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Most of our signings under Ralph have worked out so far (Danso an exception, although he was only a loan). If Ralph rates him and thinks he'll improve us, thats good enough for me

Could the fitness problem be Obafemi. Ralph has publicly singled him out previously for not looking after himself. Could maybe explain the Nunez links. Just a guess

Who puts a break clause in a contract? Oh right, the same people who own the sponsor. What a sham. Lets just go sponsorless

Never mind them.two, we signed arguably our two best players when they were 26 - Ings and Armstrong

Do they now? Then if he knows his shit he could easily write an informed article outlining exactly why hes not good enough for saints, as opposed to a comment in a tweet. Clearly he loves Harrison Reed and wants to see him given a chance. But sure he knows his shit better than us mere fans

Yeah because theres plenty of journos who comment on player ability. Whats he basing the assessment on? Has he watched plenty of Schalke or USA games. Needs to give us something to back up his assessment. Lazy 'journalism' if you ask me.

Not sure how I feel about a football writer/journo passing judgement on a players ability. I think the numerous club scouts, analysts and RH will make that assessment for themselves thanks Carl

Can see Bednarek signing a new contract in the coming weeks, certainly deserves it. Still very young for a PL CB with the appearances he has. His best years are still to come and cant see us selling unless the offer is silly

The sooner hes announced the better, get this tedious thread closed

Trying to compare Hojbjerg leaving with other players who have left us in recent years. I'll group him with Jay Rodriguez. Decent player but not overly bothered by him leaving as I think we'll find a good replacement

Stopped following him about a year ago because hes a knobhead on Twitter. Twitter isnt real life though, and he still is and always will be a legend in real life

Alex Crook saying that PEH bid accepted by saints and KWP deal agreed too

I posted initially after his first 4/5 games that I didnt think KWP was very good. However his performances in the last few games proved me wrong. It'll be a decent bit of business if we can get him for around 10 million. I wonder why the Maehle interest has disappeared, not just from us but from other clubs. Was linked with quite a few decent clubs at one stage

I think they've learnt their lesson from what was a horrible transfer window. They spunked alot of money on players untested at PL level

Adam Blackmore disputing this. Claims no price for Hojbjerg has been agreed and that 15 million is well below our valuation

Any more on the identity of the championship CB you heard about?

Our media team like to do things differently. Maybe we'll get 7 days in a row of the Ralph Express video

And who do Spurs have when Kane gets injured, or Wolves if Jimenez get injured, or Everton if Richarlison gets injured? In an ideal world you would have at least three very good strikers in case of injury, but problem is you have to keep them all happy. What we have at the moment in terms of striking options is enough for our top 8 ambitions. They can all score goals in the PL and offer something different. Long has just signed a new contract and Adams/Obafemi are still developing. None of them are going anywhere. Do you honestly propose buying a 5th striker? Would rather see a number 10 like Tadic brought in who can chip in with goals and help assist the strikers we have

Theres more chance of us signing two good CBs in one window than there is of us signing a striker. We're fine in that dept

We are still defensively poor and despite Stephens and Bednarek having a decent season, they should be no higher than our 2nd and 3rd choice CBs if we really want to push on. Salisu will fit the bill of our 1st choice CB. The pursuit of a championship CB would make sense, somebody who will start as 3rd/4th choice and be pushing to start. We need good competition at that position, havent had it this season. Cant see us bringing in Disasi after Salisu, but if we did it would be a clear message to Stephens/Bednarek that they need to improve again to keep their places

The 90 minutes today summed up Alex McCarthy perfectly. Two fantastic stops (one on one against Sharp and then a point blank reaction save) to keep us in the game. Then a moment of madness where he passed it straight to Sharp when under no pressure and then looked like he handled it outside the box. I like him as there is definitely more good than bad however he needs competition too. Cant see it happening but would like to see us move on Forster and Gunn and bring in a new keeper to challenge McCarthy

Was Ings just one goal off Vardy? What would have happened if they finished on the same number. Shared or do they give it to the player who scored the most minus penalties?

Will always remember MOTD highlighting and analysing one of his early performances for us (WBA away i think). He was everywhere - breaking up play, great workrate, constantly pressuring opposition players, finding great passes. Thought we were onto something great but sadly it didnt transpire that way. People have blamed his attitude, others the managers he worked under. Either way its best we move him on (hopefully permanently) and find a replacement for him and Hojbjerg (probably just one player). Can see him going to France where he started his career

Id say so. Usually when a player goes on a free they look for a whopping contract citing this as justified as the club havent had to pay a transfer fee

100 percent. Davis was a very good player for us and so is Armstrong. Both make the team better. Bizarre that some of our fans dont rate them