Saint_clark

Shit delivery from Manning, behind the run of every single saints player.

Is he playing midfield then?

Fuck me. There hasn't even been a single pass to him to hold up yet.

How the fuck is he getting blamed for this 😂 it's up to the midfield and defence to keep and hold the ball first.

This is poor but not sure why people are overreacting. They can't sustain this pressure and will burn out. We just need to ride it out.

We could have just passed it around from kick off and let their fans calm down, instead we gave it straight to them to ramp up the pressure from the off.

For a team that loves possession seems strange we'd boot it to their defence from kick off to allow them to dominate possession right away.

Armstrong on his own through the middle is worse than playing Mara as we lose his effective play down the wings as well.

All he has to do is go back in time and spend his entire career playing as a striker instead of a winger.

Mara to score a hat trick and shut everyone up.

When I look at how sensitive younger generations are now it does make me wonder how football is going to look after the next 5-10 years when all the players are petrified of the smallest bit of criticism from the crowd.

Bodes well doesn't it.

Nothing wrong with the stripes. Don't care if other clubs wear it. Wouldn't be against moving to the sash permanently.

Maybe not, but Koeman also enjoyed tinkering with 3 at the back on occasion. That could have been what he had planned. Or maybe it was the club planning for Fonte leaving as one year later he was being frozen out - another travesty. No idea why they thought we were too good for him, the guys actually played more games since leaving us than he did for us and before joining.

Agree to disagree. Van Dijk was a long term target and Koeman was very keen to bring him in regardless of Toby.

The Aldeweireld saga still makes me angry. To think we could have had a CB pairing of him and Van Dijk.

Excellent, if Spurs come in for him we can say "no problem, and the good news is we don't have to waste any times with negotiations because we already agreed a fee!". Worth a go.

Have to agree. It's not like the Premier League is some mythical promised land for us that we haven't experienced since the 70s - it's understandable for fans that have properly suffered in the lower leagues for a long, long time.

I agree but the club still made a mistake not signing two midfielders instead of one when we'd suffered the previous couple seasons whenever Romeu was out.

Crazy. Downes has 21 appearances in the Prem, JWP has nearly 400 with over 50 goals. There's no comparison. Downes is essentially the level of Jack Cork.

Priorities all wrong. Would have been a club legend for the rest of his life had he stayed. Instead he'll be a player not really regarded as much by anyone.

Such a dick move from him really. Not about the money because he was already out highest paid player - he could have given us the season to see if we get back up and if he'd stayed we'd probably have gone up automatically.

100%, try and get him no matter what. I know it's unlikely if we stay down but if we throw money at him and offer a huge wage rise upon promotion, he may give us a shot.

I'd give him as long as I said, all of next season and then judge from the season after. When you have a manager merrygoround at a top 6 club you end up having to try and shift on players that nobody else can afford and replace them with players that you're being overcharged for, so a rebuild takes a lot longer. Right now he's stuck with players he doesn't want from previous managers - sack him and the next manager will be stuck with players Ten Haag signed that he doesn't want, and so on, and so on. At bare minimum you give him next season.

81!? I'm assuming that's all competitions? Ten Haag needs to be given next season and then judged the season after. Player prices are so ridiculous now that it takes three full seasons to rebuild a top 6 squad.