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You can quite clearly see he will be a top player. has all the required attributes, seems to be pretty vocal too.

Ralph is good manager and we are lucky to have him

Gao investing isn’t gonna happen anytime soon. We have to hope some interested party buys him his shares and that they come with a long term plan. If that doesn’t happen, we are seriously fucked.

This talk about Ralph not being good enough is bonkers, we are on a bad run but overall we have had fantastic results with him. Our current run is mostly due to our injuries and incompetency from officials. We will keep him as we need the continuity, may I remind everyone that we have the SFC playbook right through the club now. So he is not going anytime in the near future, who better do we have to implement the SFC playbook? yes you guessed it the one who designed it !

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Friends is very funny tbh

Yep non starters. We are skint don t see how we can finance those deals.

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Don’t forget Ings has had Covid, Armstrong was also out of sorts after having it... studies haven’t come out but i m sure it impacts athlete performances as margins are so smaller

I hope we don t rush any of them though, risk of injury reoccurrence by coming back too soon is what i m worried about.

No, one freakish result does not decide the fate of a manager. End of lock the thread

Going by Ralph s recent moves with young players, if he ships them out on loan, it is likely the end of their careers with us. Refer to Johnson, Jones, Reed... It is soon to become the same for Valey, Vokins, Hesketh, Sims and Slattery

Wouldn t mind King at all instead of Long. big upgrade

In the few minutes he got tonight, you can see he has something about him. Has a very bright future whether that is at Saints or not.

People are complaining about Var but even without Var both incidents would still have gone the same way. Lee Mason took the initial decision and didn t give the handball and the linesman would have given offside. Var is not at fault here, it is the standard of referreing for the handball and a ridiculous offside rule.

Doesn’t stop Premier League clubs from bringing players in. Villa just spent 14m on a midfielder from Marseille... Fact is with no investment whatsoever from Gao and with the covid crisis in full flow and with no new ownership on the horizon, we are realling going to struggle on that front in the next few years. And it will have an effect on the football side, we ll be forced to sell our best players, we ll struggle to bring some semi decent ones, and will lose our best manager we ve ever had... So things are not looking that rosey.

What i don t understand is our appalling level of marketing. The Southampton brand of nurturing youngsters and being the underdog against big club and who can often pull a rabbit out of the hat is so appealing for lots of people. Not only in the Uk but also worldwide Everyone loves underdogs, kind of like the greenbay packers in the US. We should be using this much better. There are so many marketing partnership we could introduce to make this work. You look at the commercial growth of our income year on yesr and you realize something is not quite right there.

Vestergaard has 18 months left. If he has no intention of signing another one, might be useful to cash in...

Think it was a mistake to let Targett go look how he is thriving at Villa

N lundulu has the first touch of a tank. No wounder the players took the piss of him on that for Secret Santa. Early days but don’t think he has the required to make it. As for watts runs around a lot and will reserve my opinion on more than 2 games

Don t forget Ings left to Liverpool from Burnley when his contract expired. It is not like he is a stranger to the situation. probably likes to earn a fat signing on fee

Before you talk shit, he s married and has a son and takes care of his family.

Why do people assume that Ings will stay in England. Champions League football doesn’t mean top 6 club in the PL. It can be a top european club in europe

So basically we signed Ings on a 3 year deal after him signing permanently. Great job that!

Get a striker on loan for the rest of the season with an option to buy. And try him out the sooner we replace Ings the better for our long term prospects. I actually thought Danny gave a shit about playing for his hometown club. He obviously doesn’t