Saint_clark

Fuck sake.

Whatever way you look at it we really ballsed this up. He always had the talent to be a top player and we messed him around with a bit part role for ages. At least we're getting a good fee for him but it's karma that having to let him go now is significantly weakening us after we showed such little appreciation for his ability for so long.

He has the ability to be a "Shane Long" if he adapts his game and accepts that finishing will never be his strong point in the Prem.

He's now conceded 53% of shots on target. 7 out of 13. Save rate of 47%.

Grinding out results. Hope we can keep it up and the loss of tella and Adams won't tip the scales. Great finish by Armstrong who is relishing the extra time and space in this league.

Short memory then. Guess you only started watching again when we got promoted.

Didn't matter as we were so much better than the majority of the league anyway. This season we're not.

Danny fox was quality at this level, it's worrying that Manning looks so poor.

Signing defenders from a team with one of the worst defensive records, I'm shocked.

Has any team gone an entire season without a single clean sheet?

We should be aiming for top 2 not top 6. With the squad we had on relegation we would have achieved that.

Wolves I would have thought. They let Jimenez go and haven't really replaced him. Or Luton.

Adams is more proven than Nicolas Jackson who would you rather have?

He really isn't.

Even the summer we sold Lambert etc the board knew when enough was enough, refusing to let Schneiderlin go. Letting go one of those two would be just about bearable, letting both go and we're just emptying our squad of all our best players.

ABK on the bench is interesting. Tella off then, £20million isn't a bad amount though.

She does, sorry mate. All window we've been talking about how we have to sell BEFORE we bring people in. Now we sign Fraser and we're assuming he's tellas replacement?

Everton are absolutely desperate for cash wherever they can get it though. He wouldn't have been playing so from their point of view they've just saved £1.8 million and haven't lost anything.

For some reason I thought he was on loan at a championship side last season. On the face of it a good signing, reinforcement at CB which I wanted and left sided as well. Hope he's signed to be a starter though and not back up to Jan and Stephens.

That came out of nowhere. Think it's a really good signing though.

Interesting you remember a mistake he made last season but you repeatedly defend on the numerous mistakes Bazunu made, including one goal palming it into his own net. Also interesting that the case for Bazunu this season seems to revolve around us being a league lower and him being more suited to this level but that doesn't apply to McCarthy, who has actually played and succeeded here before.

McCarthy. As you said they all have issues, but McCarthy has experience, has excelled at this level before with Reading and has even put in top performances in the Prem (not very often I admit, but still more often than Bazunu). I actually would have preferred none of them, wanted to sign a new first choice from a team down here already and loan Baz out, but it's obvious we aren't signing another keeper now. I've accepted he's now our number one but that doesn't mean I have to stop being critical.

Bit cynical, they still aren't going to be selling huge amounts of them they're literally producing a limited edition level amount. There'll still be very disappointed people. What's funny is the green one is actually available on that DHGate website that a lot of us use for Saints kits.

I agree, no more outgoings from the first choice attacking line and I'm not too fussed about bringing anyone else in. I'd still like to see an improvement at CB (unless we also keep hold of ABK).