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Here he goes again FFS

Good to see the bollocking Selles dished out yesterday has done the trick

Really?!! Well we’ve gone all in that’s for sure

Been a few pictures on Twitter of fans with him inside the ground. Definitely happening.

If dying down is all over media saying it’s a done deal then you’re right

Sky reporting it as £2.5m and a done deal still a lot of cash.

£4m, ‘cking hell. Plus we’d have had to have paid Ralph up, this has cost around £10m

well according to the sky reporter outside St Marys Saints fans are overjoyed with this appointment "every single one of them has spoken about his passion and pride" and there is a real positivity about his energy and enthusiasm which they are looking forward to seeing. i guess they haven't spoken to anyone who posts on here

one of the things i do miss about being a member of a commercial gym is being able to have a sauna, jacuzzi and swim a couple of times a week. Crossfit doesn't do that an unfortunately no where round me does a swim only membership

Laura Hamilton on a place in the sun

Few things more annoying in football forum world when the fan of a bigger club that's just beaten you quite comfortably comes onto your forum and gives you a little well done you pat on the head, everything will be fine comment. I'm sure it's well-intentioned but more than a little smug.

will he be introduced on the pitch to the fans tonight?

Why should Leeds and Forest be able to outspend us? Yes they're historically bigger clubs than us with bigger fan bases and more history but they've been out of top flight for 20 years or so, our grounds are similar sizes, but we've had 11 years of premier league money, they've only had 3 between them, Sorry that's an excuse. Same with Brighton and Palace, whilst they build good squads with a mix of blend and experience we either buy bargain basement of kids and with the sole intention being to flog them for more money in 2 years time. NOw dont get me wrong, it's a brilliant model when it works, as we say in 2014-17 with Mane, Van Dijk and co but first off they weren't young kids with a handful of games between them and secondly if it goes wrong not only does it damage the club it also is unfair on any young player to expect them to rescue a team in a relegation battle, so how ridiculous is it that we've got almost a full squad of them.

Yeah we would have been but Toney cost Brentford about £5m he was an absolute steal, Mitrovic cost Fulham about £20m he didn't have a great premier leauge record until this season but definitely better to sign one of him than gambling and trying to be clever and buy YHGTI players or ones from abroad in key postions rather than signing players under our noses who might cost a bit more. It's like the whole nonsense with the centre back, we've been desperate to for a quality centre back since the winter of 2017 but rather than going out and getting a decent one we've tried to be clever and gone through a load of shite and 60 million quid, now we've finally got one or two.

i fear he might have a tough job winning the fans over, remember how some didnt like Puel from day one because they found his interviews boring! Hopefully if he comes in the fans give him a chance and support him

See i dont buy this about the money and size thing. We've had 11 years of hundreds of millions of TV money, yes of course there are some clubs that we cant hope to compete with, but why cant we compete with the likes of Brighton, Palace, Leeds, and we should be much further ahead than Fulham, Brentford, Forest. All us fans can really ask for is a midtable finish and a good cup run, we dont want more than that and given the amount of time we've been in this league with the money coming in there is no reason why that is unrealistic. Even our transfers up to this season were funded by sales. We're being sold the line we should just be happy to be in the premier league but to me that is nonsense and to be honest if our sole ambition is just to stay up i'd rather go down, at least we'd be competitive and at least it wouldn't be as boring uninspiringly as the repeat of the mantra in the 90s of survival is success.

Me neither, it's a weird one. Maybe the thinking is like you say, if we go down he would know the league and get us up. Although i really dont like that thinking, they should be planning for how we are going to stay up not plan for the worst.

Fantastic from Selles. Thats what some of them needed.

Interesting that there is a rumour circulating that Semmens penny pinched and cost us a big signing that had been agreed by SR. This piece i've just found seems to tie in with that Cody Gakpo: Southampton ready to increase transfer offer with Leeds also interested | Football News | Sky Sports

A deliberate relegation? Madness, spend £100m+ with an £80m debt and lose hundreds of millions of TV revenue? This was levelled at Goa as well. No chance they will want to get relegated so they can lose all that money and hope to make it back by selling players from the championship. It's a strange appointment no doubt, it could be a genius one but more likely one that will end up in a relegation battle for sure. It's clear what their aim is, buy young and sell for profit, but they aint going to do that by getting us relegated on purpose.

I was surprised too to be fair, thought he'd gone there shortly after turning us down.