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Yeah I realise it has no substance hence the "If only" comment

If only...... Three English goalkeepers Liverpool should consider in January http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=BDIGeneric&aid=C98EA5B0842DBB9405BBF071E1DA7651530FFE51&tid=D114BF5810434F049AEDA36202A3C787&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.hitc.com%2fen-gb%2f2017%2f11%2f09%2f3-english-goalkeepers-liverpool-should-consider-in-january%2f&c=13912043436734950704&mkt=en-gb

Half time pie?

From the horses mouth Allardyce's five-month tenure at Crystal Palace ended in May, with the 62-year-old citing the demands of club coaching as a factor. And while the former Bolton, Blackburn and Newcastle boss has no appetite for another club job, he has not retired. "If I have to consider anything, it would have to be an international position," he told Talksport. "It is less demanding than the Premier League [in which] the tension and the pressure is huge. "When you are on international duty, it is all focused on you, but of course after that months go by before you meet up again, so that would maybe suit me, if I am enticed back into the game." http://m.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/40653075 Of course if Man City or Chelsea come calling he might change his mind.

He is looking for a nice cushy international managers job to enjoy semi retirement in. Why people think he wants to get back into a high pressure PL job I don't know.

Interesting take on things Sacking your manager is pointless and a result of bad luck and the stats prove it https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/news/sacking-your-manager-is-pointless-and-a-result-of-bad-luck-and-the-stats-prove-it/ar-BBEKDJR?ocid=spartandhp I particularly LOL at this 90 per cent of drivers believe they are above average: humans are not very good at realistic self-assessment. This illusory superiority permeates football too: owners and fans are often incapable of seeing where their team really stands, rather than where they would like it to. The sobering truth is that, as Soccernomics shows, there is a 90 per cent correlation between teams’ wages and their results.

yeah but its arguable weather his 11 games is considered a fair crack of the whip managers aren't really given much time these days to get it right. Anyway...... MoPe OUT!

Romeu and Hoj also scored . Maybe saints should ask to play all their games behind closed doors or play Fulham every week...

Really I thought it was your Burnleys and West Broms they struggled against. We will go and try to play football (which in fairness we've done all season) and they will kill us because we will leave space for Mane and Salah to get in behind. Both of them are far less dangerous if you just sit deep in two banks of 4/5 and give them no space to work in. Puel managed to nullify Liverpool 4 times last season playing like that (at the expense of any major attacking threat it has to be said). Liverpool's defence is still pretty flaky making them the best team in the league to play anti-football against (other than us at home of course) because if you sit deep they struggle and their defence always looks like it will leak a goal.

Best we get him into the first team then now, you know, it's all gone wrong...

That article is from 2015 and VVD is rated at 10million in it. No way spurs could afford him or, no doubt, his new wage demands now.

Mmm Was hoping McCarthy was good enough to step in for Forster who needs dropping for a few games imo but shipping three against lower league opposition isn't exactly screaming "Give me a chance gaffer".

For the defence to be exceptional we would need a keeper that can save stuff.

last season the line from the ITKs was the players were playing badly because they all hated Puel and his ways...now they are all playing badly because they like Black and MoPe and need more harsh words ....maybe our players are just a bit ****..

what time did they kick off?

I'm not sure that was quite what Romeu was saying "While we’re attacking we have to defend and allow our attacking players to create problems but we defensively have to be ready for the counter.”

I'm trying to imagine the relationship Tadic and Poch would have

Ernest Arnfield 1897 to 1911 and 1912 to 1919 Southampton[edit] Prior to Swift's appointment, the Saints had been "managed" by the board under the company secretary, Ernest Arnfield, with Bill Dawson as trainer. The board had made a concerted effort to find a manager who could end the team's dreadful run of form (which had seen them drop to 17th place in the Southern League at the end of the 1910–11 season), and interviewed 140 applicants. Following the appointment of Swift, Dawson (who had been trainer for seventeen years) resigned and Arnfield moved to financial secretary. In the first six weeks of Swift's brief reign he spent £820 recruiting eleven new players. Unfortunately, the appointment of a full-time manager failed to stop the rot and the 1911–12 season was another disappointment with the team finishing in 16th place, resulting in Swift's resignation.[1]

Well from what I can work out he has managed 32 minutes this season... http://www.flashscore.com/player/clasie-jordy/jXmcHMfr/

In fairness Austin doesn't look to lightweight these days...

Hardly news. Had he and Liverpool gone about things the right way last summer he would have got his move. This whole saga had less to do with saints not wanting to sell and more about making stand against players, agents and clubs trying to take the **** out of us.

Pace? That would have been Shane Long then.

In hindsight? Plenty of us pointing how **** it was last season when people tried to put everything on Puel. In hindsight you could say 8th and cup final wasn't a bad return for a dire summer.

I'd be tempted to play 5-3-2 with Gabbi and Long as the two and play early balls in the space behind their defence. Liverpool's defence is shakey but you have to put it under pressure two quick CFs turning thier CBs around might do that better than **** crosses from out wide to players with their backs to the Liverpool goal.

Ok question let's say that people are right and nik-nak stayed, poch stayed and none of those players left that first summer after nik-nak quit were do people think saints would be now? Regular top 6, regular top 4, champions league regulars, how many trophies? Would we have ever seen the likes of Mane and VVD or gone for different players?