Baird of the land

Would have preferred a shorter contract but then i’m Still less than ectastic about Hughes in general.

Yep hoping he stays. If we can get the right speedster to complement his skillful play that would be ideal.

Get rid by whatever means possible, whether that's loan or sale. Showed absolutely nothing & is taking up a squad place & burdening our wage bill. Annoys me that we loaned out Gallagher rather than give him an opportunity & then spent a fortune on this dross in January.

Think that's just Shaqiri's bad attitude. He also slagged of his team mates whilst on International duty. Personally i hope we steer clear of him.

And his awful transfer record at QPR or with Mega money at City His record at transfers at stoke isn't just bad over one window its genuinely poor over his entire time there.

He either stays as is or we replace him with someone in same role with similar influence. Last thing i would want is a lame duck director of football & transfer committee power being shifted towards manager, especially one with as poor a record in the transfer market as Hughes.

Bringing in a 21 year old who isn't a regular at his club doesn't seem to at all fit what we need.

I want the club to be aiming high at the very least to get into europe which is something we've done twice in recent history. Krueger wants to take us back to the days when not being in a relegation battle was the sole ambition & that's rotten imo. I accept exceptional players won't stay long term but we'll be compensated hansomly when they do.

Hope the Hart rumour is rubbish Mainly as it would mean we’d likely be losing McCarthy if we were truly interested.

Don’t agree that both are mutually exclusive. We should be shifting on at least 2 of the existing attackers(Carrillo, long etc) to make way for one big buy & Gallagher.

Reading krueger’s Interview on the echo website is pretty depressing. Unless you care about football in China doesn’t seem Saints have any ambition left beyond staying on premier league gravy train.

We need a vocal organizer who is dominant aerially, if that’s Gibson great, otherwise avoid.

McCarthy : stay Forster: sell or loan away Cedric: would keep but expect will go & won’t be weeping about it. Pied: release Bertrand: would keep but expect he’ll go. Targett: keep if Bertrand goes McQueen ???? Yoshida: sell Stephens stay Hoedt stay Bednarek stay Romeu stay Lemina stay Hojberg stay Jwp stay Davis expect he’ll leave & go back to rangers. Redmond stay Tadic stay but may want to leave Boufal leave Sims stay Austin stay Gabbi stay but expect he’ll want to leave Long leave (Like him but need replacing with someone younger who can score) Carrillo ( leave, leave pls leave) Gallagher stay Hesketh stay & pls give him a game That leaves back up goalkeeper, 1 or 2 right backs, 1 center back, perhaps 1 left back, an attacking midfielder possibly 2 & a striker needed via the transfer market.

As long as Switzerland lose every game at the World Cup i’ll Be happy. Rose getting shown up badly would be a bonus for unjustly getting selected despite barely playing.

I still have some major reservations about Hughes but fully expect him to be in charge next season after keeping us up. Taking another gamble after two unpopular gambles seems highly unlikely from the board. Of the unemployed managers with significant Prem experience Wenger wouldn’t come, if Silva was interested surely he would have come in feb .....

What the chances we will actually get any money for boufal. Smells like loan spirit.

Not being given opportunities not aided by the managerial churn. Hesketh prime example. Came in under Koeman did ok, got injured, came back in under Puel did well, got dragged off in a European game where every other player was playing equally badly. Hasn’t had an opportunity since.

Well he does manage to say and awful lot of words and sound impressive and you walk away with no idea regarding any issue. Not sure if that’s good or bad in a chairman to be honest. I disagreed strongly with blackmore’s view that we should hand Hughes the transfer kitty based on him being a former player, ignoring his rather poor transfer history as a manager. I was very curious regarding the Sadio Mane portion. Was Krueger implying our strategy had shifted to not trying to sign another mane. Not particularly happy at the constant lowering of ambitions. Worried that pathway for younger players may suffer even more than it currently does going forward.

Would be disappointed if Bertrand misses out for rose who has barely played this season. Find it odd that Wilshere/hart omissions are already confirmed but other big omissions aren’t yet.

Really annoying rolling over in last seconds to hand them the 100 point mark. At least this atrocious season is over.

That's my point. Despite some of the criticisms of our existing approach its been much more successful overall & if Hughes does come in it should be because he's willing to work within the structure rather than being handed complete control.

He's had lots of equally bad & he's had nowhere near the same successful percentage of successful, let alone hyper successful as Saints have had.

Hughes history of signings at stoke was pretty dire. Of the list from 5 years i’d Say only Allen, shaqiri &indi stood out. Our transfer record looks a lot better by and large over that period even including letting our last manager buy he’s favourite £20m Turkey. No desire to see Hughes suddenly have complete dominance over our transfer approach.

Hardly a fair comparison as unlike Gallagher Austin wasn't forced to play out of position on the right wing for much of his time.

I’d prefer he stay & be given more minutes. If he is going to go we shouldn’t be railroaded into the typical Italian loan deal.