Nordic Saint

With your adulation for Les, Ralph and Kat and your hatred of Saints fans, you really appear to have been brainwashed and it's turned you into a very bitter person.

Yes, because I don't see the point in sacking Pellegrino, the same as I didn't see any advantage in sacking Puel, when Les Reed is going to be appointing and controlling the next manager as well, who would, therefore, probably not be any improvement on the current one. A quick succession of managers, who are much of a muchness, will just cost the club more money in compensation and when we are relegated make us look even more foolish. I note that Pellegrino has said he has to 'fight for his ideas'. The poor bloke is probably suffering from even more interference from Reed in team affairs than Puel did, so it is perhaps unfair to judge him when Reed is dictating what he can and can't do. It is very difficult to fight against someone who has just appointed you and who has the power to sack you and even Koeman finally gave up that fight. Pellegrino also has the weakest squad of any Saints manager since we returned to the top flight, now weak in defence as well as attack. At least Puel had Fonte and van Dijk for some of the time he was here, while Koeman also had Wanyama, Mane and Pelle. After Reed has gone will be the only time it will make any real sense to appoint a new manager. As I've said many times before, I'd like to see us go all out to get our 'black box' Paul Mitchell back to replace Reed as I believe Mitchell will, once again, find us outstanding managers and players, the same as he did before. In the meantime, I wish Pellegrino all the best in his fight to keep us up and really hope he can succeed against all odds. Sacking Reed will address the root cause of our problems; sacking Pellegrino won't.

I don't think we'd have lost to Palace if van Dijk had played. Our central defence looked a shambles without him. If that's the point that costs us our Premier League place, selling him so early will prove very costly indeed. On a positive note, having the fourth round FA Cup draw to look forward to is a pleasant surprise.

This could be our best signing: http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/11/manchester-united-consider-move-for-talent-spotter-paul-mitchell-who-masterminded-dele-alli-transfer-6631502/

I don't think Kat has covered a loss. She charged the club interest and got better interest rates on her loans to the club than she'd have got from a bank. Any outstanding loan had to be repaid to her in full, with interest, before she pocketed the 210 million from Gao so she has made a cool quarter of a billion pounds out of the club. Of course, we'll always be grateful to her father for his initial 12 million purchase of the club but Kat is not her father and she has probably made more money out of this football club than any other owner in the history of football.

Another year, the poor decisions from the top continue and the decline accelerates. I'm surprised that anyone is surprised and even more surprised that anyone still thinks that Reed will spend the money wisely on good replacement managers and players.

As well as the van Dijk fee and the fees for anyone else sold this month, the club also gets the 200 million PL prize/TV money, which combined must give it more cash than nearly any other club in the league, and they already paid back the loan to Kat plus interest before the takeover was completed. I understand that wages and running costs will take a sizeable chunk, the same as they do at any other club, but relative to those others we should have more cash to spare, especially as a few of them like Spurs are currently pouring a fortune into new stadium development or are planning to.

I think the poor reruitment is more the responsibility of Old Les and Ross Wilson.

I feel a bit sorry for Ralph and have some respect for him. He is the one who comes out and takes the flak when things go wrong while Old Les emerges to grab any limelight, photo ops and video interviews he can get when things go right but goes into hiding when anything goes wrong.

The same way that he decided to get rid of Lambert and Fonte because they were too old for him he has to retire because he is too old for us. Let's look to the future. Paul Mitchell in !

More like Mane, Wanyama, Alderweireld, Trippier and Dele Alli. In the 2 years Mitchell has been there Spurstow squad has got much stronger while ours has got much weaker. We were linked with van Dijk before Mitchell left after falling out with Les the same as everyone else does.

The concern now is the time Old Les and Wilson are still here to fritter any any of the van Dijk fee which is reinvested in the team on mediocre players. We really need Mitchell back.

Well Les Reed signed the players and the managers so perhaps they reflect his character.

That should read 'Koeman' of course. We also need to get rid of Ross Wilson.

Just go now and take Black and Watson with you.Then we can get Mitchell and possibly Korean as well to come back.

Our 'black box' was Paul Mitchell. Maybe if we could get rid of Old Les we could get him back.

I wonder how much his transfer value has dropped since the summer? It's certainly unlikely we'll get 70 million for him now. Maybe we have saved Liverpool 25 million. I don't blame anyone for this as it was probably a condition of the club's sale that Kat and Les couldn't sell him until Mr Gao had taken over. Otherwise they would have sold him in the summer as they'd originally planned.

So those of you who want to keep Old Les, how much longer should we keep him for? 70, 80 or until he dies? He's already past retirement age.

They have temporarily at least sated Kat's desire for cash by paying quarter of a billion euros into her Swiss bank account. That's a hell of a lot more than most of us have paid her with our season ticket money.

There is no more point in sacking Pellegrino than there was in sacking Puel if Old Les is still here to choose the next manager, control all transfers in and out and keep his favourites, Eric Black and Dave Watson in control of first team coaching, never mind the harm he is doing to the academy. Until Reed, Black & Watson are gone no new manager is going to be able to improve things.

And what exactly do you think Old Les will do? Whatever it is, it's unlikely to be any good for Saints unless he agrees to retire.

So, what is Old Les's plan then? To keep taking the club's money until he's 70 or 80 and just using his pension to pay to have his Bentley serviced? He seems to have got rid of all the people who really brought us success while trying to claim all of the credit for their work and wasting millions on bringing in increasingly mediocre, overpriced managers, coaches and players. When he made those other hangers on, Eric Black and Dave Watson, his favourites, it was already obvious he was doing bloody awful job. If we want to stay up, we need to replace all 3 of them now. The alternative to Old Les is to bring back the man who was largely responsible for our success, Paul 'the Black Box' Mitchell.

I'll grant you one thing: at times it can seem as though we have more arrogant cyber fans who think they are entitled to insult the normal fans who actually go to games regularly than most other clubs. But I expect every club has a similar little group of misanthropes and sociopaths.

I'm not just talking about the transfer fees. Leicestershire owner has kept players like Mahrez and Vardy whereas under similar circumstances Kat and Les would have cashed in on them at the earliest available opportunity. Probably the only reason they didn't sell van Dijk in the summer as they'd planned was that Mr Gao wouldn't let them sell any more players when he was in the final stages of paying Kat 210 million. Mind you Les has wasted fortune on some pretty mediocre new players so it' s not just about the sums of money spent but also about spending it wisely, which Leicester have done on Maguire, for example.

Hopefully, he won't still be here to get anything more wrong or waste any more of the club's money. We want our 'black box', Paul Mitchell back before we choose any more managers or players.