Saints Need To Be Canny This Week

As the hours count down to the transfer window shutting Saints need to be careful with their money.

Of course many clubs will believe we are loaded after the sale of Alex Oxlade Chamberlain, whether we are willing to spend it or not is open to debate, but the fact that we dont need to spend too much of it isnt.

Looking at the Saints squad its hard to see where it could be improved, of course you could say signing Wayne Rooney and a host of other Premiership stars would improve it, but realistically Saints cant get many better Championship quality players than they already have.

This means that they need to be selective in what dealings they do this week, its well documented or to be more accurate rumoured that we are in the market for a striker and whilst it seems we are ready to splash anything between £1.5 million on Jutkeiwicz from Coventry up to £6.5 for either Nicky Maynard or Jay Rodrigues, you have to ask the question whether any of them are any better than we have got, especially when you consider apart from our three frontmen we also have Guly who can play up top if needed, personally I would prefer to see Saints spend wisely in this department, Jutkiewicz would represent value for money and unlike several of the others he is a replacement for Lambert as a big bustling centre forward, but if we are to boost our striking options why not go for potential rather than big fees, Adam Le Fondre is available at around £500k.

Central defence is perhaps the area in which we really need to strengthen, to be blunt if we are too maintain our good start, we need to find an experienced partner for Fonte, but someone who is also young, Kasper Gorkss certainly fits the bill here and could well be obtained without paying anything out if we can get rid of Puncheon to QPR at the same time.

But apart from these two positions its hard to see where we can really improve and it may be better to keep our money in our pocket and save it for January when it will be more apparent where we might need to improve rather than spending for spendings sake.

Im sure that Nigel Adkins and the others on the Saints transfer committee will have identified their targets and hopefully bring at least one of them in before the window closes.   

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