Charlie Wayman

Before we get to the point of further signings, there are 8 weeks left in the transfer window and you need to worry about who else might decide "Out" once they return to training and see what's left of our team and staff around them. Didn't see Tadic or van Dyke yet and Pelle surely will be getting scent offer from Italy. Redmond is hardly the sort of signing to set other player's pulses running especially when you've spent the summer rubbing shoulders with world class players and opponents.

Can't stand the truth? Wait 'til you're out of work and there is no dole money.

If you are looking for endorsement, you've got it! Great player plagued by injury and being associated with Chelsea. Sound familiar? Ryan Bertrand, Jack Cork, Oriol Romeu. Scousers rob us, we rob Chelsea sounds like a deal. I have always thought Romeu to be a better than Wanyama but not given the best chances through Koeman's erratic judgements of individuals, one day your crap the next day the bees knees. Give the lad a five year deal if he'll take it, we will likely depend upon him and Jordie Clasie this year.

Well, I do! This season will be his coming of age in the PL. He now knows what it takes and believe me he will deliver. Predictably, next summer all his critics will be moaning because another of our star players is scooped up by the money set.

Most of us will know what's likely to happen after 5 or 6 league games! Why not say what you really think?

Let's hope he is not another Burley.

Wrong, Sammy is fluent in Spanish and it's worth a bet that he has had an offer from The Geordies that he could not refuse.

Untried gently persuasive French Manager plus Eric Black a combo that promises lots of goals and attractive free-flowing open football (we don't play for draws!)... hang on, I read something like that last year in the Birmingham Post. Ever had that sinking feeling? Still we didn't have to endure Sherwood. Thank goodness Redmond knows his way around the Championship

Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat ad nauseam.... ?

These matters always have context. It was said when everything here was rosy and the idea of RK and others leaving was never even mooted. It's a different ball-game now, Conte has extracted more from Graziano than our coaches ever did and a possible move to Chelsea might even be on the cards. It is if you will a modern day Lambert story, an unknown from the lower echelons of the Italian league turned into an international at Saints but with a different ending. I want him to stay but doubt he will with the current mood in the camp, exodus of the big rats and an unknown manager. What's to stay for from his point of view... oh and he is now playing in a 'foreign' country.

You do live in a happy, hippy rose-tinted little world don't you? Are you really that naive and clueless or did I misread your essay??

How do people explain 50 years of continuous systematic failure of the England football set-up then? Surely it cannot all be down to the recently departed coaching set-up and current players or indeed having an English coaching set-up at all as opposed to a foreign one such as Capelli or Erikson? We have accused generation after generation of being over-hyped, over-paid, over-egged and frivolous and yet come the next generation with so-called clean starts and no baggage (or WAGS in tow) the results remain the same. There is something rotten in the State of English Football and the finger can only point at the FA - which is exactly what this over-bloated, self-grandiosing organisation has achieved in 50 years. It is they who should be ashamed but there is not a hint of any of those faceless bureaucrats resigning this morning. Give the job to the Premier League and leave to FA to run Sunday morning league football which apparently they are quite good at.

Praise indeed, thank you!

We seem to be in agreement with more and more. I also hoped for a Remain vote.

Now we know exactly why no decent manager or player will stay at Southampton. Buying a at best journeyman, one trick pony of a player solely at the whim of that idiot tosser Reed without consulting a prospective new manager smacks of arrogance bordering on megalomania and lunacy. What an effing mess we are in.

Roughly translated it says "FO you penny pinching, money grubbing bar stewards!"

I've been wondering about that as well. Maybe we were not looking in the right direction? We thought it meant the way we play football whereas the club obviously think it is about how to make money through asset development. In other words the Southampton Way is to run a business as a zero-sum cash cow. We would keep Mane, of course we would if it was about football, wouldn't we. You don't need to be a cynic, you need to think about what you would do if charged with the task by the owner of running her business sustainably.

You're kidding right? If they were good players the Scousers wouldn't want rid of them. Both are crap journeymen.

It was a pleasure to see him back here for KD's testimonial in the "dug-out" and especially to see him at one point leap to his feet to remonstrate with his players for playing too many square and back yards passes - and this in an unimportant training session! Now that's what I call passion, our Nigel of old. As others have observed he might actually be great as Academy Chief where arguably a change of leadership might freshen things up a bit as it had all become a trifle aimless at the end of last season. Nigel seems unusually bright for an English manager. By reciting that poem out loud one could hazard a guess that he is very self critical of his own performance and seeks constantly to improve it. Commendable, indeed.

This is probably as much to do about stability and maturity in the dressing room as footballing ability; he is also a damn good role model and mentor for our young academy hopefuls like JWP and Reed. The new contract will probably see him out as a PL player. His never-say-die attitude must be worth a few goals a season even if he is not the one sticking them in the net. Every player has his critics but nobody could ever accuse Steven Davis of not giving 100% effort to the cause whenever he runs onto the pitch and whatever the score.

Obviously you rate Reed's intellect and cunning more highly than most. Imagine a Reed / Hodgson tie up... Dumb & Dumber?

Nice to Southampton, bet his wife would look forward to that. There must be a limit to how loudly money talks?

... this and probably meet miles away in Winchester, well out of reach of prying eyes and cameras. Remember the infamous unveiling of Kevin Keegan at The Potter's Heron.

Obviously you don't remember when it was called the Parkhill, a rock bottom 3-Star threadbare dump? What's in a name (change) and a bit of slick PR, aye?

That was then and this is now of course. Saints are a top six club in the PL and wish to stay that way so they will take no chances by gambling on an unproven up-and-coming relatively unknown manager. Those days read gone.