SambaMaverick

Kitman KWP, Simeu, Bednarek, Perraud / Valery Diallo, S.Armstrong Redmond, Moi Tella Broja

Matt-bot, you're starting to sound a bit like the now departed Positivity-bot Hojbjerg after a post-match conference - change the fkin record! One swallow doesn't make a summer...

That's usually how you end up with plastic Mancs in the home end. I'd prefer the extra legroom.

Yes pal this can be used to get into the ground, as long as there is a scannable QR code on the ticket you will be fine. Kicking myself that I didn't pick the mobile ticket option now.

Any way you could enquire about whether it's possible to make all tickets downloadable on the site? Would be a big help. 🙏

At least he seems to understand when to fucking hoof it out. More than can be said for Sali and Bednarek most of the time. Not exactly enthused with this one though, screams of penny-pinching.

Useless fuckers, if they think I'm queueing up for an hour for the right to watch a 5-0 humbling they can think again

Ramsdale 😆 utter pony, has been the worst keeper in the league for back-to-back seasons. The worst part is that the league contained our two bags of shit!

Longstaff is utter shit, reminds me of Harry Reed

I'm sorry SaintRalphInOceanVillage, SaintJackoInHurworth, but something has to give if we can't get out of this slumber. Ralph may be a good manager who is capable of getting teams to play great football at times, but he is completely inept at adapting his game both in tough spells during seasons (flexing to a 3 or 5 at the back system) and tough spells in games (substitutes glued to the bench as everyone in the stadium but him - seemingly - senses that an opposition goal is coming). He (or you) are a stubborn bloke who is not what we need to guide us through what is bound to be our toughest fight since coming back up.

I just don't think it's worth denting others' confidence (Forster, Sali, Livramento, etc) by sending them out to most likely get slaughtered by a team so many levels ahead of us. Stick with the bedded in, experienced players who have the very rare tendency to grind out a decent result (1-0 vs Liverpool and 1-1 against Chelsea last season the only ones springing to mind). Besides, is Salisu really that much better than Stephens... and to that end, is Forster even better than McCarthy - that one is a real Morton's Fork.

Leave out as many youngsters / newcomers as possible, it could be five or six (or worse 😈). My team: McCarthy KWP, Bednarek, Stephens, Perraud Romeu, JWP Armstrong, Redmond Adams, Armstrong

I hope the club know what they're doing because for me, we are sleepwalking towards relegation. Why we haven't got a replacement for JV despite knowing he was going for ages is beyond me. The goalkeeper situation is a joke, they're both fucking awful. The stubborn git in charge won't change from his system which teams found out how to beat an absolute age ago. He refuses to change the game through subs until it is way too late... At least we have United next week. Shite.

Good to see the scrap for the forum's top oddball has ramped up another gear.

If he wants to stay in the PL I say throw the chequebook at him!

He's toilet. If he was playing for Luton or Stoke no one would bat an eyelash. Has no outstanding attributes, is thoroughly average and was propped up by Liverpool's megastars last season. Pull the other one Saints!

Stop fucking around and get Gary Cahill in, even if we have to eat his wages in the second year of a two year deal. We've managed to lose three of our best players and we've gotten no-one who is tried and tested in the Premier League. I don't know why we act like we are too good for an old fashioned free transfer. Jeremy Pied and Cuco Martina were pretty shite, granted, but a signing like that at CB or LB would be much better than playing Rubik's cube every time we get an injury (Djenepo at LB - really?). Get Cahill on a free, back him up with someone like that Tosin fella from Fulham who can learn a lot under Cahill's wing. Jetro Willems also available on a free in the left back position. We need some experienced bodies through the door, for fuck's sake. We need a goalie, badly, as well. Looks like Sam Johnstone's list of suitors is dwindling so a loan with an obligation if we stay up would be a great deal if it gets to the end of the window and he wants PL football - we could even chuck West Brom a bone in the form of one of our shite spare shot-stoppers.

Said it before and I'll say it again. Spend the 40m we've got on Armstrong and Edouard. They can't both be shit. Delaney in on a loan to buy and Lookman on loan and we've had a decent window. Anything other than 4 signings from this point would leave us perilously close to trouble.

Villa fans on Twitter have decided through a game of Chinese whispers that Grealish is staying so long as their board match his level of ambition. This is apparently how the Bailey deal has been rushed through and this news of the Prowsey deal (apparently Grealish has "personally asked" for the club to sign JWP) has come about. How deluded can you get?

Not really sure that needed dragging up if I'm totally honest.

Still think we'd need another CB to force Bednarek to buck his ideas up if Vestergaard went. Jan seemed way too comfortable last year. Sell Vestergaard for 20m and get someone else in for circa 10m.

I'm willing to give him a go even though I saw nothing of him first time round that suggested he could make it in the Championship, let alone the PL. What's a couple million these days? As above - maybe Scotland has given him the kick up the arse he needed, his stat lines certainly aren't bad.

Sell for 25m and get Armstrong and Edouard. They can't both be shit. 🤷‍♂️

Would anyone have Toby back as part of the Vestergaard deal? We could come down on price in order for them to pay a % of wages in a loan deal? Worth exploring IMO.

Januzaj linked. Would be a tidy addition for the price mooted.