Daft Kerplunk

Salisu is the ready-made replacement for Vestergaard (not in style but position) and I have my doubts we’d be looking for another centre back when we’ve also signed a young lad. We might get a few more in on loans or free transfers though. A mix of Ings and Vestergaard’s transfers will go towards balancing the books.

Anything like this will be very well managed by someone who ran a marketing agency used to controlling public messages (Semmens) and that’s all good when things are going well. With the well-timed signings accounted today, a fans meeting should have always been good with any fan feelings tempered by a little more positivity.

Good move for the player and club. With the likes of Chelsea taking too many players at a young age, this will become more common. It’s weird when it’s two clubs in the same division still but increasingly normal. If he bags goals for us and puts pressure on others to perform, it’s a win.

Decent and I reckon the youth might be into this as a fashion item as well as a great message of support for a section of the human race who still gets unnecessary abuse. Like racism, if you don’t have a problem with it, you have nothing to worry about or fear from it.

If he scores the goals, couldn’t care less whether it’s with add ons or exchanges. Ings could create goals from nothing which was why he was so important to a team that couldn’t create so let’s hope either this fella can do that, or that we still have more to come.

I’d take 17th if offered it today

Not a worry about them being fans, just making the point that Danny Ings didn’t need to be a Saints fan and that he might have moved on because he didn’t like who he worked for, not the organisation. But I am not one of those people who automatically dislikes anyone who moves on from Saints, or chooses not to come here. This Ings transfer is a great deal for SFC from a financial point of view and footballers are nothing more than pawns in this particular corporate game.

When it says ‘hates Saints’ I know some people who have worked for Saints and they very much totally dislike the people who run the club. They are Saints fans but they’ll tell you there are some absolute cnuts who are definitely NOT Saints fans running the place. Ralph clearly falls out with people as well so it’s hardly unlikely that he and Ings would have come to blows. Ings has been brilliant for us. He, like Bertrand, have opted to leave for better clubs. The money is no doubt brilliant but don’t we all want to enjoy where work, and respect who we work for?

Dual announcement when Vestergaard leaves? Or just that a load of people need to sign it off, or how do you cover that Martin Semmens had previously said Ings would stay, or how do you take a sly dig at a player that has pretty much kept us up the last two years?

Anyone thinking we are going to spend all £30m on players is surely deluded. There’s the money to Liverpool for their % and then we’re in bad shape financially. Once we sell Vestergaard we might see some money spent on players but my guess would be £60m in (including the low level sales) and £25m out, perhaps with some loans. Someone mentioned Long’s reaction amongst the players. What sort of reaction was that as although people seem to discount player reactions or emotions, they are important for team spirit and overall feeling of being in a club doing well, or one that is on the ropes.

No Ings over the last two years and we’d have been relegated so thank you Danny for your service. If we had been more ambitious and able to improve, I imagine he’d have stayed but we aren’t that club anymore. Villa are on the up. Great that he has performed for us too as this has helped towards the desperate finances of the club. Finances should be reasonably secure once Vestergaard has gone and there might be some spare change to buy a cheap player or two.

Not worrying about players taking a knee and acknowledging the reasons why is a start for many. If you’re not racist then there should be no problem with anyone taking a knee because it is not political, it’s about wanting respect and being treated as a human being. That isn’t much to ask really. I’m with my fellow human beings in wanting to be treated well and not judged on the colour of their skin.

Black lives do indeed matter. Happy for players to take the knee if there is still a societal problem with racist bias. Which, there clearly is. Nothing Marxist about it. Just purely and simply people wanting to be treated fairly, justly, and most importantly like fellow human beings. No racism (covert or overt) then no problem and nobody would need to take the knee and BLM would happily say that their goal has been achieved. Maybe everyone falling over themselves to say they aren’t racist and think that taking the knee is lefty political nonsense should do more to make sure there isn’t racism in the world, or at least on the UK. No racism, no need to take the knee. If I was a player and I’m white, I’d support my fellow team mates and their cause until meaningful change happens. Having a problem with people taking a knee suggests you have a problem with people trying to feel they are treated respectfully as human beings. That’s not my problem but one for people to ponder when responding to players who have suffered racism deciding enough is enough.

Young players got a chance at Chelsea because they had a transfer ban. That has now ended and they don’t need to wait for talent to develop any longer and can buy off the shelf. Good for clubs like us.

Pep was a Spanish international who was an absolute star for Barcelona and won the European Cup (champions league).

SAS 🤣

The future defensive equivalent of Shearer and Sutton. SOS. Hopefully our defence can get on track soon

Did it work? Nope. If it works, great. If not, not so much. Sometimes hard-nosed isn’t always so clever and doesn’t always work. If we had sold Lemina 2 years ago for 10 million, that have would surely have been better than a possible £8m after we’ve paid a proportion of his wages over the last few years and not been able to invest. Sometimes understanding the true and not imagined value of a player allows progress.

Jeez, if he’s not part of the plans, get rid. Did we not turn down a bid years ago because we thought he was worth more? Ended up costing us a shed load more if so. Are we going to do the same thing again? Hopefully Crocker and Steele can match football and finance needs.

Well they’ve got 5 ‘directors’ who combined are probably close to a million. Then there’s apparently a load of other ‘directors’ who probably earn similar when combined, then loads of ‘heads of’ departments earning decent money, then a load more ‘managers’ plus loads of minions producing documents for the people up top to review and pass back down again. It’s the corporate way. And on the football side, there’s a football premium so all the first team staff, full time coaches, sport science staff and physios etc. Plus over a million on women’s team. It all adds up.

Really really shit fee for Mane!

Clearly not about money, this will be about the state of the club and where it is going. At the moment, it’s treading water. If I was Danny, I’d be looking to join a team that at least looks it won’t be disappointing to play in every week. The second half of the season must have been dreadful for our few better than average players.

Not physical enough for the Premier League is it’s a no from me.

The money put in the club by KL was also loans that were paid back. The only ‘investor’ was ML. When Gao purchased the club, he bought 80% of KL’s shares and has not invested in the club as the club has not seen any of the money. It was a dud deal and Marin Semmens was the clubs strategy lead at the time and brains behind the deal with Gao. For KL, it was a great bit of business, for Saints as a football club, it has and will continue to be terrible.

Sky could move it