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Did we actually sign this guy from Chelsea, very quite about it everywhere

I don't think Ralph has a clue. I have watched Stuart Armstrong for a few years, he was great attacking midfielder for both Dundee United &Celtic. He is being destroyed at Saints. Playing him at RB is unbelievable it is like Man city putting Kevin De Bruyne at RB, Ralph needs to sort it and play 442 or 433 with proper full backs. I would suggest McCarthy Cedric Stephens Danso Bertram Hoijberg Armstrong Boufal Djnepo Ings Adams

First major mistake was Ralph's should never of started Gunn, how many goals does he have to give away?, the whole defence was nervy knowing they had a crap goalkeeper behind them. I also don't understand why Boufal wasn,t playing,been one of our best players so far this year. I have come to the conclusion that Ralph has been found out he is not the manager he thinks he is.

It would be totally wrong to sell him even for £20 million, A very valuable squad member who is Southampton through & through , thanks but NO THANKS Watford

The only way to progress is to play Carrilo & Gabbi together up front in a 3-5-2

Puel was not a Bad Manager , He was Unlucky a lot last season but still produced one of the better seasons for us. I always felt he was giving of his best for us but he did seem to rub up some of the players in the wrong way and i think some of them should take a long look at themselves. I would just say thanks & Good Luck in the future Claude. Lets hope uncle Les gets the right manager in quickly and backs him to bring in 2 0r 3 great signings for next season.

He is certainly not the Goalkeeper he was at celtic and in my opinion he has not been right since his injury last season. Maybe time to rest him and give the newly signed kid a chance

Very Very Proud of that performance and we should have won, Lets now take that on and go the rest of the season unbeaten and that could get us to Europe again COYS

If Les has any sense he will go right now and look at the list of players that are uncontracted and looking for a club, there are several there that we could sign on short term deals to the end of the season and who would improve us during this time of a lot of injuries, Including central defenders and of course Frank Lampard attacking,Goal scoring Midfielder.

I should like to ask Les how it was that we could not get Salkho on loan from Liverpool but Crystal Palace have, did we even try ?..

All The good work and confidence built up after the Liverpool game was thrown out the window by Puel , He should not have made any changes to the starting 11, If Clasie & Jay were fit enough for the bench then they were fit enough to start the game. There is nothing that pi--sses a group of players of more than knowing they have performed well as a team but the manager wants to tinker with it for the sake of it. I Think Puel has the worst man management skills of any manager since Branfoot & his tactical Nous is Zero , We have a very unhappy dressing room and set of players at the moment because anything they try & build Puel knocks down.

I am tempted to say anyone but Puel ,Pardews a good shout good manager who knows the club well but got treated very badly by Cortese so he might not be up for a return but he would be a upgrade on Puel

I very rarely post these days but feel obliged to tonight. The problem is all down to Puels rotation of players, he does not know his best team and this continual changing 5 or 6 players every game will never work. I don't understand why Puel thinks it will, I read today that he said players cannot play 3 games in 7 days , what a nonsense, he should look at the top sides they don't have this silly mass rotation that he is so fond of. Play the best 11 as much as you can. Having said that the squad is not strong enough. And by the way Boufal is a lazy prima dona, we need workers not highly paid wasters like him?

Come on Ron, be brave and we can win this by playing 3.4.3 Forster , Fonte , Vvd , Bertrand Cedric , Romieu , Classie , Davies Mane , Austin , Long Go on Ron, go for it.

West ham and a few other clubs were all waiting for the latter stages of this transfer window to swoop in and get charlie for next to nothing. What we are seeing is sour grapes because saints beat them all to it. Well done to all at st marys because charlie austin is exactly what is needed. If the funds allow it I would like us to also sign Tony Vilhena from feyonord, then we will have a realy strong squad capable of finishing very high this season

Give him a run in the team in this position, we might have another Gareth Bale on our hands. I can see likeness to a young GB, seriously.

If we are serious about Virgil We better get busy because I am hearing up here this morning that Everton have made a serious approach over the weekend and are hot favourites for his signature.

His injury record is excellent, games missed last season were due to suspensions not injuries. Two red cards and imo both wrongly issued. He is the main man in the current Celtic team without a doubt and 10/12 millionwould be aexcellent buy

Van Dijk is a terrific player who I have watched a lot, imo better or certainly as good as Toby. A couple of things, firstly celtic are not needing or wanting to sell him and secondly we would need to pay big money to get him. Norwich have been sniffing around for a few weeks but rumour is there bids of around 8mill have been laughed out, also several overseas clubs are interested. Apart from being a great centre back who is excellent in the air he has a wicked free kick on him. Scores a good few goals from freekicks around the box. If we signed Van Dijk and Classie I would definately fancy us for another excellent season.

Must be worth a punt at the right price, we will need more bodies next season with the europa games. Young enough to improve greatly and looking good at international level.

Da Do Ron Ron, The greatest, all the best.

Started very brightly, but faded badly so hard to say how much he can do for us. Need to see a few more appearances before forming a opinion.

I dont post here very often but I am going to stick out my neck and say we will win this one , Koeman will have let the boys know how much it means to him personally and every player will give 110% for him. 1-0 to saints with a late Pelle strike.

The team is not the same without Pelle, his workrate and hold up play is tops and allthough the goal scoring touch has left him at the moment he will score a ot more with a little more luck. I can see him finishing the season on 20+ goals and being the player of the season.

I actually think all the new signings look good but only time will tell , But The Main Man is Koeman