Saint_clark

Yeah, any argument against Alcaraz falls down when you consider we played Smallbone instead the last two seasons.

2 goals and 3 assists in 763 minutes on the pitch. Far better return per minute played than anyone in our squad.

It's absolutely not, how many times do we need to go through this. They calculate the likelihood of a chance being scored based on how many times similar chances have been scored throughout the past. Nothing to do with whether you or I or Bob Statman thinks it should be scored. It's why a penalty isn't 1xg, because although we all think they SHOULD score, plenty of them are missed.

I'm prepared to give them a chance but how many different recruitment set ups are allowed to fail before the people setting them up need to change?

I don't really feel any affection for Dibling i've got to be honest, so they can claim what they want.

It means he conceded more goals that keepers would generally be expected to save than any other keeper in the league.

If a player doing well at Goztepe (Romulo) is considered unrealistic for us then you have to seriously question what it is we're getting out of the partnership. Surely them getting cheap loans from us is contingent on any successful players for them signing for us before going elsewhere.

Yeah the atmosphere got proper nasty in that game. Drop ball after the game stopped for an injury and he tried to boot it into the empty net while the keeper was down in the fullback position waiting for it to be rolled back. I vaguely remember someone grabbing him by the throat and the referee luckily missing it.

That Fuller goal was definitely Millwall. I remember him basically giving a big "fuck you" to the fans in his celebration as he'd been subject to abuse all season.

Jesus Christ, how am I defending him? I marched in protest of him and happily chanted about him being swung from the Itchen bridge. All I'm saying is the overspending in the championship didn't happen while he was in charge - someone else said that Wilde came in after Lowe had overspent and cleared the club out in the lead up to Markus takeover, which I replied saying wasn't correct. Fucking hell.

...right? Did you read the post I was referring to where someone was saying he is poor in the air? I was clearly disagreeing with them, I think he does win a lot of headers. However it was still a surprise to find out he tops the list of aerial duels won for forwards in the league, especially a league that contains Chris Wood.

This simply isn't true. In fact, and even I'm surprised by this, on Premier League Miscellaneous Stats | FBref.com it shows that Onuachu won a higher percentage (61.2%) of aerial duels than any other forward in the league, coming 34th out of all players in total.

I remember all of that. However I still think it's unfair to blame him for overspending when the majority of that happened in the time in between his two stints. Lowe was consistently criticised for being too tight with money, not overspending. Slight correction though, he didn't really sack Pearson - his contract was up and he never renewed it, again allegedly at the time because Pearson wanted too much money.

I think you're misremembering. Wilde came in for the Burley playoff season and the season after, massively overspent and then Lowe came back to try and cut costs to a minimum and we ended up with the Poortvliet season where we went down.

Trying to talk about Liverpool here mate, keep it on topic please.

Wasn't that Saints go Wilde! that did that?

It's called summertime with no football on. It makes you desperate for something football related to mention.

They are much more thorough at identifying their targets i'll give them that. While other teams are spending £60million to replace a player they spent £50million on two seasons ago, Liverpool spend £70million on the right player and have him for 5+ years.

Oh is she not actually a blood relative? I just remember seeing the articles and wanting to tear my eyes out.

I thought maybe he had one for every prem team or something, but nope. Look at the players he's got up there alongside it ffs!

It's a shame really when you see the news article from a while back about what a young female relation of his is actually up to. Shameful.

For the love of god, don't put it on a white background. Just use the logo, with a thin black outline to make it stand out if needs be.

See Liverpool are scraping in the bargain bin once again with their £109million bid for Wirtz. I love the narrative their fans (and Klopp for some reason) comes out with that they don't spend huge amounts.

Never before has "I know who wears the trousers in that relationship" had so many different interpretations.

What's wrong with him is his surname reminds me of an ugly bloke called Nigel that came from Pompey and helped Harry get us relegated.