BERMUDASAINT

We have a Brazillian/Serbian! 6'2, hopefully with the skill worthy of the beautiful game and the grit and toughness of the Serbs. Played for the U23, U20 Brazilian national team, U18 Serbia NT so must have potential, might be great business if his talent lives up to pedigree. SAMBA SAINTS!

I think Ralf will get to show again that his automism, high press and playbook for all, will show how effective it can be. It is a difficult system to perfect, even the Don Beliesia has trouble mastering his own system. The new players are exciting and seem to fit Ralph main criteria, STAMINA, it is essential to the press, can't do anything without it, every player is expected to close down as a team, quickly, squeezing to designated areas and put in a tackle! Tella's interview hammered home that the press is the first line of attack and defense. Everyone is learning the triggers to close a team down! " If they can get out of our press they have done very well" was how he felt the press/traps were improving in training recently. Ralf's high risk, high rewardand system showed it worked last year for a spell, but because Ralf plan is always to press a team to death, if we are having an off day or injuries then it was easy to pass around our press, we were wasting energy chasing shadows. Some players were not up to it, it is a tireless and mostly unrewarded task to close down and harass, easier to back off and let them come to you, this was Bertrand, love the guy but he was not up to chasing all game. But Ralf is..... The press was present during both games, Manu was a better display, we were able to press for most of the game and made Manu very uncomfortable. The team keeping up the energy and pressure all game. We are much better suited to the press with the new players. To get the young players we have brought in is GENIUS, this is how he worked a RB, best young talent, that can run their ass off for your demanding high risk/reward system. These kids are the best of breed! Insane 👏 for the money spent. We have now become fashionable for tallented young players to get PL game time, I hope more are on the horizon. Was it luck or Ralfs/Semmens vision that has convinced them? They will know of the playbook and what it demands and doesn't seem to dissuade them. We have seen how it can overcome the billion dollar teams and compete with "lesser" players. Poch and Ralf are using intelligent hard work press to overcome the quality of the top clubs and inequality of the financial power. So here it goes Saints fans, Ralf has more deciples to spread his press, will you help back this ambitious Coach and team to great heights, we have been to the mountain top before, can we make the summit again? Maybe stick around a bit.

The interview with Tella was excellent, the kid has all the attributes to make it big in the PL if he can stay injury free. A young kid who has talent, and is not taking anything for granted, working hard, listening, learning and laughing it all makes a great prospect. His thoughts on seeing our ground and facility were priceless. His enjoyment of training next to the first team, learning the press, which he explained is key to Ralf style " if you get out of our press, you did very well", indicates it is more press, with more press. We have seen this get crushed when we tire or expose our back line with the press, but we have also seen it dominate teams and unsettle others. I digress, back to Tella, I think his insite on how he broke into the first team has given other young players the thought that SFC is a place they can be seen and given the chance, if they put in the hard work. Training next to the first team, given the same playbook and treatment as the first team will encourage a young player that the PL is attainable, IF you have the talent......thus the new Chelsea signings, possibly the Everton wonder kid, all to help fill out that training pitch with young, very talented players that can attract the eye of the Coach. I love the story Tella gave that he got up in the last few min off the bench to warm up, no coach asked him to, in the hopes of getting on, He caught Ralfs eye and got his first PL game time, he could not stop smiling, I remember that smile that day, now I know how cheeky it was. Good on ya lad, you are a credit to the youth. Shout out to Turk for posting it. Ps. he will he off to Arsenel when he reaches his potential. But hopefully for good $$$$$$$.

So your opinions on other teams players or who we buy is irrelevant because you don't watch other teams, got it!

Lol, are you serious? Can't watch the other 11 players on the field? Your childish digging at twar is very immature. Most on here see you and company as negative Nancy,s. Twar had bested you with grace and intelligence, yet your retorts are petty and infantile. You look to denigrate him at every chance why? Because his opinions are better, more liked, challenges your opinions with sense not gibberish. And if he is wrong will admit it. Heil SKD, wanna jump in? I applauded you SKD, you have been better with your posting style, there was some positive things and acceptance of others opinions that did not go unnoticed. Not perfect but the change was welcome! Saints warriors prepare for battle!

