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McCarthy follows too, albeit not sure how recently. Phillips hasn’t tweeted since May 2016, so would be odd for 1-2 players and our performance analyst to start following him.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No Valery of Hesketh, which is slightly interesting I suppose!

Could be dependent on size? I ordered mine (large) at least a couple of hours after you, and had an email to confirm the order has now been processed and is in dispatch.

Appreciate that there are a lot of variables and that this in itself wouldn’t make Watford (in my example) bid £20mill as soon as they see the rumour, but it is a piece of the puzzle & part of the psychological ‘when it’s gone it’s gone’ phenomenon. Reporters like Nixon are usually pretty reputable , so even if the links are seemingly false in this case the story would have been fed to him from somewhere & not just made up by him.

Not that I’d advocate doing this, but could you theoretically buy the small, then return it to a Saints store, plead ignorance that you forgot the receipt and exchange it for one in your size? Most retail places usually turn a blind eye to proof of purchase if the customer is only requesting an exchange.

Quite simple surely? If, for example Watford, had genuine interest in Ings, then seeing ‘news’ that we were after him would mean they get their skates on and firm up their interest.

Apart from lazy journalistic links, has there actually been anything reliable from the usual sources re: Ings? Seems we’re getting ourselves wound up over what is at this stage nothing.

I seem to remember the one for Iheanacho when he moved to Leicester was circa £50 mill (for context, the transfer fee was about half of that). At a guess then, maybe £30mill? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I read it that the Burnley game has been moved, whether or not they progress in Europe. For once a sensible move, as it would otherwise leave us in limbo until 9 days before the fixture was scheduled to take place.

ITK or just citing the lazy Sports Witness piece that states we should be after him, with no evidence that we actually are?

Get to the next level, or merely, keep up with most of the other Prem teams?

Seems more like a Boufal replacement rather than the speedy wide man / Tadic replacement that we may be expecting - not that this is a bad thing, so long as he isn’t the final attacking reinforcement. All in all though, seems like a cracking player.

From a quick scout on Twitter, I can see a mixture of rumours of a move to Leeds, and Man City fans wanting him to have a loan spell in the Prem for a season. Would be an odd signing either way, so definitely one to watch!

In what way, out of interest?

I’ll give him till halftime in the Derby pre season friendly, whether or not he actually plays.

Would be ok as a squad signing, but Lord knows we need more than that, so in context pretty uninspiring. It stinks of a Wilson signing...

Would take Mooy as a Davis replacement. The worry then though is that we still haven’t plugged the 3 holes we have within the team at centre back, out wide and up top, plus likely replacing Boufal and Tadic alongside Pied (& potentially others).... can’t see us signing a min 7 players in the next 6-7 weeks

Hopefully not just agent talk to prompt others to pull their finger out, but if true a cracking piece of business, especially if we can recoup a bulk of that by offloading Boufal.

The trim around the Under Armour logo looks truly amateurish. The worst kit in a good few years.

Carvahal notorious for being cautious in big games. If we can get at them from the off I’m confident - however with recent events we’d need to score at least twice (which makes it barmy to think I’d advocate dropping Austin for Long).

Any idea when we known if it’ll be Saturday or Sunday?

The fact he’s still here probably reinforces to MP himself that he’s doing a good job - the next week really is the last chance to right our wrongs and get somebody else in..

Any chance of it being a ‘replacement’ game on the 29th should Man Utd / Man City still be in the Champions League? I seriously doubt it but wondered purely out of interest, as the last few meetings have been shown on tv, so it’s odd to not have been selected this time.

Question, is the Dell Sports bar (or whatever guise it now has) still free entry on production of a match ticket? Going to be at St Mary’s a lot earlier than usual and trying to figure out what to do with ourselves! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lallana sent off for their Under 23’s tonight, would that make him suspended for the weekend? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk