Window Cleaner

Don't see that we have anyone to make much difference going forward. Gallagher maybe, other than that a restructuration of the midfield, Davis needs to get forward more for sure.

Strange thread, everybody knows what our transfer budget for next season is: 35 million, didn't an ITK poster tell us so ??? :rolleyes: Mauricio should read the forum if he wants to know stuff.

Some might tell you that it's even advisable...probably don't what they're talking about though.

But you can always cut back on the peripheral crap, shirts, programmes,beer etc. That will probably hurt them more than losing a few ST sales.

I don't think you can fault the investment in recent years, trouble is we've got so much of it so very wrong. We've basically wasted 40 million £ if not more. There is no way you should have spent 65 million £ and have 3/4 first team regulars to show for it. Whoever is or has been responsable for some of the crass purchases needs to be sent packing if they haven't already before they can do any more damage.

Excellent news that he's been recognised, pity they'll give it to that knob Suarez though.

True I did not frequent Shirley apart from the occasional visit to Holt+Haskell or the Shield and Dagger. I probably just don't remember well it's a long time ago.

I lived in Southampton on and off for 28 years, can't remember even meeting one Polish person, didn't go to school with any, didn't play football or cricket with any, none went to the pubs I frequented. Surprised at the numbers being quoted actually.

Made a bit of a pigs ear of his last job didn't he ?

Aren't they supposed to be near a take-over by 2 billionaires ?

Wanyama and Cork don't play together. Some sort of incompatability I believe. Morgan says he had to adapt to play with Wanyama, perhaps Cork can't do that. Pity really because it limits our possibilities. I wouldn't mind seeing the above side (in a sort of 4-1-2-2-1 formation) but I don't think we ever will.

This is the way it works in top class football, fading and ageing players are replaced by new ones. Fonte isn't as good as many think and has been poor of late. If you want to progress you just have to make these decisions and totally pass over everything that has gone before. Fonte has been handsomely rewarded for his service, that's why he's driving around in a flash Bentley but now it's time for him to slide back in the pecking order. He'll still get plenty of game time as 3rd CB.

I see no reason for that type of experimentation actually. The lad is a RB now and has no experience at CB in league football. We will replace Fonte with a suitable CB bought in from elsewhere, there's no point tinkering with what you have already. We need to get some points from our last 4 games because we could easily drop down 2 or 3 places if we don't and that will cost us money and status.

7 million ?? Take the money now.

We shall see at the end of the day how many people were actually lost, there is often great confusion on these occasions, why I remember the original estimates for 9/11 were running in the 10s of thousands. At the end of the day it was about 3000 including the plane passengers and unfortunately a lot of the peple who went to save people in peril who weren't actually there. Still I can imagine nothing worse than trying to get a bunch of Korean schoolgirls to stop screaming and start doing what was necessary.

Mauricio puts them on the bench, probably just to please Les Reed, apart from Gallagher they don't ever play. I mean last week we brought on Guly, Clyne and Gallagher, the rest are just there to make up the numbers.

Do kids really need all that ******, get them into a club where they can wear proper kit to play football and not just go round looking the part. People who buy kids kit deserve all they get, people who buy replica shirts deserve all the get and don't get me started on crap like garden gnomes and Saints curtains.

I just thought he was a crap manager, totally out of his depth in the PL and even in tough games in the Championship.

Why is our financial situation difficult ? We owe a few transfer fees but they aren't overdue, that's football finance. We have a mega chunk of money coming our way from the PL. I mean if the board are panicking over a few million that aren't even due until next year that's not really understandable. Few clubs actually make money and those that do invest it in new players and facilities. If you want to make money build supermarkets or 24/7 shops. If our owner had real money surely she wouldn't be worried about a few quid that aren't even due until next year. Jeez even blokes like Gold and Sullivan don't worry about owing a few quid and they're paupers.

What's wrong with Fonte then ?

Pffff only 33 years, a real JCL.

That would suit me.

We don't really need to spend a lot of money, we just need to get our scouting right and be prepared to offer enough in salary to secure the services of good free agents. 50 K a week over 3 years will cost you about 7.5 million whereas deals like Gaston and Osvaldo will cost you at least 3 times that. Boruc is the only decent free agent that we've signed in years although Steve Davis was a bargain due to Rangers' troubles.

That would do the trick yes, can't be that difficult really. New 3 year contract, more money and 35 million and the wherewithal to pay new players.

In fact Mauricio looked totally hacked off about answering the same unanswerable questions week after week. Didn't even seem to be au fait with the suggestion from the Krueger interview yesterday that there was any reason to fight to keep him here, then again perhaps he was just playing dumb. Krueger needs to clarify why he needs to "fight to keep Mauricio here" when the guy has a year left on his contract.