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Sure, and we still made a ruthless decision

Last time we came up the club made a brave decision to sack Adkins. Will we do the same again? Martin has a few more games for me but things have to improve

It has to be said that we turned it around last season after getting tonked by Sunderland. No I'm not feeling that confident but it could happen

Likely the best Saints goalie since Niemi but the most exciting goalie signing since Shilton?

When you think about how many points Bazunu lost us last season, it brings into focus how much this improves us

He probably agreed all along but had to make the best of the players he had

Danny Ings...

How many transfers have we made this summer now? It's a pretty decent number, even if we haven't shelled out on a big one

There's never any guarantees that a young player will fulfill their potential. We sign a bunch of them and the successes pay for the failures. It would be madness to stop investing in young players on the basis that they sometimes don't work out

Depends if the latter is deemed to have higher resale value

Sounds highly rated

We've spent to stay still but a couple of quality loans would improve us

Then they're unlikely to get the ball off our several defenders

Because it draws the other team out and makes space for attacking moves

He looked good in a three under Hughes, which is a formation we have returned to recently

Also if he's on big wages that we can't ordinarily match then we might insist the transfer fee is reduced to cover it

https://x.com/SaintsExtra/status/1801207200599212335?t=CupqY-_KRld1dkU0S9MLNQ&s=19 Shows what we're up against

We'd never have signed Ings on that basis

Best player for ball retention that I can remember seeing at Saints. Makes sense why Martin would want him

I agree the execution has been bad but I don't look forward to the big clubs getting all the decisions against us again

It's not like they're leaving for sideways moves though. They're going to much bigger clubs who've made bigger offers. It's a side effect of us actually picking highly rated staff

Imagine if Stewart scores the winner in the playoff final. Suddenly that £12m becomes good value

That might be true over his whole time with us but there was at least one season when he was our best player. I remember looking at his age and thinking "I hope we have a plan to replace him". We didn't, his form fell off after Covid and that was one of the reasons we went down

Goes right back to Bazunu's decision to kick long. Gifted them the ball back at a crucial time