James

If he is available we should surely be looking at him - no doubt we will continue to shop in the bargain bin and bring in a reserve Monaco striker because our hopeless manager wants him. God, how depressing.

Bravo Saints, bravo. Seems that lessons aren’t being learnt at all levels. Will be a nightmare scenario if we are left with a lame duck Pellegrino and an un strengthened squad at the end of Jan but that’s what we all know will happen. Incompetence at its finest.

The worst thing about it is that our board aren’t even making basic decisions at the moment. No active steps to address our alarming slide have been taken and it just feels like the fans are being taken for mugs a bit. Clear we need a new manager and some new recruits but all we seem to be able to do is sell as quickly as possible and then take an age to recruit. There really was absolutely no need to announce the VVD deal so early in the window, if anything it’s weakened our position this window. The only benefit was that Gao got his hands on the cash as quickly as possible.

So, with 16 days of the window now gone and no recruits - how many do people realistically thing that we will bring in at this point? I think we will get this Carrilllo bloke on deadline day and that’ll be our lot despite all the PR BS early in the window. Too little too late.

I suppose he's concerned at whether he'd get a move to a club as good as Everton with a relegation on his CV. I agree that he would certainly be sold if we went down but its a question of who might want him at that point.

I'd also add turning down Manuel Pellegrini in the summer of 2006 at a time that he reportedly wanted to join us. We had an opportunity to leverage our position having finished sixth the season before but instead we sold all our goals and replaced our most successful manager with someone who the players hadn't heard of and didn't respect. Irrespective of his performances with Leicester since leaving us (obviously he looks good but we are at the stage of genuinely debating whether we'd rather have Paul Lambert in charge than Pellegrino) he was the wrong appointment at the wrong time for us.

Ah well, we probably have a Monaco reserve striker on the way, with a thoroughly average scoring record and who has been picked by a manager we all want shot of. There’s something to look forward to eh!?

I’m not sure our current manager is capable of implementing any kind of “approach” at all.

As soon as Les put out the message that we were still confident it was over.

Given that we’ve only got 2 fit strikers available to us and are only out of the relegation zone on goal difference I find it pretty surprising that any bottom half club would even consider letting anyone capable of getting goals in this league out of their sight to be honest. But this is Saints, we’re too good for players like Gabbi clearly.

Hardly surprising given our manager is it? Can only think in “like for like” terms. Heaven forbid we actually try something different given we haven’t won in the league since October - there’s a novel concept.

True incompetence if so but then again, given we haven’t sacked the awful Pellegrino, nothing would surprise me at the moment.

If we sell Gabbiadini this window I officially give up on this season.

The ones that so successfully resulted in two comfortable victories for Spurs over us last year?

Someone ought to tell Les that 4-2-3-1 isn't working.

Total shambles from top to bottom at the moment.

“Some of our fans are a disgrace” - we had 5,000 at Fulham singing their hearts out despite our awful run. Fans in good voice again today despite a “disgrace” of a performance in the second half. Some of the keyboard “I’m a better fan than you” warriors on here are embarrassing. It’s not a case of doing what they like, it’s a case of advocating the removal of someone who is , statistically, one of the worst managers in our history.

We were throwing ourselves into last ditch defensive challenges from the 50th minute. We didnt have shot in the second half so, yes, we did.

Worst manager I’ve seen since my first game in 1996. Got to go.

A ringing endorsement of the Pellegrino team talks...

Some people don’t watch the same game as I do.

Get the clown out. Same old story, sat back on a 2-0 lead and were punished. Tactical incompetence. The Argentinian Steve Wigley, just **** off you clueless goon.

Cheers Pell****. That was coming you clueless clown.

Has been in serious decline this season.

Unbelievable really - all over them, 2-0, best performance of the season and the clown sends them out like he has.