Good shout very solid keeper! Was hoping we could get him, but never mentioned in any rumors, and would he go from Manu to Saints?

This is what I was thinking, Ralf likes to press from the front, if the strikers do not do this then we are missing one of his core tactics. No hang at the top, walk around, let the defender walk past you. FANNY Danny was great at the front press, he knew how to squeeze the defender down one side into a trap or hustle them into a mistakes. Edit: I was not talking about Minamino.

There is a thin line between love and hate..... The love: take a gamble on one of our "own", buy whilst broken, rehabilitation, resurrection of career, fought together and lost together, great set ups, great goals, great celebrations, great despair. All whilst becoming a leader of the Saints team/tribe/warriors. The hate: refusing to sign a new contract, leaving a team that has done everything to get you to be the best you have ever been, trotting off to dubiously greener pastures. fanny Danny has fallen into the hate category, with so many others we have had leave us when they thought they are too good for us. As any enemy on the field, he will get no applause from me, no well wishes, he is dead to me.....

Negative Nancy alert!!! Never seen him play yet you can make an educated opinion on him?? When you do watch a player or team, like Saints hopefully, your opinion is we are fucked? Imo your opinions are fucked.

Welcome Tino, exciting young player! All the attributes of a great player, ball skills, dribbling, low accurate crosses, defensive acumen and one of the most important attributes for Ralf style is the ability to maintain the energy for his high press, in your face pressure on the ball. This style will make any lazy, poor engine player a weak spot, as our press will fail, our rate of recovery will fall. I think it is Ralf first criteria, can he run hard for 90+, yes ok, what is the rest like? His high energy press, win ball up the pitch demands high energy players!

Not a dig, NOT A DIG? you have had so many digs you could have made the Chunnel twice over. IF only you believed your last paragraph you wrote. Your many previous post tends to differ. Hiel SKD......

But you are assuming if he stays he will be unmotivated, he has not shown it yet for Saints, and he has a chance at the world cup squad! Those are more positive things to think about.

I was hoping two wrongs make a right, my ignorance . I see your concerned enough to respond to our ignorance, perhaps you are ignorant too. Hiel SKD, we will never forget.... Get vaccinated! Be positive! Go Saints, COYS

Once again you have to teach the ignorant, if they cannot understand the pros vs the cons of being vaccinated there is no hope, they will not spend time looking into the good it does, just regurgitate the false narrative that they want to believe. Kind of like their football opinions or race.

Did you watch him play for Celtic last year? Or are you fixed on your old assessment and not willing to update your out of date opinion? I guess no one can improve over the 2 years once you have decided his fate. I hope he can produce like he had in Scotland for the Saints! Positive thinking, have a positive day fellow Saints

Perfect show off penalty, I have no sympathy for a player who decides to out smart a keeper instead of outscoring him! The dancing, hops stutter steps, pauses all make the kicker look twice a silly boy if it does not come off. Your advantage as penalty kicker is no keeper can stop a well struck ball in the right place, if you have the skill to place a hard shot, no keeper will save them even if they guess the same way, ala Le Tiss, Sir lambert. So have some balls, pick your spot and thump it in the net!!

Keep it up, you are crushing them, they never liked you calling them out, they showed their true nasty side, now they get together to get one over, never will, you are too educated, smart for them. I hope you ere getting better, Saints are a better club with fans like you!

HEIL SKD, you are the most disliked poster on here, so negative about everything, so argumentative, no substance to your arguments which you enjoy starting! When you grow up I hope you become a little more glass full. Your point is......saints are rubbish, we have no money, we are getting relegated, not good enough, that player is too good for us, our players are crap and not worth a fiver..........Same shite over and over........your are the epitome of a negative Nancy, Debbie downer, pompey pouncer.

