Matthew Le God

Do you think Pele, Maradona and Messi would have failed to make an impact in the Premier League?

He is taller than Maradona, the same height as Messi and slightly shorter than Pele, are Maradona, Pele and Messi "too small for the Premier League"? Players should be judged on ability... not size.

Premier League football allowing for them to put themselves on show for an even bigger move, nice area to live and a club with among the largest wage budgets in world football.

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Pre-season training doesn't start for three weeks. Even if they signed today, they wouldn't be doing anything for weeks at the club.

Onion

If a deal was close and the club were usurped by Liverpool... how is that a clanger by Les Reed/Saints? Liverpool are a significantly wealthier club, offering bigger wages and Champions League football. That isn't a "clanger", that is the reality of football when a richer club makes a player an offer.

What makes you think the club set out with the intention to sell them? Bids coming in and then accepting those bids is very different from actively looking for a buyer. Based on what? Having an injury last season does not automatically make him "injury prone".

Miserables

Can you link to these please? Because I don't recall the club saying that at all.

Pattern

Nah, because for the FM18 Winter update it is actually... CA: 136 PA: 145

What exactly do you mean by that?

It is not unusual for clubs to release a video interview after a managerial appointment. Pellegrino, Puel, Koeman, Pochettino, Adkins, Pardew etc etc all had one.

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Disaster!

Tirade? I've been reading my Little book of calm...

If they did leave it wouldn't be good for Saints, income would drop significantly which would impact all areas of the club.

Stoke have a smaller wage budget than Saints.

To reach the quarter finals requires being in the top 2 of a group with Belgium, Panama and Tunisia and then a last 16 match vs one from Poland, Senegal, Colombia & Japan. We are not so dreadfully poor that those set of results are unlikely.

That is not reflected in their wage budget... 2016/17 Ajax wage bill = £35m Saints wage bill = £112m Saints can blow Ajax out of the water for wages. I doubt they'd come close to what we pay Tadic.

Are the problems connected to the floodlights?

I struggle to see how they could afford his wages.

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