Saint Fan CaM

Absolute pleasure to watch that game. CV can walk away with their heads held high and in the knowledge that there are few teams that could have come away with that result. CV’s no.13 LB and keeper (at 40) are great players.

Bugger - that’s it then. 🥲

Best match of the tournament so far. Love it!

Superb goal and it seems it’s saped all the spirit out of Argentina.

ET for Capo Verde - excellent!

Come on Capo Verde - get the winner!

Messi dives just outside the box surprise surprise and the Ref buys it - watch them score now.

The Ref is not exactly giving Capo Verde their fair share of fouls - a few times he’s ignored minor trips in favour of Argentina.

Because as a midfielder you need a pair of decent legs to get you up and down the field? 😉

Capo Verde doing rather OK just as I predicted. 😂😉

Fair enough - to be fair I’ll probably nod off, but as it’s once every four years it’s rude not to!

So you’re not sat watching the Capo Verde game hoping that they can pull off a miracle? As was said in build up commentary, whatever happens, Capo Verde win. If they somehow get through what is probably their ‘final’ they’ll be celebs for life.

Thing is it’s difficult to determine exactly how a player will work out in this scenario. Putting on the Pompey rose tinted glasses, you could speculate he might have been surrounded by lesser players and so wasn’t able to reach his peak level. And that he might relish a second chance opportunity at a higher level club and perform out of his skin to prove his worth. Or he might just be a dog. Yeah, that’s more like it! 😂

Any further disruption to the start of the season is really not welcome - the FA are sp slow because they’re knee deep in shite themselves, particularly when it comes to dealing with the likes of,Man City. I really hope Solak has the balls to take legal action if they’re too harsh on Eckhert given the punishment already dished out by the EFL.

I thought we’d rejected £25m? Given his age he’s got to be worth at least that. I would think £25m + a decent sell-on fee would seal the deal.

Looks like they’ve sorted that out. Or rather Haaland did.

I understand your thoughts, however I’m not sure you’re comparing eggs with eggs. His role changed at Saints under Eckhert compared to his time with WBA, meaning he naturally had fewer opportunities to score. I don’t think you can judge the lad based just on his goal scoring ability. He was fulfilling almost a pseudo RB role using his dribbling skills to break through an opposition high press to move the ball forward and he did that very well. There are not too many others able to do that as well as him - not even Scienza did as well. I doubt very much that his instructions from Eckhert were “go out there and score me as many goals as you can”.

And yet Fellows had a part to play in our 21 game unbeaten run. How were the same players performing prior to Eckhert influence?

Agreed - think we look pretty average compared to the usual top teams. I’m perplexed as to why Pickford still starts in goal - I think he’s a calamity waiting to happen and can’t believe there’s not a better English keeper. Then there’s the very average Roger’s, Spence and Anderson making up numbers. Without Rice the midfield looks weak. And the defensive line looks very unbalanced.

Liam Delap under Eckhert guidance would be a dream signing for Saints or indeed any Championship side. He has all the attributes for a CF role and is easily as good as Larin if not better. Best we could expect is a loan to buy, but I don’t think he wants to be playing anywhere other than the Prem…certainly not with Saints.

Spain looking good vfm last night against a pretty good Uruguay team.

Great play and game management by Ecuador - pleased they did that.

Scotland were pretty much toothless - Brazil were not even playing at their best and trounced the Scots sadly.

Not bothered about Stewart - more concerned about SR’s ability to get a decent replacement in.

Really nice to see another player commit to the club, particularly given his return coincided with our upturn in form.