John B

I agree with what you are saying but without a lot of investment I feel we are in a bad position as the squad is pretty dire apart from a few players

I would be happy with just one decent reliable goal scorer

Thanks for explaining that, I really didn't connect the dots

and 2 PL appearances apparently Not much experience but he maybe OK I looked on Wiki and he has played 2 PL games so who knows At least with Broja he had scored international goals and Chelsea fans I know rated him highly

Theoretically I agree with you but 1 How do you know we can get rid of Stephens Redmond and Walcott as they are on contracts and may not want to leave 2 What do think the bugget would be I for one are fed up of the club getting in young players and hoping that they will improve into PL players I would like at least two proper PL players one in the Tadic mode the other an experienced CB

I do not disagree with you at all but how much will that cost and does the club have a budget for it In the 2021 summer transfer window we got in A Armstrong Peraud Tino Lynaco for about £30 m and they hardly contributed to a successful season although loaning in Broja did to some extent

These days Reading is my local team and one of my daughyer's in-laws has a season ticket there So I follow them a bit and have watched them a bit but yes like SFC they have limited investment and would have been relegated if Derby had not had points deducted. Our strategy is not working our Academy is not producing PL quality players and the young players we buy like A Armstrong Adams Dialio Salisu and Lynaco are hardly developing int top class PL players . I cannot remember where Watkin came from to go to Villa but is worth £50m now apparently so it can be done as we found out with Mane Lovren and VVD but the unless we find some cheap players to develop we will find ourselves in the same position as Reading Sheff Wed Derby and Ipswich like we did 15 years ago That relegation team was probably on a par or even better than our current one

Exactly my friends I met at Uni sixty years ago supported Sheff Wed Sunderland Ipswich Man City Carlisle Swindon and Nottm Forest I expect most would be envious of my situation

Yes I agree but I do feel that our current players apart from a few are pretty poor and it is unsurprising that we are where we are

But if our offer was not acceptable to Forster do you not think he has every right to refuse it We do not know what was offered and we do not know what other options Forster has But I do not think that either Goalkeeper is preventing the team from performing better and replacing them is not as important as getting in some more effective attacking players So I would be more than happy to keep them if we used the money to getting a PL standard striker so lower league players who may or may not score regularly in the PL

I think we have every chance of getting relegated not this season perhaps but next if we lose JWP and do not replace him and Broja with proper PL players Next season we cannot assume that the promoted teams will not get relegated like I did this season with Brentford that said they could still go down like us

I do not know how long you have been following Saints Lighthouse but in the last sixty years in the top division we have the worst strikers and creative players I have seen I give you a dozen players over those 60 years who would put the present ones to shame and no doubt you could too Chivers Keegan Worthington Danny Wallace Pahars Boyer Macdougal Williams Holmes Ball Osgood Paine

I think he has done quite well to keep us up with the worst bunch of strikers I have ever seen play for Saints in the PL Without decent players we will never prosper unfortunately Let see what happens next season but I am not hopeful

Sorry to say that you are wrong we have been making up the numbers since 1966 but have been in the top flight for most of that time. If think it is very unlikely that the strategy of the club is going to change and instead of whingeing support the club in its quest to stay in the PL

Southampton will not listen to offers for 27-year-old England midfielder James Ward-Prowse, who is believed to be of interest to Newcastle United and Tottenham. (Mail) I wonder how this turns out

I thought the same but 246 was a decent recovery But I would like to continue with Mason Crane who has gone to Sussex on loan I am continually disappointed with him and his early promise has disappeared but feel the club's spin future could lie with Organ who can bat a bit It is all very sad really I thought Mason would develop into a top class bowler but it never seems to happen.

Do you not think that the whole squad apart from JWP Forster and possibly KWP have faded in the last couple of months as well as the ones you mention

What about a loan Having 4 FBs is a luxury when we need to spend mega on some striker or another

SFC has been like this essentially since getting to Div 1 in 1966 a few seasons of relative success playing in Europe many seasons of just staying up and a couple of relegations It will probably continue in the same way for the immediate future but at least we are still in the PL unlike Portsmouth Derby Nottm Forest Ipswich Sunderland Coventry clubs to similar to us

Perhaps he has got the best out of Armstrong and his best is not very good

But he is pretty ineffective

I agree with you and I doubt anyone other than KWP apart from Forster would get into Koemann's side of a few years ago. We just have a pretty ordinary squad which is probably positioned in its expected position in the PL league 12 to 15 I would have thought

The trouble is I do not see us attracting any quality players without spending big and one season we will probably go down Ralph gets all the blame but we do not have any players of the calibre of Mane Tadic Lallana VVD Pelle Lambert etc

How long have you been following the Saints I have followed them since 1960 and in that time I have seen them with little investment being in the top Division for nearly forty five years ago with the squad we have now we are lower PL team that is how it is and that is probably how it is going to be until one day we get relegated again. We have in my opinion the worst set of strikers I have seen us play with since we have been in the top flight and it is this lack of goals which is our current problem

Why not give some respect to Burnley they deserved to win