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Fletcher and Jarvis would be brilliant - finally some proper cover for Rickie, which as we saw at the weekend is one of our biggest issues at the moment. Not sure how we'd keep them happy without nailed on regular first team football though...need to trim the squad
 
Yes I would also be very very very happy with Matt Jarvis. Very lively, a bit more direct and pacy. Would definitely add something to the squad.
 
Matt Jarvis? Be serious guys. The lad was linked with the likes of Liverpool/Everton/Newcastle not too long ago, he won't come to us - not in the summer anyway.

We've been linked in the press with players like Tom Ince and Kazenga LuaLua, and that's the type of player we'll get; exciting prospects who are direct and pacy with a good shot on them, but have yet to play in the Premier League - either that or someone from abroad.

With reference to the OP, George Boyd will be great for some other club, but not for Saints - he needs the team to work around him and that wouldn't happen here.
 
Lambo's Fluffy Chest Hair said:
Matt Jarvis? Be serious guys. The lad was linked with the likes of Liverpool/Everton/Newcastle not too long ago, he won't come to us - not in the summer anyway.

We've been linked in the press with players like Tom Ince and Kazenga LuaLua, and that's the type of player we'll get; exciting prospects who are direct and pacy with a good shot on them, but have yet to play in the Premier League - either that or someone from abroad.

With reference to the OP, George Boyd will be great for some other club, but not for Saints - he needs the team to work around him and that wouldn't happen here.
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Would be pleased to sign him, very lively. Don't know about you guys but he really impressed me on Saturday.
 
Saintjoey said:
I think Jarvis is just the type of player we should be looking at. We need a left footied option in our side. Would love a right winger with the ability to beat people (i.e with pace as well as skill which De Ridder seems to lack) and Phillips would fit that category.

Continuing on the 'if we go up & they go down' idea...Stephen Hunt at Wolves is a good player too. Doyle/Fletecher from Wolves would also be significantly better than what we have (except Rickie of course)

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I'm not sure Southampton should be looking at journeymen like Hunt and Fletcher. I just don't feel like we're that kind of team - we bring young explosive talent through that we can hopefully keep longer if we go up, and when we buy in, I think we should be looking at long-term sustainability.

Think journeymen can work out for us quite well on the defensive side, as experience there is always good for defensive calm, security, and leadership, but I personally - much as I like all the players you mention there - don't want us to go down the track of buying these professional relegation battlers. They're undoubtedly good mercenaries, who are still at Premiership level, and will doubtless stay in the top flight when their club goes down - but let them go to the clubs battling each year to stay up, not to teams like us with a bit more ambition! Let's unearth another surprise, or prise one of our recent tormenters, like Phillips, at the optimum point of despondency and vulnerability, ie. when Blackpool have failed to come up. I don't fancy any baggage in this team - I feel like those players are transitory and all fans know it. We're building a machine here - let's buy fresh parts, not second hand! Plus don't fancy propping up older players on an injury list who then end up never recovering to gain a place in the team again - and that is way more likely to happen with these sort of workhorse players, as it did for Wolves when they first bought Hunt, for example.
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As long as we don't buy Adel Taarabt!

Love all these news stories saying how he's starting to come into his own now (just cos he scored his first Premiership goal) - bit late now, mate! :laugh:
 
Jarvis, Kightly, and Doyle yes, but that's it - unfortunately they're the only few players who probably have much better options that us!
 
My choice would be Ryo Miyachi!! That's only if Arsenal don't need him for next year, he's been one of Bolton's best players since he's been there and could you imagine Chung and Ryo together, the Japanese would go mad for us!!
 
SL Saint said:
My choice would be Ryo Miyachi!! That's only if Arsenal don't need him for next year, he's been one of Bolton's best players since he's been there and could you imagine Chung and Ryo together, the Japanese would go mad for us!!
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I'd rather not purely because I'd like to see us build our own team rather than rely on loans.
 
Lambo's Fluffy Chest Hair said:
Matt Jarvis? Be serious guys. The lad was linked with the likes of Liverpool/Everton/Newcastle not too long ago, he won't come to us - not in the summer anyway.

We've been linked in the press with players like Tom Ince and Kazenga LuaLua, and that's the type of player we'll get; exciting prospects who are direct and pacy with a good shot on them, but have yet to play in the Premier League - either that or someone from abroad.

With reference to the OP, George Boyd will be great for some other club, but not for Saints - he needs the team to work around him and that wouldn't happen here.
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He's since been dropped by Wolves and, although he's back in the side now, his value has undoubtedly dropped. The likes of Liverpool can't afford to take the risk on unproven (at the top level) players anymore on an inkling anyway. We can.
 
I'd always look for players who are hungry. On paper Norwich and Swansea have inferior squads to QPR but hey, their players are hungry for success. QPR have brought in a lot of players in two waves and it must have had an unsettling effect on the players who took them up last season. When you compare the top two in our division with West Ham a similar scenario applies.
 
redwhitedynamite said:
Adel Taraabt wouldn't be a bad choice and a realistic chance of signing.
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Can't disagree more - unsettling, always wantaway, and absolutely proven on two occasions now (Spurs and QPR) to comprehensively not be a Premiership level player. Gone missing in almost every game QPR have played this season, and nothing he tries comes off, gives the ball away needlessly by trying to skin someone in his own half, believes himself to be better than anyone in his team (and league). A complete nonsense player. The sort of player Pompey would have signed about two or three years ago on stupid wages.

Can't wait for the Liverpool fire sale - Stewart Downing is probably not beyond us, if he'd lower his wage bill, and would love Charlie Adam. Please no Andy Carroll, though.

Signings I have thought very astute for newly establishing Premiership clubs in the last few years have quite often been at West Brom - Shane Long, Peter Odemwengie, Chris Brunt.
 
The Ides of March said:
I'd always look for players who are hungry. On paper Norwich and Swansea have inferior squads to QPR but hey, their players are hungry for success. QPR have brought in a lot of players in two waves and it must have had an unsettling effect on the players who took them up last season. When you compare the top two in our division with West Ham a similar scenario applies.
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Gorkss and Liegertwood from the team that took QPR up now look set to take Reading up. They've brought in a load of journeymen like Ferdinand, Cisse, Wright Phillips and Zamora when Norwich and Swansea kept most of their team together and are reaping the rewards.
 
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