S-Clarke

Not playing for Roma, wants to play games, other clubs interested inc. Fulham

GK options. What about maarten stekelenburg? Not playing at Roma, 30 year old Dutch international. Fulham want him. Could get him for as much as we'd pay for Butland.

To be fair, he's been playing well for the last few weeks. But as you said, with Kenwyne it's always been his mentality that holds him back. When he was at Sunderland he could have made a big move to a top club, but he didn't get it, sulked, and then ended up at Stoke. He's unplayable when he's on his game, but he's not on it enough.

A player I haven't seen mentioned, and is suprisingly avaliable, is maarten stekelenburg. Fulham want him, so why don't we go for him? Will cost similar to what we'd pay for Butland. I guess it's a toss up between a 30 year old, or £5m for a young player whose value will only rise. I like Butland alot, I think he's going to be as good as Joe Hart - easily, but he's not quite there yet.

Jeez, Kuzscak. The definition of trash, which is why he's now playing for Brighton.

This is what I don't quite understand, what has he done when playing that has been so bad? He's played, what 2 games? Didn't do much wrong in his last game against Spurs, apart from answer back to some fans who decided to boo him.

Amazing really, if those deals do happen, then we'd have committed to spend something nearing on £45m on players in one season....! And that's not to say we'll be after even more.

Incase you've forgotten, Adam is out for a while...so we do need another player in the wide area's.

If they did, you'd have to launch an investigation into match fixing.

They're as good as relegated, just waiting for the confirmation now. No way in hell a team can survive when they only have 10 points by January.

3-0 now, men against boys. QPR look as pathetically bad as reading. Surely we can almost write off 19th and 20th positions? Esp. QPR, only 10 points by January...they haven't got a hope in hell. They need to turn into Man City to get out of this, it just isn't going to happen. At least Redkrapp will have another relegation on his CV that the media will conveniently ignore.

Isn't he already on loan at WHU, from Chelsea?

He clearly isn't a **** goal keeper, as he showed with his time at International level, as well as his excellent 2 seasons in Serie A with Fiorentina.

He can't sign a pro contract until the summer anyway, as far as I know.

He'd be a moron to leave.

More on this, from our resident Saints mole....Nixon Birmingham need to sell. Unless there is a takeover. And you are back in.

I thought Jos had a fine game If I'm honest, a good pick for a game against their strike force and the obvious aerial bombardment. I wouldn't look to move him on in January, that's for sure. I think if we bring in a new top class CB, we're sorted in that area.

They lose a couple of players in January to the AFCON as well. Off the top of my head, Tiote (edit - forgot Senegal were disqualified)....and that's adding to the injurys they have to Ben Arfa, Cabye etc. They're in trouble, that's for sure.

Injured, reoccurring hamstring injury apparently. Bit of a trademark injury for a pace driven player!

He was out of position today, but he wasn't bad. His weakness is distribution, both on the floor and with his head - it's getting better, but it's still his weakness - and from a full back position that's thrown into the spotlight a little more. But he reads the game as well as anyone, positions himself well and cuts out danger. He's an international level player in those regards, and is growing as the team is growing. For me, I'll be honest, the jury has been out as his distribution does my head in, and causes us problems - but it's something that seems to be getting better game by game, and let's not forget...he's only 23!

You'll never get anything from the club, but don't expect to see him back until March at the earliest.

If you look through the fixtures, we have some points to get there. If we're on our game we could make it very difficult for teams like Everton, Liverpool, WBa, West Ham, Stoke, QPR etc at St Mary's. Then add the away games against Reading, Villa, Wigan.....there are plenty of realistic points for us to get as far as I'm concerned, and a little bit of tinkering in January could make the finish a lot more comfortable than some people anticipate. Rather than having a strong start to the season, I think we'll be the team who finish on a high. Call it new years optimism, who knows, but I'm quite happy with our prospects right now.

Oh well, let's not bother turning up then. Got more important things to do anyway.

To be fair to Guly, he put in a great shift today, and that's exactly why he was picked to start. Was very impressed. With Lallana out, he's not a bad shout to continue there. Playing out of his normal position, also special mention to Yoshida who was not out fought, gave as good as he got and was pretty comfortable. Seems to be getting better, week upon week. I haven't been 100% convinced by him, but today's game has answered a lot of questions I had.

Need to hope they've used all their goals up