Saint Garrett

Yup - I was there at the weekend, it sounds pretty cool, and catching up with the rest of the premier league in places. These facilities have moved on so much over the last 10 years, parts of it are out of date now.

I think it depends on how you define “better player”. Personally I think Adams is the better all round player, but Broja is a better finisher for sure. Adams gets more out of the players around him too. Adams has shown himself to be a pretty streaky striker, so hopefully he can go into the next few months and grab a few. If he can get 12-15 this season, I think that’s a decent return given his positive impact on the rest of the team.

Said originally, the big screens were going up in this international break. I'm expecting them to be there come the Leicester game. They've had a month to put them up.

He also has Kante mopping up everything behind him, which gives him the freedom to do the "insta" stuff. Give him time and space and he's a quality player, stick him under pressure and he will constantly give you the ball back.

But; he has an attitude problem, turns up late, and doesn't like hard work. On top of that, he's on loan. Although we have to look at whats best right now, we have to balance it with what is best for the club in the future. I have no problem with that, and the competition can only be a good thing. I disagree with you that Adams value is capped. It is as of his current quality, but he's already improved a lot since we bought him. If he can become a better finisher (like last night, proper goalscorers finish) he could easily be an option for clubs further up the league. The biggest frustration for me, is he snatches at chances, and has always just hit it hard rather than placing the ball in the corner. But that finish last night was exactly that.

Probably agent chat, trying to increase what we're offering him on a new contract, or putting pressure on the club to offer him one.... I think he has promise, but he's certainly not standing out like, for example, Tino. Will be interesting to see where he is come May, and how much game time he's had for us.

The majority were back on Monday.

Absolutely no chance we'd sign Lingard IMO. Would take Henderson for sure, but only really if we have a chance of making him permanent. Utd would probably charge a fortune for us to take him too, given how much money they wanted for Brandon Williams...!

Looks like it'll be Lampards first game too...

Ayew: £21m Bolasie: £25m Sissoko: £30m Slimani: £30m Xhaka £34m Stones: £50m Pogba: £90m Transfer fees had already got ridiculous at that point. Given his age, and how good he was, we should have got more for him IMO.

He probably should have gone for closer to that at the time, given quite how incredible he was at the back end of that season. Those transfer fees weren't unheard of at that time. Especially for an attacker.

Yeah, but if he's playing for us, he's got Tino bombing forward on the other side, which means they both can't bomb forward. We do play with a preference to play down the right.

Completely agree. The settling in of Salisu, the upturn in Macca's form, the addition of Tino/Perraud, and Ralph's willingness to change things when it's not going well for us, (start of 2nd half vs Villa the prime example), all have a big influence on that. In addition to Romeu being back to full fitness, we all know how important Romeu is to us.

Mates park in the university or the hospital car park. Personally park at the common when I drive, and walk the rest. Dad always used to park there for the dell, and just never moved. Free too.

Certainly an odd choice to stick in the press, unless Hasenhuttl is wangling for some more assurances and his agent is putting some pressure on the board but flaunting his name out there. Thats both the Villa and Norwich jobs he's been linked with... I don't think this will be an easy game, and it never would have been, because we struggle to score goals. We can't just rely on scoring worldies every week. Should be a good game hopefully, that we can nick 1-0. Going to be a long day out if nothing else....!

I'd be surprised if he went, but I said the same about Ings and Koeman. You'd certainly like to think there is a bit more loyalty with Ralph though given the last few years. But anything can happen in football.

We barely have anyone that can head the ball, one of those that can is Sali seems pointless to me

Another pathetic display from the referee. Not just key decisions, but the smaller ones too. So frustrating

Good keeping again tonight, absolutely woeful kicking. How hard is it to boot the ball up the pitch.

Very impressive performance from Armstrong tonight, by far his best in a saints shirt, keep it up Adam. Nice to have options across the pitch this season.

Cresswell is not a very good left back. Certainly not defensively.

Poacher is Charlie Austin. Literally offers nothing outside of the 6 yard box. And even that he didn't really do a great job at for us. Broja on the other hand, creates something out of nothing, carries the ball up the pitch, and gets well involved in general play.

If Howe gets the job, I just cannot see how that would make him successful. They need someone IMO, that has been there and done it with money before, and is also pretty solid. All Howe has done is show how he can play some nice attacking football, but without being able to defend. And whenever he's had money to spend, he's spunked it all at Liverpools reserves. I really did not see Howe getting that job. Wouldn't be surprised if they're in a right mess come Feb/March and end up booting him too.

Agree, but normally you'd go after similar managers, not completely different ones as your first and second choice.

Yes - and keyboard warriors are all over the internet, people feel like they can say something to someone behind a laptop screen or phone. It's not exclusive to this forum for sure!