Matthew Le God

Vardy for example has been a top Premier League striker for the last 5 years. We have a large amount of evidence for him, Ings has had an amazing 12-18 months. I gave Ings a big increase for FM21, if he has another season like last season I'll be able to justify him being even closer to Vardy.

You need to be pragmatic when being a FM researcher. You can't get away with wearing rose tinted glasses for Saints players, there are a lot of checks and balances we use so fan bias doesn't influence player ratings.

I'd say that is more a case of Bowen being rated a little too highly! 15 is still a high rating for finishing. It is the same as... - Sterling - Bruno Fernandes - Rashford Ings will be in line for a boost to his finishing if he returns from injury and keeps performing as he has been until the winter update.

Vardy has been a top Premier League striker for the last 5 years. We have a large amount of evidence for him, Ings has had an amazing 12-18 months. I gave Ings a big increase for FM21, if he has another season like last season I'll be able to justify him being even closer to Vardy in CA.

Only Bale, De Bruyne and Maddison have higher than 16 in the Premier League! I think Ward-Prowse should be above Maddison, but 16 is not a low rating. If he keeps it up I'll boost him for the winter update.

Walker-Peters, Bednarek, Diallo, Ward-Prowse, Jankewitz, Ferry and others all have decent PAs as players and time on their side to develop further.

14 out of 20 is very good for a player of his height. It is at the very top end of the guidelines.

Both got a big CA increase for FM21 (particularly Ings). If they keep up their performances until the winter update they'll get another increase.

Ings has a significantly higher CA than Pukki in FM21.

Not really very surprising he can speak English. Salisu is Ghanaian and English is the official national language of Ghana.

You can never have too much FM 😜

If he displaces Long & Obafemi then he become 3rd choice striker (perhaps 4th choice if you include Walcott), not beyond the realms of possibility. He possibly already has overtaken Obafemi in the pecking order or at the very least is competing with him.

Or you could not burn £200.

We need players capable of performing in the Premier League, something he struggled to do. Scoring a hat trick vs Motherwell really doesn't help his case.

If the Telegraph are to believed that isnt true, as they stated Koeman was offered a huge wage to stay at Saints that would put him among the top earning managers. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/03/28/southampton-open-dialogue-to-extend-manager-ronald-koemans-contr/ Everton just offered more, along with a huge transfer kitty.

A draw between WBA and Spurs is all that is needed for Saints to stay top.

vs the equivalent of a League One team 😉

What definition of luck are you using for that?

Sheffield United's Championship promotion squad was not made up of anything remotely close to a squad of £20m signings. Same for lots of other recently promoted teams.

Kitzbichler joined Saints on 23rd August 2019. Ralph was without a Rohl replacement for only 2 league games.

Being significantly cheaper of course helps and brings more upside if promoted twice. But I'd guess it was at least in part because we have a bigger fan base and better infrastructure than all of them.

Rough... like a ploughed field

He was injured and is now rebuilding fitness. He could be seen in the 1st team training photos last week.

Ings is due back before the January window starts.