Baird of the land

I keep waiting for Ralph to learn to make proactive subs. He gets enough practice of watching the opposition make changes and score and yet he refuses to try it himself. Had it up my ears of waiting till we are behind for his lets make a double/triple change.

Think Mccarthy is unlucky. Got his arm to it but its richoutted off his leg. The issue is their striker getting a free header 2 yards out.

Now the idiot makes a double change.

Why Ralph won't you make a Sub????????????????????????

Feel Perraud has struggled a bit. Not terrible but much improvement hopeflly to come. Livramento, yeah he's going to play for a top club. Mccarthy fab, claim and punch. Don't think Forster would have come for either. Stephens lot of very good stuff, one moment where he switched off and let Calver Lewin run off him Armstrong, who needs ings.

Interesting that the Chelsea loan guy isn't even on the bench.

Ok wouldn't have predicted that lineup. What's up with KWP, not fully fit? Stephens looked good in pre-season so i can understand that. Keeper is a toss up so again fine with Mccarthy. Surprised Armstrong is being thrown straight in.

From the outside arsenal spending £50m on an average cb to bench a reasonably good cb in holding was just bizarre transfer business.

Wonder will arteta last the season.

Maybe madly optimistic but I Fancy it to be a score draw.

Bertrand certainly isn’t suited anymore to getting up and down. That’s why saints were so predictable in only having kwp doing so last year. Not sure I agree that vestergaard isn’t suited, despite his lack of pace.

My concern about dier as a cdm would be his lack of mobility.

Quite legitimately without new investment, there’s a massive pile of Covid debt to be paid off.

I've got Monkou & Killer on my football Card Southampton wall xi, with Chris Nicholl on the bench.

I'd say on the surface of it Perraud is a uplift on a current Bertrand, as it allows us to have someone with legs on the left to provide a threat/balance on that side.

Always thought Bednarek is a decent reader of the game, so not surprised he's got good interception stats.

Training sessions will help him learn how we play, which he’ll have had very few of. each to their own on tella, personally I think his raw pace on the break against a team that will be forced to come out will be very dangerous.

I think tella could cause them problems so i’ll be happy if we start Armstrong on the bench. Doesn’t make sense to rush him in whilst he’s still learning how we play and getting to know teammates etc.

Seems we might be getting the Bolton baresi to join our Cornish Maldini. Not sure about him, not writing him off completely as really hasn’t played enough to have a full judgement. He was a somewhat feel good story of showing up Klopp and Showing him he should have played the cb he didn’t rate, whilst he farted about with cm’s there. He seemed committed/good in the air, very limited with the ball. Not sure about his pace but didn’t look speedy. Maybe good organizer? Still to me you could go to any warnock/McCarthy team and get someone who’ll go after headers. Unsure at moment what makes him worth the money quoted other than Liverpool branding. Doesn’t seem to offer the really needed ability to play dm as far as I can see either. So i’d Be very worried if he was the final move.

I still think bednarek is a good defender, maybe not the greatest passer of the ball but I expect him to bounce back. as to vestergaard. Think Leicester are getting a decent player, he’s no Johnny Evans in terms a steal of a signing but he’s a threat aerially and has a decent pass. Though if it’s him and Bertrand lining up together i’d Expect teams to be trying to exploit that side with pace.

See three out of eight Football365 writers are predicting us for relegation in their predictions. Don't see it myself & hoping we can show them up with a decent full season this time round. Here we go: Football365's season predictions for 2021/22

If that's the case i hope its a CB that can play DM, otherwise we'll be in trouble if Oriel gets another injury.

I don't really see this desperate need for an old head/veteran. Having some experience sure, but with a 25 & a 27 year old alongside a 22 yr old i'd consider that experienced enough. I'm disappointed Vestergaard is leaving as i liked him, but for whatever reason he wouldn't sign an extension so we had to sell whilst he had some value.

I thought it was pretty telling that Ralph was talking about when yannik leaves not if he leaves.

The striker left because the manager helped his career and enabled him to get what he wanted, a larger salary than saints could offer. Not sure I see us not wanting to sign an ageing left back to a long term contract as a fault.