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@SchneiderlinMo4: Can’t wait to play @SouthamptonFC again this wknd. Great club that taught me so much...

Koeman says Austin is fit enough to be in the squad for the trip to Old Trafford this weekend.

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@SouthamptonFC: We followed @chazaustin9 today as he trained with #SaintsFC for the first time. More photos and video to come!

Comes from the well-informed Jeremy Wilson at The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/arsenal/12106580/Arsenal-transfer-news-Southampton-hopeful-Victor-Wanyama-will-sign-new-contract.html

He's since said he doesn't know how much Austin is on at Saints. Saw a journalist (from Sky, I think) saying that Austin had said his preference was to move back south from London, making Bournemouth and Saints his main choices. We came in and he wanted to get the move sorted. Perhaps another possible factor on why other clubs weren't seen to be going all out for him?

JWP dedicates his goals from today's game to Roy.

SAINTS: Forster; Van Dijk, Fonte, Bertrand; Cédric, Ward-Prowse, Wanyama, S. Davis, Targett; Mané, Long. BENCH: K. Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Romeu, Juanmi, Tadić, Pellè.

Source Veho

Here are his first 100 professional goals, scored for Swindon Town, Burnley and Queens Park Rangers up until May 2014.

Austin will be watching from the stands. He's just arrived at St. Mary's.

AUDIO: Ralph Krueger on Charlie Austin and the January window -

VIDEO:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/southampton/12103168/Southampton-to-sign-QPR-striker-Charlie-Austin-today.html

EDIT: Now confirmed.

Mayuka has left Metz to sign for Egyptian side Zamalek.

Now it all makes sense...

Correction: Matt doesn't say 'on Friday' - I assumed that it was on the Friday because as far as I was aware, the meetings were held on a Friday. This one was held on the Saturday, as was said by Ronald. My mistake, apologies. So Sadio turned up 10 minutes late to a rearranged meeting, two hour before kick-off.

According to MLT, the Mané incident wasn't as clear cut as it was made to sound... The team's standard Friday evening hotel meeting was brought forward by ten minutes, and the players were messaged in order to let them know. Sadio didn't get the message in time and turned up at the previously arranged time, thus making him ten minutes late. Ronald decided to drop him from the team and enforce the rules. Now seeing as players don't share rooms anymore, I can kind of understand if Sadio was actually sleeping in his hotel room that evening and actually didn't get the message. So yeah, he did turn up late, but it's certainly not such a flagrant rule break as it was made to appear in some quarters. Source: http://freshsaints.com/interview-talking-with-le-tiss/

According to MLT, the Mané incident wasn't as clear cut as it was made to sound... The team's standard Friday evening hotel meeting was brought forward by ten minutes, and the players were messaged in order to let them know. Sadio didn't get the message in time and turned up at the previously arranged time, thus making him ten minutes late. Ronald decided to drop him from the team and enforce the rules. Now seeing as players don't share rooms anymore, I can kind of understand if Sadio was actually sleeping in his hotel room that evening and actually didn't see the message. So yeah, he did turn up late, but it's certainly not such a flagrant rule break as it was made to appear in some quarters. Source: http://freshsaints.com/interview-talking-with-le-tiss/

It'd be rude not to, what with Fraser being back 'n' all...

Looking forward to the Kolo Touré and Steven Caulker high-line.