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Removing Mope and giving his successor the money is by far the best option.

That's just PR speak like most of the stuff coming out of the club but are people seriously trying to suggest that Reed should turn down 75 million for a defender with reportedly the majority up front? That's probably a third of the clubs entire worth in one player! These are enormous sums and no business in their right mind- because that is what it is- would ever turn down that amount. Are the people moaning about this also the same people who wanted to force VVD to play with the kids all season? Things like that just don't happen in the real world and the club can talk all they like about not having to sell but as even Neymar showed, every player has their price. Oh and the guy never mentioned anything about not spending it. No club our size would turn down that amount- lets not pretend otherwise.

Did either of them hand in a transfer request? Did either of them play noticeably badly during the time they wanted to leave? The fact is a club like saints would never be able to turn down that amount of money and no we can't wait until the summer to sell a player that hasn't done an awful lot this year and whose sale will actually allow us to bring in some quality that we clearly need to prevent us being relegated. VVD could get an ACL injury had we decided to keep him until the summer and we are simply too small a club to turn down 75 fecking million for any player.

If you think a club like saints would ever be able to turn down that amount of cash for a wantaway player who is affecting morale then quite frankly you are a moron.

Do you have anything about the status of the manager? I'm not really fussed about new players in if we don't get rid of him.

Martin O'Neil? Tuchel? WGS? Michael O'Neil? Will probably be a middling manager from Europe though.

Seems like the big meeting was just VVD being sold.

If we lose to Palace and united then I don't think fans will let them continue with it, particularly if we end up in the relegation zone as a result.

Which is fine if our dealings are structured in a similar fashion

The good news is they won't be buying any more of our players for a while because we don't have any good enough!

I'm beyond caring that we are selling him to Liverpool. Use the money saints please to get us out of this mess and also get a decent manager in.

Exactly so why are the pro puel lot continually bringing it up when there is no answer to be had?

And bully- someone with contacts inside the club on 606- confirmed as much. It's a nonsense to suggest the fans had a huge effect on the decision and even if they did, they had no responsibility for choosing the successor.

This is getting really really boring now. Some people believe puel was poor and that we should have replaced him, rumours were that some players wanted the club to get rid too and so the club acted. Others believe we were wrong to sack him. Puel's subsequent performance at Leicester with entirely different players and a different system and setup have no bearing at all on whether this was the correct decision or not. Far worse from the club was replacing puel with an inferior manager and that is the decision that they should be castigated for. We will never be able to know for sure that puel would have done really well or worse this season and so it is completely and utterly pointless for the usual suspects to keep bringing it up in every single thread. We get it, you didn't want puel to be sacked. Let's all move on an concentrate on getting someone in who can repair the malaise and damage done over the past two years.

I started off in the window praising out stance but by the end of the window it was clear that we should sell once he fees became massive and it was obvious he didn't want to be here.

All except jwp are being played because we have injuries and there is no choice.

He has to be sacked its getting ridiculous. I expect protests if he isn't gone after United.

Does anyone seriously think a result is likely today? The saints board aren't stupid and must be feeling a similar way. Surely they can't let this go on for too much longer?

Utterly deluded if that's true.

That's a ridiculous thing to say. Loads of managers would do better with what we have despite the limited ability of many in the squad. Big Sam was one example.

I'm guessing the fact he is young and English has a lot to do with it. It looks good for the club if we can get players like that performing well so I expect that's why he gets a lot more chances than others.

We haven't really had good enough backup since we got promoted. It's bizarre really. Forster isn't great in the first place but if he gets a long term injury the we don't have someone like Stephens in that position who could step up and save us like he did last year at cb.

Such a huge game today. Similar importance to the Everton game where we came out on top. If we lose in a similar manner to many games this year then we really have to question the manager continuing. Win and we will be a lot more comfortable. Probably a draw then

I wouldn't dress up as Diane Abbott if for no other reason than I can't think of a good reason why I would want to but I see no reason why someone wouldn't have attempted to dress up at the darts as Diane if she was more attractive and white or any other nationality. It wasn't the colour of her skin that made those gaffes so amusing, it was her pompous attitude and car crash nature of the interviews. Her skin colour was entirely irrelevant.

Liverpool?