Saint Fan CaM

Mate - check the date of the post!

Except the SS report was from today? I guess it maybe regurgitated BS, but not a week old.

You’ve clearly not seen my Wife. 🤣

It could be argued that the club has analysed the issue and decided the root cause was not in the strikers individually, but in (a) the competition level of the strikers which has been addressed with BBD and Archer in and/or (b) the supply to the front line which has been addressed by bringing SAA and Dibling in, adding Suga and Fernandes which has improved midfield. You could also argue Lesley potentially provides an opportunity for Downes to get forward more. That’s not to say we’ll not add more, but I’m not certain we’ll see a regular CF come in, especially if Stewart manages to get/stay fit.

Looks highly likely to be headed our way on a loan deal, so thought he deserved his own thread. If it happens it’s one of the best signings in a summer of pretty great signings. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/aaron-ramsdale/profil/spieler/427568

Just seen Sky Sports saying we’re in for a loan deal deal for Ramsdale - fingers crossed they get this across the line.

Sky Sports reporting Saints have a loan deal for Ramsdale lined up - he needs first team opportunities, so if he comes it’ll definitely be as no.1. Kind of old news but first I’ve seen a concrete report so looks likely. I wonder if it’ll be a loan to buy deal or we intend to bail and go back to the Baz project - hope the former?

To be fair, while he may have shown glimpses, overall his contribution to goals or assists has been mediocre at best. We need more…much more.

Fixed it for you.

Billow doesn’t fill me with much more confidence than McCarthy to be honest. If he didn’t have such a poor fitness/injury record it would be a different matter. Think I’d prefer Steele, but that’s not saying much!

Who is Rodrigues?!?

Good luck Mara…Hope you find your mojo cos’ you certainly didn’t have it here.

Difficult to say - you’ve got to be on the pitch to score, so the question is from the 4 possibles who gets the nod to start games? All of them are unknowns in the EPL under Russball and playing high possession has not historically provided us with big goal numbers. You could point to improvements in midfield - Suga, Fernandes, Lesley - which hopefully will mean service will be better. If I was forced to make a prediction I would say AA who has shown he score a hatful with the right conditions albeit in the Championship and this squad is shaping up to be a better one than our last EPL season. He is more likely to be a starter unless he gets injured (rare) so should get the chances. To be fair though it matters not who scores the goals - we just need to be more creative and put oppo keepers under more pressure!

Well if he’s a loan and without understanding the possible financials, I suspect there’s a chance his wages will be shared.

You may be right, but the ‘proof of the pudding’ as they say. My feeling is we’ve improved on a key weakness from the last few seasons and that’s the ability of our forwards to move fluidly in the box…anticipate passes, plus also improve the supply to them which will be what Matheus will bring. The only slight unknown is whether RM persists with a back 5 or he changes things for certain games e.g, goes 433 or 442.

I doubt we were desperate to sign any of those players. Whether there’s a need to sign another CF is debatable - depends on whether Ross S has had enough recuperation time to mend fully and stay fit. If he can then with AA, Archer and BBD we might have enough if attacking midfield quality is upgraded significantly and that appears to be the intent with Matheus signing and hopefully KWP staying.

Think we’re all excited by this signing, but losing your load is a bit extreme don’t you think?!? 🤣🤣🤣

I know the answer to this. LLSS. Thank me later.

Must say, if Patricio was to come to us via Goztepe it would be the best bit of business SR have ever pulled off for us. Huge upgrade on what we have in goal now and it’s hard to imagine him playing for Goztepe. Fingers crossed.

If you throw enough mud at a wall, some of it will stick. Pointless activity, but fun anyway.😉

Hugely tenuous and risky position, but I guess they’ve got the funds to operate in that way. Assuming they’re allowed to continue by the games authorities that is.

Maybe if the scouting network was sound at that time - suspect this was not part of the usual proper tests and reviews. There was promise, but not in any form of the type of football the club wants to employ.

You mean like that? 🤣

Yeah, my feeling is it’s more like… Fernandes/Aribo - Downes/Smallbone - Ugochukwu/Lallana (who has said his role was different while at Brighton…more like Downes/JWP with less attacking moves, probably due to not having the legs anymore).

No he was not agitating to move - he didn’t need to as the club obviously had to make some financial adjustments. KWP and McCarthy stayed and I bet their salary was not far off JWP’s. He has admitted that he left to get in contention for an England call, which in itself doesn’t show good judgement - he Captained one of the worst performing EPL sides ever that got relegated in an awful season…hardly a good resume for a player hoping to play at International level.