Smirking_Saint

Bloke can’t keep his mouth shut, half the stuff I hear from St Marys comes from him I swear 😂

Yeah I think Martins a better manager than the shit he’s getting on here He’ll do fine, and likely learnt some lessons around how stubborn he was with us

We’ll just agree to disagree then We’re also only the elite because of parachutes, once thats gone you need to cost cut brutally

You’re not going to see Brentford stick the landing They looked good this year because Spurs and Utd were terrible as well as the bottom three.. but also it highlights how PSR has protected the elite, the prem began runing away from the Champ a few years back due to how turnover is such a huge part of PSR calcs.. and now we’ve been in a situation where the Champ clubs can’t stay up, that gulf will get worse Its not, enabled Brentford, its just meant they were the right side of the divide at the right time

Technically gifted, but just has zero tactical proficiency and zero defensive awareness Not a good enough dribbler for an attacking midfielder, zero defensive qualities to be a DM Not really sure what he offers unless you play a 3 man midfield and you’re in the ascendancy

Thats only really because Utd’s had probably the worst sporting decision making Ive ever seen Bad manager after bad manager and throwing money at all of them, allowing them to buy their own targets… awful

Parsons then

I doubt they could spend enough, us three spent what we could and were still miles off

Was never about ‘financial security’ and always about maintaining the ‘elite’ Its fucking shit… not that I really have an idea how to solve it from a sports integrity POV… I always thought you could have a bond that the owners have to put up at the value if 6-12 months expenditures but can see the infinite spending just further pushing the prem away from the rest

I think any of us would of struggled and I don’t see how the three this year are going to do any better Short of any of us doing a Forest and chancing it I just think the financial disparity caused by PSR is just too great Personally thought Cooper had you playing ok, competitively wise… RVN was an awful appointment, as was Juric

Very good player, and I like him, think he has a 13m release clause

After hounding out Cooper for RVN I think its best to sit this out

https://x.com/saintsextra/status/1926645665288827249?s=46&t=MqpubAzkQD51r3m_v775zw this seems a bit odd no ?

I think Russell is a very good coach that unfortunately is, at times too stubborn for his own good, he isn’t the first and won’t be the last… there’s a group of them atm… Martin, Kompany, Amorim… that seem to want to play there way regardless of the damage it does Im very grateful for what he did for us last season but, his reluctance to stray from his MO, even a little, and the club giving him more autonomy in the transfer market than he deserved put an early and somehow final nail in our coffin

He’s being linked to Champs league teams and we have 117 forwards Its dissapointing but unsurprising we havn’t got involved

Genuinely never seen an adult so rattled that they didn’t post a link first

Id genuinely forgot he existed

He’s one of the biggest bellends in football and as much as his story is a fairytale he, as a person, doesn’t deserve it

Bednarek over Rodon but realistically I don’t think there is a lot between THB or Ampadu KWP ahead of Gray, I don’t think Byram was hugely better than Manning and Firpo was awful Stu better than James, Armstrong better than Piroe but probably stretching that one

From out Championship season ? Bednarek, Downes, KWP, both Armstrongs, Manning Arguments can be made for THB and theres not a lot of change between Meslier and Bazunu Sunmerville was exceptional, Rutter very good, Gruev very good, Kamara or Smallbone theres not a ton in it

I have zero interest in getting into a discussion with you MLG

Well no, because we’re arguing about all three I think we were better overall than Leeds, but worse overall than Leicester and low and behold that was evidenced in the results Im not getting into it anyway as its very subjective, situational and very boring For example Firpo/Piroe were crap last year and excellent this year.. conversely THB was very much one of the best CBs in the league last year and crap this year… football isn’t FM or Fifa, ability isn’t a set stat and is affected by a multitude of factors

Well… no… and that doesn’t really tally up does it

Armstrong, Downes, KWP, I think Champ wise at the time an argument could have been made for Bednarek

However you spin it we’ve effectively got 8 forwards on the books, not including Ballard or Robinson We’ll simply have to sell a number of these if we want to bring a decent option in We’ve somehow got a more bloated squad of duff then we did under the Gao days