Window Cleaner

In our day and age average is exactly what you get for 19 million. You want class? It's 40 million and upwards.

It's just how top flight football is nowadays. Saints are not alone in this situation.

Well he must be bad if he's not above Winks in their pecking order.

Unsurprising. They live in the shadow of Liverpool FC and have done for about 30 odd years. Leicester were pretty poor and yet Everton with their 200 million £ side couldn't beat them. They need to ditch Silva, he's just a smoke and mirrors man. Filled the side with Portophones, unsuited to PL football.

Time will tell. Ralph isn't the first manager to come into the PL and try to turn everything arse over tit, results have been variable.

Well of course it is. There was no reason whatsover for him to put in that 2 footed tackle at the 85th minute. He lost it, just being a bad loser I expect. Perhaps he thinks fans appreciate that sort of stuff, been watching Jimmy Case videos I expect.

So he didn't put in the cross for Austin to head in that got just tipped out by Emerson then? Just after the half hour IIRC. JWP put in some really good defensive work, cleared one off the line as well.

Well that was puerile then wasn't it. Like they care.

We have had some **** deflections over the past few weeks costing us goals.. Wish i'd said that skints, oh wait I did. Forum bug.

And don't forget he also scored a goal! Can't really blame him for that deflection. He put in some pretty good interventions in our own area.

No doubt, we do seem to spend a lot of money on shiny new objects which are of no more use than the rusty old objects we have in the cupboard under the stairs.

Thing is, we seem to be perpetually clearing players out and getting new players in. Results don't seem to get any much better though. We spent what, about 80 million last summer, 100 million if you factor in Ings. Are we any better than this time last year? It's doubtful really. Puel got better results with lesser players.

He'd be right at the bottom of their list. Doucouré is at the top with Gueye. About 5 pages later Lemina might be there with cheap and a question mark!!

Optimistic. Chelsea won't be at 9 and a half men like City were today. Watched them against the abysmal Palace, just an afternoon off for them.

And yet JWP was our best defender..

But Liverpool were in neutral yesterday, still won by a shedload though. Guardiola will have to solve his left back problem sharpish or the Scousers will take them apart down that side.

Why so ? They win their games and I'd doubt that City's performance today would trouble them overmuch anyway. City still have no left back whatever side we put out today.

City didn't look all that comfortable, mind you with that Ukrainian bloke they were down to 10 men. JWP had a pretty good game but what was Hojbjerg thinking?

Ah right. Run that through the Football Manager speak to Basic English translator then. Comes up with "Being sold next week".

Who'll be signing for Arsenal pretty shortly...or so the press tells me. Cahill wouldn't touch Saints with a bargepole.

He really isn't...

But what we realy need to do is aquire players who are of some utility to us and stop buying players who are no better than we already have. We signed players who cost us about what 70 million or so last summer and we're still no better than we already were.

Why would not knowing the name of the partner (or Gran or whatever) of a bloke who doesn't ever seem to play in the first team be a reason for pîssing off a player of the standard of Cedric then. I really just don't get some of these antics by managers who've been in the place less than 5 minutes. In Saint's current predicament we need to get our best 11 players onto the pitch whenever possible. If he's fit Cedric needs to play aganst City and Chelsea, never mind whether he knows anything about the lesser members of the squad or not.

Ings wasn't really doing much anyway. Why save him for City when you'd think we'd have a much better chance of a positive result against West Ham? City won't lose 3 in a row.

Well sounds like a really, really good reason to deprive the team of a good player. Sort of managerial tomfoolery that gets you results like last night's. Still banning all phones during training hours is laudable.