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Hopefully the end of Smallbone, who is nowhere near good enough for the Premier League. Decent enough option off the bench in the Championship, but not good enough for now. What's happened to Stephens? Archer must be fairly pissed off, unless he is carrying some sort of injury.

SAA has much more natural talent than Sims though. I'd say Meghoma looked very assured the couple of games he actually did play last year, especially when it was at times when Manning was struggling. Amo-Ameyaw has always looked dangerous and skillful when he's played and will make things happen. Should've made some more appearances both this season and last at least off the bench to help him develop. Hopefully any loan move sees him get some good experience at a decent level, as think he could be a big player for us next season.

Exact same situation as Meghoma. Very talented young player who Martin did almost everything to ignore, signed extra players who are no better in the same position (in this case see Fraser and Cornet) and ends up wasting the talent. Could’ve seen SAA having a similar impact as Dibling, but imagine he’ll leave now.

Feels like good news with Dragan wanting to get more involved, but small chance he might also be jumping in to stop any more spending...? "You've spent HOW MUCH and got to this"?! Maybe move to a model of less but better signings (for Saints).

Yes, they're low cost players, but there's much more that goes into the cost of a transfer, including their signing on fees, salary (which I bet Saints are subsidising some of), the actual cost of negotiating the transfer and agents fees etc, which could've been put into a single better player to help Saints now. This probably includes other signings like Edwards, Wood, Taylor, Cornet and Fraser - we probably would've been as strong with signing only one of those and putting the rest of the fees to a single standout player of the quality of Fernandes.

Is this for real?! All of these players, we would've been better off just getting one £20 million midfielder or striker than 5 players for Goztepe in the hope one might come good... How many are they allowed from one club? I guess the Lis transfer was a gift (cheers!) and then Matzuki and Juan on loan, and Victor Hugo our option to buy but playing for them? Is it because we can't get work permits for the others? Presumably Kayi Sanda no problem on that front.

At the time Martin said “Whilst he’s not in my plans for the team, he’s friends with Jack and Wee Man, so we need to keep him around” 😜

Didnt see this. Anyway we can watch the match remotely?

I think the problem is that Taylor has taken on a bit too much responsibility for the results and is trying to do a bit too much, meaning he's making mistakes and not trusting the others around him. Getting him into a back 4 or with a more comfortable team (preferably with much better protection from midfield) will do him good.

Thanks. Hope the money will help fund one or two players to get you guys back on track for promotion.

Has Kayi Sanda signed yet? Not overly promising that he perhaps hasn't been at his best this season, but at 18 years old, it's very young for a centre back and as the French u19 captain he must have something about him!

If you're referring to Aribo being much better than Charles then I think you're being quite generous to Joe. He was fairly solid last season, with a few good games and scored 4 goals, but never looked like he was playing below his level, he played as he should - a decent to good Championship level player. For the amount of starts he had (19) he was our lowest rated player on Whoscored, aside from Captain Jack of course. Shea has now played 400 more minutes for Wednesday than his Saints career total, and is currently ranked the 7th best rated player in the Championship this season. I agree that I don't think he's going to come back and suddenly help us win the Premier League, but he was barely worse than Aribo last season and has now gained a lot more experience so could expect him to be a better option in the middle. That said, fingers crossed Aribo hits 20 goals between now and the end of the season and starts dominating every match!!

I'm expecting better than Martin achieved, and once he's got them a bit fitter (and tried to get rid of the damage previously done by Martin), a few more goals going in and a team looking like we at least want to score a goal. Minus the finishing and a couple of lapses, the performance against West Ham was much better than we'd seen from the team for quite a while. Fingers crossed we see a big reaction from this weekend.

Wasn't part of the problem previously that aside from Downes, very few of the players signed were actually suited to a heavy possession and passing based game? Look at this season's signings - BBD, Cornet, Big Les, Sugawara, Archer, Taylor are all not suited to that style at all. Hopefully the recruitment actually target players that are comfortable in the style we play!

So when is Welington going to be shown on the OS and when is he training (and presumably saving our season)?!

100% - was pretty sure this was going to be a topic on how at least we have Fernandes, an extremely talented young player looking like he wants to win (sometimes on his own). Palace supporting mate mentioned to me that he was very impressed with him.

Think it’s more that Martin completely ignored him all last season until it was too obvious that he had to play

Oh, it wasnt a pisstake. How many games did he play for us previously? Not sure he'll be desperate to "come home"?! He has had a good career since though!

A very basic wishlist for the new manager: Anyone who actually makes them train more than 3/4 times a week, and then makes them do double sessions (not get a day off) after they embarrass the club with an awful performance, i.e. get them fit. Selecting new captain and vice-captain. Harwood-Bellis would be my pick. Selecting the best players and playing them in their positions Playing to players strengths, not forcing all players to do a short pass at any cost Clean slate with all the players (ABK, Taylor, Cornet, Ugochukwu, Onuachu, Amo-Ameyaw) Try to actually play the ball forwards and try to win games

Well, it was kind of a joke - I don’t wish anything bad on him, just seemed increasingly arrogant this season!

Has Lucy binned him off too? Might help bring his ego down a few levels

They really really need to. He is an absolute joke and an arrogant twat

If Klopp was our manager we would have probably at least 15 points by now.

How on earth did he get that new contract in the summer? Unless it was part of the package, that has basically cost us the season if we cant afford to sack him. Note, no other club seems to have this issue... Classic Saints...

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