In a long drawn out saga, Saints record signing should complete his loan move back to Italy today with hopefully a player or two coming back in the other direction.
The reasons why Osvaldo was a disaster at St Mary's can be discussed for hours on end and it will always puzzle me why after chasing a player for so long, making him our record signing and highest paid player to boot that we then proceeded not to play him in the position he actually played him, ie as the central striker.
The moment we did not do that and much of that blame has to go to former manager Mauricio Pochettino, the writing was on the wall and we now face seeing a player who cost us around £15 million for as little as £7 million, assuming of course that he is a hit at Inter and they want to excercise their option to buy him.
But it will hopefully be good news in terms of bodies in from the other direction with Saphir Taider and Ezequiel Schelotto joining Saints on similar one year loan deals with the option to buy.
The only real worry about their arrivals though is that they are midfielders and to be blunt we have plenty of them already, Saints supporters would much rather see the arrival of a central defender or two along with perhaps a striker.