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Because an above average keeper can be picked as English goalkeeping talent is scarse

FF was not good either last season under Puel. There are so many things he is not good at. He has never been any good at commanding his area whether that is to come at for crosses or coming out to smother a through ball. Add that to the fact he can hardly move on his line to save shots to his right or left especially low ones, Especially post return from his knee injury. This all combined to the fact that he s sometimes a headless chicken and panics and drops the occasional ball makes him a very bad prem keeper. It s not about form, it s about becoming above average to bad after his injury, not down to his fault for being unable to getting down to low shots though

Pastore is a sicknote and wouldn’t be able to withstand the pace and physicality of the PL plus the guy. The guy is 29 which means in 2 years won t have any resale value. Stay away!

So you are worried about a replacement of a player who flatters to deceive most of the time?

Dembele!

It does mean something. It s the whole essence of how football clubs need to be run.

Strange that you answered only to the people who critized or insulted you. Should I do the same to get an answer? :lol:

??? So we are going for another target???

Think OP is BS https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/05/18/mark-hughes-expected-announced-permanent-southampton-manager/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

At last someone with some sense and clarity on the whole situation! This 1000 %. The sooner people understand this the more united the club will become. Think long term people!!!! You can t just go out and spend money anymore! You have to generate it!

A proper interviewer/journalist would have asked him about that!

Marcus never did any interviews and delegated that responsibility to Cortese. Gao and Kat do the same with Ralph. Don't see how different this is. Plus when Ralph says we are a small club in the PL, it just means we can't compete financially with big boys so to generate revenue we have to do things differently and expand to other markets, nothing wrong with that. Gao ownership and links in China gives us an opportunity to build something in China and increase our image and profile. Its a win win situation. Fans often are shortsighed and never think long term. Typical example are the reactions on here, plus don't forget that there are fair play rules, you can 't have someone just plunge money into player trading, our revenue needs to increase in order be able to do that so investing in other areas of the club so generate this extra revenue makes perfect sense

There are some concrete ideas in there about developping our players, chinese sponsorship and developping our training as well as using our knowledge to develop football in china. What is wrong with that? It s all part of the long term aim of getting extra revenue being sustainable and developping our infrastructures and on top of that all player sales will be reinvested. You lot are difficult to please and you have to look at the big long term picture... I for one am surprised they have been looking at all of this and encourage at the ways they are looking at developping our club. Its not all about a suger daddy putting in money to buy players without sustainability, we are going about it the right way...

So the Southampton way is selling players off for a profit? Won't be going back to that if we still get our recruitment wrong by signing average players. Krueger doesn't seem to get it does he? He thinks we failed last season because we hung on to VVD for too long. We failed because we appointed a manager without knowing his defensive philosophy and we failed to adequatly replace Pelle Mane and Fonte, the latter who offered leadership we have lacked.

Predicting 17th every season means you might eventually get it right, nothing to be pround about. What are you predicting for next season? 17th again?

:lol: Special shoutout to Batman too and all those who gave up ! It s never over till the fat lady sings and case proven once again! We won our games and that was it, we are staying up!!!! COYS

I agree! I ve seen enough in the last 2 games to see that our form is shifting and that we can get those results. We are far from down, yes the table looks bleak but beat leicester on Thursday and everyone will be talking about survival again. Leicester are out of form have nothing to play for and remind me of us last season when Puel couldn t get us playing in the last 10 games. Have a little faith our performance was top draw for 70 mins today and i m sure M H will remind the players this in training on Monday. Chelsea are deadly when on song and we were at the receiving end of this when they got a goal out of nothing we were completely in control up to that point we were pressing really well, just lacked composure at that key moments. Keep the faith guys!!!! COYS!!! :lol:

Bla bla bla

Are you for real??

Get out of the club, and take Wilson with you too!!!

"If we haven't already" Are you aware we are out of the zone? People saying we ve been down for weeks are taking the ****. We are right in the thick of things and we can do this 100%. Wake up from your doom and gloom despair, let s get behind the boys and roar them on to victory!!!!! Let s be in Swansea s faces, put them under all sorts of pressure and go for it!!! We are destined to survive. Believe and let s all fight for pride passion and love of our football club. COYS!!!! Together as one!!!!

He ll go to Italy or Spain and absolutely boss it.

Tadic, Boufal, Gabiadinni and Bertrand

I ve watched it as well, doesn t change the fact that we are 2 matches away from doubling the trophy cabinet. I m feeling bloody excited about sunday and optimistic we can do it. In case you haven t heard we are 4 wins out of 4 in the cup!

What the hell is effing wrong with you lot? How about some positivity??? We re in the semi finals of the cup played darn well against the side we are facing last saturday and nearly got a schock win. I m going to the game and will be supporting the boys and will sing my heart out. Really optimistic we can do this and reach our second major final in just over a year COYS!!!!!