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Agree, he's doing alright at Burnley but they seem heavily reliant on being tough to beat at TM. They were abysmal on the road, imagine being so bad you concede more than 1 at St Mary's.

You want a 30 year old who left Arsenal for more cash at City? I can't think of a player I'd want less in our squad.

Instant? I think if I'd underperformed for a year in my job, I'd be invited to leave too.

Hojbjerg Fonte was a f*ck up but Stephens stepped up and we covered our arses sufficiently with Caceres in the end. Yes Also Redmond replaced Juanmi.

How can you say he wasn't backed in the transfer market? Gabbi, Boufal and Hojbjerg were all talented players he has failed to manage correctly.

I'd rather have 2 years of Poch/Koeman and lose him to Arsenal or Utd, than have another year of Puel.

You would hope it's because they waited until they were fairly sure a replacement was lined up. Last thing we want is a repeat of the Fonte fiasco, desperately offering Curbishley a 1 year deal a week before the season starts.

I will fondly remember the cup run but the way he set out, especially at home, was inexcusable. When you're winning a corner at home to Hull or Bournemouth and end up passing it back to your own 'keeper it makes for some pretty boring viewing.

Two trains of thought on this. 1 - I think he's got more to offer than Long and in a better team he could yet do it again. I rarely thought he looked bad last year, just lacking in confidence and decent service. 2 - It's obviously not going for him here and hasn't been for a few years. Maybe he needs a fresh start, like Kevin Davies had at Bolton.

Little difference to this place, if we're honest.

Would rather have the easy finish TBH. At least our start is about as winnable as you could hope for. Glad Udders away isn't in winter, proper grim oop North game we'd be guaranteed to lose.

If Stones is worth £50m then I want at least £1.6bn for Virgil.

We've had a French manager for one year and bought Pied and Boufal. How many were you expecting? Like Anyone chooses their job based on the nationality of their boss anyway.

Tradition dictates; First game - Somewhere midlands or above away Arsenal at home and Palace away over Xmas/NY Stoke at home last game Palace, Sunderland and Arsenal in the cups at some point.

I haven't seen anything linking us to the latter other than wishful HCDAJFU on here. He's just not a Saints type of signing. Will come with a big fee and wage demands and probably end up at Spurs or Everton.

Would make me laugh TBH. Whilst he was decent for us, he's basically 32 and will be a big step down from Lukaku next year.

1 more than the rest of them.

I think Howe spent too much time with 'Arry at Pompey. Wonder what Quashie, Todorov and Kranjcar are up to these days.

True, hadn't really been keeping up to date on that, I was thinking he'd be back a couple of months into next season.

Worth a thread discussing what everyone else is up to. According to the Beeb United have 'not offered' Zlatan a new contract, which I find surprising. Their second top scorer in the league was Mata with 6 goals.

I'm pretty sure the sale of Virgil would be factored into the purchase price of the club.

I'm curious, please give us an example of what you'd like this statement to say.

Philippe Coutinho. We've been tapping him up.

Not really cherry picking when I'm talking about 85% of our home games. If we include all of them, we've still only scored from open play in 8/19 home games, that's including the 'keeping error against Sunderland. 11 home games where our attacking play produced absolutely nothing is just awful.

We were pretty good and they were pretty poor, we still only managed 1 goal.