Convict Colony

People were saying this at the end of last season and he surprised many by switching to 5 at the back for the playoffs.

I see hoijberg had a stellar game for Marseille yesterday in their 3-1 win. Think di zerbi has done a good job getting good English based players, Marseille look like they have a chance.

No bedwetting from me yet, only 3 games and a lot learned about what not to do. He now has the international break to reflect and work with the team but.... If he still selects the same players and we keep playing this same way the next 3 games then we are bang in trouble. However i dont think he will as he is not that stupid and idealist, i think we will see a new CB come in for stephens, big les start, fernandes, cornet, archer and possibly weeman and or lallana also start and i think he will give clear instructions to not overplay at the back, more a 1-2 then bang long, mid range balls, time to give the players a chance to play without a self inflicted goal every game.

Martin needs a manager mentor to bounce ideas off.

Cheers bro I switched off to go drink a beer in the garden

The defence needs to vary the playing out from the back, the best players need to play not those who did well in the championship and we need to play 4 at the back as that at least let's us attack better. Ramsdale and Dibbling my positives, lots of work needed during break but I don't think you can coach players to play above their skill set.

Feel like we really need a win today for points, confidence and to generate some momentum. I expect archer, Fernandes and big Les to make the difference in 2nd half. First game this season I can watch live so expect a easy 2-0 win for us.

Colin Calderwood should be looking for a new job then as our defensive guru.

Last chance for midfielders and forwards (downes apart), subs are ready to start.

Honestly I think aside from potentially striker (archer to be confirmed) our spine of our team looks very nice.

Will be hard for him to get into this undefeated team 😜

I really like that he seems comfortable on left and more importantly on right which is exactly what we need

The undefeated season continues

Mistakes I am sure will happen but they are now relegated to the sort of amount every other keeper makes instead of record breaking, he instantly brings peace to our defence which hopefully helps them play better and gives them confidence in his saving and ball skills.

Great article on this signing https://www.whoscored.com/Articles/tJdDufTqYU2bUyt10SUeKw/Show/Aaron-Ramsdale-Transfer-News-Why-Southampton-will-stay-up-following-capture-of-Arsenal-goalkeeper

Saints should help convince him, he needs consistency in playing time to develop further as his current product isnt there yet.

Honestly aside from a world class striker the biggest difference maker we have needed at the club has been goalkeeping. Definitely worth being the highest paid player, i believe he will be the difference maker for us this season. All for the price or a mara and a megoma

Regarding Pedro from Flamengo, they are not going to sell their no.1 striker with a game away on sun v Corinthians and as an aside he is 27 yr old, I would never see SR spend 30m on a player that old which although perfect for us is a bit too old for them. He's also the top scorer in the league there.

Hypo in Paris Crack out the beret and flounce around designer shops mate

interesting bit of info "So Edu sold Ramsdale for 18M in order to escape Bournemouth 15% sell on clause if Ramsdale gets sold for more than 19M"

2-0 We suddenly find our attacking edge and ball out in front of Korrupt FM

I love this line Christophe, very civil of you, i think i am going to use this again on the other threads :-) Come on @FredVaFC59100 your undefeated so far this season, enjoy it while it lasts

saw this in the valenciennes thread "Daouda Traoré to be transferred from Nice to Southampton... then loaned out to Valenciennes"

yesterdays update was they want to loan arthur cabral from benfica for the year before they will allow us to get yuri

Have to say i havent seen the use of pricks this much since sunderland away. Anyway back to players, i feel martin will be going for something like this up front with regards to depth, wasnt sure where diblings natural position is but put him as AM. Archer/Armstrong/Stewart Diaz/Sulemana/Edozie New player/ SAA/ Wee-man if back or Edozie covers MattyF/Dibbling/Aribo Right wing is my major concern currently given Arma is filling in there and we essentially just have SAA unless weeman is back and whilst, i'd love another striker I dont think we can affort one.