Dman

You've been telling us for the past 4 weeks we have someone better than Piroe and Adams coming in. Almost like you we're completely making it up.. who'd have thought it aye.

I'm going to start to measure inflation by the cost of a James Blunt ticket. £85 each, blimey.. makes the fee paid for Tall Paul look a bargain

yep - It'll be interesting to see how Martin manages that. We've kinda shot ourselves in the foot giving Stephens the captaincy... I'm not sure he should even be starting.

Day 55 of OldNick mentioning the CoT

Not something I was expecting to hear this window... something has either gone really really wrong at Atletico or we're chasing unrealistic targets again.... (or, most likely, its complete rubbish made up by agents / press)

I can only assume other targets aren't achievable in that case. I think there is a player in Mara - we just haven't seen it yet. Will we ever is the big question. Really needs to work for him and us.

No one is forgetting him - He's isn't a number 9. We've seen that.

Its a bit of a tricky one. It'd be a huge risk to rely on him for any period of time so we need 2 seasoned professionals ahead of him and we only play 1 up top, so he's relying on a long term injury to get some game time realistically. I think sending him to Reading (with a recall clause) is sensible for us and him.

For me, our season hangs on this. Its essential.

FWIW - I think the value we got is pretty fair. Just not a fan of coming out saying about how we demand X and they'll only leave on our terms. As you've said, in the minority I suspect. Although, I do think Che is worth more to us this season than £15m is next. So long as we get 2 strikers in, it wont matter.

I'm sure there was a Burnely fan on here a month or so ago - Mostly to talk about Tella. I'm fairly certain that he said when THB was mentioned that they have 3 really strong CB's so he might not actually get a game there.

Is that actually true? I was lead (maybe incorrectly) to believe he played more out on the left / in the 10. Not too dissimilar to how he's been playing here. Personally, I think at this level, he's absolutely brilliant in the deeper role and starts ahead of Alcaraz for me.

Fraser, Downes and THB are all absolutely brilliant championship signings.

Tino - wanted £50m, got £40m JWP - wanted £50m, got £30m Che / ABK - Sending out on loan ffs. I don't see how that suits the club in any way shape or form.

Can't wait to watch us cook, innit.

Really good defence that. Along with the midfield, that's arguably the strongest core in the league. Still - Goals, or lack of, is going to be what kills us.

Ahh yes, Spurs, that notoriously generous club. FWIW I don't care if he goes, I hope he does. I think he's an absolute quitter and summed up why we went down. Just wish we'd stop publicly patting ourselves on the back for being such stern negotiators setting unrealistic expectations we're never gonna get then dropping our pants.

it has to be 2 strikers. We cannot go into the season with 1 striker who has a questionable injury record and wont be fit for a month. and no, AA cannot play through the middle, we've seen that more than enough times

They've (saints) also tweeted a loyalty stamp card with 5 stamps and the last one left unstamped "Bonus Signing" Another one on the way or am I just massively reading into things too much? Probably the later.

The Southampton way... "Players only leave on our terms if it suits the club".. until we find out no one will meet our terms...

Cedric was / is shit though. Adams would play a key part in us getting promoted.

A loan just makes no sense to us at all. His record / performance in the PL is questionable, at best, if we go up, do we need him as much as we need him now? imo no.

There's genuinely a lot to like about this one and he does sound like an adequate replacement for Che. The big, big concern is that he seemingly can't stay fit. We cannot be pinning our hopes on someone with his injury record and who was only able to play 13 games last season.

He'll keep the medical team busy. Rossy, Rossy

Racism isn't funny and shouldn't be joked about. Another disgusting comment.