All the upheavals in the past week or so have overshadowed the fact that we have moved another week close to the closing of the transfer window with little activity.
All the talk around St mary's over the last few days has been about the sacking of Nigel Adkins and the arrival of Mo Po, however it has meant that Saints upporters have taken their eyes off the transfer window a little and forgotten about the concerns in certain areas within the squad, ok Vegard Forren arrived through the door and that was certainly a signing in an area we need strengthening, however there seems to be little evidence of signings in crucial areas.
The new manager has sparked a fresh wave of rumours and we are now likely to be linkied with a host of players from Spain as well as Argentinians, but the worrying though is that none of them seem to play in areas we need strengthening. all the players linked seem to be strikers or central midfielders and this really isnt the weak area at the current time.
Pochettino could well turn out to be a great manager for Saints and Im certainly not going to judge him after a few days, but as good as he may be he cant turn some of our weak links into truly Premier class players and the problem areas still remain.
Perhaps a goalkeeper isnt as urgent as ity was a month ago in that Artur Boruc has put in a string of decent performances and although his kicking is suspect at times, his handling and confident to dominate his area is a lot lot better than we have been used to of late, but although the arrival of Forren plugs a gap, the quality of the other three central defenders varies from lacking in the case of Hooivelt to at best average in the case of Fonte and Yoshida, all three have their issues though.
As it stands Saints are extremely weak on the left hand side of the pitch in the midfield, no one who has played there and I include Adam Lallana in this from a defensive perspective has yet to tick all the boxes wide left and this has to be addressed.
Yes a squad has to be freshened up and improved upon, but that task is for the summer not the January transfer window, our priorities now should be to plug the gaps in the problem areas rather than buying for the future.
Saints perhaps need to buy two more players in the transfer window, they are not forwards or central midfielders, unless we intend to persue what looked like our policy at the start of the season in outscoring up at one end what our leaky defence let in at the other.
Nicola Cortese showed that he has a ruthless streak and isnt content with second best, that being the case those that advise him on transfers now need to start doing the job that someone failed to do last summer.