Saints will be looking to see only players coming into the club and not going out as they go into the last day of the summer transfer window.

It will be a crucial day for Saints on Tuesday as they look to try and bring in long term target Virgil Van Dijk from Celtic along with a speculated signing from Portugal, whilst at the same time looking to hang on to a prized asset or two.

If Saints can bring in Van Dijk and hang on to both Mane and Wanyama then they will be well placed to have a successful season.

Some Saints supporters have panicked when they hear a rumour or two alongside two bad results out of the eight competitive games Saints have played so far this season, but the reality is that we are a good squad struggling to gel due to injury problems rather than a bad one struggling due to lack of quality.

But that has still not placated some supporters who have been very vocal in their criticism, despite the fact that we have only lost two games, that has meant that the last day of the transfer deadline has taken on particular significance with the club needing to show their commitment not just by making the final signing in Ronald Koeman's perfect squad, but by keeping both Wanyama and Mane.

In the case of Mane his performance on Sunday showed that he is not phased by the transfer talk whereas with Wanyama its a different story and he has obviously been tapped up by someone and encouraged to want to leave St Mary's.

So its a crucial day for Saints and if the squad is still intact at 6pm on Tuesday evening and has a new addition or two to it, then perhaps some supporters will realise that the club's long term strategy goes on whatever is thrown at it to try and disrupt it.

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IWOZTHERE added 23:08 - Aug 31 Getting a bit peed off with your disparaging 'Some supporters' inferred criticism as if ALL their worries have been unwarranted.I'm sure some of them are... but no more than some of the blind optimism spouted by the extremists within the 'happy clapper' brigade. It's also a bit 'rich ' coming from someone who, before the Norwich game,put out articles feeding the very rumours he now criticises !

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SanMarco added 00:33 - Sep 1 Anyone who didn't moisten the mattress slightly after the 4 performances up to yesterday's game is a better man than me. I like the image of extremist happy clappers - I wonder if are there also moderate bed wetters?
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montecristo added 02:52 - Sep 1 It does annoy me whenever I read comments from supporters that unless you support Saints regardless of what they do or dont then suddenly you are anathema and dis missed as a bedwetter, equally I dont like to see the reverse, blind expressions of faith no doubt uttered by those who think that blind support is somehow an article of faith. Both stances are clearly ridiculous, supporters do not lose their powers of reasoning by virtue of being supporters of a football club and are always entitled to an opinion so long as its honestly held. Some of you clearly have never really grown up,and see football as some kind of a toy through which to escape reality. Really sad I wish it would stop.

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Bettwsresident added 07:30 - Sep 1 I am pretty relaxed about the loss of Big Vic but please not to Spurs. He shone when paired with Spiderman, but in Reed and Romeou we have good cover who seem to be able to read the play better. The potential loss of Mane scares me. He is the best £12m the club has spent. It would be like the bad old days if just after a reaffirming glimpse of exciting combo's on both flanks, a key ingredient is taken away. Relying on Tadic and JWP to open up teams doesn't fill me with confidence. The threat of Bertrand/Tadic on the left and Cedric/Mane on the right feeding the big man would scare any side we face.

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halftimeorange added 10:32 - Sep 1 Surely this site is for reasonable debate and the expression of individual opinions. We are not all blind optimists, nor doom and gloom pessimists but we're never all going to interpret things the same way. Our early form has upset me. The unsettling of our players has upset me. The way our team was set up for the Everton and Midytlland games upset me. The bringing in of Romeu suprised and pleased me. Our performance against Norwich surprised and pleased me. The situation regarding Ramirez mystifies me. These are some of my opinions. I'll be at the next match supporting the Saints irrespective of whether I'm right or wrong and I suspect that most other supporters feel exactly the same. Suggestions of panic and bedwetting are both inflamatory and insulting. But that's just another of my opinions!

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