The Kraken

A shame to see him go, but can’t blame him. £15m for a player with a year left on his contract is reasonable, let’s see who we get in.

🤣 you might not have noticed but that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. My opinion is that, right now, your take on things is foolish. As for the other things, I’ll comment on them when they look like happening. Good night to you.

Dry your eyes Jim.

Wow! Who said you can’t talk about anything? It’s a forum so discuss what you like. Just don’t be surprised if others have different opinions on where you’re basing your options from, and that they maybe disagree with it. You seem to be having a hard time of it lately given your postings, and you seem to think that we’re at massive risk as a club because we might sell some players and not replace them properly? Fine. I’ve told you an opposite opinion and said, effectively, maybe just wait and see until you can fully and accurately pass judgement. But that’s me shouting down free speech, I suppose

Your question doesn’t make much sense. Those people last season who were concerned about a lack of a decent new striker said it because we didn’t have a decent main striker for PL level. And the club, and manager, at the time said that we were almost definitely getting one in. We didn’t. That was a fail. Anyone who says otherwise is simply going against the actual words of the manager. Fact, we kicked off last season light of a decent premier league level main striker. This season: if we kick off September with Adams and Armstrong then, for me, happy days. If we don’t, I’ll wait to see what the replacement is/are. But you’ll just have to forgive me if I don’t doommonger myself to sleep about something that hasn’t happened yet. I’ve said it before but I’m fully expecting from here on in a 1-out 1-in transfer policy. So I’ll judge it when it happens rather than panic my pants every day until the end of August.

The prospect. Exactly. It hasn’t happened yet. I’ll get onboard with the criticism club as and when it happens. It’s all a little bit Alpine Saint to be criticising something that hasn’t even happened yet.

Well I thought I was fairly clear when I literally said this line that you quoted from me. “As fans we’ve all been disappointed in recent years to not solve transfer problems despite assurances from the club otherwise.” As yet though, I’m yet to agree with the level of wetpantery going around in terms of what we’ve had out compared to what we’ve got in, outside of losing a decent CB in Salisu the club has imo done alright in replacing outgoings either by new signings or former loanees coming back. It’s going to be a hectic time until the window closes but at the moment I’m alright with where we are, it looks alright to me. I can’t predict who will go before the end of the window, or who we’ll get in exchange, but I’m not going to panic about it until it happens.

If we’re holding out for prices of our own then surely it offsets that? I saw one of the transfer window manic depressives, either DMan or DT, saying they’d have preferred us to offload Lavia and JWP earlier for less money so that we could get players in earlier and not get off to a bad start. Well, we’re on a good start and we’ve got at least £10m more in the bank from the Lavia sale alone than if we’d let him go to Liverpool. As fans we’ve all been disappointed in recent years to not solve transfer problems despite assurances from the club otherwise. And Martin gas continually said we need players out before we spend on players in. It may work, it may not, but (not necessarily you I should say) there’s an awful lot of pant shitting on this board about a transfer window that isn’t yet finished and has plenty of time yet to run.

7 points in 9 and we are in the playoffs positions mush. Thats a tiny bit of evidence to be getting along with, just a tad above zero. But you do you 👍

Can’t disagree with the first one but you must have a whole lot of hate going on for so many clubs based on those prerequisites.

I wouldn’t say it was a “great” job tbf. And I’m not being critical of Bazunu either, i think he did ok in the situation. Watch it back on the video and Bazunu has a really good starting position, he’s almost on the edge of the area doing the sweeper keeper thing. When I first saw I thought he was a bit reckless diving in as he did, but I also praise him for that dive being well controlled so as not to clean out the attacker. It worked out ok, no error as I see it, but also not great in the same breath in that the situation played out to his fortune. If the striker had not gone looking for the dive and just knocked it past, it’s a different story and no-one has any idea how it turns out (I’ve seen comments on here saying it’s an easy goal but I disagree with that, although it definitely would’ve given a genuine chance). Anyway, no harm no foul, it came to nothing. Tge major fault lies with the striker who tried to cheat his way to a penalty.

Chelsea just don’t look like a team. Loads of expensive additions, massive overspending in what they’ve got, yet it just all looks so disjointed. They’ll get better, they must do, but that was such a limp performance.

Would be a big blow to lose him. Especially if we lose Sulemana as well. Need to replace both of them with some absolute quality.

Of course they should have. It doesn’t mean they’re just going to write the money off as a bad decision though.

I like the line “Whether or not this move happens, or if it is just a story aiming to see Southampton drop their valuation of Adams is yet to be seen.” Lads, ffs, just read the Liverpool Echo to see what happened with your city rivals consistently under-bidding for Lavia and maybe put 2 and 2 together?

We’ll see. At best, from this point onwards I think we’ll break even on transfers in and out, and imo that in itself would be a decent result. And I don’t think we’ve yet explored the loan market as much as we could; Burnley last season had 4 players on loan who played 30+ games for them (Tella, Harwood Bellis, Matsson, Beyer) so it’s obviously a decent market to explore.

It is but he’s said it’s not a club connection, it’s his Dads name.

Apart from his corner for the goal he’s been pretty anonymous.

I’m not talking about the money in already. I’m talking about further sales.

As they rightly should, they spent a bloody fortune in the past two windows. We also must still have an enormous and unsustainable wage bill that won’t have been fully addressed by the reported wage drops incurred. We do need to spend some money on new players, no doubt. But it’s been mooted several times that it’s likely to be practically it’s one in one out from here, and I reckon we won’t spend anywhere near as much on players in as those they’re replacing.

It’s a facial injury, he got a whack on the cheek and had a bit of a shiner. Shouldn’t have thought it’ll keep him out for all that long, if at all.

It’s at 4.50 on this video. The striker could have scored but he touched the ball quite hard past Bazunu so I think he’d have been shooting from a pretty tight angle. I wouldn’t at all say he would’ve definitely scored but he’d have had a reasonable chance either to shoot from a tight angle or control it and either bring it back to shoot or play in an onrushing midfielder (though Saints also had two or three others charging back to cover in addition to the central defenders). I thought it was rash from Bazunu to commit so much for it but fair play, he controlled his dive and it absolutely was not a foul imo.

They had to get a fan out of the ground the run the line 🤣

He’s only recently turned 18, and he’s had a few niggling injuries lately. People need to calm down on him.

He’s got a brother? Sign him up.