adrian lord

Is Ward-Prowse a "top player"? Arguably very much so.

Excellent. In contrast last season's appointment, this one feels right from day one. I can see him cementing our place in the European Elite (Tier 2).

The writing was on the wall as early as last Autumn for us seasoned observers, as the dreary die was cast. Get Tuchel and a long hot a summer beckons, topped off by endless taunting of gobsmacked Scouse and Arse workmates. Then the excitement of the new season.

Away shirt is very, very classy. Fits perfectly with our sophisticated, European pocket-superclub image and status.

Nauseating, soulless, prawnsandwiching marketeer guff. Nothing about fans watching football. Where is the steeply-banked St Mary's kop end for 15000 youths at £10 per head plan?

He will have a new lease of life without the dead hand of Puel managing him and the rest of the team. Keep. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Meanwhile Scousehampton make CL Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Are we Stihl on for 8th? Not that it will Makita much for Puel's fate... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

A Whiskas away from 8th.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yes. Not sure these garden power tools are up to it... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lets make sure of 8th lads Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The neighbour's cat could have taken this squad to 8th and the League Cup final. The Premier league was utter dross bar the top 7 this year, so those achievements do not necessarily reflect well on Claude I am afraid. He is gone.

Some pundits billed Puel at Saints as an audition for the Arsenal job once Wenger goes. Back to the drawing board at the Emirates...

Won't be seen again in a Saints shirt

The dead hand of Puel shall soon return to the obscurity of the French league.

Our play and attitude smacks of the players knowing Puel is gone.

I would be reassured if KL stays in new structure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Agreed.

Long can't even score a penalty FFS Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

#prayfor8th

GOAL!

#stillinracefor8th

Absolute balderdash. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Any one of a large number of managers could quite easily get this squad to a mid-table finish and a final in the league cup. The problem is that Puel has done it with torpid, negative football that fails to entertain or inspire. But worse than that, is the fact that our reputation as a pocket Superclub , tucked in behind the big six, feeding a seemingly endless supply of talent into the upper echelons of European football is fast fading. This will make it harder for us to recruit rough diamonds this summer and next. The other unpredictable variable in all this debate of course is the ownership question. I don't see Puel's fate being sealed until that is also settled One way or another first. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The recent performances suggest a team that knows it is about to be broken up and many offloaded but not to glamour clubs.