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We should be fine but if we match west hams results before we play them then they beat us the gap is only 2 points. We should be fine but we are only a couple of bad weeks with results going against us from being right back in the sh*t. People are assuming we’ll stay up comfortably because we’ve had a good run, well they thought that last year too. Don’t forget burnley hammered us up there and it’s the same defenders that couldn’t cope with Antonio at st Mary’s. To think we are going to cruise to a top half finish is extremely complacent.

You can quite easily. These are the same players with a weaker back 4 that looked like a pub team only a few months ago. We’ve only won three home games all season and two of those were against the bottom two. In fact we’ve been dreadful at home for a few years and it doesn’t look like changing so we really shouldn’t be too optimistic about getting too many points at home. An injury to Ings and a defender or two and we’d be in the sh8t. We should be comfortable but we also have it in us to implode.

Get back under the bridge you weirdo.

They were all correct though, there weren’t any controversy about any of them. Today’s decisions were incorrect.

Nice insurance bet.

So he’s been banned for posting something you and other people don’t like even though it’s correct. Incredible.

*presenting

Parenting uncomfortable truths to club cheerleaders doesn’t make me a troll pal

Exactly the same thing happened when they beat man city, for their first goal a clear handball in the area was ignored and they broke down the other end and scored.

Because I’m still absolutely amazed you’re trying to argue that as a general rule the better the player is the more they cost. Obviously there will be some exceptions and we can all point to individual signings that cost a lot and haven’t worked and cheap ones that have.

There are far more examples of players costing More and being better. It’s an absolute ridiculous to try and prove otherwise.

Matthew I’m not going to keep repeating myself I’ve already addressed this point too. Obviously there are exceptions and sometimes you can get a bargain abut the better the player the more they cost more. That’s why Mbeppe cost £140m and josh sims is out on loan. And no I’m not saying saints should go and spend £40m on a random foreigner we’ve never heard of.

Quality costs money, that’s why better players cost more. It’s not hard.

Well if we’re going to play that game which player is better Ronaldo or Paul Moody?

Which player is better Ronaldo or Will Hughes? Which player cost more?

Just because you don’t like the content doesn’t mean it’s untrue pal

What a ridiculous post. Are you struggling now you’re having to resort to this? If you want proven quality you have to pay for it, otherwise it’s a gamble, sometimes you find a diamond sometimes you find a load of mud. As I posted about a Mane or Van Dijk level player now costs a lot more than we paid for them 4 years ago, but we’re still shopping in that price bracket so it’s no surprise the vast majority of the players we’ve signed since them haven’t been anywhere near as good.

Thanks you’ve just proven my point which I got told was a dumb comment by one of goas cheerleaders Our record transfer fee is c£21m, we’d need to break our transfer record just to sign a competent premier league player.

I posted it above I’m not going to post it again. We were meant to be bring in a new transfer person last summer too, never happened.

We have reduced the wage bill, by nearly £200k a week in the last 12 months. What’s your point?

Also just for the record this is the first transfer window I’ve moaned about our lack of activity. I get your point about deadwood but perhaps in the majority but the players who have played out of their skin for the last eight weeks are the same ones who were costing us points every week for the last 3 years. When I see the club making record profits, slashing nearly two hundred thousands of the weekly wage bill and the squad still being weakened with fans rushing to defend how great it all is you di start to wonder what the hell is going on.

Seems like we can’t sign anyone permenantly until we’ve sold every player on our books who isn’t a first team player. Mental.

We’ve made a profit on transfers so make a list of what we spent would only disprove your point further. Not really sure why it’s daft to add a bit of quality to the squad. I’ve never really met a football fan before who wants his club not to sign better players.

I’m really not sure what you can’t understand pal. / big Part of our “sustainable model” has been to buy players from foreign leagues for a fee somewhere between £12-£20m with no experience of the premier league. By and large that part of our model has been an absolute disaster for the last four years. Arguably our two most successful signings in recent season have been players from British leagues who are not a typical saints type signing. Then to cap it all we’re paying these players far more than their worth, can’t get rid of Them which hampering our ability to recruit talent we do want. So the proof is in the pudding, one of if not the most important element of any business model, recruitment, has been an absolute shambles. That ain’t a sustainable model. And yes of course I agree with proper a sustainable model, give me Mane or Van Dijk for a couple of years and sell them for 3, 4, 5 times what we paid for them, then do it all again f*cking brilliant. The problem comes though when you don’t have that quality of player in. A player that cost £15m in 2016 costs £30m today but we haven’t moved with the times, we’re still shopping the football equivalent of TK Maxx hoping to find a John Smedley jumper in a rack of Georgio Georgious sweaters and as a result we’re stuck with the crap we’ve got since. So the short term question is this. We are where we are, a very good manager with a bang average squad lacking in Depth quality. Our back up is basically our youth team in a lot of positions who most people agreed only a short time ago wasn’t up To much. Do you hope to survive doing the bare minimum every season, let down the manager, fans and or do you gamble a bit and try to bring in two or three players of quality every year in the positions you’ve desperately needed them in and who can get you out the mess and with it push you up the league? So to answer you point yes I’m all for a sustainable business model long term, but short term it hasn’t worked and we need to do something else to fix the errors of the past 4 years because sell to buy isn’t going to do it. We’ve made 70 bleeding million pre tax profit the last two year so surely short term to get out of the mess is it really to much to ask that we don’t have to make a profit from every single frigging transfer window and we actually sign a couple of player who can improve the first team? And yes we can sell them in two years time for £80m if all goes well and Goa And his band of merry men can smile all the way to bank

Isn’t impact!