James

Agreed. If our players are that good how come we only finished 8th ? MP overrated I think, we played pretty football but we didn't get results when we needed and we couldn't score. Everyone said we lacked a quality striker but I disagree, it's not like we missed a shed load of chances we just didn't create that many (certain games excepted ).

Spurs trying to nick our new manager before we've even appointed him...! Can't they make do with one?

Completely agree, it feels like a fire sale and it doesn't look good to any prospective manager. We're going to be left to rebuild a decimated squad likely after the WC when prices will be hiked and a lot of average players will be touted. I cannot see this ending well . We need a new manager ASAP to take control of the situation otherwise he could be left with too much to do and too little to work with.

Anything less than £10 million would be giving him away and we won't even replace him for that. Wonder what the odds are on us going down next season...the way things are going I honestly wouldn't be surprised.

If this is true then the new board are an utter disgrace. Rickie is a Saints legend and was the one player I was sure we would keep. My hope for next season has just dropped off a cliff.

No one - board should introduce a policy of selling nobody to that bunch of toasters. That said, Morgan and Lovren are the ones I'm most concerned about.

Jumped ship at the first opportunity to a team that are effectively only one place higher than us (I'm taking Man U out of the equation as they will improve) we are better off without people who don't want to be here. It's pretty galling that it's Spurs that are pillaging us again, I'll be furious if any of our players end up there with him. Can't wait to play spurs now. Hope we smash them and MoPo is out on his ear within a year when he fails to live up to Spurs' ludicrous expectations...a club who think they are way above that they actually are. They won't get close to CL qual next year as there are too many sides that are simply much better than them and hence Poch will get the AVB treatment before too long.

MoPo is about to drink from the poisoned chalice and I hope he chokes on it. Will be sacked by January I reckon.

At least Shaw still cares.... Concerning that this has nothing to do with MP's future. Who made this decision then and why? New board better have good reason but I'm now increasingly worried about the state of play at SFC .

It's really not. Have you been watching some of the premier league teams this year?!

A lot of negative comments posted by a lot of posters who have absolutely no idea who Veho are and what they represent...typical of Saintsweb these days...

As I said, don't claim to know anything about American football at all, I wasn't suggesting you were wrong I just wanted you to elaborate. I have now been illuminated. Many thanks for the sarcasm.

Please elaborate as to why the comparison is laughable. I don't claim to know much about it but you clearly seem to. If you're going to knock down other poster's views then at least bother to give reasons.

Slowly backtracking from your statement that "only a few clubs don't rely on it" then?

So do you agree that if this is a standard business model amongst Premier League clubs then this is not something that we as Saints fans should be particularly concerned about? I wonder if villa or Everton forums have threads agonising over the instability of the financial model adopted by premier league clubs? I think not. You're scaremongering as usual.

So all clubs have a fragile business model then? If it's standard practice and all clubs do it then we are as much as risk as them. Your post makes it out as something of special concern for Saints.

Who said we relied on it? It certainly helps though.

Lots of statuses about Gazza on the Saints FB page, he must be playing which means this game will be harder than we think because if they have a shot on goal then we'll concede....a truly terrible keeper.

Haven't seen any mention of that anywhere - please elaborate.

Yaya is a *****. So petulant.

Oh I really hope not...

Gazza is shocking

He's as good as Forecast, i.e lets in every shot on target.

Gazza not good enough. He's possibly the worst keeper in Saints history. Just dreadful. But we knew that. How he is employed as a professional is literally beyond me. I'd be just as good (I.e I'd let in every shot that hit the target). How bad must Cropper be?....Jesus the mind boggles...

He's awful. Embarrassing that a top 10 premier league club has him as back up. Every shot on target will be in the net.