Valencia joins Tigres from West Ham

The club posted “another unnecessarily elaborate football club signing video” on their Twitter account on Thursday, complete with dramatic music, boats, helicopters and a SWAT team.

“Just announce the ** signing”, say “most football fans” during the brilliant spoof. And finally, the Saints did just that. 

At the end, the club confirmed back-up goalkeeper Stuart Taylor has inked a one-year extension, the kind of underwhelming signing that such an elaborate build-up could only have been hinting at. 

Well done Southampton. We can only wonder what kind of production we’ll see when the Saints announce a club-record signing!