Miltonaggro

Hand fucking crimped boys - the transfer business this window is in good artisan hands!

Nat Jones to put the count in country!

Yep, that’s the thesis!

Heard a while ago that toob broadband were sniffing around the shirt sponsorship, but that may have been in terms of Saints in Champs rather than Prem - all about the lolly as usual. At least less silly than DP / Moonpig.

Genuinely bit of everything from an effective number 9 here, a big mobile unit:

Meant potential for saints Turkish rather than age :). My Hearts supporting pal of the same opinion and baffled by the exclusion, said to have a look at his goals last season, proper all rounder.

Shankland likely to be the forward target north of the border. Hope so, bags of potential and injury free…

Stansfield another good shout, and my goodness we dodged a bullet with Buttner! I think with our rapid rise L1 and Champs that the fanbase were upbeat and happy to give SFC recruitment the benefit of the doubt, currently it's the opposite and we could do with a summer 2012 type window to reset. You would imagine a proper clear out of remaining loanees and fringe, whilst they get Fraser and Downes done, thereafter some interesting deals in the Gray / Stansfield mould. Juve will probably ask for £50m plus Alcaraz for Soule...

That's the rub I suppose, and the expertise we were paying for with the much lamented Mitchell. Gray at Leeds would be a great shout, and in terms of the positions we most need and Melton most likely to have scouted / longlisted, Patterson, Clarke and Bellingham (Sunderland), Hackney (Boro), O'Hare (Coventry), Cabango and Wood (Swansea). SPL maybe Mitov (St J), O'Reilly, Scales (Celtic), Spittal (Motherwell), Shankland (Hearts - now more likely than Miovski in my view). Loans will be absolutely crucial to get right and I think we would get better bang for buck looking at Netherlands and Scandinavia than Germany (too dear) or France / Italy (hopefully lessons learned). Whether our current black-boxers feel the same is another matter.

Are they BUPA dentists?

Shaqiri looking fitter and stronger at Euros than he has in years, four years younger than Lallana and at the end of his contract. Him, Armstrong and Fraser would be fun to watch for Saints, like a swarm of angry red and white bees.

Last time we came up in 2012 during the summer window we bought Rodriguez (£7m Burnley in Championship - 104/26), Steven Davis (£free Rangers Scots Prem - 193/12), Maya Yoshida (£3m Venlo in Eredivisie - 154/6), Nathanial Clyne (£2.5m Palace in Championship - 94/3), and then the last minute Cortese vanity purchase of Ramirez (£12m Bologna Serie A - 48/6) on deadline day. I know it's a decade on, but Ramirez aside, it proves that it can be done at SFC, this however was when Paul Mitchell was heading up recruitment. Double those prices and aside from GR these are the sort of players our scouts need to find in this window, so the best of the Championship, SPL and the Dutch / Scandi leagues. The worst thing to do would be to overthink, and on past form that's what you'd back them to do, but consolidation on a budget can be done.

Big selling point for Saints in negotiations with Wellington will likely be that we are just over an hour from Waterloo.

Fuck me, if it's going to be DP World or Moonpig they might as well get Le Tissier's daughter-in-law to model it at the launch.

Dr D has provided Saints with a check up from the neck up and a new MOT certificate...

Diego Maradona...

Depends on whether the transfer window is open

He's fighting Tyson Fury in Qatar.

Genuinely sorry to hear this and sending heartfelt condolences and every ounce of positivity and hope to you and the family Noodles. I can’t imagine what you’re going through, but the thoughts of a lot of fellow Saints fans are now with you. Rest in peace Elijah, memory hold the door.

Nathan Jones?

My guess is that he became disinterested / disorientated and missed the flight.