Smirking_Saint

Unfortunately this is it, lets get this straight, I dont want to be paying loads to agents, but, thats how transfers work.

Lol, and Blakey was calling TijTim a poor poster the other day, your incredible nipper you really are. FWIW I have heard there is a certain amount of inexperience, its not necessarily from a players or transfer fees POV but NC seems to have a bee in his bonnet over agents. Now, most of us woukd agree that we woukd rather not pay the greedy bastards anything, but in reality you have to. Its hard to buy a house without estate agents etc NC will learn eventually. Its different to last season though, last season we wasted a lot of time chasing players that had no intention of joining. I think we are making progress on a few, lets not panic though, most deals take a lot of time. Very few teams have done much if anything so far, you have holidays, internationals and tge fact that you have to pay players for nothing if done early, none of this helps.

Lol, and Blakey was calling TijTim a poor poster the other day, your incredible nipper you really are. FWIW I have heard there is a certain amount of inexperience, its not necessarily from a players or transfer fees POV but NC seems to have a bee in his bonnet over agents. Now, most of us woukd agree that we woukd rather not pay the greedy bastards anything, but in reality you have to. Its hard to buy a house without estate agents etc NC will learn eventually. Its different to last season though, last season we wasted a lot of time chasing players that had no intention of joining. I think we are making progress on a few, lets not panic though, most deals take a lot of time. Very few teams have done much if anything so far, you have holidays, internationals and tge fact that you have to pay players for nothing if done early, none of this helps.

Carroll, Bony and Nolan in a forward three ? I wonder what sort of tactics they are going to use then FWIW if Carroll stays injury free I reckon he will have a good season, I thought WHU were in debt though ?

Bony is the sort of player we should be looking at IMO, plus I certainly wouldnt mind a player like Ince depending on price.

Jesus christ the man is incredible

Lets see what happens if we spunk 15m on sa striker

We certainly need better wingers and more pace, we play the build up game well enough but when GR is not on the pitch RL drops into those positions and then although is great on the ball it means we have nobody in the box. With GR on the pitch he seems not to have enough infront of him. A striker with a bit of pace will do us wonders. RL will get goals, but we wont really click untill we get someone up top who is more mobile.

4231 is difficult as you got to get the tactics spot on, often the full backs and CMs go forward leaving you exposed, I had an unreal 4231 team, was doing ok in europe but pants in the prem. i switched to 442 and it all clicked

Nobody has said he isnt fit, he has very much worked on his overall fitness. He just doesnt have the pace to play up top in the prem IMO This whole he was injured thing always baffles me too, everytime he has poor games there is always some injury that he is playing with that nobody other than a few on SWF seem to know about ?

Yeah agreed Dunc, he isnt what we need any more as a main striker, he just has not got the legs. We are definately looking for a replacement aswell. I have always thought that he could carve a role out of the no 10 or atleast the advanced midfielder of the forward 3. And may still do that next year, he will be competing with Gaston though, who is the better player if he actually finds his form. Rickie will still get a fair share of game time but will not be the main act IMO

I dont know whats worse, believing we are actually going to sign defoe or actually giving any faith to anything that poster says. Never mind the fact he says we want someone to play off of J Rod or Rickie ?... Um, no we dont as we dont play that way.

You can say that about virtually any invention TBH

Yeah but surely the FA can get in through due to some sort of sporting sanction ? They already have with the home grown rulings as part of the 23 man squad

3rd alpine tantrum and the window officially opened at 00:00 this morning....

This isnt the muppet show alps

The gizoogled version of the HCDAJFU thread is much better http://www.gizoogle.net/index.php?search=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.saintsweb.co.uk%2Fshowthread.php%3F44154-Summer-2013-HCDAJFU-Transfer-thread%2Fpage71%23.UdF1sGS9Kc0&se=Search#.UdF1zGS9Kc0

Well, My workout has changed alot since I last posted on here, Ive since dropped 2 stone and regularly run 7-10 miles. Back on the pitch, hamstring sorted and started doing upper body work. Now I do two big hour HIIT sessions a week and 3 full body weights workouts inc K bells, deadlifts, dips, pull ups etc Hows everyone else getting on ?!

Brazil playing incredibly, thought that spain would be far too good for them but wow. The pressing is brilliant, if they keep this up for 90 mins wow Shows what happens when you put teams under pressure.

Not for me, good player, you pay the english player premium but v good

Oh Dune, you are a card

IMO if you sign squad players you dont progress. Villa needed to add bodies with experience to see them through a different season, we are going for players that challenge for a first team spot which is right IMO the 1st of July was a date he wanted things done, you dont always meet your deadlines, let alone a TW within which players are holidaying or on tournament duty through the time off between seasons.

We have no proper back up there, we play a form of 4231 (that everyone plays these days) and so you need two CMs to make that work. Currently we have MS and JC for those two roles, if either is left out we would probably be left horribly exposed, part of this is due to the tendancy of the FBs pushing up but also the attacking bank of four who also fulfill high pressing roles (which means when bypassed you rely on the next bank. For me its not an indication on either leaving, just a sensible move to ensure we have decent rotation, cover and competition.

Depends if its true or not really. Im a little sceptical on this one, but if we have actually gone for this with a 20m euro bid, on top of the midfielder offers and Lovren deal

We are also linked with Bendtner so there you go Perspective