S-Clarke

I wonder if we'll still get to single digits. Go Soccer.

He's just spent the last of the credit he had built up. Absolute shambles. Turned us into one of the most irritating, stuck up, pompous clubs in England.

I also remember the pompous crap Les spouted about Leicester copying our model, and how the fact they were in a 'battle' the following season isn't something we'd do. Oh and also how we'd ''not expect to lose a player to Everton, let alone a manager'' Absolute pompous, stuck up, arrogant football club. Like an annoying stuck up snob who needs a slap.

At least they have the transfer agreed in principle for the summer though, or something.

Who?

The sad thing is that a lot of clubs would look at our players and go ''I'd have him', and him, and him'' and they'd be decent players in a team which is tactically setup correctly with a competent manager. So come next year the PL will continue to be littered with 'former southampton players' whilst we are no where to be seen. At least we'd have pocketed the cash though. That's why watching us, and the bench today, is just sad.

Bit harsh to read much into his game at the moment. The problem is we've got no players to complement him, he needs pace in and around. We don't have any pace, thus he will look ineffective.

Not sure what the point is. He really should have gone after Leicester, or Spurs, or Palace. Take your ****ing pick. Now we've lost an entire january window and all we've done is sign one of the managers picks. The squad is horrifically unballanced in attack, needed sorting, hasn't been sorted. A new manager may make us a bit more competitive, but we're ****ed.

What an absolute mess.

Seriously, come on, are the club trolling us or something? The whole club seem to be saying ''we tried!! we're not bad, we've still got lots of games!'' Come the end of the season after a defeat to Man City ''we tried, we're not bad, we've still got lots of games..oh ****" Why did he start that team? Absolutley pathetic. The first half panned out exactly as that formation would allow it to. Sideways, backwards, safe, sideways, backwards, safe. Yet we still flaming conceeded a goal. We looked better in the 2nd half as he was FORCED to make attacking changes, but why on gods name did he not start like that. The 2nd half was better, but it showed up our attacking options quite glaringly. Loads of the same type, wrong types and not enough pace. Absolute cluster **** from top to bottom.

He'll prob bring Yoshida on with 60 mins remaining. Time to make the trek methinks...

There's £50m of attacking signings on the bench!

That team has got contain written all over it, hope I'm wrong.

But then you have to ask where is the money? Are we really in a position where we can now only buy after we sell? I'd have hoped that the VVD fee (although obviously not the total headline figure) would go towards an existing pot, but maybe not..

Doubt it.

I heard Sims - but surely that was dependant on us getting a wide player, can't see that happening now. Hesketh maybe.

Don't think anyone did tbh, totally the wrong type of player. At least the club agree on that, so they have some idea. Maybe.

Seeing as he played in their game in Spain aprox 1hr ago, probably not!

Any move for Schurle ended when Dortmund lost their ukranian fella. They need to keep him now. Plus he was lined up for Swansea anyway, so they've now seemingly moved onto Ayew.

He is. He's playing right now?

Agreed, there are certain types who are clearly trolls and it's safe to ignore, but at this point in time I think it's impossible for anyone not to be slightly concerned about the long-term future here. Still not a word from Gao, no investment, no intent from him to get a deal pushed over the line and invest in this team on a footballing level. What on earth has this takeover been about?

You are insufferable sometimes. If we drifted down into non-league I'm sure you'd still be snapping at the people moaning. It's not the problem with this deal in isolation, it's a number of factors. 1) - we got the deal done for VVD early, sold off our best player. PR about how we were going to reinvest. 2) - we miss out on what was clearly our number 1 target - theo. 3) - miss out on another of our primary targets - Promes. Seemingly have no alternative plans to fall back on and no intention to replace the player we sold. Last January was a disaster in how we left Fonte go and forgot to replace him, this has been an even larger **** show. The reason we are in the position we are is self-created, it's not because we've been unlucky or because clubs want too much money from little saints, it's because over a long period of time our recruitment has not been good enough and we have failed to replace the players we sold. 13 months ago we had Fonte and VVD as our CB's. We're now with Yoshida/Stephens and Hoedt. With Gardos and Bedranek as backup. That is a serious downgrade and people need to start asking wtf they expect to achieve with that model.

Would they even need to tweet that, given that nothing has actually happend anyway? They can just turn the lights off, maybe at HT. Who knows.

I wouldn't pay much attention to the summer deal waffle. Wouldn't expect there's anything in that, just makes it look a bit better in an initial PR sense. If there was a proper agreement for the summer, then we'd have shouted about it. But there isn't. More ********.

So they got their replacement and we still won't sign him. Well done Spartak, made our excuse look lame now. Can't blame them now.