MOSaint

Player who did well in Dutch league... continues to do well in Dutch league. Not sure what rattling off these stats proves as it is hardly like he moved to a top league and did this.

LR: Sorry Louis, your cv is more impressive than any manager to ever go near us, but Man U kicked the ball sideways too much that season you were in charge so we decided to go with Gary Monk instead.

I wonder which player he will tell us is so keen to stay they changed agents this time

Forster - 3: yet another blunder Cedric - 6: OK, but not fantastic Stephens - 6: did ok Yoshida - 4: done in the air for the first goal Bertrand - 4: poor Davis - 7: did as much he could Hojbjerg - 4: poor JWP - 4: did nothing Tadic - 4: look at Tadic then look at a player like de Brunei and realise that he would never cut it at a top team Gabbiadini - 4: no service Redmond - 4: nothing came off for him today Subs: Boufal - 3: total flop Long - 5: added energy but no quality Rodriguez - not on long enough to judge Need to focus on clearing the dead wood in the summer rather than flogging the valuables.

More realistic than les reed offering 34million pounds for him.

He should focus on being good in a mediocre PL side before he sets sights on going to a good team.

Dire. Boufal the only one trying to make things happen.

Weren't the "itks" saying we were after someone for around 10m?

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/evertons-cuco-martina-move-remains-11818159? Scouse echo reckons saints are keen on selling Martina and loaning in a RB rather than keeping Martina. So i guess we'll see at least one in before the window shuts. Hopefully we do more than that, but there aren't many rumours in the press and the itks have been quiet for a couple of days.

Ason Villa spending 17m on Johnathan Kodija, who Bristol City paid 2m for last summer.

Good news. If we are really in for a lb before the end of the window, then maybe Puel has decided Targett isn't up to it.

2nd left back we've been linked with recently. Maybe not the end of Bertrand so soon after renewing his contract, but makes you wonder about the severity of his injury. The source of the Erkin rumour is Di Marzio, so theres a fair chance there is something to it. http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/eng/inter-from-southamtpons-interest-in-erkin-to-an-attempt-for-bernardeschi-the-latest/

Re: stanciu. Steauas owner said a pl club had offered £7m for the player. This morning Romanian press named Saints as the club that made the offer. We were linked earlier in the window as well so may have been one we had to wait on until they get dumped out of the cl.

Can only see fringe players leaving now (Martina etc) The club has tended to dig their heels in over important players leaving once we get to the latter stages of the window. Any they have decided to cash in on get sold early.

That's what I like to hear!

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Oh well, as long as we have another target to move onto now this one is dead.

I doubt it, most reports about Tello said he heavily favoured returning to Fiorentina.. The mystery man Guan has been hinting at is meant to be keen to join us.

club twitter teasing another signing being revealed in a minute

Conte's agent is Jorge Mendes. Same agent as Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Usually the club tends to leak this stuff to pet journalists only on occasions where the player doesn't want to sign them. Bertrand, vvd and Forster were very much out of nowhere, but there were always stories from connected journalists about Wanyama, Clyne, Mane, Koeman and the like being offered deals and we know how they turned out...

Madrid wanting to sell for 15m with a 16.3m buyback clause does not do us much good anyway since if he were to come good like Morata did at Juventus, Real will just buy him back and try to sell him on at market value so they can rake in the real profit themselves.

Read the sun story, the Belgian player in question is a guy named Samuel Bastien, 3m. Also mentions Alex McCarthy interest.

Yeah, sounds more like Your Tielemans or a player of similar style. Then again we have been linked with Praet for two summers running, so it would not be a shock if it is Praet.

Alan Nixon was teasing it on Twitter yesterday, so it will be in today's Sun