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Got to agree though. Lukaku runs hot and cold. Sometimes he's brilliant sometimes he's completely hopeless. I'd be disappointed if he was a marquee signing.

Well there you are then.. You clearly don't know much about him as he scored 23 goals in 28 games for Feyenoord last season. If you judge strikers based on their goal scoring ability it sounds like he's a shoe in.

Of course you're allowed an opinion but it might be nice to know who you think this perfect player is that you think we should be signing. We're talking about a proven goalscorer here that has played under our new manager. I'm not sure what further endorsement of him you want. Unfortunately we're not going to be buying proven premier league goalscorers so Pelle seems like a good bet to me. Not really sure what more you want.

And another one. I can just imagine your posts if no money was being spent.

****s sake... Who do you think we're going to be buying, ****ing Messi. Pelle looks like a very decent replacement for Lambert. Koeman knows him and has worked with him before, he's a proven goalscorer and several years younger than the player he's replacing. What's the problem here. It seems that people just want to complain about anything.

Yawn - Koeman Player Sales thread mk2

So only current strikers from other PL clubs are OK for us then? As far as I recall, Lambert and Jrod were unproven in the PL before we got promoted. It's not necessarily about blowing loads of cash on 'proven' PL players (such as when Chelsea bought that proven PL goalscorer from Liverpool - Torres) it's about finding talent wherever they are and for me, Ings seems like a sensible buy for Koeman to improve and get the best out of.

This. I think we're incredibly fortunate that we have KL as an owner. Have you not looked at some of the other clubs owners? They're madder than a barrel full of monkeys most of them. Just look up the road to Reading as an example.

Don't forget that Guan hinted at >£10m signings joining us too so I would think Ings would be one of three or four (when jrod returns) strikers. As long as Bentner isn't one of them.

Ridiculous. Of course he knew.

OK, I've had chance to sleep on this and here's my team for next season: Boruc Clyne/Chambers Fonte Lovren (New CB) Kolodziejczak Davis Wanyama Cork Tadic Pelle/Ings Hernandez/Rodriguez Doesn't look too bad to be honest. Grab another CM for depth and that should see us through to January when we can build again. Maybe even keep Schneiderlein until January before replacing him. Yes, it'll take a while for the new players to gell but looking at the PL that team should be enough to see us through.

... He could have told the directors that he loves it at saints and wants to end his career here as team captain of course .. but that's about as likely as us increasing season ticket sales this year.

Got to agree with this really. If we assume Lovrens off too then we need 5 players just to replace the leavers never mind the much needed increase in depth. IMHO you can't just integrate that many players into your starting 11 in just a few weeks and hope to finish in the top half. My optimism after the appointment of Koeman is seriously waning and it looks like we'll have to accept that next year will be a year of consolidation and hope we can progress again the following year. ********.

FFS I was at least hoping Schneiderlein would stay out of all the rumoured leavers.

Southampton midfielder Adam Lallana set to complete £25m move to #lfc. Talks now at advanced stage, could even be completed today. — John Percy (@John__Percy) June 27, 2014

Did he get off the plane in Manchester too, or did they divert to John Lennon International to drop him and Lambert off?

Check out @SimonPeach's Tweet: Does this mean the next transfer out is about to hit the news?

Lol

I see the bedwetters have arrived. ... before you ask... you can decide who they are for yourselves.

Tell them to go **** themselves and make them work for their few hundred quid. You can at least make them squirm a bit before you pay... or maybe just pay them in tiny instalments.

I just hope we spend the cash wisely and that we've learnt from the Osvaldo debacle.

I see your point but disagree. If we can offload Shaw and build a bigger better squad that gets us 7th next year, the same the following years etc we MAY eventually, by small steps, get ourselves into Europe at which point we may be able to keep hold of some of our players and continue to build from there... or maybe I'm living in my own little fantasy world. Either way I'll enjoy the ride. Since the appointment of Koeman, I've been much more positive about the future. Hopefully there'll be exciting times ahead.

Here's one link to the story and the website has 'oranje' in the title so it's got to be authentic. http:// http://www.football-oranje.com/southampton-looking-to-raid-feyenoord-and-twente/

So far I've found these names from the papers: Graziano Pelle and Twente winger Dusan Tadic, and Timothee Kolodziejczak I think we could get them all for £30m with change for a bag of chips in the way home.

Ooh, cryptic. I'd best head over to newsnow and check out the stories.