adrian lord

What is wrong with Bertrand?

I'd go for AVB.

Could be seen as a great fit for Giggs to cut his teeth proper?

True. However teams tend to play in the set-up, character, spirit and even image of the manager. He has more influence on those attributes than any other individual.

Certainly, the sunny days of reverential documentaries about "the Southampton Way" and how "it's happening", and endless pressers and acres of print lauding the 'south coast La Masia' Academy, seem a distant memory.

Interested in the Liquidity Event.

There are lots of little signs like this that the team just aren't accepting Puel's decision making.

Football in Treacle.

I see the club's PR team are back in the office...

Those 2 words are just oratorical tics he employs to disguise a lack of articulacy in English. It is becoming embarrassing after all these months.

That would be surrender and suicide. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd ask him to update us on the fabled "Southampton Way".

I fear you are correct. And we seem to be turning prospects like Hoj into journeymen to boot.

Ray Wilkins was right just now on GoS - these are ultra-fit young men, they should be able to run around for an hour and a half every few days. Puel's obsession with rotation is not working.

Bookies don't think his job is in danger - can get 35:1 with PP, 25:1 the rest.

I suspect away at Swansea at the end of Jan will be the guillotine fixture if we have exited the cups and had a dire month in the league. They'll let him see us through those cup fixtures and take stock after Swansea.

Posters above have summed it up perfectly. Kruger et al are silent because they are on the way out and have lost interest. There won't be any investment until new owners.

It is grievous watching this Liverpool-City match, wondering what might have been...

Do you think Glen could be persuaded to come out of retirement for one last hurrah?

If VVD was equivocal about leaving in the window, then I think this might have made his mind up.

The chickens of successive summer eviscerations are coming home to roost.

Agree we won't be sacking him because the Board won't want to admit failure, but it is plain that Puel has lost the confidence of the team.

Puel's not working. Players don't know what to do or even want to play for him.