Saint Garrett

-----------------McCarthy Cedric Bednarek Yoshida Hoedt Bertrand ------------Romeu-----Hojbjerg----------- JWP----------------------------------Tadic -------------------Long--------------------- Would also be tempted to stick JWP in beside Romeu & Hojbjerg and put Austin in for Tadic and go two up top. Does mean that Cedric and Bertrand need to really push on in the wide positions. I just think with Mahrez, Vardy, Okazaki they'll just have too much going forward for us to deal with, which leaves us needing to score a few to even get a draw. Let's face it, we're all but down, but the players must still believe they can do it.

How many opportunities do you get to watch Saints at Wembley in the FA Cup in your lifetime?! Not many...!

Seriously embarrassing if we cannot sell this game out. Shambles.

We'll be lucky to get money back on Hoedt. Only thing would be that he is still young and has a good rep - won't get £30m for him though. Lemina has clearly shown he is class in bursts, but would maybe question his motivation this season when he's needed to step up...?

Do we? I mean apart from the first month or two, he's been largely terrible, doesn't look particularly interested, and doesn't seem to fit into the team.

TBF, it's pretty pathetic if we can't sell this game out...!

If we go down, Bertrand won't be worth anywhere near £50m. Be lucky to get £25m for him if we are playing Championship football next seasons

Would be tempted to use Long again and bring Austin on once Long has worn them down. ---------------McCarthy Cedric----Yoshida---Hoedt----Bertrand -----Hojbjerg--Romeu--Lemina-------- JWP--------------------------------Tadic ------------------Long-------------------

Did you really count that?

More likely than Yoshida and Hoedt playing CB? No... We'll just go back to 4 at the back I'm pretty sure.

I cashed out before WHU game last week as thought we'd win. Took £120 from a potential £340 win. Wish I'd kept it in now...! Surprised we're still less than evens to go down.

Personally feel a lot more confident with a defensive unit of the below. And maybe stick Lemina in there too.. --------McCarthy Cedric Yoshida Hoedt Bertrand -------Romeu Hojbjerg

Performance gives us a bit more hope, we are capable of getting results if we put that effort in. Beat Bournemouth, beat Swansea, get 2/3 other points and we have a chance. Chelsea are beatable thats for sure if you get at them.

Yup. Cedric is dreadful

Who?! He's ****e. He came in and did a half decent job given the situation in the second half of last season, but thats probably because the team only went to the half way line.

Indeed - the whole season has been a car crash, and last season going into the season without an adequate squad, and then doing the same thing this season.

RIP.

Tedious link tbf, Puel old boss, Bournemouth up the road, Villa pay big wages in the Championship.

Literally made them up as a best guess.

Stephens can't defend, wouldn't even say hes great on the ball tbh. Can't header, can't mark, weak, can't track his man.

Although I agree - we all said the same thing when we went to Liverpool without Virgil...

Mad

Wesley Hoedt 80k Mario Lemina 80k Manolo Gabbiadini 80k Ryan Bertrand 80k Fraser Forster 80k Sofiane Boufal 70k Charlie Austin 60k Oriol Romeu 60k Shane Long 50k James Ward-Prowse 50k Pierre-EmileHøjbjerg 50k Cédric Soares 50k Guido Carrillo 50k Dušan Tadić 50k Maya Yoshida 40k Steven Davis 40k Nathan Redmond 40k Alex McCarthy 35k Jérémy Pied 30k Jack Stephens 20k Jan Bednarek 20k Sam McQueen 20k Josh Sims 20k Jake Hesketh 20k Matt Targett 20k Stuart Taylor 10k = £1.2m week = £62.6m a year (+bonuses not that any of them deserve any) Probably underestimating some of them.

Worrying that Bednarek isn't better than him, bloody weird transfer that.

But we dont have that many "high earners"...especially compared to teams like Everton & West Ham. Would love to see our wages by player.