SaintBobby

Bemused this was only £8m-£10m. Absolute steal.

Still have PTSD from that one. Tonight I just nearly died of boredom.

Pretty abysmal. Disjointed and error prone. Upsides? Hmm…does Fernandes starting make it a bit less likely we are selling him? Ok…that’s a bit of a reach, maybe. Other upside for me was Ryan Fraser. Very good again. I’m thinking he should be in the starting XI but confess I have no idea where I’d play him (right back?)

I guess add in Archer. But I’m not wildly impressed.

10000%

He then went on to say that in our last two cup games against Northampton, Saints had won both “respectively”!

God, that was dire. We just aren’t the same team without Bazunu and Stephens! 😃😂

Bit odd on the Ross Stewart thing. Not mentioned in commentary yet. Mind you, the commentator is useless.

He was excellent today. Very good with the ball at his feet too. I'm content that he's our default No 1 keeper for the season.

Obviously a great way to win. But that whole 3 at the back thing...wtf? In the closing stages, we finally seemed to go 4-2-3-1 which worked with Fraser at RB (although it might have been closer to 4-2-4 by the final minutes).

Well, that was boring.

Unreal lifeline for Ipswich

Not a great game this. But wow do Ipswich look poor over the first 60 minutes.

The Wade prediction machine is back. Awesome.

The Saints Marching site is all just AI generated so reads like some foreign language tortuously translated into English

Isn't that just goals conceded to shots saved? I don't think that's a complete picture. It's like only measuring a team on xG. He definitely isn't the worst keeper in the division.

I think I'd give Bazunu about 7/10 at Championship level. Not great, but not awful. You probably need a lot of 8s and 9s in your starting XI to get promoted. But there's a trade off here....it's potentially very expensive to get a better keeper and that cash might be better spent elsewhere on the pitch. I'm in two minds, but am not hostile to starting with him overall.

Am I the only one who thinks Bazunu might just be okay as our number 1? I mean I'm not totally convinced and some of his errors are seared into my soul - but he has looked great in a couple of friendlies and is an international goalkeeper. Perhaps I am just trying to be a "bed drier"?

Basically agree - it's a domino effect. Still, even within those constraints we sometimes seem on the slowish side.

He has generally played down the left in the friendlies, I believe.

Anyone else think we may as well start with Robinson on the left wing? Am a bit underwhelmed by our transfer activity with one week to go....but it always seems like this....

That seems pretty close to pushing the envelope on PSR rules if we don't get close to balancing the books this year.

The maths do work like that if the £120m figure is true - presumably there are bonuses to be paid if you get promoted etc. You go up, you spend a lot of money. You go down, you need to save a lot of money. So the savings you need to make obviously aren't as high as £120m. But they aren't zero either. Pick the midway point if you like - say £60m?

Very rough and ready. They say that winning the championship playoff is worth £120m or some such like. So if it's worth that much to go up, presumably it costs that much to get relegated (offset by parachute payments).

Does anyone have a rough guess at the scale of sales we'd need to be remotely financially sustainable? I always assumed that we'd need to net about £70m or so just to counter the dramatic fall in revenue following relegation. I appreciate it's a multi-dimensional picture - wages are a feature, not just transfer fees. But my rough guess was that we'd need to make a profit of about £70m in this transfer window just to balance the books - without any reinvestment.