saint michael

I think we all know the long term strategy: buy cheap sell big buy young sell on potential buy in managers similar to player strategy Create PR that saints are innovative and leading development Do minimum to keep the club on even keel with aim of upward trend if it’s not broken… keep breaking it make football the byproduct of our great long term money generating strategy Tell the fans how great they are, overcharge them to watch shyte and keep bathing them in warm showers… .. there we go now we can concentrate on the first step of our journey hiring a manager that fits this story.. sorry strategy

Looks like you have your hands full with MLG extracting any point he can and ignoring the essence of the message. Agree with your points above and see this as a key point that will drive the club I love down and down I think the owners don’t align with football as a sport.

I’ve supported saints since the 60’s so I never have any high expectations of not selling or that owners expect a profit. My point is that Football is no longer the fundamental principle strategy point and selling is for Saints and has been for a while. Individual player value doesn’t mean the club is successful and this year is a good example of buying a team that is far from suited for the purpose of prem football. The board is trying to be far too clever and think they can outperform the market. I want to see football not as a byproduct.

For the first time I am finding it’s difficult to get excited of who we will sign How do we build success if we continually sell any player that shows a glimpse of skill, talent application etc? It feels like rent a player as a fan. It does annoy me that they buy to sell continually and this is really the main driver for them making a purchase. Obviously the main driver is to make more and more money for the owners. I would rather they were committed to keeping a core of the best players to enable some team success whilst still achieving their financial targets. This Constant churn of many players can’t possibly lead to sustainable success as a club. Sooner or later all the fails will catch you.

I find his recent statements concerning. His focus is on youth development and pathways is great, but to talk about this at a time where we have the worst first team and very little ability in the basics of professional football I find bizarre. He talks about selling our best players to the top 5/6 being the target and success for saints being able to hold onto these players rather than moving to the teams who we should be seen as our competitors. If he means Bournemouth and Brighton how does he think he will get us close to them. What does he think the steps are from this low point we are in… he makes no real mention of our ambitions of us a professional football team. Am I missing something. I know we’ve always been great for development and moving players on but is that the total strategy now and the football is a byproduct of this.

Well we can learn from the past but can’t change it, and boy have we had some points to learn from. Shame we never took these. my concern is how much we can change our current ways and how long it will take to do it. if this goes as way back as we all recognise I see very little proof that things will change or are changing that will mean we will start to improve. It feels like they keep rolling the dice and getting it wrong. As mentioned we have to get some football basics back in place and stop trying to be the super leading club that will bring a something different. It wouldn’t surprise me if we hear AI brought into this soon. The sad thing is that even the feeling of hope for the club is going and harder to imagine anything different being seen from this current shit show.

I think if the players were good enough they would make a difference regardless of the mgr. he might make a difference but shyte players who don’t give a shit and a clueless mgr on top is a disaster zone for the club

Saints playing walking football

Caveat Emptor

What good decisions do we think they have made on and off the pitch since they arrived? Most 5hings even with good intent have turned out as a pile of shyte

what do you classify as a short term success? the last few years have been like a pin ball machine bouncing from one thing to another. Major change requires a clear direction and 1 upward blip on a long decline makes little difference I think failure is built into the business model based on what we can see. Solak talks about long term success. Their ability to implement is very low and certainly showing no signs of improving. Most transfers are mediocre for most clubs. Somehow it’s envisioned that we will suddenly go from abject failure to to success. How does short term success and then a round of probable failure help us?

Is it though? Doesn’t this imply that saints business model is unsustainable. Where are Saints going? I have no idea of the real intended strategy. Successful we sell and fail and unsuccesful we fail. can’t score, can’t defend. Tippy tappy passes sideways and backwards. Desperate lunging into situation. No composure. Free kicks lumped in what on earth to they practice….awful transfers no idea whether any of these players can play poor structure in a game and poor selection and poor in game management. the championship will be another example of how bad we are. apart from this I am very excited by the future for saints…

I wonder if the owners believed that this season would end any other way than it is. If they did it really does expose how shit their knowledge of footie is.

Martin has created scars so deep we need amputations to now recover

I think we do need to push the boat out and find someone who we know can make a difference not speculate they might. Once again we are trying to be too clever or cheap again. The chat on here seems like we have all been slapped down so much lately we are talking ourselves into the mindset of he could do a job. I would like to understand why this time will be different from Jones, Selles and Martin. Moyes may not be certain success but at least you know he can do it. Someone like this even from overseas is what we need. Money talks. I’m sure we could get someone better than those suggested and available so far. I feel we are about to climb on the next rollercoaster.