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Not sure either are. Larin with a full summer of Saints prep under Tonda might be a different proposition.

Could spectacularly rebound on him

Not knowing which division you’re going to be in seems a sound reason to me. How do you pitch the salary proposal without knowing that ?

Being booted out of the play off final after allegations of spying, probably wasn’t up there in the risks to guard against. I don’t fault the club in this. They couldn’t have foreseen things developing as they did, and before the play off final the club wouldn’t have known which league they’d be playing in next season to pitch the contract offer. Perhaps as someone said, the drafting of the contract term is at fault from three years ago.

Interesting that one article says the interview was at his golf course, in Bled, Slovenia. Looked it up, it’s one of the top 100 courses in the world. Looks pretty spectacular, article saying Dragan bought it for £9m in 2013. https://www.royalbled.com Looks impressive and pisses on the pitch and put at Rockliffe.

Good interview, I’d feel a lot more confident in the club management if Solak is closely involved and monitoring things.

Yes

Just don't spend 3 months chasing Spersians (sp?) shadow again and being pissed about

or Baz

Delighted to say he easily surpassed Carillo in the pantheon of Great Saints strikers, probably with his first touch of the ball vWatford. Good news he's coming back. As someone above said, a full summer training and he should be firing next season.

I half expected Coventry to come in for him. Talking to some of their fans away they thought Lampard had spoken really highly of him, enough to be one to watch if they got up.

I can’t wait to see him scoring a few in the upcoming World Soccerball Super Bowl events in the next few weeks. This kid could be full of confidence when he comes back and a different player. Wonder at what point of the games Poch will take him from the roster and unleash him on the world

Another area Brits can excel at in the next Olympics

Probably right re having a better GK for the season as it would have spread confidence through the team. But I don’t recall GK being a particular weakness that season - perhaps I’ve been conditioned by a few seasons of Bazunu -and it was a long time ago. Katalinic for example played out of his skin at Anfield. My recollection is that out transfer focus was strikers, (especially with KK injury concerns).Hence the Trevor Francis link, and deadline day signing of Keith Cassells. Wright coming as well of course.

Fucking mongtastic. Can't wait.