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He's using the same deflecting techniques again for a poor start. "New players ... need to bed in ....time get up to speed, .... we are working hard to help them .... judge us at the end of the season....." As soon as he starts talking about scar tissue, losing mentality .... that's a full bingo card from his Saints tenure.

get him in, based on that

I am as sickened as any of you. But the only mitigating factor is that maybe the Millwall keeper had no intention to kick JPM, his intention was more to kick the ball. Look at the video again and I wonder if Mateta's shoulder barge/shove on the defender put himself into the kick path from the keeper. Timing. Or we can put a line through that mitigation, and say it was intentional, that the keeper wanted to kick Mateta in the face. Then why? Then we are into dark forces, aren't we.

Don't worry, he is due back in a couple of weeks. Which two weeks, starting from when, remains to be seen.

Scar tissue? Where have we heard that before?

It looks like we have but a £10M/€13M price tag on him and there is interest from Turkiye again. Although that seems like pocket change to us, the buyer is looking to pay in instalments or give us a player in PX. But it looks like he will be sold by the end of Jan. I'm hoping that means we can bring in a scoring 9.

Maybe we are hoping Russell Martin finds a new employer soon, and the new employer is prepared to pay £20M to Saints to buy his support staff?

So £8M a year? That's £150,000 a week, which is not much more than we are paying Ramsdale. And hopefully Potter won't get injured, so still able to do his job. And the manager should be getting more than those who report to him, in any employment role. It's not outrageous at first reading, but if Pep and Maresca are only on £5M a year, let's negotiate with Potter.

I think he clearly is a good choice. However, he is SO Man Utd, that I think he would decline any other EPL club. However, if he can get over that loyalty to MU, he would be on my shortlist.

We seem to have let Dom Ballard go on a season's loan to Blackpool. 😒

He would be a decent acquisition, I agree, if we can agree a Saints level wage with him.

I'll vote for @coalman - relatively new poster (2022), fresh opinions, calmly stated, and a cool avatar. He could of course be an old name poster going under a new name, but I like the cut of his jib.

What's the plan for Lis? If he comes back, then Baz, Lis and Lumley should be enough. However, if we're wooing a Plymouth GK, maybe Lis isn't coming back (yet).

I thought the same, so just went researching. I thought there was a buyback at 30M agreed, but I can't find any such reference in the 2020 article. Happy to be proven wrong if anyone can find a note?

I got it from the start, in the list of titles, and was chuckling as I opened it. I share your concern. My hipster son talks about XG, possession stats etc but back in my day it was all about trying to score goals and stop conceding goals. Possession is not a factor in itself - last night Millwall has just 27% possession and yet still beat Leicester. It's not how much you have, it's how you use it. Getting to your issue raised, I'm undecided, like many. I don't think his tactics would work in the Prem, and I fear they may not work next season in the Champo. But let's see what squad he has, as I fear we won't get up through the play-offs in the end.