danjosaint

Didn't Lyon have champions league football every year for 7 odd years till Puel took over then they missed out as he changed system, may be wrong but read it somewhere

And looks like no euro adventure either

There it is again no happy medium, we'll either spend nothing at all or millions and end up like pompey, get a grip

Clueless*** there's a reason Austin and Long looked sh*t and that's CPs stubborn need to persist with a unaffective formation that won't work with our squad

'First team squad set up' so he's pi..ed about us selling best players and mane was last straw especially how quick we were to let him go, perhaps like several fans he sees lack of ambition and happy to finish mid table as that this season will bring it more money with new deals that it would say 3 seasons ago getting into champions league

Very much like Hodgson square pegs round holes both us and England have decent teams if playing to our strengths but look clueless with different formations, that's OK if you've a big squad packed with quality something we haven't got so need a manager to forge a team around our strengths not by having a half decent winger put up front and Tadic as a 10, tell me why you can't have tadic and redmond wide, Austin up top with perhaps long up behind with Pierre and Romeu, ideally the position behind Austin would be taken by a quality goal scoring acm signing then long/Austin good battle it out for out and out front man

Yeah bizarre as he was very good the few games he's played

Got 4 today for napoli, guess West spam will join the race with everton

But we've played no quality, Bilbao/espanyol were on training sessions, zwolle,twente, groningen poor and latter got hammered today, I'm not saying doom and gloom but none of these sides offer what we are about to face

Basic verdict, looked bit toothless, tadic looked lost in the middle, players didn't look overly comfortable in formation, Hojberg looks quality and seems a bargain, Redmond looked good but lost it when coming inside, would rather him and Tadic both played wide supplying Austin with long up behind. Must keep hold of Virgil, if only he'd shot after going on a mazy run. If we pursue this system we really need a top drawer Acm to sit at top of diamond. If no signings arrive i can see us struggling to score and probably nicking games and finishing 10-12th

An owner who doesn't care they will be relegated as they will still get massive parachute payments of probably 90m

Rather a poacher like Hernandez

Can't believe poster thinks Blind is on par with koeman as a player, he was superb, tough tackling, fantastic free kick taker (has he still record for most goals for defender) and read the brilliantly, except when platt went past him and got dragged down, which effectively got Taylor the sack lol

And an outrageous price tag of 35m on sissoko

Agreed

Have to agree although a sulking pr..k he is very talented and score goals, reminds me of a young Defoe

Have to agree with op, I feel and hope although there's a new 5yr plan we don't sell ourselves down the river through being short sighted, I'm glad youth will be given a chance but the epl is evolving so quickly, who would of said palace would spend 30m, a sum I could never see us spending, the new TV deals will dwarf anything in Europe and we really need to stay at the top table and I feel we may need to spend 40m on 2/3 quality additions just to fight for top 10 and Europa

Bloody predictive tx *Roman *

How about Romania Neustadter available on a free and play cdm or cb

At least woy is free for saints job

Lazio/juve will take him after tonight's performance

And Bertrand next

More worrying is Brenda has been spoken to about England job, mind u can't be any worse then woy

I agree no tah to Howe, if and big if we want to progress on this 5yr plan i believe we need a manager who is respected through europe enabling us a better chance of quality player, ie better chance of krychowiac with Emery than Howe

'Flame suit on' .. im not overly worried if he goes for me the biggest hurdle is to replace him with someone of good respect on european/world football which is a massive help when attracting better players, for me in an ideal world Emery then he can persuade gameiro to replace pele, krychowiac for the hole left by morgan and there right back cant think of his name at mo,