Lighthouse

🤣 Fantastic! You posted this.... And then unironically try to call me patronising. If you don't want to be patronised, stop posting sarcastic coments, pretending not to understand basic concepts. We need a business model to financially viable in order to compete and comply with PSR. Nobody has asked you to be 'absolutely fucking buzzing' so I don't know why you're being a princess about it. Signing a player from Chile and loaning him straight out to Goztepe, if that does indeed come to fruition, has absolute no affect on Saints at all, so for the life of me I can't see why it upsets anyone.

Because he's cheap and Everton have limited money.

Martin managed to extract fairly decent CM/AM performances from Smallbone, Fraser, Aribo, Stu Armstrong, Brooks, Downes and Rothwell but you want to believe he held a special hatred for 'talented midfielders'? Will Smallbone keeping him our of the team is not the slam dunk argument in favour of Alcaraz that you think it is. I went to and watched a lot of games, Smallbone played better than Alcaraz. He just did. So you don't have an explanation. That's fine but however you want to dress it up, nobody in Europe wanted him. I don't agree with your statement at all, he made less positive impact on our team last year than Ryan Fraser. People are getting way too excited about four goals in half a season under Selles. I can at least full explain my 'usual contrarian views' rather than simply bailing out on a pretty fundamental issue which you're 'not going to speculate on'.

Clearly I'm being facetious but you don't actually have an explanation as to why nobody in Europe wanted CA and he ended up back in South America.

Being finanically stable comes above everything for pretty much every business in the world everywhere. I don't think anyone asked you to be excited by our business model or financial results but you'd have to be monumentally dense not to understand the impact that has on our first team squad. We're on our fourth manager in six months, unless you know a half decent assassin, that's not going to come cheap either.

At the moment we've got Manning, Stephens and Bree, so I'm afraid so.

You can blame RM for Alcaraz going missing in games, struggling with the pace and giving the ball away a lot if you want. You can blame RM for the fact that he contributed fewer goals in a similar role to the thoroughly mediocre Joe Rothwell. You can believe that a team which scored 91 goals in 49 games, despite the main striker being injured all season and scoring 0, stifled midfield creativity and didn't allow him to play. That's all fine, I'm not going to dispute it. However, if you believe Russell Martin holds dominion over all of football and ordered every sporting director in Europe not to sign Alcaraz last summer, then I'll have to disagree on that.

Some people are still struggling to accept that player trading is part of our business model.

Agree that we’re alright for all-rounders. Barker is coming back next month, Kelly is highly rated for the future and there’s always Organ for a spin option. A top order batsman has to be a priority, if we can persuade Brevis to get in on the County team, that’d be frickin’ sweet awesome.

Well, it’s Talksport so now we know he’s definitely not going to West Ham.

No, we (collectively) decided we’d prefer Ramsdale. Alcaraz has hardly uprooted any trees at Goodison, he doesn’t even start for them half the time. He was poor in the Championship, didn’t do anything in Serie A and the only buyer we could find involved a flight back south of the equator. Of all the things the club has done wrong, selling Alcaraz wasn’t one of them.

Geri Halliwell is from Watford, what more do you need?

No, a separate deal. We could very easily have not signed John. In the summer of 2006 we spent money we earned from selling Walcott and some of the income we received from parachute payments trying to get promoted. It would have been fine if we'd made cutbacks the following summer but we didn't. The income dried up and we kept spending, that's why we went into administration. It was a relatively small amount of debt that put us into administration in 2009. Not signing Euell, loaning Hammill and choosing one of Saganowski or John would easily have kept us solvent.

Leicester away in the Championship was an absolute horror show for him. I'd keep him as back up but no way would I rely on him to start every week.

I’m almost certain the John transfer was a separate deal, agreed in conjunction with the Kenwyne transfer, for about £1m. In any case, it was clear that we needed to tighten the belt financially, not indulge in more lavish spending. All of those players were on pretty meaty wages, regardless of their transfer fees and signing on bonuses. We had Wright, Viafara, Skacel, Dyer, Surman, Licka and Idiakez in midfield, plus Rasiak, BWP and DMG up front. We should have signed one midfielder (probably Safri) and either Saganowski or John. We did, it was a ludicrous panic buy far too late in the window.

John was a separate deal to Kenwyne. We also signed Saganowski, Euell, Safri and Hammil that summer.

When Russia are already throwing everything they've got a killing as many civilians as possible, that's not really much of a threat. Their so called 'reply' will just be the horrible sh*t they do anyway.

There’re a lot of videos of burning TU95s on Twitter. Such a shame.

More specifically the absolutely batsh*t summer of 2007, which has got to be up there with last summer as one of the most mind-boggling in our history. We lost the parachute payments, money was tight and we had no defence... so lets by a bunch more really expensive midfielders/strikers.

I'm fairly sure Bale's debut was also Pahars' last ever game for us. Might have been Cardiff at SMS but it was definitely under GB.

I was apprehensive about this year's Blast but Christ alive, I don't think I've ever seen us wallop someone by 106 runs before. Fantastic seeing Vince back again and Brevis looks a heck of a signing. It's just a shame we don't have him and Pretorious both available for the full tournament. Some dreadful catching though, if I'm being ultra critical. Rossington must be praying to the right god, whoever that is.

Harry Redknapp has never been relegated, he is quite clear on this.

He seems to fulfil the criteria of 'wouldn't want to get caught in bed with his missus' I expect from a centre half, which has to be a good start. I'm hoping he's being seen as a player who can come straight into the first team and not more fodder we're just looking to loan to Goatse and never actually play here.

I think it's alright, personally. A little bit different and all the logos and sponsors at least fit neatly into the design, rather than looking like they've been stuck on as an afterthought.

He’s clearly not had a good loan spell at the Baggies but he hasn’t suddenly forgotten how to be a good player overnight. Literally any player could replicate poor form from the past, it’s up to the management team to make sure we get the best out of Armstrong, as we did last season and two years at Blackburn before that. I never said he was guaranteed 20 goals, I asked which guaranteed 20 goal player you’d replace him with, which is the whole point. If you’re not replacing him with someone obviously better, then why replace him at all? Still has briefly alluded to the need to be flexible in how we play. If he can’t adjust the way we play to accommodate a player who scored 65 goals in his last three full Championship seasons, then we’ve got bigger problems than Armstrong.