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Of course they will because like all saints signings he is guaranteed to improve, nailed on. There is no possible way on earth he wouldn't. It is impossible for him to be a Francis Jeffers or David Nugent.

But we didn't sign a left back or central midfielders to replace or even compete with them, so they would play. It's the ones in other positions that we signed for big money who haven't stepped up.

He strikes me as the sort of bloke who would do what he thinks is right and is a good business decision, not what a computer game freaks who are regularly getting even the most basic of things wrong on a mongboard thinks is right.

Because you knew you'd lost the argument.

What are you bleating on about now? You said are the players better because they were used to the system, I answered no because we're playing a different system. Not difficult to understand is it.

We will probably be docked the amount of points needed to send us down, what with the FAs anti saints agenda.

no no no. Build it now.

As Krackers said we're playing a different system now, so it doesn't seem to be so.

At least what I write it worth reading.

Not at all, just pointing out its not an 'article' at all. Just a load of Bol locks written by the West Ham mongboards Colinjb.

This.

Who know,but the point being why would fans of other clubs that couldn't give a toss about us know our financial position And backing when we Don't know it ourselves.

Why isn't that the case for Lallana then? He's been relatively average at best.

Why would they when even we don't know?

Look at you all getting all upset about the 'glaring errors' because they were a year out on his age and getting yourself at it because they don't value Lambert as much as you lot do and because they dont know nor give a toss thar Ringwoodis a suburb of Southampton. t's an article written by a fan on a mongboard. It's the not the press, it's not written by a journalist, he's a fan writing a perfectly reasonable article on a fans forum.

I'm not saying they are bad signings but for £35m I expected one or two to be our top performers and stand out this season, the simple fact is they haven't, our best and most consistent players were ones that were already here. The irony being that of the three news signings that you list as our second tier of best players they were 3 of the 4 cheapest. By your own admission of from your list of players who have performed compared to the rest we haven't had value from the £25m or so we spent on Ramirez, Rodriguez, Forren and Mayuka. Do you not think that for £25m on 4 you'd expect at least one of them to have proven they were money well spent by now and be one of our best players?

Tsk, massive disapointment.

What on earth are you on about now? I thought you said what you post was worth reading!! You say on the one hand our best players are ones who are already here and list cork, Morgan, Puncheon and Shaw, which is exactly what i was saying, yet then you say we have another group of best players that we've brought in who are only our best players because the ones already in their position are crap but we shouldn't have expected them to be better than those that were already there in their position! Lets make it easy for you as i can see you're struggling. Who do you think our top 5 players have been this season?

So i was saying that our best players were ones that were already here not signed in the sumer, so to prove me wrong you highlighted that our best players this season were ones that were already here, not ones signed in the summer. Brilliant stuff.

So in your own paragraph you destory your own point. Shaw, Cork, Morgan, Puncheon, 4 of the 5 players you list were already here. Interesting you only list one of our new signings, the one who took 4 months to get fit and has only player 12 games in your list of top players this season.

Oh i see. I get it, they weren't brought in to keep us in the premier league, they were brought in for the future in case we got lucky and managed to stay there. I see now it's obvious, how silly of me to think the players we signed for £35m were expected to perform and keep us up.

Really? You'd say Clyne, Boruc and Yoshida are in the mix with Schniderlin, Cork, Lambert, Puncheon, Fonte (before the injury) for top 5 players this season. I would say Clyne and Yoshida have been decent signings and good value for money, but not been in our top 5, Boruc is starting to show what a good keeper he is and better than anyone else in that position (but that isn't saying much) but it took him 4 months to get fit and has only played 12 times, a long way to go to prove himself one of the top 5 over the season. Still i'm glad like a lot of Saints fans you've got such low expectations, anyone would think that £35m outlay and 7th highest in Europe would give you players who stand out as level above what we have and make an instant impact, not desperately trying to think who might scramble into the last of our "best performer" slots.

Do you think a £35m outlay and not one of those signings is in our top 3, arugably top 5 players of the season is value for money?

It's good to have ambition. Cortese has the ambition and he'll expect to see us finish as high as possible. We should match that ambition and keep on believing.

why?