Saint Garrett

One of the best dj's on the radio IMO. Seen her twice and she was epic. Sure they'll be an awful lot of people on here who don't agree....

To be fair though, if you were to make a decision on Gaston after 4 games, or whatever Coutinho has played, you'd have said he was class. He was superb in that villa game, scored Everton away looked decent when he came on at Arsenal, and was superb vs Newcastle. And Coutinho does have Sturridge playing alongside him whereas Gaston had Lambert in front of him. As much as I love Rickie, he's not going to make te most of Gaston's intelligence.

People have short memories...a quick flick through this thread... http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?40095-Ramirez

He came on at Chelsea!

Agree. I think it's called making stats fit your agenda. 5/6m is really not a lot of money in the premiership. Yes there are players who stand out as cheaper and done better, but there are also plenty who are expensive and poor. Yes for 12m you'd probably say that he's not been value for money yet, but don't understand people writing the lad off yet. Clearly got talent but has had a tough first season with injuries/family problems, i'm confident he'll come good and definitely don't think we should sell him at a loss.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Isgrove on the bench. We now have Lallana and Gaston back to fitness, J-Rod improving and worthy of his place in the XI, Puncheon should be starting at the moment, Mayuka not even getting on the bench for whatever reason. In CM we have Cork, Morgan, Davis, JWP. MP has clearly been given the challenge to bring the youth through IMO hence us getting rid of fringe players getting in their way (IMO)

There en lies the problem. England are just not very good.

Fair point. If he could learn to score from 30 yards he'd be world class IMO.

Morgan has already won player of the season for me. So important to us.

Genuinely don't think he'd look out of place in any team in any league in the world.

My personal opinion. Think Morgan is our best player. Complete midfielder now he's added goals to his game.

Morgan is our best player by far.

Personally don't think Parker will be. He's not been great this season. Gets lots of knocks and his legs are going. He'll be nearly 34 by Brazil 2014 Osman I've never really seen an awful lot of tbh but from what I've seen he's really not that great. Personally id have cork if I had a chance but then I'm bias! Just my opinion...

Oh maybe I misread your post. My apoligies

Yep I agree. If he was younger he should be there but he's not so they're right to go with the younger forwards. Sturridge and Welbeck are the future.

Only ever young players who get a chance are man Utd reserves, Liverpool reserves, Chelsea reserves or man city reserves. Lot more talent in lower sides who must be knocking on the door.

So why would he not be playing? One of the best CB's in the world when he's on his game.

Cork deserves a chance in the squad IMO. He's class and does the 'unnoticed' job in midfield. Would have him over Osman and probably Parker. Isn't it a friendly ? Thought the whole point was we were building for 2014. Parker won't be still around then.

Is Agger injured ?

Firstly Swansea, and one of Millwall or Wigan will be in Europe next season (there is no reason why we can't get into Europe via a cup competition. And such teams as Newcastle, Everton, Spurs, and every now and again one or two of the big boys have a poor season (Liverpool for example). What were you expecting? Us to just get promoted and spend £100m and suddenly be aiming for Europe? Cortese isn't an idiot, he knows sustainable growth is the ideal situation.

Yep, he's got a decent shot on him as well from 25 yards. Lets just hope he's been working on his corners this week in training! If he can hit the right spot then his delivery could be world class the way he gets whip and bend on the ball, but he's not getting it past the first man too often at the moment.

Some of the posts on this thread, namely from BS, are ridiculous. Are we ever going to be in a position to compete with Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea.....no...but as long as we keep growing without gambling on the clubs future, and run on a solid base, we'll keep growing. I'm sure that if we were in the NPC this year chasing promotion, having finished mid table in that league last year, some people would be happy ? But because we got promoted '2 years early' people are moaning that we're going backwards...at the end of the day a lot of the signings we made probably couldn't have been much better, apart from Ramirez and J-Rod. If Gaston was signed for 8m, instead of £11.8m, I'm sure people would be saying he's great business and a very promising player, but because he cost us a lot of money, suddenly people expect him to be world class. If you break down the fee, you're probably paying 7m for what he is now, and the 5m for the potential that he might show over the next few years. J-Rod has been one of our best attacking players under MP. Stating we should have spent a lot lot more and having a go at the chairman for 'going for the cheap option'...you speak to a lot of our fans and a lot can't believe that we've spent that much money. We had a relatively poor squad and have been improved by the new players. Also a lot of the players we have bought, would probably keep their value between them. (one or two would sell for a few million less, and some a few million more). Just have some patience, why does everything have to be done now and if it isn't then everything is sh!t and a waste of money. The odd expensive player may be a flop, but if you're never going to take the gamble then who knows what you'll miss out on. Especially young players. It will be ok...

Yep, I could only buy 1 on my customer number, but it allowed me to potentially buy 3 on my dads. Something not right there.

Personally I think it looks awesome. Can't see it happening any time soon, but can't fault the plans personally.