Matthew Le God

No evidence to suggest Sport Republic have anything but good intentions for the club. The issue is inept recruitment which hopefully Solak taking over as chairman and Johannes Spors overseeing recruitment will resolve. Da Grosa had red flags for good reason! Wouldn't want him anywhere near the club.

Martin had better players at his disposal

Hard to see any club seeing value in spending €10m on a player they can sign without paying a transfer fee for in the summer.

Correct

Scoring only 1 goal in 18 League One matches this season suggests Ballard has a long way to go before being given a PL chance.

The gap in quality between the leagues is bigger than it was 13 years ago.

-69 GD for Derby vs -37 GD from 23 games for Saints

Exactly! That needs to be the thinking after any new promotion. Russell Martin openly admitted he felt loyal to the players that got the promotion. But most simply aren't good enough for the PL. Next time, use them to get promotion, then upgrade. It may cause short term gelling issues to have a big turnover of players, but we will need a big change in player quality if we ever want to stay up after a promotion.

Which others are being blocked and are at PL ability level? Because I don't think any of them are at a level even worth giving them a go yet. They aren't ready for the Premier League. Amo-Ameyaw is the only one close enough and even then a Championship loan of regular minutes in a competitive team would benefit him more ahead of next season.

Why would he accept less than all his remaining wages?

Why?

You are using another fallacy. Not being effective at Premier League level when we have the worst squad does not mean it wouldn't be effective when next season we'll have one of the strongest squads in the league.

Textbook example of an argumentum ad populum fallacy. Just because they don't, does not mean it wouldn't be effective for another manager/club.

@Paul Chuckle rather than just using a confused emoji on all of my posts, try explaining why you are confused by it.

Do not look at it as five at the back then! Look at it as 3421 or 3412 or 343. Playing 3 centre backs doesn't mean it is negative. Can still be a very proactive, high pressing and attacking team using those systems. Especially when we'll be favourites and with the better players in the majority of games next season.

1) Across all jobs people who are more competent at tasks can often do them quicker than others doing the same task. In the case of match officials, less pondering over decisions. Might not be a huge difference in time, but having a higher % of correct calls benefits the sport. 2) Because hiring the best in the world at a task leads to more accurate decisions vs only the best from one country. People who are better at their job are more accurate at that job. Hardly a controversial statement!

If you hire the best of the best match officials from around the world, why wouldn't more competent people be quicker or more accurate at their job?

That did not answer the question.

This isn't an argument, you want 12 next door.

No, but is that a compelling reason not to do it? It should be on merit, not nationality! The PL wants the best players from around the world, so why not the best officials hired from around the world?

You can separate them... if you hired the best refs from around the world rather than limiting yourself to largely just English ones. Opening up the market for the best refs improves the use of VAR, in the same way the influx of foreign players into the PL significantly increased the quality level of the players in the league.

Juric uses a fast paced style and will have a higher quality of player in his midfield next season in the Championship relative to the majority of opponents compared to our struggles this season. So why wouldn't it work?