Matthew Le God

You are twisting my words, my post was solely concerning the claim he is knackered. So the amount he is running as a stat is about as relevant as you can get!

You can quantify what happens on the pitch, so that makes it more reliable than an observation.

Knackered people don't keep up with their league topping average miles run per game. So stats are very much relevant here.

If he is knackered, how is he maintaining the running distances he puts in each game? 🤔

Yes there is, Saints have a goalkeeper called Gustav Lillienberg. So he can build confidence in training at Staplewood! 😉

5 more top flight goals than Danny Ings had scored at the same age.

They were a newly promoted team and finished 2nd. Their budget was not one vastly bigger than the teams they finished above, nor did they make huge changes during the summer. He deserves credit for moulding what was the year before a 2nd tier team into one capable of finishing 2nd in the top flight. That isn't an easy task or one to knock and compare to Chris Wilder or Sean Dyche.

Regardless of Leipzig's money, getting a newly promoted team to 2nd in the Bundesliga and into the Champions League, above the likes of Dortmund is a very good achievement. Dortmund had a bigger budget than Hasenhuttl's Leipzig.

How is that relevant to what I said? The equivalent would be Wilder taking a newly promoted team to 2nd and 6th in the Premier League... which he did not do. He didn't even get remotely close to that!

He took a newly promoted team to 2nd and 6th in the Bundesliga. That is why he has a reputation in Germany. The second paragraph I bolded makes no sense. Of course if you remove a significant achievement of his then his reputation would be different. But why would you remove it?

He is only 19 years old, him not playing doesn't mean he has a problem. He wouldn't still be picked on the 1st team bench in recent weeks if there was anything of real concern. He could still be in our under 23 team for the next 4 years! So he can't expect to jump the queue above Ward-Prowse, Romeu and Diallo. Stephens being using instead was strange.

On what is that based? As recently as 2019 they sold Erling Haaland for less than we paid for Ings! So why would Daka cost more?

We have 7 league games left, you missed Crystal Palace at home.

You don't sign a 4 year contract and only get 1 year of it if you are sacked when there are 3 years remaining.

Maybe we should judge them on their own merits, rather than writing off 420 million people because of Osvaldo, Delgado etc.

1885 to 2021 is 136 years. 😉

To be fair, he was pretty good.

Brexit has made it easier than it was for us to buy non EU players and harder to buy EU players. We just don't have the scouting networks in place yet. It is now potentially easier for us to sign Brazilians or Argentines.

Playing Devil's advocate... this has no chance of succeeding at its aims, so what is the point of it?

You've turned 10 years old? 😉😇

That wasn't my point at all. 🙄

My original point which you didn't grasp was that the gap in finances in 2021 between Saints and Man City is vastly bigger than the 1976 gap even though we were in the 2nd tier.

The bank balances fund who makes up the 22 players. The gap between teams in top two leagues in the 1970s was tiny compared to today. Man City's 2021 setup vs ours is a huge gap in resources. And that is reflected on who plays in those 22 players.

The financial gap between Saints in 2nd tier vs Man Utd in 1976 is tiny compared to Saints vs Man City/Chelsea in 2021.