Nordic Saint

Serie A is fun this year. I thought Napoli 5-1 Juventus was good but reigning champions AC Milan 2-5 Sassuolo was even better today. It's amazing that Sassuolo have been able to keep a top class international striker like Domenico Berardi all these years.

I was thinking the same. He looks like he'd be a hell of a striker if gven the chance. Bale only got his chance to move up from left back when he went to Spurs.

Perraud looks like he'd be the best striker in our squad if given the chance. He's got one hell of a shot. We used to play Bale at left back.

It was rumoured we were also interested in Ryan Kent, Then there would only be 8 more players to go to recreate that magical Barnsley team of the 2016-17 season, which finished 14th in the Championship. We should be able to get all 8 of them for less than a million.

He could turn out to be the new Tony Pulis Jr.

Shuto Machino & Cho Gue-sung We could afford them both.

Perhaps because nobody else wants him. It seems that if another Premier club also wants a player we are after, we give up and let them have him. I guess that's because we are bottom of the table with a limited budget and don't feel we can compete with the other clubs. I can understand why other clubs don't want Jackson though, as he's only ever scored 2 goals in La Liga and none for his country so he's hardly likely to solve anybody's goalscoring problem.

His name is Nathan Jones He's the leader of the team The greatest football manager the world has ever seen You always can rely on him to get the vital win And as for Jurgen Klopp you can stick him in the bin JJJJonesey, JJJJonesey He's the greatest football manager in the land

It was Mick Harford who got Luton promoted to the Championship while Jones was taking Stoke to the bottom of it. Every manager who's replaced Nathan Jones has done better than him: Mick Harford at Luton, Michael O'Neill at Stoke and now Rob Edwards at Luton. At least that's something for us to look forward to. Nobody in his right mind would have appointed Nathan Jones as a Premier League manager after what he did at Stoke.

Yes, it is.

I've always though it would be an idea to have a retro song day, perhaps for the last away game of the season. His name is Ronnie Davies He's the leader of the team The greatest centre forward that the world has ever seen You always can rely on him to score the vital goal And as for Tony Hateley, you can stick him up your hole DddDavies, DddDavies....... I'm not sure we could sing that one about any of our current strikers though. I won't bore you with them all but I know a lot more like that as I used to be one of the people who started the songs at the back of the Milton Road in the late 60s/early 70s. Few of them were unique to us though. Most fans had different versions of the same songs, just the same as they do now. If you go right back to the early 60s when singing at football games really started, there are some that would sound totally ridiculous today like "Two, for six, eight, who do we appreciate?" Some of the old 60s songs seem to have survived though. Yellow Submarine seems to be very popular with Serie A fans this season. Our version used to be "We all live at the back of Milton Road."

If it's someone with a long memory he could be referring to the match at the Dell in May 1967, when we needed to win to stay up and they needed to win to win the league. They weren't too happy the last time we met either:

Get Jose Fonte in as manager so the youngsters will be improved, we develop a winning mentality and, hopefully, pick up our first major trophy for more than half a century: the Championship.

Happy New Year to you too, Del. May you live long and prosper and your wit continue to fail you.

He took RB Leipzig to runners-up in the Bundesliga and he also turned Saints around after our decline under Pellegrino and Hughes. You don't last 4 years at a Premier League club without being a good manager. His mistake was not to leave us after two years when his stock was high. I'm sure plenty of clubs wanted him then. If he'd left at the end of the 2019/20 season. he'd have been hailed as a good manager by everyone in the football world. He made the mistake of remaining loyal to an unambitious club which was not prepared to back him financially. Under those circumstances he did well to get us to 11th, 15th and 15th the last 3 seasons. He was clearly disillusioned this season and it was time for him to go but I'll always remember him for putting the heart back in the club and taking us to the top of the Premier League for the first time in our history. I wish him well in the future.

Nathan Jones' replacements always do better than him: Mick Harford did at Luton, Michael O'Neill did at Stoke and now Rob Edwards is at Luton. At least, we've got that to look forward to.

First we need to get rid of Nathan Jones or we'll end up like Stoke did, bottom of the Championship.

To be fair, Bad Wolf did.

Organise the team and motivate it, a bit like Ralph did when he arrived? Jones seems to have done the exact opposite. He's got them playing like lower league footballers. They can barely string 2 passes together.

He was superb in Rangers' two games against Borussia Dortmund. "Ryan Kent terrorised Dortmund like Franck Ribery" | BT Sport

True, although Kent is more of an old-style left winger. My guess is that he's a player Nathan Jones has had his eye on since Kent's Barnsley days. Admittedly, a striker is more of a priority for us but at £5 mill, I'd say he's a bargain.

I like Ryan Kent. He was the star of Rangers' run to the Europa League Final, which showed that he can play at the highest level. He always gives 100%. Although he's a left winger, he'd be a Steven Davis type signing, who'd offer work rate and guts to the team.

Probably this: Nathan Jones Ralph Fastenbüttl replied to Master Bates's topic in The Saints I become more impressed by Nathan every time I hear him speak. 🤣

And how did they do in the EFL Cup this season?

He must be absolutely terrified of the Lincoln attack. There are 8 defensive players in our starting 11.