James

Fonesca would be my guess.

Not sure about that. If the bits and bobs from the itks are correct we considered him only to put all our eggs in the Tuchel basket and, by the time we'd been turned down by Tuchel, Watford went for Silva. I'm convinced Silva would have been higher on our list than Pellegrino. If we sack Pell I'd expect Silva to be very near the top of who we want next.

Your hatred of Silva is becoming slightly irrational. He's clearly a vastly superior manager to Pellegrino and that's all I care about. Claude Puel is now the manager of Leicester City and so is irrelevant to how any prospective Saints managers compare.

Les - go and get him now. The fact Pellegrino is still here looks even more ridiculous now.

It’s clearly good enough to be outside of the drop zone. Do you genuinely believe we have a squad worthy of relegation?

Doesn’t really have much to do with reputation if the selling club won’t accept a bid. By all accounts he is keen to join but we’ve messed up by announcing that we’ve got £75m and are now being held to ransom.

Hope we move on from Carrillo (fingers crossed Pell won’t be around to manage him) and go get Dembele.

But everything to do with Puel leaving right?

Agreed, in performance terms we’ve literally got nothing to lose as we couldn’t be any worse. Sadly, it’ll cost money and make Les look a bit foolish (more so than he already does) so we probably won’t do anything.

I’m sorry, but as one of those unfortunate enough to travel to all three European aways and not witness a goal, I can’t agree with you that we had a “good” European campaign. The fact we failed to progress from that group was serious underperformance.

Quite. Even our senior pros, maybe Steven Davis should take some time off criticising his own fans for being “unhelpful” and concentrate on not pirouetting on the edge of our box to concede a goal.

Must have missed the 0-0 against Spurs? Oh yeah, the greatest manager of all time oversaw a 4-1 defeat....

Don’t remember too many times in the 90s where we got dragged in with a squad that was clearly better than 18th place. Fact is, we have gone from sixth and European football to a relegation battle inside 2 years, we’ve got a mid table side that can’t buy a win and a board that refuses to sack an incompetent manager. I was there through the 90s and Saints have been pretty rubbish for the majority of my life supporting them but this year is clearly different to what went before. We’ve been let down and mismanaged by a complacent board and an incredibly bad manager so it’s unsurprising people are angry about it. Nothing “snowflaky” about venting your frustration at people not doing their jobs properly and being so hesitant to actually act to change it.

An absolute disgrace.

I’m not willing to assume Les & Co are capable of engaging in any kind of forward planning or even rational assessment of what’s going on at the moment. If, and it’s a big if, we sack Pell I’d be willing to bet we go into the Brighton game with Kelvin in caretaker charge which is another utterly unthinkable situation. What a mess.

The only thing that gives me hope is the recent Telegraph article stating he’s under pressure. Must be sacked next week. It will probably scupper our transfer plans if we do sack him next week (which will be another totally unnecessary cock up by Les and the gang) but at this point, I’d take a new manager over any signings.

Long wouldn’t, the man doesn’t know how to score. Would be more than happy if we shipped him out regardless of the league we are in. Stealing a living as a striker.

If we offload Austin and retain Shane Long that will be absolute madness. If we go down and Austin is willing to stay we should do all in our power to keep him. Would be our best hope of bouncing straight back.

Not sure we’ve got the players for it tbh. Full blooded isn’t in the vocabulary of Tadic or Boufal.

There must be some more capable managers than Pell our there surely? I mean, we are not expecting premium, just someone with basic competence as a football manager, something our chump sorely lacks. Any of Hughes, Monk, Koeman (ok, unlikely), Jokanovic, O’Neil, Strachan would instantly be better than the current clown and surely we could attract one of them?

Wouldn’t rule out Reed selling him.

Not too late if we do it early next week. Brighton game is massive and a new manager bounce could give us the boost we need. To lose that game would be unthinkable but we easily could if we keep MP following a thrashing tomorrow. I’ve resigned myself to the fact we won’t change it now though, our board think they know better for whatever misguided reason and will retain someone who is statistically our worst ever permanent manager. Utter madness.

Without a doubt yes. We will finish bottom with MP IMO. Can’t see us winning another game under him.

Stoke showing what a change does for you. Sort it out Les.

Exactly - amateur negotiations from the club here really. So desperate to let everyone know we’d received a world record fee. Given we sold VVD before the window even opened it is outrageous, given our position, that we are going into the last week of the window without anyone secured (or even close by the sounds of it).