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So even less logical to get rid

Incredible... we’ve actually outdone my very limited expectations and made our squad weaker :lol: Comical. Get Gao the **** out of our club now.

Should read clever

It’s a loan, with a £5m fee... so potentially pretty cleaver from the club in that respect (not sure if ‘sell on fee’ is applicable for a loan).

Mind blowing. Especially for such a small fee. Just shows the mentality of the club. I didn’t expect much this window, but i certainly didn’t expect to make our squad weaker

How much would we realistically get for him? £6m as per the article, more than likely less. What’s the difference in prize money between bottom half and europa league (Unlikely, but still a possibility)? For the sake of 5-6m keep him and give ourselves the best opportunity of finishing as high as possible. Sell Cédric and we’re in the same situation we are now. Surely we’re not that skint that we can’t write off a couple of £m

Personally, I think £20 would have been a fair price. Especially given the discount we provided. Ultimately, if the FA don’t want early rounds of the cup to die, they need to do something about pricing. £25 (£5 discount) for a Wednesday night, cup replay, gives no one any real incentive to go (other than it being a new ground). However, in defence of levy, £25 for a Tottenham ticket is a decent price..

It’d be nice for saints to subsidise tickets. Even if the players dipped into their pocket as a sorry for putting us through absolute **** for 3 season. Pack the place and get them through.

We should completely boycott as 6,000 empty seats will hit levy’s pocket. However, it won’t happen and it’s pointless doing a half hearted boycott, so best to suck it up, get a ticket and get behind the boys. Absolute exploitation by them though.. disgusting really.

Can we hope the coronavirus gets him?

1 week to prove me wrong, Saints.

I would agree, however, come the summer isn’t he in the last year of his contract? Perhaps if a sensible offer comes in now, then we should consider. I’d imagine (hope) the club have a contingency plan and some targets in mind. However, I don’t think we’ll sell. Ralph loves him.

£25m plus Morgan (as a stop gap until end of the season) and snap their hand off. In the summer, sell Romeu, vestergaraard and any other **** we can shift (hoedt, Forster, mo etc..) and with a little investment we can massively upgrade our squad with 3 or 4 high quality players. If we got anything close to £40m + for vest and PEH we’d be laughing

Despite how bad Vestergaard has been, if we sell him for £15m, could we find an suitable replacement for that amount? I very much doubt it. Especially with 2 weeks left in the window.

When do we stop looking at results down the table and start looking at those above us?

Same with Cedric. Both could play for top 6 (Liverpool aside) when fully committed.

Crazy and needless IMO. Dominating the game, wouldn’t be risking his hamstring on a cold Wednesday night after 60 minutes on the bench.

Or Obefemi, who is useless.

Adams surely get a run out here?

Reviewed by VAR not considered violent conduct / a red. Probably the right decision for ‘football’ but shows lack of consistency as I was under the impression any physical contact to the face is a red... Zaha is a ****ing idiot. Had a chip on his shoulder ever since being deemed not good enough for England.

If we sell anyone from the regular match day 14/15 and don’t replace them, I hope we go down as we’d deserve it. Romeu is poor but if he went and we didn’t replace them we’d be outrageously short in 3 or 4 positions. I still think a CB is top priority. Not convinced on Bednerak or Stephens, despite their good form. However, in typical saints fashion, we’ll get no one or some youngster on loan as cover.

CB, LB, RB & CM all needed over the next 2 windows and that’s providing we don’t sell any of our starting 11

Correct. I just hope the club haven’t put all their eggs in Stephens / bednerak as I’m not convinced either are good enough.

It said checking handball on the big screen. Just watched reply, looked like it could have been handball. A close one. I thought in general, the ref was poor today.

Executed game plan to a tee first half and clearly found a weakness with them defending crosses. Nuno got his changes spot on second half. Adama through the middle caused bednerak all sorts of problems. We should have dropped 10 yards as soon as that change was made, especially at 2-0 up. Didn’t think the 2 in the middle of the park had a great game and shows are lack in depth there (Romeu just doesn’t cut it). Overall, lost to the better team on the day but at 2-0 you shouldn’t be losing. Naivety from on the pitch and on the sideline today for me.