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Lesley Ugochukwu is also having his Southampton medical this morning — Saints hope to register him and Cameron Archer before midday, but are not rushing #saintsfc @SkySportsLyall may even feature tomorrow then?

Lesley - very shrewd signing. Good strong player who will protect the back four. Cameron - bit underwhelming but filing under ‘well I guess it COULD work’. Still very nervous about the dross we have in goal. Could be 4-0 or more tomorrow

I think we must be close to FFP limits. Otherwise why the caution? Suspect things may change once Alcaraz goes to Flammgo and Kotchap goes finally. Then we might be allowed to spend, with the risk of a points deduction or similar dwindling.

Calvin Phillips to Ipswich on loan. Pulling power of the manager apparently. I think they’ll be ok

100% this. Shit keeper, and the main reason we will get tonked in the early games and then confidence is shot. So remiss of the management not to rectify this. Was the main priority.

Oh crap Bella-Kotchap’s £12.8m move to Hoffenheim is at risk of collapsing, after issues arose during his medical — the deal is not 100% off at this stage, with all parties involved trying to find a solution #saintsfc @Plettigoal

Thought he’d stay for the pink kit

And Brendan Rodgers is a big fan. Apparently. So loan there could happen whatever MOR chooses

Suspect RM couldn’t wait to get shot of such a bad egg, even at cut price, and especially to allow purse strings to open immediately for a forward player and - god help us - a non- shit keeper

Kotchap money coming in, according to sauces. 😉

May as well prepare for Championship already then. Honestly, why do we have such a blind spot? Watch it cost us at least 10 points

Oof. Can’t promise they will be any good? Ie worse than what we have? Wow. Such a glaring blind spot (if that’s not a contradiction)

Stan Collymore has us finishing bottom. I think on current squad (glaring lack of scoring goals or keeping them out) he is right. Need to pull rabbits out of hat, which is harder as rivals suddenly get cash. But a decent keeper is essential (on repeat for last five years)

Really hope we spend whatever we have on a keeper. Johnstone I guess. Come on Saints. St James’ Park might be a horror story otherwise. Surely we don’t need to sell to get that done?

Looking forward to us taking two more weeks to go in with an offer of 35p and a packet of Twiglets for O’Riley. This low-balling approach looks like a half hearted attempt to say we have ambition without actually spending anything. Disappointing.

Agree. Grey shorts would have worked too. The pink shorts are horrid. Just a bit too Barbie. Otherwise not bad at all. Apart from the sponsor. Yellow badge not great

Oh look at you. Where did I say it was a fact? Almost all your posts just say that something on twitter or in a newspaper or on the actual news isn’t fact because you weren’t told it and it wasn’t about JWP not going anywhere-definitely-not-for sure-ever because you know some player’s uncle’s dog and it is all silly rumours in the press blah blah blah Journalists do get things right occasionally you know, and I’m allowed to say Bloody Brighton at seeing something that ‘looks’ on the face of it like we won’t get a good player. If that’s ok with you. Or do we have to listen to the ‘rumours are silly’ and you know better because of your connections (see above, and even on Che not leaving either) every time there is one?

Ha. 🚨 Brighton have held talks with Celtic over Southampton target Matt O’Riley and could offer Facundo Buonanotte on loan as part of a deal #saintsfc @GraemeBailey

Bloody Brighton

This. But still hurts to see O’Riley probably going elsewhere. Big concern for me is having McCarthy as our keeper. (Would he get in any other Prem starting XI? Answer is no) Feels at the moment that we are not strong enough to stay up. Big week to sort major positions.

Decent re BB Diaz. Won't set the world alight, but good business and it's our kind of signing, at a good price. Please get a good keeper. Please, God.

This. Bazunu means many points lost. McCarthy slightly fewer. Why are we still so blind on keepers? Lunacy

There is talk of Ramsdale to Newcastle, even with Nick Pope

I think we can agree they were both sub-optimal

You're right about him being slightly less bad than Mara