James

Hopefully we will get him.

Genuine q for you - what has Puel done to prove he is an excellent manager? I suspect that, for every good result, I could cite twice as many awful ones.

Agreed. He has got to go. You can't present yourself as a smug know it all and then fail to deliver so spectacularly. His arrogance could relegate us. I don't even care if he reads this. In fact, I hope he does.

This whole "I feel sorry for Puel" act is getting pretty tiresome. The majority of this squad finished sixth last year. I get that we sold some very good players but to have us so close to the bottom is the fault of the manager only. The squad we have is much better than it's showing and that is the fault of the manager. It's almost a parody that you have a French word as your username and are defending a French manager to the hilt. We've been, for the most part, complete garbage this season and that's down to Puel. He's been let down but we shouldn't even be flirting with relegation.

They won't be replaced.

Out. Whether he keeps us up this year or not. I don't want him as our manager long term.

Not sure they can be labelled bed wetters now. Most on here are concerned.

I almost wish Pamplemousse would start saying we were going down. Given his lack of luck with predications that might actually save us!

Sorry Claude, time's up.

Not too much wrong with the tactics?! Were you at the game today? I presume not.

Have you looked at our recent form? It simply cannot be nothing to do with Puel. To say otherwise is just ridiculous. Change the record.

Well and truly in the scrap this year. Cheers Les you fool.

You also said we'd beat West Brom and win today's game easily...

Gardos might be useful against Carroll but I'd be tempted to let Yoshi handle him and then play Bertrand next to him with McQ at left back. It may end up being our best hope so may as well try it as we've only got 2 games pre Wembley. In reality I can't see CP dropping Stephens.

All sorted. Block 129. COYR.

We've got 27 points, realistically we need 10 more to survive as there's no way you'll need 40 this year. We will scrape survival I think so Wembley is the only thing that will realistically save our season.

Can see it now - Stephens and Gardos against Zlatan at Wembley.

Think everyone got their hopes up when Puel said it was only 3 weeks pre-Swansea.

Utter incompetence from Reed. There really is no other word for it.

Good start Jose...whoops.

Bit of an odd one. On day one of the window I would have given anything for a striker, now we've got one but are, instead, woefully short at the back. Typical Saints to take with one hand and give with the other. Let's hope he gets us firing as we will need goals to get points as don't see many clean sheets coming.

Got to wonder whether we are either very difficult to negotiate with or, being frank, too cheap. Whilst I appreciate that we can't spend recklessly it does seem to take us an age to complete deals compared to other clubs. Boufal in the summer and we've been negotiating for Gabbi all window. Palace probably just paid the fee to get the deal done whereas I wonder whether we tried to haggle too hard and Liverpool just found another taker.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again Reed needs to keep his mouth shut. The regularity with which he says or indicates something is going to happen and then the opposite happens is getting a bit silly now.

Did we really wait until the last day of the window to find that out? Blimey.

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