Gloucester Saint

Force administration - he’s missed so many payrolls and payments to football creditors they can enforce it. Or stoke HMRC into doing it if they’re feeling cowardly. Or find a Leon Crouch figure who has lent him money to put them into it.

Quick to hand out points deductions (except Leicester) and transfer embargoes but when they need to put their screw up right in approving a rogue owner - silence. On a smaller scale, see Morecambe. Not that the PL were any better with us and allowing Gao through.

8 years service during the club’s second worst spell in living memory, 250 appearances, got our money back, could’ve been a lot worse. Hoedt, Vestergaard and others were signed for far more money and were total turd, not even that good really, so can’t complain too much about Jan. He’s been part of some horrific moments - 2x 9-0 - but then the club has been horrific to support 2017-present bar Ralph’s first few months and Project Restart, so hardly his fault in a lot of ways.

I doubt it, Alpine was actually pictured on here with other forum members at a pre-season game in either Austria or Switzerland. Long time ago but I think it was possibly under Poch, or Ronald at a push. Was a very prolific poster and then just vanished.

True, but part of the stupidity was making those two transfers into a whole recruitment strategy and that becoming what seemed like 75% of the players purchased, completely forgetting about building a team and a spine to compete properly.

Couldn’t have done any worse if he physically been either,

No, he was 2021 I think from Torino.

Which would end up heavily subsidised. We’re very light in wide areas, especially with Edozie sale, so even with a couple of incomings Ryan would still get some appearances and maybe an impact sub as he was 23/24?

Sam was too lightweight for the PL which City fans warned about but actually one of the markedly better players in the first half of our last Champ campaign until Stacey’s dirty (and should’ve been red card) foul at Norwich wiped him out. As with Baz, very mixed Belgian spell but that’s a good manager and club to get him back in track. If the fee is broadly right, that could work out for all parties.

Given how poorly the club’s been run since Ronald left, accelerated by SR, I can’t really blame them tbh from a professional perspective. Ralph hid the decline but even he ran out of steam. Good luck to Still, he will need it.

‘It’s one apiece here in the South Coast derby at St Mary’s into added on time, Colby Bishop here with a low shot, not much power, Bazunu should save that to his left, oh, it’s in!! Look at the reaction in the away end, Portsmouth are set for their first league win in Southampton for 37 years!’

Tone down the abuse. If you can’t debate in a civilised and intelligent way without going the personal route, don’t debate at all. Go and give your head a good wobble. Goodnight. And yes, Still would like to change the wide and forward areas up, but he can’t because we are stuck with the likes of BBD, who is far worse than Che Adams.

Bet Dale Vince tries it at FGR. Mad as a box of frogs.

There were loads of them, about PSR and how this summer would be better because Rasmus’s Jan 2023 splurge was still on the cycle. Still a month to go but it’s hardly promising nor the change that was promised.

You know exactly what I was saying - he wasn’t a 20 goal superstar but Che did what his team and their team needed. How many honest pros have SR signed who actually did their basic job? Anyway, anyone who thought Russell Martin was doing a fine job at PL level shouldn’t be giving stick out to other posters frankly.

I’m not the one who spent the whole of last summer saying ‘the strategy is to sign top Championship players for next season as the club know they’re going down’. Funnily enough, they’re the ones Still seems keenest to move on….

Not touched a drop Farmer. What I’m saying is he hasn’t scored 20 goals but for a top flight team looking to be mid-lower table and stay clear of trouble he’s helped them do that comfortably. What would we give for that? More than Archer or BBD could do last season and I think he’s a far better footballer than either of those two, although Archer might be ok if we use him properly with earlier passes. In summary, I rate him higher than our current strikers at any level.

We can’t use Ramsdale next season so he might as well be as a supporter. He won’t be coming back. Fernandes will go, along with KWP the only two players to give a shit last season. Dibling - the club can smell the pure PSR ‘profit’. Yuck at what football has become and yuck at SR.

Jaidi, Hammond, Chaplow - excellent professionals and a cut above the league were in at the time we signed them. That’s what this summer should’ve been about. Instead, more gambles/clever shit leading to errors and a failure leader given three more years of reward. SR will never learn, sooner they sell up the better.

Point is, it’s a well known risk and he’d cost us 12 points or so during the regular season before he did his Achilles. If they’re as determined to finish top 2 as they say they are, why take a stupid risk that? From a business perspective, it doesn’t make sense. Get your spine right and if you want to gamble/risk, do it in the wide areas with a funky loan or two.

Fernandes all day long but he’ll be gone soon, probably on loan as well knowing this shower of owners. KWP we didnt have the option but he is my favourite player of the last few years and most professional at the club by a mile. Again, Che’s performance in Serie A whilst Batistuta hammers the arse off anything SR have bought in at much bigger cost.

It’s pointless. I can only assume the financial position must be pretty grim because Ramsdale, Fernandes and Dibling were supposed to be the ‘they only go for top price’ players. And then the club capitulates as it always has post-2017 despite all the PR guff it spews out. Then again, when has anything SR said been remotely true? Can’t stand them, bullshit merchants, outdoing even Les Reed.

If it’s the judgement of Sports Republic/Saints since 2017 vs the judgement of our fanbase, I’ll go with our fanbase every single time. We’ve been proven right. Romeo Lavia signing is the only successful thing they’ve done in the context of the club’s history and they even messed that up moving Romeu on. Don’t trust them one iota.

PL level he was OK. I didn’t say good but not that bad either. Champ level he was very good though. All of last season’s strikers didn’t manage a Che-type 8 PL goals and as many assists between them remember. Good season in Serie A as well. We’ve obviously had the likes of Pelle, Rickie, Beattie, Marian over the last 25 years which is why Che isn’t rated but he is like Shearer compared with the garbage SR bought. And no KWP this season, was a huge factor offensively for us in 23/24.

Better manager on paper, don’t quite agree that’s a stronger squad than 2023 though unless Downs proves to be as good as Che at holding up and bagging 15-18 goals (the finish was very nice v Espanyol so maybe…). AA still there but not sure he’s in the same frame of mind.