Matthew Le God

Recently laid pitch looks fine from a distance...

Saints can not loan another Chelsea player. The rules only allow one loan from another PL team at a time and Saints already have Broja. Saints also have Armstrong who can play in central midfield, with lots of alternatives to him not being in the AM role. Plus Smallbone will be back at some point soon.

I did not say he is a good first choice keeper. I'd prefer Fraser Forster to be playing. If McCarthy is staying and Forster leaving as seems the case, then I hope it is to be a back-up to the new keeper next summer.

Bednarek 6 foot 2 Salisu 6 foot 3 Lyanco 6 foot 2

What if any new 1st choice keeper we get is already relatively young, say 22 to 26 years old?

He isn't a great first choice keeper, but back-up keepers don't need to be amazing. Hopefully any new keeper we get next summer will be to go straight in as first choice.

Why? It probably means he'll be back-up next season to any new keeper.

Are you suggesting Saints should sign him?

We play a system with 2 strikers, we don't really need more than 4 dedicated strikers for that. If anything the squad is too bloated with Long and Obafemi still here. Armstrong is clearly not the Long replacement, Long wasn't even in the squad for the last part of the season Ings was here to require replacing. Armstrong is the Ings replacement. Tella has been more effective as a striker and Broja hasn't joined on loan to not make the squad due to us signing another striker.

Are you still stuck in the 1970s watching football?

It is a wind up account and a poor one at that. Daft Tweets made today from the same account...

Of those 6... 1) Niemi 2) Forster 3) Boruc 4) McCarthy 5) Jones 6) Davis

It would have to be a transfer. Premier League rules state you can only have one player on loan from another club at a time and Saints already have Broja.

He is certainly confident! 😁

Ralph is already wrong, as he recently said only one more in. Small and Lyanco make two, so if Ralph was wrong on it being one, maybe he is on it being more than two as well.

We did better after he left, than with him. Koeman, Mane, van Dijk, Tadic etc all were post Cortese.

He did indeed, twice...

What do you think Cortese's approach was? What strategy would you prefer Saints to use? Surely it is better to have wonderkids for a few years and enjoy their time here and then sell and reinvest in the next crop, than plod along with players the big clubs will never want... isn't it?

We could try for his brother, who is still at Birmingham.

Yes, it is the Everton and Chelsea researchers who have done them. They both currently have extremely high PAs in the database for FM22. Their CAs are very low, particularly Small's.

Southampton the new Dortmund, hoovering up FM wonderkids! 😇

Hasenhuttl recently addressed this and confirmed a new keeper will be signed next year.

The club aren't making it easy for Dave Merrington's final season for BBC Solent...