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I'm not sure I buy that, veest offers no confidence when he is on the ball near our goal. I saw a lot of mistakes, but mainly it's his decision making. That 2nd goal, he can see he has no one on the LB side and his man has runoff him into the channel. Hate to say it but both veest and hoj for me aren't worth either their record transfer fee or a big fat new contract in the summer. Also Ings decision making in the first 2mins to leave that ball [emoji849] good job he scores for fun.

Stephens was probably our best midfielder tho

We need a world class capable young midfielder to play the Naby Keita role to really help us win the 4-2-2-2- think PJH can't do it and I'd take the money in the summer given contract and his ability to play that role. Fullbacks need to be assessed and 1 good CB.

To be honest our transfer windows are non existent over the last few ones. Until we move out the rubbish we can't buy.

Yeah I opened that one again, comedy gold

Only cos I know he will be crying in the dark corners of the Internet I'll give a shout out to Toyko Saint who migrated to papsweb with Bearsy. Bearsys match reports were golden but his night out reports were classic. Match reports link https://bearsyinvestigates.blogspot.com/?m=1

I will see what happens in the next few weeks but I might pop down there one weekend to go watch him once I know he'll be playing

It is ironic we been so brow beaten over the course of the previous 4/5 transfer windows I've not see any good rumours, I can't even be bothered to check myself and we all hope in the summer will be our big push. But we've been here every summer and we never have our hopes exceeded, we struggle to try and get someone that a championship club could buy. To quote the youth of today, its jokes.

Am ambivalent about KWP, we already have too many hyphenated players and not sure if our squad can take another.

Seems to of made Jack Stephens better

Name me 1 player who every now and again plays in a completely different position that they were recruited for? He's doing a job and is a young guy whose played CB marking lewodanski etc and did ok. I'm all for judging people but be fair.

Would of preferred they get 1 good player in now than 3 average ones then, we are on a good run but the fundamental issues around our ability to play hassenball with these players effectively still remain. Our priority HAS TO BE to ship out the players not needed (Hoedt. Forster etc etc ) in the summer (paging the player transfer expert), free up wage space and purchase 3 to 4 players specifically to fit our system, they dont need to be names but their profile needs to be perfect for hassenball.

There is no way our wages take it all up

Yes if we have netted out all our player transfers with outgoings in the last 5 years what has the roughly 100mil a year in tv money etc gone each year ?

We are under 0 net spend for the last 5 years

Raiola is his agent so must be mustard

Must just be me but I thought Danso did a good job as right back in a weird position in a game he would be rusty for. He was the out ball, some good crosses, header from corner and aggressive in defence. Thought as a team we'd reverted back to October. Very slow build up play from defenders to midfielders. Not sure if quick forward passes arent a JWP or Romeu thing or they'd been told to move it to the wings. Anyway a easy win and good to see young guys scoring.

on supersport 8 in SA tv guide so should be on after this golf bit at 10mins to.

https://live.soccerstreams.net/event/southampton-huddersfield-town-live-stream/146985

no way he'd go as back up to bamford

Boufal beats players and creates opportunites but he also loses the ball in dangerous positions. Redmond just doesnt do enough for the amount of game time he gets in my opinion. Currently I'd have Djenepo and Amstrong ahead of them as starters then have both come on as subs. I just dont see what makes redmond undroppable ?

Why would we stop var, its saved us loads of times this season.

Redmond: Started 18 games / 2 goals / 0 Assists / 11 shots on target Boufal: Started 5 games / 0 goals / 2 assists/ 6 shots on target

All I can say is ings got 1 chance in the game that was created by the palace defence, otherwise our team created hardly any decent chances for him or Adams. I have faith in Che, its the service or lack of that is the problem.

great performance and team effort yesterday, reminded me of when Leicester won the league with their lack of possession but counter attacking goals. Thought stephens and benders were great in the middle, I like stephens as he is our ball playing CB and plays nice passes out of defence. One note I made sure I wanted to mention here was the amount of physical contests JWP won in midfield yesterday, thought he was really great and the mentality was what we have been missing. The other was the amount poor passing Hoj does in midfield, his accuracy yesterday was 63%, some of his balls were terrible yesterday. I like what adams gives us up front. A CF who can hold the ball with his back to goal and bring in runners, thought he worked hard. Obafemi took his goal well and was excellent at hassling the CB's they were hating his pace. I thought Redders had his typical redders game, didnt beat his man too often, blamed everyone else for his mistakes but he finally took a chance to score a 1 on 1 (2nd of the match) and took it, hopefully if gives him some confidence again as some of best chances keep falling to him (thinking newcastle 1 on 1). For me Armstrong was the MOM though, his direct running from the right, his incisive balls and his constant desire to look up the field rather than recycling the ball gave us the quick directness we have been missing this season and didnt give the oppo defence and midfield time to reset which created space. Anyway stoked with the performance, please let us get another win v palace.