Actually, I was never a big fan of he. I thought we invested too much time, energy & money on him. But, some might say, as my post says.....
A guess or knowledge?
I reckon we need the following
Attacking central midfielder
Striker
Centre back to replace/push fonte
Right back as Martina was off so deemed not good enough
Defensive midfielder
Then we are ok.
As we won't get that lot I would go for AMC as it is critical to Pauls system and centre back to replace fonte
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Actually, I was never a big fan of he. I thought we invested too much time, energy & money on him. But, some might say, as my post says.....
There were published links a few days ago.
New contracts for: Forster, Cedric, Fonte (potentially), Van Dijk, Bertrand, Davis, Ward-Prowse, Tadic, Long
Needs taking into consideration when it comes to budgeting. Fraser's five-year deal is an outlay of around £20m. £4m per year for five years.
It's all budgeted for. Saints don't just sign the paperwork and worry about it later.
So that's £20m on securing Forster, before you even consider Cedric, Jose, Virgil, Ryan, Steven, James, Dusan and Shane.
I know it's not a standard thing for everyone to consider but these guys don't play for free, or cheaply!
As we heard towards the last 48 hours and nearly 9000 posts to this thread. A quick Summer Summary of the first team squad
Last Season ........................................................................This Season
Goalkeepers
Fraser Forster.......................................................................Fraser Forster (New Contract)
Maartin Stekelenburg - Loan Expired...................................Alex McCarthy (Crystal Palace £3m)
Kelvin Davis - Retired...........................................................Stuart Taylor (Free)
Paulo Gazzaniga (Loan to Rayo Vallacano).........................Harry Lewis (Promoted to u23 keeper)
Defenders
Cedric Soares......................................................................Cedric Soares (New Contract)
Cuco Martina........................................................................Cuco Martina
..............................................................................................Jeremy Pied (Free)
Ryan Bertrand......................................................................Ryan Bertrand (New Contract)
Matthew Targett....................................................................Matthew Targett
Jose Fonte............................................................................Jose Fonte
Virgil Van Dijk........................................................................Virgil Van Dijk (New Contract)
Maya Yoshida........................................................................Maya Yoshida
Florin Gardos.........................................................................Florin Gardos
Midfield
Victor Wanyama (Sold £11m Spurs).....................................Pierre Emile Hojbjerg (B.Munich £13m)
Oriol Romeu..........................................................................Oriol Romeu
Jordy Clasie...........................................................................Jordy Clasie
Steven Davis.........................................................................Steven Davis (New Contract)
James Ward-Prowse.............................................................James Ward-Prowse (New Contract)
Harrison Reed.......................................................................Harrison Reed
Attacking Midfield/Wing
Dusan Tadic..........................................................................Dusan Tadic (New Contract)
Sadio Mane (Sold £34m Liverpool).......................................Sofiane Boufal (Lille £16m)
Juanmi (Sold £1.5m Real Sociedad)....................................Nathan Redmond (Norwich £10m)
Forward
Graziano Pelle (Sold £12m Shandong)....................................................................
Charlie Austin........................................................................Charlie Austin
Jay Rodriguez........................................................................Jay Rodriguez
Shane Long............................................................................Shane Long (New Contract)
£58.5m received....................................................................£42m Spent
25 players..............................................................................25 players
On Gardos, I don't wish to put the guy down and he provides squad depth but when fit he was 4th choice behind Yoshida and is just returning from a year out injured so I'd be surprised if he's suddenly going to be pushing Fonte for a starting place, which is what we could do with.
Wilshere will be allowed to go out on loan. (According to Sky)
I'm already jealous of whoever gets him. Class, class player, needs a stint away from arsenal's medical team.
Put in a good word for us DTLW!
West Ham will surely be all over that one, well at least according to gold and Sullivan. A chance to get on tele again tomorrow.Wilshere will be allowed to go out on loan. (According to Sky)
He'd fit into our diamond quite well on the left hand side.
Wenger and Puel go back a long way.
Shall I start up the Saints Jack! thread now or tomorrow?
Always gotta remember the last Jack we signed didn't work out too well Paddy.....
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Cork?
I'd say he worked out pretty well?

Nice summary saintly!!
Transfermarkt has it as £64.5m received, and £40.1m spent (http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/fc-southampton/transfers/verein/180/saison_id/2016), but as discussed above at a guess we've committed to roughly an additional £10.4m per year wages each year for the next 4 years so I wouldn't be surprised as some have suggested to see one just one more AM/W and maybe a season long loan for a RB if we sell Martina.
According to The Daily Star, we have done a u turn and will allow Jay Rod to go to Hull on a season long loan????