. But he's got the attributes, if he continues with the coaches he'll be an able PL striker.

To be fair, if he had regular goals and assists in his locker....he'd be up there with Iniesta and Xavi and wouldn't be at Southampton! It's not really a weakness I'd say, but it's a lack of his game which increases our chance of keeping hold of him!

Clyne seems to have replaced Lambo as your poster boy..!

to be fair, he is coming back from injury..! But by that time we'd pinned them back, so they didn't have much of the ball. Shows how well we played really!

Birmingham City are in talks to sign former Southampton defender Aaron Martin, Sky Sports understands. Martin was released by Southampton yesterday and Birmingham are interested in taking him on.

I think they're very similar in aspects of their game, but Clyne does him for pace, and that is an attacking outlet which we do miss when Clyne isn't around. It's a really tough call, because both of these guys are top, top draw. We've got a situation whereby we can tailor for the opposition now.

But still, he's proven class. (And he's only recently turned 30!) I Imagine both deals will be of the loan variety too.

I think a lot of it is because of the tempo of which we played, it was relentless at times and was incredibly entertaining to watch. Also I have to say that the amount of Southampton academy players on the pitch left me feeling a great sense of pride (including Chamberlain in that too)

Will be more than happy with that, he's another player who I'd put in the 'champions league' quality bracket. We'd get the better of that deal, I think.

Wouldn't disagree with that, would be interesting to see how Sam gets on with a 2nd go. But based on our first half, you really wouldn't change a thing for the next game. It was beyond perfection.

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/9139135/wenger-praises-southampton-quality

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2014/01/28/4577437/fulham-close-in-on-115m-mitroglou-signing He's a very good player.

It could be a World Cup of Saints. Gaston Lallana, Shaw Lovren Yoshida Morgan.....I wouldn't be surprised, I don't think he's far away. And if we get either Luis or Vela, then they'll be part of their nations team as well. Osvaldo possibly could be included, as he's only going to be on loan I reckon.

Does anyone know if Markus's seat is still left empty? or is that where KL now sits? (i sit in the kingsland, so can't really see) I remember when NC was around, he always used to leave ML's seat empty next to him (it has a plaque on I think)

Goodbye Osvaldo...and hello....Eder?

The whispers are that he will be included in the upcoming friendlies. They wanted to include him in the previous 2 games, but the U21's had some competitive games which took priority which is why he stayed with the u21s

Always going to be the way, but in my eyes we didn't let them play. We tactically owned their midfield today and killed the influence of Ozil/Cazorlla on the pattern of the game. It allowed Morgan, Cork and Davis to just dominate.