Saint86

Thanking you kindly GS!

Down in Cornwall so haven't been able to follow this very well....but bloody superb result and cannot wait to watch the highlights!

Personally, I would say that's 3 of the best central midfielders in the division - and we will only play 2 of them at any time. Plus we have azaz in front of them (potentially rotating with JWP).

You'll be able to add scienza soon, maybe by the end of the season the rate his is thinning 😆

Probably a degree of, "if I'm playing in the championship, then I'm doing it at saints" to the whole thing. Clearly been rumbling for a while given the early noises made by Blackmore at the start of the summer.

Would assume this is what Eckert was referring to re giving Romeo more game time or going on loan.

Yes, its the sub £1M that saints have given them this window that's going to make the difference. Not the other £200M 😄

Is Franny getting upset because 8year old JWP didn't go out and work really hard on his paper round, spend that money on a season ticket for saints, and say, "no no, I'm off to Southampton by myself" when his Pompey supporting season ticket holding family took him to krap nottarf? To each his own I guess. Although I do then feel it's a tad harsh to call him a c*** for choosing not to embrace child labour and travelling alone on public transport to saints every weekend, or to imply he doesn't care about the club after giving 20years+ of his life to it 😅

We need to cover the £15M loss in parachute payments from last season (regardless of servicing any other debt / losses). Charles for circa £22M into the club (rest to city) and £6M for fernandes will offset the Dobbin £11M, Peretz and Larin fees (circa £8M). Debates can be had on where the AA monies sit within this. But ultimately, some of that THB money will likely be squirreled away to cover our drop in parachute payments and servicing the existing debt. I'd be pleasantly pleased if we reinvest 2/3 of it. Fail to get promoted next season and we drop another circa £40M in revenue.

Agreed, almost feels like we're going to have fans wanting him to fail just at this point. Bit mad.

Well, he's score a corner in his time away with west ham, so as far as i'm aware he now holds the premier league set piece record - he just didn't get credited with it because it wasn't a free kick 😄

I don't disagree (although that is largely down to him being stuck with Nuno at forest and Wham. I was just providing some context to the initial point / comparison being made about JWP being utilised effectively in a more advanced role - I.e., if he is used as rotation for azaz. And In truth he does offer us a lot of flexibility over where he plays - right mid, right back, cm, CDM playmaker, and cover for azaz 🤷

(At least in the league) 😅

7 goals + 7 assists (aka goal involvements for ducky) in 37 prem games. 4assists in 10 Europa league games (0.38goal involvements per game). Azaz managed 11G 8A in 43 games last season - playing in a more advanced role in a better side in a worse league (0.44 goal involvements per game). Obviously after that JWP had the misfortune to be stalked by Nuno and ultimatley exiled to an awful relegation destined Burnley. He's a very good player to have as an option in the championship. Probably wants to enjoy the final years of his career and I can't think of many better places for that to happen than at saints - especially if it's a promotion season.

Yeah, exactly. He got 5 goal involvements in his opening 4 premier league games at west ham. And 11 goal involvements in his opening 21 games... He was generally playing as an AM or more attacking CM during that time. Regardless, hes a good passer of the ball and would do well with the increased space of the championship and the movement of our attacking players.