John B

Very true but managers of stature do not seem to want to come here As a matter of interest do you know any suitable managers who have not been employed

Perhaps other strikers were not interested in coming to Southampton Apart from an injured Ings we have not signed a decent striker when we have been in the PL for over twenty years except when Koemann was the manager We are unlikely to recriut a manager of his standing in the foreseeable future and as a club which is on the downit is not a place where top class players want to play except for youngsters who are not certain to develop into PL players The club have been in a decline since Puel was sacked not helped by the lack of investment by our Chinese owner.who could not release any money

I am slightly more positive we just need to get in better players who can regularly score goals which does not seem to be as easy as some on here think

What would you think he should do if they offered a significant increase in his wages

Thanks Donald

I think Trump must have hacked him and posted his usual rubbish

The club is in the position it is because it has players like Armstrong and Bazunu who are not PL standard and a large proportion of the the fanbase are demanding for the Club to be in the PL It is not going to happen for sometime we are just an average Championship club as our League position shows with no outstanding players I have seen over the years promotions where the teams had international players like Paine Chivers Melia Forsyth Ball Williams Boyer MacDougal Lambert Fonte Llanana plus very good other players I just cannot see how we are going to get to the PL and stay there with what we have now

One swallow does not make a summer and I remember vividly you making comment during the era you mention that we should enjoy the success as it would not last I have been following the Saints from around 1960 with the first thirty being great with decent managers and some great players but since the Premier League results have been poor and the standard of players generally worse than before the Premier League We can only be a decent club if we have wealthy owners who employ independent experienced football people to run the club

hopefully we will finish well and give it a go next season

Reed had a couple of good seasons but it was obvious that selling our best players was not going to lead to success Semmens did a good job but we were in terminal decline which has led to where we are now with a serious of poor managers no top class players from the Academy and average quality signings

Under Bates Mcmenemy and Nichol I had faith in the manager, style of play, most of the players and the board. Except for a few seasons I have had little faith with people like Lowe Reed Gao and SR running the club since the early 1990s The players since 1990 apart from a handful have been dire and the good ones in general wanted to leave as soon as they could

Neither do I but it has been same for the last 30 years

But he cannot get into the fucking team so why do you think he is not getting picked

One of the best Saints players over the last sixty years pretty underated in my opinion Him and Terry Paine got us to Div 1 in 1966 although he stopped scoring goals towards the end of the season but did score 30 or so that season RIP

I realise that any on here never saw Bobby Moore our 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) play in the 1966 World Cup Final

Get in three new starters and I think you will be proved wrong as our bench looks particularly week

I think the recruitment has been ok recently but getting the elusive decent Centre Forward which we have been trying to recruit for so long would no doubt make us a far better team The full back situation needs to be improved although injuries have not helped there

I agree with you but continually going on about him when the club is likely to stick with him is a annoying and a waste of time He is not a top class player like the rest of the squad but he has the misfortune to play in a position where most people seem to know all there is to goalkeeping he keeps playing in a winning team and earning possibly more in a week than lots of people earn in a year

Just accept that we are in the Championship and the Club has decided to play with Baz this season and just support him We are not going to get in another goalkeeper until the summer as we have Ramsdale out on loan and McCarthy out of contract in the Summer

RIP Robin one of my favorite Hampshire Players

You live in La La Land it takes time to build a PL team be realistic there are so few PL standard players in our squad just like last season when we amassed so few points Our other promotion teams did have some decent PL players but these days you need over 20 top class players

Why would they appoint Eckert after two wins against mediocre teams as there is no hurry as it is highly unlikely we will get promoted this season and if we did it would likely be a disaster SR would have learnt from their mistakes with Jones and Juric despite what some on here might think Getting in a Manager when we were in the PL was much easier than in the Championship but we were only really successful with PL managers who moved on very quickly to bigger clubs

I did not say we should go for the unproven route I just think getting in a good manager is very difficult because most of the suggestions on here are unlikely to happen So best to wait until we can get in someone decent

I do not think it is as easy as you suggest getting in managers there do not seem to be many available from what I can see

OK Rose was sacked by the RB Leipzig board on 30 March 2025 after heavily underperforming in the Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League but he a possibility How do you know he wants to come here