Baird of the land

Saints rescue hull from silly panic buy they made in January by giving them a fat cash injection from gash player

That's my fear. Likely more over priced ageing panic buy dross to come too.

Paying over the odds for the likes of Ings I could understand. Massively overpaying for dross like this is nuts.

Embarrasing joke if we are paying that for someone as mediocre as Long. Nice to see us squandering the money we got for actual good players.

I'm largely dreading Sunday. Don't hold out much hope given the holes that have been wrought in the team.

Yeah Campbell's marginally better and marginally younger and that's a level of reasonable fee. If we're after long that stinks of utter desperation and panic.

Why should it be a choice of long or nobody?

Yeah, Ings/Wickham who are younger and have potential to be much better are the sort of players worth gambling on, like we did with Rodriguez.

If Pelle's first choice then we should be buying someone with potential to overtake him in long run rather than someone starting the slide backwards like Long.

Personally he's a player who at his age is likely to get worse and certainly not any better. Hull paid a stupid fee for him so if we do buy him we'll have to pay an even stupider one. If we are going to buy british then i'd prefer the younger player with room to develop(ings/wickham/Redmond etc) similar to Rodriguez deal.

Really disappointing if true that we down to chasing the likes of Long imo.

I was very impressed by Redmond against us when Norwich beat us away last season. Clearly not consistent enough for them last season though. Don't see Townsend as any better personally and feel we are more likely to get Redmond & may cost less in wages and fees. So hoping it happens. Rather guarded regarding Gardos. He's got very big shoes to fill in terms of hole in defence Lovren has left.

Right now to me we appear to be weaker than last season everywhere except in net. We've got Morgan sulking and Cork seemingly in limbo. Jrod likely out for half the season too. Last season i was confident of a top half finish before kick off, whilst this season that seems a fanciful prospect. My prognosis is that we'll be flirting with relegation zone at times this season but emerge a safe low mid-table,14 etc.

Would be utterly gutting if we lose cork. Would really be the final kick after lamentable way squad has been torn apart.

I'd be absolutely infuriated if we lost Cork. Such a great little player.

Yeah while slightly tentative about Bertrand i can understand and somewhat get behind their reasoning.

Makes me feel a bit better as my limited experience of seeing him play left a less favourable impression. If he can be a solid citizen at left back and we spend money improving central defensive options markedly maybe it'll work out.

Don't think he's a particularly impressive signing. Guess it's only a loan. Really hoping targett comes through brilliantly this season. We are going to be massively weaker at left back no matter what.

Yeah can't see them letting him go for any less. I'm not particularly keen to be spending that amount on a 29 year old personally but he is a good player.

I'm firmly supportive of the board's decision to finally stop the dominoes falling. I'd prefer a stroppy Morgan than sending signal for more sharks to start circling the club, the next cadre of players agitating to join the exodus and Saints being laughing stock of the leagues marginally above Blackpool.

Hope you are wrong, Selling JWP would be worse than Chambers in stupidity, selling Morgan would show board to be liars and it would be open season on rest of first xi sales. I'd be gutted at Cork leaving for what would be peanuts for which we'd then have to shell out millions to try and replace him.

Sinclair, i'm unsure about given his poor time at WBA. Still youngish and was very good at swansea. Maybe at the right price and right wage. Rodwell. We simply don't need him at the moment imo. If we really aren't selling Morgan and not crazily letting Cork go that is. Guidetti, no thanks

Think they are getting less stick overall. I certainly have been mollified by the show of strength. As with you i'll keep my outrage powder dry in case they break their word and sell Morgan but i'm not going to abuse them on this premise beforehand. Think Chambers one is the catalyst for this stand, which makes selling a future star cheap and early slightly less galling if they actually hold their ground.

Didn't know lodge had been sold. That was a part of Lowe's academy development ethos.