Fabrice29

You can read any of the daily echo pieces which are clearly club briefings and all state we're unlikely to sign him.

Yeah, maybe we'll be in the race one day but as you say we are not right now, sooo this guy who doesn't play like him probably isn't an alternative for him?

Yeah Alex Crook, who however bad he is, is literally quoting...Russell Martin.

The tweet literally says he's moved from an attacking midfielder to an 8 and yes, here's the quote.

Doesn't mention MOR anywhere in that tweet. Club have mentioned MOR a few times over the past few weeks though and almost every single time, whether club briefings through Alfie House or whether Russel Martin himself, they've told us we aren't signing him.

He sounds and looks exactly like the sort of player Martin would like so I'm not sure why anyone thinks he wouldn't want this. There's some weird conspiracy theorists around just because we're being linked with someone different to who they have convinced themselves is the answer. Also the "where does he fit in" chat is nonsense. He'll have a role to play, not everything has to be "here's our 11" and any new signing has to fit into it. Having a selection of midfielders seems like a good idea to me.

Che Adams been on for 5 minutes and already putting on a master class against AC Milan. Nutmegged someone on the way to Torino going 2 up.

He got 13 games and spent a lot of the season injured so not sure that’s fair. One of their best players this pre season too so it’s classic Chelsea they are loaning him out.

Also Royal leaving Spurs frees up a position in their squad for a versatile full back…

Yes, this was said weeks ago just after Saints briefed via the daily echo they were unlikely to get him. It’s bizarre fans have held onto this, mainly thanks to weirdos pretending to be ITK on here and Blackmore mentioning it at the same time as mentioning Carvalho just hours before he agreed a move elsewhere. ‘In our position of the food chain but totally defy the whole concept of a food chain’ is a hell of a stupid post 😂

It’s more the baseless and badly put together opinions that I have problems with and come across as just being said for the sake of a narrative, like a bot. We’ve just had one of our more exciting seasons as a club, so anyone peddling the ‘Boring, predictable, terrible, dull style’ narrative doesn’t feel like they are actual real people.

Eh?

I'm not having a go at the people who didn't attend, which included me, but because I didn't go, I don't feel I'm in a position to criticise people who did go and wanted to ask whatever question they wanted to ask.

You, for example? Really enjoying the suggestions and judgement from people who didn't go. Good stuff.

Nobody we are trying to sign who has the choice between Brentford and Saints is thinking ‘Saints were an established PL team for a while’…they are thinking ‘they came up via the play offs and start as the worst team in the league on paper’ but anyway, same as Leicester…sensible point…compare our summer to theirs…

Do people just completely forget where we were last year and are they completely oblivious to others? Brighton have had Europe recently. Brentford are settling in as a PL team. We've just come up from the playoffs. I'm not sure who you think we are but we are very unlikely to compete with these teams right now. I didn't see Luton fighting off competition from Brighton last year for 20 million plus players so I'm not sure why you expect us to.

Lowest in the league last year for aerial attacks so that is just not true.

Is this board getting taken over by bots?

Always worth remembering the club briefed quite a few weeks ago we were unlikely to sign O'Riley and then a few days ago told everyone we have pulled out of deals that have gone too high. Between then O'Riley's price has only gone up.

Genuinely find it baffling I've had to explain that to someone. Thought the Glen guy was being a proper attention seeking dope with his tweet but can see why he has an audience if something that we've been doing at times for a year now and quite literally unfolded in front of peoples eyes just an hour or so ago still needs explaining

His role was to create space for others. Which he did quite well. I'm not sure why we would use our last pre season friendly to change our whole game plan for 12 months now to get the best out of someones attributes who we are actively trying to sell, but he did the role we asked of him well and I suspect at some point next week we'll be using the same tactics to get behind Newcastle (whether we use him or not is another matter).

He wasn't. He also wasn't asked to do anything Che Adams wasn't asked to do last season.

Oh jesus, there's more than one I wonder what Martin was thinking as we dragged their defence up field and allowed our two quicker players either side of Onuachu to exploit the space.

Does this bloke still do a podcast? If so has anyone tried to explain to him one of the more simple concepts of our tactics?

Is that because you watched him or because he signed for Stoke a few weeks back?