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Yes you’re right Adrian. Lets play a load of youngsters and avoid spending any money at all costs. We should be building our team around these players. Gallagher was a goal machine for two seasons in the championship, hes going to rip up the premier league. ward Prowse is master at striking a free kick exactly a yard over the top corner, all he has to do is lower his aim slightly and he’ll be banging in 20 a season from free kicks alone not mentioned all the assists he’ll get from sticking he ball on Gallagher’s head. Slatterly, Sims, Valery, Rose, Jones, f*ck it lets send Vestergaard back and give Klarer a go, he looked class at centre back in the South Shields u23 Cup. I cant believe Hughes, who sees this lot every day isn’t into this already.

Can someone ask Where are the five pledges ffs.

Correct. Why were we told that we would be sold to someone who has the finance to move the club forward yet it seems absolutely nothing has changed, the only trophy we are going to be competing for is the Net spend one.

Maybe they are part of a homosexual or non-binary couple. You are a bloated narrow minded bigot who just assume everyone should live like you.

You’re right they don’t, we’re a lot better off then most of the orhers. In fact We were the 18th highest earning club in Europe in 2016/17, haven’t seen the 17/18 figures, I guess they’re not out now. Yet people make excuses for us having to fund our transfers by selling players because we have have to agents fees to pay, it’s laughable. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/23/premier-league-highest-earners-world-manchester-united

How many times have we seen this line trotted out to "defend" the club over the years? At first it was to due to corteses over spending, we had to be frugal because of that, which I got. The last two or three years really it's incredible that year after year we make a profit from the transfer market, we have glaring holes in our squad and people put the line out "yeah but there are wages, contracts, agents fees, bonuses....." Like we are the only club that has to pay these things out. We aren't, every other club has these too but no other club has consistently sold so many players and made so much profit from transfers. Don't we even pride ourselves on keeping agents fees low? I've certainly seen a lot of backslapping in the past about how great it is we don't let agents take the p*ss. the long and short of it is we are back to being run exactly the same way as were when we were Southampton Leisure Holdings PLC. Can only spend in transfers what we bring In, selling off quality and replacing them with cheaper alternatives leaving us and buying in "ones for the future/squad" with a bloated squad full of average players where you cant pick a best eleven, because there aren't any players apart from one or two that stand out.

Given your previous with stadium expansion threads i'd say it's highly unlikely https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?58387-10-year-plan-for-St-Mary-s-stadium#.W2Ij6rpFxn0 "I expect Southampton to announce either an expansion of St Mary's or a relocation to a new stadium relatively soon." https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?37346-St-Mary-s-What-we-might-expect-to-see-happen-(and-possibly-announced-soon)#.W2Ik2bpFxn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcmo2itYwew Although you did get the bit about the red felt round the pitch right. https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?39155-More-improvements-at-St-Mary-s-Stadium#.W2IkpLpFxn0

Nor me. It’s like blogs. People who think they are a bit better than everyone else giving their opinion which they think is so important everyone else wants to hear it.

I like Charlie. He’s the sort of guy who can’t walk past a pair of glasses without putting them on. I reckon he’d probably put his cock in your pint when you went for a p*ss. Always a place for a guy like that in your circle of mates.

Called it 6 years ago and got accused of trolling :rollseyes: https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?40914-Les-Reed-the-cushiest-job-in-the-world

to be completely honest the signings the last two years have, in the main, been nothing short of dreadful. At times last season we had four or five players who were at one point our record signing on the bench or not even in the squad. Even the ones that were like Hoedt, Redmond, Hojberg haven't really got anywhere near the levels expected of them. In Carillo you'd struggle to find a worst signing by any club ever taking into account the circumstances that he was a record signing, signed at a time when we were desperate for goals yet he couldn't get in the team ahead of three strikers who only scored 14 goals between them all season. then the hopeless manager who signed him was sacked only a few weeks later. One assist has cost us nearly £20m plus wages. It's all very well to say other clubs make mistakes as well and don't get everyone spot but other clubs haven't spent the years before that congratulating themselves on how fantastic they are in the transfer market, telling everyone who will listen how brilliantly they plan for everything arrogantly positioning ourselves as superior to everyone else in the way we do things. only for that to be spectacularly blown apart in 3-4 transfers windows. We currently have over £40m of "talent" out on loan, including two players who were recording signings, with likely more to follow, after few years of very good signings we've had two years of poor ones in addition to the fact that we've consistently failed to address significant weaknesses in our squad. Lets not pull any punches, our transfer business over the last two years has been nothing short of dreadful both in the players we've signed and the ones we haven't.

