CB Fry

How much did they spend over at Göztepe?

Surely Jones is going to try the big man little man pairing up top. Get it in the mixer to the big lump, nippy little speedster picking up the scraps. Made for Adam Armstrong. Look lads, you've heard of Quinn and Phillips right?

Oof - Not quite what you want to hear for our record breaking transfer. Still, a bit of pace if nothing else may give us another dimension. Good luck to the lad.

We needed a goalscorer and we have signed a goal scorer. Well done Saints.

Vitinha went to Marseilles then.

This isn't quite the same - those two were gutting because we genuinely could have got to a semi from those games. I would say more like Hughes vs Chelsea and Ralph vs Leicester.

I've heard that he fucking hates Pompey, so that's a good start.

CHEEEEEEEE

Personally I think it's brilliant the way our new manager has made us into a bunch of nasty bastards who no opposition wants to play because we are so hard to beat

Vitinha sounded Gakpo levels of too-good-be-true anyway. Whatever the transfer window equivalent of virtue signalling is, that rumour is it. Any club can meet a release clause if they want. Never coming to us at the bottom of the league. So forget that. But If we can't even sign a 28 year old from Genk known by our transfer guru then he ain't that much of a bloody guru.

Quite. He's probably not a player that Lampard would be bothered about but right up Dyche's street, like signing Weighorst last January. Hopefully the Rasmus factor might gave some sway.

The only thing I would say about Onuacho is why the fuck are we leaving that until deadline day? A bloody Genk player at 28. We should be able to table a decent bid to them and we can afford any salary he could expect. His chance to play Premier League and on top of that Rasmus knows him. Should be pretty straightforward. We could have got that done on New Years Day, not Deadline day.

We're not going to pay 30m all in one go up front, that's mental. I imagine that is a negotiation position to placate their own fanbase.

STOP RUINING IT

Did we have exactly the same thought at the same time? #deathpact #thelma #louise

If we don't sign Vitinha I will kill myself.

Last time we managed to recruit someone with Champions League experience, plus top flight experience in one of Europe's Elite leagues (and also fighting relegation in that league), and that was under no-investment no-ambition etc etc Gao regime. It was hardly an unrealistic demand.

All I would say is his chippyness is an act, you can see he is thinking about how he is seen and what people think of him in every single thing he does. He is fragile and needy as any manager I have ever seen. Not interested in the "we're not nice any more" stuff. Someone was on here saying "people don't come to St Mary's any more thinking we will roll over and let them win" or some such guff. On the back of 5 league defeats from 6. That, right there, is the power of PR over reality.

Currently listening to Marquee Moon as I cook lunch. Lovely stuff.

Not an over reaction from the manager then who is spouting off about things he can leave alone? Maybe as a professional Premier League manager he should be able to know that the words he uses will be interpreted and considered. He's not a competition winner who got this job by accident. Speaking to the media is part of the job. It's not all about putting cones out and wearing a terrible jacket.

Nah. If he keeps us up by a point or GD then SR are vindicated and he will go into next season as a Premier League manager. If we go down then he has failed and SR have failed and he would have to go. The relationship with the fanbase who never wanted him in the first place will be toxic by then. (ie more toxic than it is now).

I think some people need to stop making out that Jones is unique in incoming manager that he has inherited a difficult situation. No shit lads, that's pretty much 90% of new managerial appointments. Some managers come in in November, inherited a pile of shit and swiftly and competently turn thing around. Ralph Hasenhuttl from Hughes/Pellegrino for example. Some come in and make thing significantly worse. An inherited pile of shit becomes a mountain of shit. It's fair we were spoiled by how effective our last managerial switch was. We realise now that they all can't be as successful as that.

I dont think the fanbase need to take lectures on approaches to not conceding by a man who has managed to deliver one fucking clean sheet since he's been here. He needs to drop the chippy know it all act. It's not the fanbase's fault that he is woefully out of his depth.

I think you need to stop reading click bait articles that read like something generated by AI from various reports over the last three weeks.

In the position we are in, and the opponents we have at home, this team is fine, and should be enough to get us in the old ball bag for the next round.