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Saints Target Two Signings

According to the Daily Echo Saints new manager Claude Puel is targeting two more signings in this transfer window to complete his squad.

Te Daily Echo are very close to the club these days, so when they say something, althought it is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate, it is a lot nearer the mark than most of the reports in the media.

Today they are saying that Claude Puel is looking at making two more signings to complete his squad, that being a back up keeper for Fraser Forster perhaps allowing Paulo Gazzaniga to go out on loan and also a right sided player to give options in both deputising for Cedric Soares as well as playing in other positions.

Now I like most Saints fans would feel that we still need a player or two more, certainly I think a central defender is needed as well as perhaps another attacking option.

That does not mean that Puel is not of a similar mind, the likelihood is that the club is putting out that they have done most of their business this transfer window bar a couple of back up players, it is trying to do several things.

The first is that it is trying to avoid getting into auctions for players and being used as leaverage by an agent to up the money for his client.

The second is that the club are trying to fly uder the radar, this summer s diificult in that both Spurs with forer head of recruitment Paul Mitchell in their ranks and of course Ronald Koeman at Everton will be to varying degrees familiar with the players that the club have been monitoring, they do not want to alert them to any moves about to be made, nor indeed other clubs.

Thirdly with all of last season's coaching staff gone and the Euro 2016 players only just back, Puel has not yet had a chance to truly assess his squad and has no one at the level he needs within the club to give him a thorough run down and opinion, perhaps from this viewpoint it would have been pertinent to have kept on Sammy Lee for another season.

When the friendlies in Holland have been completed Puel will have a lot more of an idea of where he himself sees the squad.

So Saints fans should not panic just yet, I think there is a player or two up the club' s sleeves.

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