15 Aug 2015 21:35:52
I think we need to play 4-2-3-1 with sketlenburg in goal, fonte and vvd (sign him now) as the cb and as the fullbacks Bertrand (when he's back) and Cedric (even though he looked awful today) as the 2 holding midfielders romeo and wanyama, the wingers mane and J-rod (when he's 100%) as the attacking midfielder jordy clasie and the striker Charlie Austin (sign him up 15m is a bargain)
Then I think we will get top 10

1.) 15 Aug 2015
15 Aug 2015 22:49:48
Why would we play Clasie, a defensive midfielder, as an attacking mid?

2.) 16 Aug 2015
16 Aug 2015 10:13:59
Classie can play anywhere in midfield.
My concern about signing him is that he looks a little light weight for the Premier league as a DM.
Koeman stated this week in his presser that Oriel was his first choice as a replacement for Morgan. With all the noise about Classie, that took me a little by surprise.

The team that took to the pitch yesterday is nowhere near Koeman's first choice team.
I think that given a fully fit squad, Koeman would have had five different players in the squad, so as harsh as yesterday's results feels, We needn't panic just yet!

Keep calm, Support the Saints!

{Ed001's Note - I did say all along Clasie was not being brought in to replace Schneiderlin, the club were trying to sign him to play with him. It just didn't work out like that.}

3.) 16 Aug 2015
16 Aug 2015 15:29:22
Cedric was better than Tadic attacking. he is a good signing I feel. with Van Dijk and Clasie back there will be sufficient cover when he does blaze forward.

4.) 17 Aug 2015
17 Aug 2015 18:49:52
problem is about that not being Koemans preferred starting eleven is , I thought the whole idea of expanding the squad was to be able to rotate the squad with our expected extra
games to be played . Comments are now that we were missing some key players through injury , I thought the whole point of bringing in these extra players was to be able to cope when we have injured players . Have a feeling we have left everything a bit late as we could be playing major catch up in a couple of weeks time.

5.) 18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015 11:39:22
Not sure bringing in 5 players at the start of pre season is "leaving it a bit late "

6.) 18 Aug 2015
18 Aug 2015 14:55:28
I get your point but we have not brought in a quality CB which is the main position we needed from pre season onwards and I know we have been unlucky with injuries but we should have a second back four up our sleeve . At the moment we have a sort of back one and a half . Injury will hit us throughout the season and if our deputy players play like they have done we will be in serious trouble unless we sort it now. Having said all this I think Romeu looks promising and he should have been played from the start against Everton and left Shane on the bench so that we could have had more control in midfield . Bring Shane on as an impact player as we normally do seems more the way to go for me , you can't take Morgan out of the side and play with more or less 4 forwards , it is almost football suicide and it showed last Saturday .