the saint in winchester

I was hoping to we could give a role to Marian Pahars.

Bazunu KWP Bednarek THB Manning Charles Downes S Armstrong/Amo Alcaraz,/S Armstrong Edozie Adams S.Armstrong plays as he is my Captain. If Alcarez is "trusted" and plays, then Alcy as the 10, Stuart on the right. But if no Alcy, play Stuart as the #10 and Amo on the right, Edozie can take the corners, minimum 4 back even for our own corners.

I'd probably hang fire until we get Stephens back and Ross Stewart integrated. If results are no better then, then they never willbe. Constantly blaming the events of last season making the players lack courage - that irks me. We are not asking them to walk on firey coals, but be able to play decent football. It's the manager and coaches responsibility to get them playing to their potential, and they are failing to do that. Once the best team is available, the judgement starts.

Press Conference: His hair looks nicer, softer "Kamaldeen appeal successful" "We're trying to build here, we need foundations" "We are consistent, but social media is crazy" "trust the process, it will get better, the Swansea lads will confirm that" "i'm relaxed, we will win more games than we won't" "we have to go through pain to get to where we want to get to" "Gav's brilliant, we made a montage of his saves and distribution" "I'm looking forward to tomorrow, I'm happy with the work we have done this week"

Get them both in. We could do with a couple of Noah's as we are facing a FLOOD of goals. (Biblical joke. I'll get my coat, yeah

This. Everyone's teams have around 6 attacking players. We have to defend first and foremost. 4 or 5 at the back, 2 DM, but I acknowledge we don't have the players in the squad to do that. Is there anyone in the free agent market we could bring in? Yes, a Romeu or Lavia type, someone who will get their foot in and get the ball off the opposition.

Staying and in the squad tomorrow night (from press conference)

Bazunu KWP Bednarek THB Manning Charles Downes Sulemana Alcaraz AdamA Adams

Posted yesterday at 11:34 (edited) My team... Scheichel* KwP, THB, Bednarek, Manning Charles, Downes A.Armstrong, Alcaraz, Fraser Adams * free agent, so get him in - would be especially motivated to play Leiecester

Up top, hopefully Roberts and Stewart. Makes sense to buy both from Sunderland. At the back, looks like unless we drop or remove the £8m loan fee for ABK, he won't be leaving us. In that case, probably no more incomings. But hopefully, that can be resolved and Wood in?

Che doesn't seem to be anyone's first choice, only their fallback option. But if he goes, which striker will we replace him with? Ross Stewart, Patrick Roberts (both Sunderland), Duk and the Macedonian (both Aberdeen). 4 strikers linked, and we can't buy them all.

Exciting. Leeds press saying "Southampton have elbowed us out of the way to get THB." yeah baby I was still hoping we would also get Nathan Wood as well. I don't like the idea of asking DM (Downes, Charles) to fill in. We need them in their proper places.

Flying up tomorrow (Friday) - per Russell at the press conference. Then Russ can be available for any last minute calls on transfers. Although Jason will obviously lead it, Russ needs to be contactable. He said it's not ideal, but its ok.

Are we not going to bid for Matt Grimes? The captain of Russ' style of play. Scored and assisted last night. Come on, Saints, make it happen.

and right on cue ....

That did cross my mind. You've had your eye on that pretty girl across the room, she turns you down as someone better is out there. Then at 11:55 she thinks "ah sod it, at least he's keen". If no-ons else comes in for Ings and we need someone, I can see a last minute loan deal for him going through.

I tend to agree. If we want Piroe, let's get him in. Russell said he expected Che deal to be agreed at some point, so let's NOT wait until that deal is finalised before offering for Piroe. We could miss out on him. We compromised (I think) on the price for JWP. Let's be flexible. Take the £12M for Che, and spend it on Piroe sooner rather than later.

And we were allegedly interested in Ross Stewart too. Is this lazy journalism based on our transfer searcher Darren Mowbray being the brother of Sunderland manager Tony Mowbray? Or is there something in this, and we could take a couple of Sunderland players this month?

Everton 'sources' are indeed reporting that Saints have said he is 'free to a good home', so if they can agree personal terms, it seems we are prepared to let him walk away.

We don't need him to run, just stay around our 6 yard box and repel boarders, especially incoming from above.

Sorry if this has been said somewhere in the 190 pages, but can't we just play Tall Paul as a CB. His height would be useful back there.

Morgan Schneiderlin now available!

Amusing comment from one of the strikers saying they are going to bring their own ball and play among themselves, as Saints will have the match ball for so long.

As we are looking to sell before we buy, this could go all wrong. If we don't do a deal to sell until 10pm TDD, we won't have much time buy in. Nail biting begins now.

How much would Dean Henderson cost us? Man Utd looking to sell, but Forest apparently prefer to lure Jose Sa. Is Hendo within budget? A good keeper and a decent striker and the rest in support. but if we go into the season looking like we can't stop conceding and can't score, then we will have wasted the chance to get back up.