For a short term fix Fernando Lloriente could fit the bill. Okay he’s 33 but he’s surplus to requirements at Spurs, only a year left on his contract so available quite cheaply or on loan. His scoring record before joining spurs has been good everywhere he’s been. 6 foot 4 target man we need.

2 of your last 4 posts have been foul mouthed volleys of abuse because people have said things you don’t like on an Internet forum. This and Calling GCS a fat c*** because he said he wasn’t interested in women’s football. If you think the problem is everyone else it probably isn’t.

Interesting Sue, I’ve never skied there but I’m guessing you have. Sound like a great place! You seem to be quite knowledgable about Italy, as you said it’s from personal experience would I be right in thinking you lived there for a while?

I got quite into woman's football a few years back and really enjoyed it. A few years back I was on holiday in Italy and a local women's team we're playing so we decided to watch the game with my son and niece. It was quite decent with two teams of a reasonable standard. However the one thing that ruined it for me was a foul mouthed English woman playing for one of the teams. Not only was she a rubbish player way off the pace of the others, she constantly swore and abused the other players whilst strutting round the pitch with an obnoxious, haughty, arrogant attitude appearing the think she was a cross between mother Theresa and the female Eric Cantona. My niece, who was 7 at the time and playing football for a local kids team decided there and then that football wasn't for her and she still talks now of the "horrible woman" who put her off football for life. Shame as it would be good for young girls to have some decent role models.

His lips and nose look like they’ve been taken from someone else’s face

Schniderlin - threw a paddy “a great journey destroyed in one hour” then got on with it and had a very good season. Wanyama - threw a strop, when told he wasn’t going or the official line was he was ill so missed the game in Denmark. Had an average season, got sent off three times so missed nearly a third of the season suspended So mixed results. Although given Lemina seems to be the type to down tools if he doesn’t like something it may cause more harm than good keeping him.

Poor old dirk, He’s been spouting this sh*te on TUI got years. Everyone laughs at him so now I guess he thinks he’ll get more of a sympathetic ear on here. He claims Every player that left was forced out against their will, they all wanted to say it was evil, scheming Les who was desperate to sell every player the first offer he got. Every player who plays for us is useless until they leave then they become wonderful, he’s even written players off before they’ve started Yet despite appearing to hate everything and everyone at the club he claims to be a massive saints fan, season ticket holder for years and goes to every game.

Yep, those were good times, although this is one of my favourites. https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?45950-Norwich-going-for-it

As I understand he's actually known since January that he we wouldn't stand in his way if he found another job. Or to put it another way the club don't want to sack him and want him to leave on his own good terms. Despite all the sh*t written on mongboards where everything they went right was inspite of Les and everything that went wrong because of him up until the end of 2016/17 his CV looked very good at saints. However you'd struggle to find anyone since then who would disagree a parting of ways is best for all parties. The attitude of some fans towards a bloke nearing retirement age has been quite frankly a disgrace. Some have spent the best part of a decade doing all they can to discredit him, making up lies, blaming him for everything, we've had everything from fake scouting reports with made up matches to make his signings look bad to supposed conversations that took place at England training camps which have somehow got back to people who post on the saints forums to make him look stupid! The latest hobby horse for some was attacking his son, now an agent, because he now has a couple of saints academy players on his books. Nasty, vindictive and vile. Still he'll be gone soon, which is no doubt best for all parties, but I for one think the way he's been treated by a few individuals is disgusting. I wonder who their next victim will be though.

Said it before but I totally agree. Stephens is the wink link in our back 4/5, a really poor defender at the level we want to be at. Cant read the game, poor positionally, poor in the air and weak in the tackle. I really do want him to do well but he's just never going to be good enough.

Angus Gunn Makes great saves just for fun Angus Gunn F8cking hates Pompey, Saints number one To the tune of Tommy Gunn by the Clash With this and The Enola Gay/Stuart Armstrong song our song list has improved by 10000000000% Now how do they sound sung at 100000mph with clapping all the way through?

My favourite Alex Crook story is when he claimed we weren't interested in Charlie Austin, less than 24 hours he was officially announced as having signed. When I pointed it out to him on twitter he immediately blocked me. The guy is a joke who does exactly what you say he does. He is hilarious in his role as talk sports south coast football expert, basically "revealing" all stories that are already in the media anyway. I've never actually seen him say anything that wasn't already in the public domain.

He's no jack Stephens