Did you watch him play last year? He has changed? A player finally does what we wanted, to apply himself to the fullest, yet he will never change in the eyes of the Saints gurus who knows all! @27 he is in prime time, if his attitude has grow up like he has , we may have the player we had hoped for, last year showed much improvement, lets hope he shows Ralf he is ready to step into those boots as a man....committed to the Saint cause. I think he will be an asset for any club now that he has seemingly changed his attitude and passion to playing.

Sell Mr Saints??? He is the next banner boy! Will hopefully retire here! Always nice to have a player come good that is one of our own, he took a lot of flack from the "he's not good enough " camp of I know best. Said it Years ago that he would be our leader our "Mr. SAINT, CAPTAIN SAINT".

Did any of you watch him play this season? He was the committed player we all Wanted! Fulum fans were happy with his effort. Why regurgitate old information that has obviously changed. Is he good enough for Ralf, who knows but he put a good shift in last season, maybe he has realized what he needs to do to make a mark on this League! ............oh ya, he's shite, sorry was using my brain earlier. Shite shite shite.....

Hahaha, are you seriously stating that! You are so blind to the things you stated? Just because they removed the last thread on this topic, it won't take away the statements you posted. Did you click your heals and salute yourself in the mirror this morning? I have written to the FA to change it from BLM to LBM, LOVE BLACK MEN! will that help you! Could you embrace loving backs like you love your own? Nothing political, it is more pure, more to the point, love a race you have problems fully accepting, FULLY accepting is the hard part we can all have mates even friends who are black, but are they truly accepted, LOVED ? Studies have shown white men anxiety rises when a back man enter the room. It seems an unconscious reaction. So it is not easy for the full acceptance of different races to accept each other. We have to challenge ourselves to accept all races as equal. It is not easy when you are surrounded by your own kind! This is not just a white person problem , all races have racist people in them! I have seen it on all sides. I have been a victim of it and learned to forgive and move on, I am not at the end of my journey to full acceptance of all races, but I am on the right path. SKD, you think BLM is not the way to go, fair enough, instead of supporting the boo boys, how about singing "Saints kick it out!" If the fans can get behind it it will clearly show we are behind the anti racism and reduce the connection with the blm. This is what is needed, not booing! IF you or anyone is truly trying to improve oneself in the advancement of a more racially fair world, then booing is not it. But boo if ya like, it will show your are stuck in the past and not willing to move forward with addressing the racist.

My opinion on what you wrote tells me you are like most, so long as they do it for a little while, you can TOLORATE it, but don't bang your drum too long as it will ANNOY me and I will have to display my true feelings and lack of compassion toward your long standing suffering. You and your fellowship are showing your true inner feelings on race. Please continue, always nice for the " I am not racist " pretenders to show their true colors. I have friends like this, can't change them, but I know where they stand and just hope their children become more compassionate and caring of other races. I am writing this on one knee..... Peace to all Saints fans! Can we just get behind our rainbow nation of a team and give them encouragement and positively! Remember what mum used to say......."IF YOU HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO SAY, THEN SAY NOTHIG AT ALL" Take a knee then March on my fellow Saints!

Intelligence has nothing to do with compassion. The phrase " if you have nothing good to say, don't say nothing at all!" Is one many of us can use! But the self indulged don't care, it is their opinion and everyone must know about it! Thus some are booing and verbally abusing our own players, why? To inspire your player to do better? Destroy his confidence is a help? It like booing you army that is dying on the field of battle trying to defend you? WTF? You do this to other teams players to upset them, why do it to your own? Because of lack of compassion! Why boo the knee, you have nothing good to say, so shut up! It takes a few seconds and the people on the field feel it is important. Why put your negativity on show for a cause that has a positive message.

The fans comments were that Shaquri has been offered half of Liverpool asking, 7 mil, that would leave minimeno, at about 5 mil. He's light weight, but had a great box to box engine. Could handle all the miles Rh requires players to run, just can he bulked up like JWP did.