Saint Pete

Well, this is about as decisive as it gets from our board, i.e. not very! I think he should go whatever happens tomorrow and I certainly think it's daft if we let him plod on just because we scrape a narrow win/draw against the bottom club!!

Yes, ice hockey players are much smarter cookies. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

The time for dithering has run out, in fact it should have run out some time ago! Saturday is a massive game but so was Brighton and so will every game be until end of season in our situation. I would argue that keeping MP in charge has hindered our chances of winning the last few games and will continue to do so until he's removed. So we should not waste any more time, get rid tomorrow and appoint replacement straight away if we can. In terms of who to appoint it will have to obviously be someone available immediately so suspect we would be looking at Silva or Hughes. Not ideal choices but beggars can't be choosers and they would both be much better bets than sticking with what we have! Talk of Koeman coming back is fanciful, in my opinion there's no way he would touch us in this position. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

It's unfathomable that he is still in the job - leadership at the club is now non-existent.

Jeremy Wilson's Telegraph report on the Brighton match says "West Bromwich Albion now await on Saturday and, while Southampton remain one of the few struggling clubs to have not already replaced their manager, that may just become a must-win game for Manuel Pellegrino. He might be well liked in both the boardroom and dressing-room but an urgency is beginning to develop about the situation." Whether informed by the club or not who knows but suggests he will limp on until the weekend at least. "An urgency is beginning to develop", no **** Sherlock! Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

And it will probably take Les a further 6 weeks before appointing a successor! Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

FFS end this nightmare now and put him out of his misery. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Double change required surely. Admit you got it wrong MP and we can still win this. Get Carrillo and Boufal on, Davis and Long off. Get some service in to Carrillo. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Pretty safe looking selection (no surprise there given MP has picked it!) - would have preferred to see Boufal and Carrillo instead of Davis and Long. Anyway, if the players perform, we should still have enough to beat Brighton - the attitude and approach of the team is probably more important than the personnel. Come on Saints, time to stand up and show some bottle!

This just gets better and better. There will be absolutely no guarantees that anything will happen in the summer no matter what b/s spin the club feeds the media about it. There's not a chance Promes would join us if we go down and not a chance we will be able/willing to finance it either. So completely meaningless to state it. The club appear not to have noticed that we are currently second from bottom FFS! We could do with using that cash now on someone to help keep us up, couldn't we???

Yes, I suspect you are right, it's more the timing of payment we can't agree to rather than the amount. This probably means that we don't meet all requirements of the release clause therefore Spartak aren't obliged to sell. Personally, I can accept there are issues that might mean we can't sign Promes - it always seemed like it would be a difficult deal to get done, both in terms of agreement with club and player. What I can't believe is that we don't seem to be further down the line in terms of a backup option. Still holding out some hopes that something is in the offing but they are keeping it quiet, but my confidence is fading!

I don't think we have met the release clause and seems we have no intention of doing so.

Agreed - Antonio would not be the worst signing for us, because he does have a knack of finding the net.

So are we to read from that the club have not lined up any plan B for this eventuality, which has seemed pretty likely all the way along? Surely there are other players out there we can target that have similar attributes to Promes if we are really ready to spend this kind of money? Very poor if we are just saying "well that's us done" now that Promes is off given the nature of our position in the league.

Suspect we have not met the release clause conditions but have offered a fee that Spartak find acceptable. But only if they find a suitable replacement. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

There's a surprise. Ok, let's get on with plan b then (assuming there is one). Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

It will not shock me if Promes doesn't happen as it's always seemed a 50/50 chance at best for me. But it would be hugely disappointing if we haven't lined up a decent alternative for a similar type of player given how desperately we need to find more goals in the team in our situation. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Absolutely massive game this, made even more so by Swansea’s new found form. Time for everyone to show some bottle - manager, players and fans.

McCarthy Cedric Yoshi Hoedt Bertrand Romeu Hojbjerg JWP Boufal Tadic Carrillo Get a couple of goals up, then bring on Lemina and Long for Boufal and Carrillo to shore things up for last 25.

I wouldn’t be that shocked if there was something in the offing with Redmond given how he has disappeared from the squad in last couple of games. Dependant on signing Promes or similar type of player of course.

That sub said it all about his attitude really. With a record signing striker sitting on the bench that the crowd were waiting to welcome and in a relatively low pressure cup game, 99.9% of managers would be thinking it was a great chance to be positive to get Carrillo on for half an hour to try and seal the game and give everyone a much needed boost. But not MP!

Well it’s a win but just about as unconvincing as it could possibly be. Manager’s input once again completely surrendered the initiative and we were hanging on in a game we should have been comfortable in. He will clearly never learn. Please Les - sack him now. It’s our only chance of staying up irrespective of who we sign in the next few days.

Whether we win this or not I’m more convinced than ever MP has to go now. Completely surrendered the initiative in this half - again!

Carillo on at last.

He is just so negative. I saw in the pre match interview he was saying this could be 180 mins rather than 90 - seems like that’s what he’s playing for even when 1-0 up! We will not get out of trouble with this guy in charge.