WHICH AREA OF THE TEAM MOST NEEDS STRENGTHENING?

According to the Echo, Mr Wotte is looking to bring in another experienced player on loan before the Loan Window closes in 10 days. I am inclined to think a proven scorer should be the priority but which area of the team would you be looking to strengthen?

The Echo says......

Mark Wotte hoping for another loan star for Southampton
8:00am Saturday 14th March 2009
By Gordon Simpson

MARK Wotte has said he is looking to bring in one more player before the loan window shuts this month.
The Saints head coach is pleased with his squad, but is keen to sign someone else to provide cover.
Wotte has insisted that any player who is brought in will have to be an experienced head.
Football League clubs can sign players on an emergency loan until 5pm on Thursday, March 26, when the deadline for registrations passes.
Despite the somewhat misleading title of “emergency loan” there are no real restrictions on who can be signed, or why.
Wotte would give nothing away, though, on what sort of player he was looking for.
The only thing he would reveal was that, unsurprisingly, he is not chasing a goalkeeper.

Don't get your hopes up, it looks like no-one is coming.....

Found this on another website:

Mark Wotte has been told that he has no more money available for loan signings this season, despite the Dutch coach being keen to strengthen the squad.

Wotte spoke ahead of the QPR of his desire to bring in an additional player on loan. I caught up with him after the game to ask which areas of the team he was looking to strengthen.

Unfortunately, the answer was that he could not bring anyone else in due to the finances and would have to make do with what he had.

Ideally, he would have liked to have brought in an experienced striker to help convert more of Saints' chances and provide competition for the Saganowski-Euell partnership, but remained confident that Saints had enough to stay up.

Given Saints decidely mixed record in the loan market this season it might be no bad thing, but the signing of Saeijs has shown that some lessons have been learned about the value of experienced heads to add quality not just numbers.

So, we know exactly what we have available until the end of the season and just have to hope that an already thin-looking squad doesn't suffer any further injuries.

The weaknesses in the squad have been brought into sharp focus by the two game suspension of Lloyd James after picking up his tenth yellow card of the season. There are no obvious candidates to replace him, with Wayne Thomas still on the long-term injury list, although the rumours are that Jake Thompson will be asked to deputise.