Today marks the point where we will be over the half way stage of the January transfer window and there appears little sign of movement.
Saints fans are starting to become a little apprehensive with noon today marking the half way stage of the transfer window yet we appear no nearer landing a new signing than we did as the bells struck midnight on New Years Eve to mark the opening of it.
Perhaps what grates most with the Saints support is that when the club strangely allowed Virgil Van Dijk to announce his move to Liverpool before the window had opened, many hoped that indicated that Saints were ready to move for his replacement early in the window and were getting the money into the coffers in advance.
That was the hope anyway, after all you ask any Saints supporter young or old what Saints needed to do in the window and they would all tell you a central defender to replace Van Dijk and a striker were a must.
Given the publicity given to our famous black box, you would have thought that the targets would be identified early and signed sealed and delivered after all this was no time to quibble about a few million after holding out for the extra from Liverpool.
Now the January transfer window is not a simple one in that us apart most of the selling clubs want to hang on to the final week in order to ensure that they have squeezed out the best price for players, but Saints needed to make a statement here and they haven't done.
A problem mght be the uncertainty of the manager's position, there is a school of thought that he should have been sacked at the start of the year to give a new man the money to spend and that this uncertainty might also be a factor why players might not want to sign for the club and there could be some truth in that.
The problem for the club is that they want to get the right man in both players and perhaps manager, if they sack Pellegrino there would be really no one left at the club to run the team till a new man was appointed, Kelvin Davis would be the only coach left and with respect to him, he has only been a coach for a few weeks and that would be a worse situation than keeping Pellegrino.
But the club need to do something different and fast, their problem is that whatever they do is fast becoming damned if they do and damned if they dont in the eyes of the fans, the longer this drags on the worse it will get.