Patches O Houlihan

I had to reload it to try to get it to play Club have pretty much ditched YouTube, which blows goats because the only thing more frustrating and buggy than the videos on the club website are the videos on the hopeless app!

Those rightly concerned about a 9 can console themselves with two thoughts: 1) There is a chance Stewart will still come good for us 2) In Baylee Dieppa we have signed a huge 17yo target man with the potential to be that player for us at some point (go watch the videos on his thread) Bearing in mind the player we would all want is £30m+, and the state of our finances, and the signing of Ramsdale I think that is realistically as good as we could have expected.

Sulemana might be frustrating, but he is still a man mountain solidly built average height man who was clocked as the fastest player at the World Cup 18 months ago. Plenty of teams will watch the two goals he scored against Liverpool, see his injuries and appearances. Deduce that it hasn't worked out for him and he is worth a punt. £10m all day (we paid £22m I think)

His 2 min interview on the app/club website is worth a watch; a huge, mature kid who speaks well and seems to have his head screwed on I voted it a 7/10 window earlier, but seeing this lad I might be tempted to upgrade that to an 8 Southampton Academy is so back 😁 COYR

That goal above was scored against Bristol Rovers at the end of March Club announcement: https://www.southamptonfc.com/en/news/article/academy-seal-four-deadline-day-signings?utm_source=twitter Wikipedia TransferMkt The lad is a unit. He is holding off experienced pros aged 17 and clearly knows where the net is. CHDAJFU at 9 when we're up against it and need an out ball? Quality signing - well done to the recruitment team: If you can't buy a ready made £30m talisman striker maybe you can grow your own?!

He looks amazing here The lad is a unit. He is holding off experienced pros aged 17 and clearly knows where the net is. CHDAJFU at 9 when we're up against it and need an out ball? Quality signing - well done to the recruitment team: If you can't buy a ready made £30m talisman striker maybe you can grow your own?!

I can see that being a thing. Good spot

ISWYDT 😉

Data from the BBC's big article on the deadline day deals & transfer window as a whole

Toney is 28, came up through the leagues, may well come from a poorer background. He's run his contract down at Brentford, so in all likelihood his personal financial portfolio won't be quite as mind bending as other strikers with his current profile. Offered the choice to set him his close family, and possibly extended family up for life maybe he's doing the unselfish thing. Also gambling is illegal in Saudi so it would be easier to stay away from it, and fewer temptations. There was a discussion last night on BBC R5 where it was pointed out that actually there were a fair few top players at the Euros who came from the Saudi league. Kante being a prime example.

There's a good discussion on page 8 of the ABK thread

It's the full version discussing the transfer deadline day as of 08:30 this morning

You're right. Big Les, Aribo & Flynn > three lads who aren't easily knocked off the ball. We usually have one, sometimes two, but it's been a good while since we had three.

Saints complete Cornet signing - notification on the app 😁

and Sulemana... imagine if we were able to achieve some sort of coaching breakthrough and we see in a game what we see glimpses of in training videos I guess I chose the wrong night to quit sniffing glue 😕

I had TalkSport on in the background earlier, and there were coherent fans for both Leicester and Wolves who seemed pretty dispirited, underwhelmed and predicting relegation. Everton have got to be in the relegation conversation and I heard pundits describing Ipswich's window as reminiscent of Forest and the Loadsamoney Fulham failure window. ~ "They've signed 8 players who will expect to be starters, but they are surely still favourites to go down"

Aside from Ramsdale I'm going to stick my neck out and say I think Mateus Fernandes is going to be a massive signing for us. Even if we get relegated I think we'll sell him for big money.

The irony of Edozie not being able to make up his mind what to do before he runs out of time/space is not lost on me...

Has he been in a fight with Wolverine?

When I looked earlier our squad size seemed to be legal even with Edozie & Sulemana included

SSN 22:05 Southampton submit deal sheet for Cornet Latest from Sky Sports News' Dharmesh Sheth: Southampton have submitted a deal sheet in order to gain extra time to complete their move for West Ham's Maxwel Cornet. If submitted between 9pm and 11pm, a completed deal sheet provides clubs with an extra two hours to conclude proposed moves. Southampton have agreed a loan deal to sign Cornet from the Hammers and the versatile left-sided player has undergone a medical.

I thought we had submitted a deal sheet so had until 1am to complete the paperwork Is he asking for the moon on a stick? 🤔