goodymatt

Perhaps City have the strongest squad of all time. I don’t remember seeing a team with 2 players in every position that close in ability, their squad depth is disgraceful. Agree that Barca team was absolutely incredible, they are the team that comes to my mind for best ever too. But could they do it on a cold and rainy night in Stoke? 😉

Wouldn’t be surprised if WHU missed out on euro footy altogether this season. Very tight up there and games in hand to be played. That would be favourable!

That older bloke in the City Vlog basically described us as Burnley. Anyone can see we were brave in the way we played, especially first half. It’s not like we parked the bus and scored our only shot on target! Another day both teams score more in that game. That was a performance to be proud of, not a performance to suggest we are an anti-footballing side. Why so bitter?

Can see KWP wanting to move on, but hoping we can keep him as he’s been a great signing. It’s a nice problem to have, but I can’t see it being a problem KWP will put up with. He’s not a LB, what happens if/when Small breaks through or If Perraud develops well. Far too good to be a squad player for Saints!

With this link and the scouting the Aberdeen RB, does this mean Tino might need surgery after all? We are otherwise heavily stocked in this area…

Fabio Carvalho’s scored and assisted in the first half tonight vs Brum.

Do this much noise making it more or less likely do we think? It’s unusual for us to take this approach. Didn’t work out as we wanted with Danny Ings for example.

I’d also be happy with a first refusal to Chelsea like the Tino buyback. If we could get 2-3 seasons out of those two we would be very lucky. Adding some more young talents like McAtee for example would be quite exciting. Still not really sure if we can get Broja to stay beyond this season but if we are trying that’s all we can do. Good vibes about the direction we are heading at the moment.

Zaha and Richarlison irritate me greatly. Both are brilliant players but are so petulant, arrogant and love a dive.

100% this, Puel had to go. His performances elsewhere, especially Leicester also support this. We were clever enough to make the change, but unfortunately believed our own hype in manager recruitment following Adkins/Poch/Koeman. If only we hadn’t got that change so wrong!

I have Albanian friends that have lived in England almost all of their life, but the hatred against Serbia is still full on. I went over to Albania to see them get married, their culture is as patriotic as you can be. Puts us to shame really! Sure their kids are born here now but they all still have family back home and they are all brought up as Albanians, by Albanians that moved here for safety and a better life. When Broja scores we see his eagle celebration every time. Being born in Slough makes no difference at all, any association to Serbia can only worsen our chances of loaning Broja next season IMO. Of course I hope he decides to leave Chelsea and sign for us permanently, but that’s unlikely with or without a Serbian owner.

All sounds like a great fit, like others I’m cautiously optimistic. Hopefully this is our sustainable model with that bit more of a foundation and financial flexibility to make it work for us. I wonder if this is actually more likely to prevent Broja staying on though. One of my close friends is Albanian and he just messaged me “say goodbye to Broja”. I’m sure the association would be seen as unacceptable in his family. The hatred against Serbia is unwavering and for good reason.

As Salisu was a red, does that mean his ban is served in this fixture? Think I read accumulative yellows are competition specific but reds are still for all domestics? Can anyone confirm?

They’ve removed the function to change it unless you sign up to the paid membership. I’d like to change it, but I’m not paying a fiver for the privilege!

Does anyone know how this Covid declaration thing works? I’ve got 3 tickets to Wolves away (should a potential circuit breaker not close the stadium). One of the tickets I purchased with my Dad’s supporter number but he can’t go now and my friend wants to take the ticket. We are all triple jabbed and have Covid passes we can show at the stadium, but I can’t register a declaration against my friends name on the Saints OS as the ticket was purchased against a different supporter number/name. Would that info even make it to wolves on the day or will they just check Covid passes and let him in? Appreciate this is a new process so maybe I’m not the only one wondering how this works and if I need to call saints and make changes? TIA

Jinx!

Absolutely. I did try as soon as Danny jumped ship, but I think you need to be a full member to change avatar these days… Might have to just pay the £5 fine!

I’ve just checked each Villa PL game on Flash Scores. 4 yellows total including today, so not suspended unfortunately.

Any streams for the game tonight?

Tino is an absolute baller. Redmond miss might have been even worse than Djenepo at Newcastle. As if we have 2 miss of the season contenders already… Come on Saints, carry that momentum through into the second half and get the win! Please.

Didn’t work out for him at Fulham despite spending a fair amount. Wouldn’t say Ranieri is nailed on to keep them up. Sadly I’d agree that we are in that lottery group of teams that could go down. Hoping we can still avoid the drop though.

Quite possible. Hoping this isn’t the case and it is just an injury, but there’s usually no smoke without fire and that Sun article (yes, I know it’s The Sun) was concerning and so out of the blue.