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In that case, what is the point of him signing a new contract in the first place? Had he not signed he would have had still 4 years left with no release clause. Les is a tart if he agreed to that, and I would seriously question whether or not he knows what he is doing.

We have been buying more players than selling some. We may have more depth but selling your best players is going to ultimatly weaken your first eleven. Last year we lost morgan clyne and toby, we got romeu van dijk clasie cedric Martina and juanmi. That basically equates to selling excellent and buying 50/50 This year we lost mane wanyama and juanmi and brought in Bouffal hojbjerg redmond Austin, Pied, McCarthy. Here again selling excellently and buying 50/50 although jury is still out on certain players. So we end up selling our best players and trying to buy replacements with potential who may or may not fulfil their potential. If they do fulfill their potential we sell them and keep the average ones Soon, we ll end up with an average first eleven and an average bench whereas before our first eleven was very strong, capable of top 8 finishes and challenging the big boys. If we continue with this tactic and level of recruitment we are destined for regular lower mid table finishes. That is maybe fine for certain people but that does not go down well with me with the amount of money we have been able to spend on replacements.

My point basically is : with all the money we have received from sales over the last 2 years, we could have done a much better job in bringing in replacements. When we sold shaw lallana lambert chambers lovren with Bertrand , we replaced them fantastically well with Mane Pelle Tadic Toby Forster This was our golden year. The last 2 years however has been the complete opposite (with the exception of Romeu and Virgil) and we have spent so much money on dull ordinary players and hearing stories that we replace them well is a total myth. The writing was already on the wall last season but thx to Mane Pelle Tadic we overachieved and beat big big teams in the run in. Now that 2 of them are gone, we are finding it very difficult offensively and can t create anything. We are in the top 25 most expensive squads in Europe but we are not a top 25 team that is for sure.

Getting fed of articles saying are recruitment policy is excellent and that we will always replace our star players: Yes we have had relative success in the transfer market over the last 3-4 years but on paper we have one of the most expensive squads in Europe (top 25 anyway). When i look around Europe, I see teams that have made much better use of their money in assembling squads of technical fast and powerful players (Monaco, Seville, Atletico come to my mind). and looking at that game yesterday and most games this season, I realize that when teams don t give us space we are a bog standard team, with no ideas and play a very predictable game. There is a lack was a lack of movement, no runs between the lines and when we do do it on the rare occasion, either our pass is crap either we have no pace upfront to make it count.

They were publlished in October in 2015: https://southamptonfc.com/news/2015-10-09/201415-financial-results-released

Is it normal they haven t been published yet? If I remember well last year's accounts had been published in September/October of last year. Is this due to the ongoing takeover discussions?

Our style of play under Koeman didn t suit him. Our style of play under Puel probably would have suited him perfectly.

For those wondering, Pied's target return date is 23rd of February

Not in today's training videos nor is Jay Rod

An infraction for telling the truth?

Was Hoddle part of the OP's shortlist you dimwit? Can someone get this troll banned from this forum? Contributes nothing whatsoever. 17th, 2004 and Hoddle is his only vocabulary.

Not as speedy as Mane but Boufal is more technical. Might struggle initially with physicality of the league but in time will be fantastic.

L'equipe is reporting a total agreement between Lille and Saints for Boufal despite late interest from Leicester and another offer from another english club who offered Boufal a higher salary. :-)

Who says?

I watch Ligue 1 every weekend. I can confirm Boufal will be a fantastic signing. Young skillful and bags of potential.

What is today's date again? Oh yes that is it, 20th of august 11 days to go. Calm the **** down and breathe. Benteke is certainly not a fit on our system and is grossely overpriced. I'd be questionning our board had we got him at that price. Have a little patience, VVD was signed in the last days of the window.

English supporters are all used to playing hoof ball, there was a lot of that under Koeman last season. The passing game on the ground I saw tonight was very good to watch at times. Does it need fine tuning ? Of course it does. Are we completely accustomed to Puel's system? Not yet, he joined us beginning of July, it takes time for a team to play the style of play a manager wants, especially when it is new. Will we improve collectivelly ? Of course we will, and we will be alright this season. We need to be patient and support the team 100%. Puel said after the game that Man U were more physical than us and I agree, but that our passing game could have easily outpowered had we taken our chances. All in all, what i saw tonight was very encouraging.

I can confirm. When Claude was asking him to translate some of his words in english, it was all over the place, he did not get one single translation was right. I wounder where they get these people from.

If Boufal comes, I will cream myself. He is such a talent that would really help our attaking options no end. Sign him and it will have been a good summer.

I'm having trouble understanding all this talk about target men or slow to medium paced strikers not fitting our style of play and we are instead focusing on pacy strikers who can receive through balls or balls over the top and a number 10 capable of creating those chances. Didn't we have that exactly in Juanmi and Gaston? I agree these players did not fit in RK style of play which involved loads of crossing and a fair load of long balls. Gaston had already left when Claude came in as he was out of contract but didn t we sell Juanmi a little early knowing we are now looking for exactly the same type of player?

Checked all through the leagues and was just about to post that it may be him. Some on here are quicker than me. He is the the one that fits the description the most. Not built like Pelle a few years younger, was solid at Man U and is now scoring loads for Leverkusen. We ve been linked with him for the last 2 years. Was apparently not keen to join us in the past so if it is him i wonder what has made him. He would be a fantastic signing in my view.

He would be a terrible signing. Saint Etienne took him on loan last season, were not impressed and sent him back.

Boufal, there is so much circus around him.

Hypothetically, Sept 1st end of the window: In: Redmond, Hojbjerg, McCarthy, Pied, Bouffal/Praet, Berahino Out: Pelle, Mane, Wanyama, Juanmi, Ramirez, Gazzaniga. How would you rate the window? A- for me.

Well i can tell I watched him closely last season and this guy is the mustard. Needs to work on his physical game but apart from that is extremely skillfull, tricky scores goals and is relatively quick. Still very young and has an extremely high ceiling.