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I’m interested to hear people’s opinion on whether Will Still is seen as an upgrade on Russell Martin. I think possibly but can’t help but wonder if Russ would have been best placed for an instant return again had we stuck by him. 1 win in 16 PL games obviously made that impossible to do, he had to go. It appears Rohl is now favourite for the Leicester job, I wonder if Still stepping down from Lens meant that we decided to strike for a ‘better’ target that we didn’t think was initially available rather than actually being rejected by Rohl. This appears to be the view of the Second Tier Podcast, which I thought was an interesting take. We have all been discussing Rohl wanting to consider his options and taking his time and Saints not wanting to wait. I wonder if we would have rather had Rohl and if so, competing against him next season will be interesting. Maresca was our first choice last time according to the Athletic. Russ has now joined Rangers, Juric looks very likely to be the next Atalanta manager, both failed miserably in the PL but still have takers at a decent level. I don’t think either are as bad as people make out on here recently because the squad they had just wasn’t competitive at PL level. Admittedly Martin did have a big say in the recruitment last summer, so should shoulder some blame on the squad not being good enough, but primarily it’s on SR for not replacing Wilcox before the Pl season started and trying to rebuild a new squad with people who had no experience of doing it.

We were looking at Carrick when we appointed Martin, his stock does seem to have fallen over the last 2 seasons, not making the playoffs despite investment.

£60 full price last season.

It is clear that Bazunu has been bottom of the ‘conceding goals you shouldn’t be conceding’ tables for 2 straight seasons, despite dropping into a lower league. He was still only saving close to every other shot in Belgium before he got injured, his worst save percentage of his career to date (54.6%). The sample size is big enough to know he’s not ready to be our number 1, if we want to be challenging for the top 2. His excellent ball playing skills are less useful to us in a Will Still system than a Martin one, so it should be very clear to Will that a new GK is a high priority. He is used to setting up teams to concede fewer than expected, we will not achieve that with Bazunu as our first choice keeper. I know not all posters value data as it can be misleading but whether it is data or my own eyes, they are agreeing on this one. The lack of takers for his loan this season speaks volumes.

Just seen P&O on front of the Saints Foundation staff tops, perhaps how it will look on the front of the new kits?

Dare ya

The ‘&’ is all so important. Sponsored by a cruise line the HMS piss the league memes would fit together nicely. Generally just be good to have a sponsor actually connected to the city again instead of a random betting brand that doesn’t even operate in the UK. Guess we will find out in the next month or so.

Surely the 30% to City is on profit? Pretty sure it was based on profit in our Lavia sale?

Wouldn’t mind that at all

Someone posted on here a little while back confirming we will have a new sponsor, they might be telling porkies though…

If the rumours of us changing sponsor are true, I guess that delays the kit announcement until the date the sponsorship with rollbit ends. Anyone know when that is?

I read Juan’s loan to Goztepe was always expected to be 2 years.

What are your thoughts on this appointment? Are you disappointed it isn’t Rohl?

Great watch and thanks for sharing, really encouraging insight into how he works. He appears to have great man management skills and clearly puts everything into it. Agree with other posters this is the best video of them all, the suite of content on this guy is all looking like we have made a great appointment. Let’s hope that excitement and hope that this is going to work bears fruit this season. I’m certainly feeling a lot more optimistic the more I look into this guy.

£13m is a bargain, surely heading to the PL.

Wonder if it’s that GK we were linked with?

Last time we tried to build a back room staff for a manager ourselves, it didn’t go well. I wonder why his brothers aren't joining, having been released by Lens? Hopefully Spors finds the right level of support. Perhaps all agree an experienced assistant would be beneficial. Surely Tom Cleverley wasn’t at the PL2 playoff final as he’s joining as assistant? I’d imagine he wants to be the main man somewhere.

Fab says he has. Everyone is reporting it will be formally announced today.

Interesting comment on Rohl here: Sheffield Wednesday manager Danny Rohl was previously linked with the Saints job, but the compensation package to move to a club within the same division was thought to be too expensive. i think he also wants a top league job as quoted elsewhere but interesting if we did chose Still due to compensation values.

Impressive to better last seasons point tally with a -£76m spend which included losing GK and both main CBs. The entire spine of the team sold in January actually.

Interesting, perhaps the compensation discussions for them are ongoing.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKCyvBuoavw/?img_index=19&igsh=aHJvMHM0NTYxb2R1 Will Still’s goodbye post to Lens.