Ronald Koeman made his second signing of the week as he returned to Feyenoord to bring Italina forward Graziano Pelle to St Mary's.
I have been saying since the departure of Mauricio Pochettino that with departures inevitable it doesn't matter who goes it is now all about who comes in and Ronald Koeman has shown that he knows just that as he makes the second of his signings this week.
Pelle was mooted for a move to Saints from the first moments of Koeman's reign so it is not a surprise to any Saints fan that he is now a Saints player.
The fee is undisclosed but is believed to be around the £8 million mark, this being the case it has to be said that the club have done a great bit of business here in the respect that they have offloaded Rickie Lambert for £4.5 million and replaced him with a younger player meaning that effectively it has only cost them a total outlay of around £3.5 million to do so, this is the type of dealing that a well run football club will be looking to do.
A few weeks ago the doom and gloom merchants were predicting the worst for Saints, but the reality is that we have a lot of money to spend, a great manager to do it and we have now replaced two out of the three departures so far.
Of course there is still a bit of choppy water ahead, but Koeman has now shown that the club has ambition and that there is every likelihood that the squad next season will be stronger than the one under Pochettino.
So welcome Graziano Pelle to St Mary's your goal record of 55 in just 66 matches for Feyenoord is outstanding if you can repeat some of that form for Saints then next season should be an exciting one.