Saint Garrett

Well if we are in the market for a new manager, we know they'll be relatively cheap and out of work...

Yeah. Immature thing to do given the circumstances and never going to make it at premier league level unfortunately.

Elyounoussi is woeful, doesn’t have the fundamentals to be an effective Premier league player, he’ll never make it in this league.

Forster; KWP Bednarek Vestergaard Bertrand; JWP Diallo; Armstrong Minamino; Adams Tella. need to be at it, defend well (lol) and take our chances when we get them (lol) Here’s hoping for another Pen!

Which is correct....

Looks like Stephens in DM to me...? Macca Bednarek Vestergaard Salisu Bertrand Armstrong Stephens JWP Moussa Adams Redmond

If it's any other club, £60-100m, If it's Saints, £30m Look at Rice - valued at £100m by Moyes. We should be saying the same.

Yup they’ve been very impressive this season. Were quietly going about their business at the start of the season despite a tough fixture list, and just keep winning the games they “should” win. The dildo brothers promised “next level” football when they moved to the Soulless Bowl, and it looks like they’ll get that. Would be a disappointment for them to not qualify for Europe now.

Very odd game so far. Leeds could have had 3 or 4 already, West Ham look like they’re going to score from every set piece. Kalvin Phillips looks like a player just back from injury, very rusty

Based on 2020 form, I'd want to see the club do whatever they can to keep him, and maybe even leave him to the end of next season to leave on a free. But given his form since that Villa away game, if we can get £30m for him, feels like we'd be silly not to take it with 1 year left.

If City have any sense, they'll just go low and to Forsters right hand side. He's always struggled to save the ball there.

I think that's what we are doing. Saved money on his wages for 2 years, and bring in £7m for him. Think Fulham also paid a £2m loan fee so it's more like £9m. Assuming his wages have been paid for the last 2 seasons, that's just over £7m at £70K a week. Also, his "book" value in the accounts will show as £4.5m so allows the club to recognise a profit on the sale of £2.5m. Not ideal by any means, but given the situation, it's not awful. Always laugh to myself when he has 1 of his 9/10 matches, as you know it's not going to be consistent. Surprised he's played that many games tbh

Based on what? Tella, yes promising, but hasn’t really done anything in any games he’s played in. I hope he can offer something in behind today.

Take Tella out for one of Walcott, Redmond, Djenepo or Adams and I’d agree with you.

I’m expecting us to win despite our recent form. We’re playing the worst team in the league and they have a depleted squad. If we have Diallo and KWP, Ralph and the players have no excuses. The players have clearly not given up, because the work rate is there, but we need to make sure we don’t concede early. If we can get ahead, it’ll give the players a huge amount of confidence and I think we’ll grind out a win. COYS

No, because if he was I don't think he'd be playing on the left. He's there to cut inside and shoot or run at defences on the edge of the box. Or tuck in and counter.

We cant afford to keep Lemina / Elyounoussi. Id guess the majroity of their wages are being paid plus a loan fee. We can't afford to have someone like Lemina sat playing 2/3 games a season picking up £80K a week.

Just the ethnic minority...

In fairness, it's never a lack of effort from us. Even against Everton we were trying hard to make things happen. It just wasn't through various reasons.

Deary me. Granted he's not as much of a goal threat as we hoped he would be, but he clearly offers something, and we're a better side when he is in it IMO. He can hold the ball up, which no-one else really can do, and bring others into play. Would I like us to have an upgrade? Absolutely yes Can we afford to buy someone who is way better than him at what he does? Unlikely. Is he good enough to play for Saints? Yes

Yup - this is how I see it.

Next you'll be saying it's a "must win" game, despite being 7 points above the relegation zone.

Forster; KWP Bednarek Vestergaard Bertrand; JWP Diallo; Armstrong Ings Adams Minamino Minamino a funny one as he’s scored 2 great goals but offered little else, but given we can’t score atm, o think he has to be in.

------------------Macca-------------------- Bednarek - Vestergaard - Salisu - Bertrand -------------Jankewitz - JWP-------------- Armstrong---------------------------Djenepo -------------Ings----Adams--------------- Then you have Forster, Stephens, Ramsay, Redmond, Tella on the bench....

If we could have afforded to keep Reed then maybe we would have, and still been able to buy KWP and Diallo, but I get he also was pushing to go and play, he's not a kid anymore, and to stick about as 4th choice would not be a good career move for him lets be honest. It's just unfortunate that Smallbone is out for the season, and Romeu for 3 months, Diallo has missed a huge amount of games too. The club also had eyes on Jankewitz as 5th choice CM, so you can't blame the club for letting Reed go. He's just having a good season at Fulham, so question marks are inevitable. But it was irrelevant really, as we needed the money cos we're skint.