I think we should steer well clear of Italy in the future, have we ever signed anyone who has been a success, except Guly of course!

We would be better off with an Italian defender or two! Still not to worry, this explains the stance with Cork and Fasting. It may even make room for an iminant arrival

I thought he was a spider's replacement now he's not going there's no point keeping him,we need some players though coyr.

Sunday morning stuff.
This is the premier league FFS
Don't we do our homework??

Hope we kept the receipt!

It's a bit of a disappointment all the same. But if he's not up to it, no point in having another liability in the squad..
It doesn't look like we are going to get anyone else this window. Seems tough going judging by the press conferences with RK. Hopefully, Gaston will step up now and add a bit of guile and smarts to the play.Wouldn't it be nice to hear of a report where a player comes out to say that he wants to move to us as his "head is already in Southampton"..!

Bit of a shame this, I had high hopes as my Algerian pal reckons he is a mint, skilful player. However, if it is obvious to both sides it is not going to work then fair play for being decisive and sending him back. It will free the wages up for someone else and hopefully show the board how difficult it may be to get a player in of at least equal standard to cork. If jack moved to arsenal he would be in the next england squad.

It makes that osvaldo deal look even more terrible though.

If this is true, and the Football Italia website is running this story as well..........this is yet another shocking piece of transfer business by Mr Reed.

This clearly wasn't a Koeman choice from the start and stunk of us trying to save face in trying to have something to show for the failed transfer of Osvaldo, but at least RoKo appears to have been bold enough to tell the board he doesn't want hime-Mr Reed must have been admitted from that meeting...........!!

When are the board going to awake to Mr Reed's ineptitude to his transfer dealings, please, no more transfer windows with Krusty in charge of our dealings!!

Going by his girlfriends comments the bloke obviously didn't want to be here from the off. He probably told her what to write to get it out there about how he really felt. Perhaps if he had the same attitude as his girlfriend then things might have worked out differently but with his evident bad attitude he obviously was never willing to give the move a chance, after all how can you hate a place after one day! Why the bad attitude? Probably a mixture of being paid thousands each week and having recently been on the books of one of the top teams in Europe has resulted in an overinflated ego leading to a believe that Saints aren't good enough for him. Some comment that he is a good player but in RoKo's eyes I'd say this is irrelevant, his bad attitude from day one at Saints meant RoKo would not play him (even in a league cup game) until his attitude changed. The club have obviously now given up hope that this will happen so with a few days left before the transfer window shuts have decided to get rid.

In the modern game I certainly don't like how players can act the way they like but the majority now seem to have this mercenary attitude, but dare I say it, because I know we're not allowed to say anything positive about The Don on here!! but at least he seemed to grasp what modern football was like and used to sell some ambition (CL aspirations) to any quality players so that they would sign willingly and play wholeheartedly for the club. We can argue all day long whether those ambitions were pie in the sky or not but it really doesn't matter, because the important thing was that the players were stupid enough to believe what The Don said, and they would then sign to long contracts, meaning high transfer fees for the club if they left.

Of course this is all just opinion and guess work but we didn't seem to have these transfer issues last summer, and we certainly didn't lose out to transfer targets to Sunderland.

As a club we seem to be incredibly inept when it comes to selling, buying or bringing in loans. How many bad decisions have we made in the last year and particularly this summer and yet the current bunch at the top appear to be above reproach. Sick and tired of it all. Just wish we would have some seriously good news for a change. I do though want to see Reed out of the club. Whether he is wholly to blame I have no idea but he has history and there is too much of a coincidence.

Owen I share your thoughts. There may be things about Cortese that were not right and may be it was the right decision that he left, but people didn't mess him about and he had a vision. If he was doing things that were wrong and messing with our finances then it should have been nipped in the bud not allowed to go on. Kat may have made the right decision from a business perspective which lead to his departure but what she has failed to do is deal with the aftermath effectively and recruit the right people in place to ensure that we avoided the mess that we have had this summer. Krueger was a bad appointment, Reed should have been dispensed with. It is a bit like the Iraq war. She may have won the battle with Cortese but she failed to deal with the after effects. Cortese has gone etc as have some good players and we have to move on, but we cannot keep making these costly mistakes

I agree A1079 we are inept and I think Les is the problem and I still dont see the logic of selling Chambers when we need a defender! The conversation should have been "no you cant leave you have just sighned a contract" or at least untill we have sighned a replacment, and for 16m read 25 m next year, still makes me mad, the incompetance!

Sounds very much as though Taider was an option seized by Reed without much input from RoKo and... surprise, surprise, look what has happened.

There is a serious on-going problem here. Left and right hand do not seem to know what they are doing, Reed seems to exercise more independent judgement than his dismal qualities justify. I am now more worried about Gardos than ever, okay arrived injured, now apparently fit, but still not selected as a starter...sounds familiar?

Reed also seems to me to miss good opportunities in preference to expensive blunders, why didn't we buy Remy for two thirds of the cost of Long; why didn't we sign up Zaha on loan weeks ago, why haven't we signed up the Belgian defender from Athletico Madrid or signed Wollscheid on a loan/option deal from Leverkusen.

For my money we are making poor signings when they are championed by Reed, bet we wouldn't have signed Tadic without RoKo's input, but worse still we are missing out on opportunities because Reed seems to have his own agenda and doesn't personally impress potential targets when meeting them so acts as a poor salesman for the club.

It's long past the time that he should be offloaded