hypochondriac

"Mauricio, you've taken some criticism this season because of your turgid style of play" "it was the vvd situation" "you've also had some flack for continually changing the team so there's little consistency" "it was the vvd situation" "but what about the lack of goals and games where players have appeared to give up?" "vvd" "OK but how can you explain players like Forster, Romeu and JWP who have regressed even from the average performances of last season? Shane Long hasn't scored in almost an entire calendar year. Gabbiadini has got much worse, Bertrand has put in half hearted performances, Tadic has been largely anonymous for long periods." "I'll just record myself saying the Virgil Van Dijk situation and leave it playing on a loop for you to save my voice"

There's always a contrarian who just likes to pick an argument. Regardless of anyone's feelings towards Ralph, objectively that is not an "alright" interview. It contained virtually nothing of substance and you can feel the frustration of the journalist who must realise that not a single question was actually being answered with anything that was worth the time to read. What did you actually like about the interview?

I don't think it's self deception- he's clearly a very intelligent guy. He knows exactly what is going on and has deliberately chosen the tactic of waffling without answering any question. Yes we may be a small club and the premier league may be hard but the fact is we have performed vastly better in the past few season in similar conditions.

Also hugely hypocritical saying they don't get hung up on single events like the cup final or league position when discussing puels sacking and then focusing on those two events as evidence that we had a good season last year! He's also incredibly patronising, I'd genuinely rather hear from les or not hear from anyone if we are going to get something like that.

I've just read this and haven't looked at any reactions from anyone else yes. Some thoughts: Christ he is difficult to listen to and read. If he ever writes a book I certainly will not be buying it. One of the biggest load of corporate speak ******** I've ever had the misfortune to read. Why anyone thinks it's a good idea for a Canadian to talk to us in his highly irritating dialect that says precisely nothing I have absolutely no idea. If we lose tonight I think he will see what people think of him and his plan. Fans will force the manager out if our poor form continues. Fair play to the echo for actually trying to nail him down to an actual answer or two. They didn't succeed but they certainly tried.

CB FRY doesn't suffer fools. The problem is that there are a number on here.

Nope he was never 'dreadful'. A few posters said he was around that time and was roundly ridiculed. Saying "saints fans" wrote him off as terrible is just a lie. How many posts other than from the original poster have written mane off as rubbish in that thread? Maybe check the first 100 posts if you can't be bothered to go through the whole thing because I couldn't find a single one.

Absolutely. All this begging for pm's from posters with a grandiose sense of their own self worth is hilarious. As someone else said, genuine itk like Guan, k Billy etc don't get any abuse because they have proven to know stuff, have shared little snippets and not made a sweeping vague statement to try to make themselves feel superior.

If you're using that thread as proof that there were more than two or three then I wouldn't if I were you. It consists of 90% of people ridiculing the poster in question and saying how wrong he is. It doesn't demonstrate what you think it does at all. As I and almost everyone else said at the time:

As I said, a couple of posters thought he was rubbish and the rest just laughed at them. I stand by my post from back then: https://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?p=2087722

This lie is really annoying. Mane was derided by about three people on here for the first few games. Most coukd see he was quality.

I'm not sure we do have a very good squad here any more. We have a host of average players who could definitely do better than they currently are but imo are no better than midtable or below.

Lose to Palace and he won't be staying surely.

Ffs we don't need a fresh start- we need to rid ourselves of this awful manager.

Well that's true and we don't know but I would have been equally critical of Morgan had he acted like virgil has with regards to putting in rubbish performances and then not playing. I think it's fair to say that not every player we have had in the past seven years would have acted as he has done when faced with the same situation.

Contrast vvd with Morgan who moaned and then knuckled down and gave us a year of good service before departing with our thanks. Terrible from virgil and I wish him nothing but failure. I'm actually fed up of every player treating us like our club doesn't matter a jot. Depressing.

I feel like I have enough anger for multiple targets.

Well what a giant bellend he is.

What has Fonte said?

link?

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.