OldNick

If I was a top player andSaints were competing with other clubs for my signature, I would think why go there as the club are selling the best players and it looks like a season of struggle. For all the dressing up we are selling and not replacing with as good or better. Read through Reeds quote again and it is holed below the waterline

Our intention is to keep our core players, I assume the core means those we don't have offers on

Spurs are a massive club, we are a mid size club. He is stating a truth. IMO

for me having my hopes raised for the last few years and seeing the club being driven on by NC, gave me a hope and expectation. NC has been removed and it seems to me that we have a mealy mouthed weak leadership follow on from that. i have not been following Saints for over 50years but I have been for over 45 . In that time I was used to failure and disappointment, but the last few years had given me a new confidence. I still can't get my head around how we seem to be holding back getting fresh players in. I hope e club have some aces up their sleeves but we all know what happens if you have to play catch up. The PL is a harsh league and we have a rookie manager (PL terms) and potentially a rookie side.

are you CBFry if not you do a good impersonation

lol

I was a bit uneasy when I read about RK saying that we were not doing much physical stuff but just with the ball. If the club has had all the teams from the youngsters up, playing the same way up to now, the. all of a sudden that has been binned the players are going to pretty confused and unfit.

hes foreign and so must be good.

I like the assertions on here from time to time where fans make lists of players they think we might sign and use that as a figure of spending. I prefer to look at it that we were assured by the club that 35m would be added to money coming in and spent. At present we have the 35m 'war chest' lol and the sales of players in the region of 60 m. We may have spent 17, conveniently any other future buys will be not published. Try and work out how we have spent then. IMO we will buy a couple more players in the 5-7 m range and flood in a few loans and frees and dress them up as major buys. That will allow Reed still to be worshipped as the chosen one, 'I have his gourd, the Holy gourd, it is a sign'

I was wondering if they now get houses on there would Pompey get more money

Fans groups are a joke and mainly just a bunch of people with their own agendas. Committees and the like are a waste of space. I can see egos now waiting for their time in the boardroom asking for better burgers, cheaper beer, cheaper tickets etc. It is a business and so we have no right to expect fans on the board. You only have to look on here at the many different views, how could we expect a fan to be able to appease and represent all those views.

No, but we have to fill our time with something.

If anyone had said 20-30years ago that China would be anyway supportive of Russia you would have not believed it. I do wonder if the 2 have decided to use their combined power to thwart the west longterm. Odd bedfellows

maybe, we did try it once before, that was a success

A measured reply. I dont expect top name signings as it seems the club do not believe in making the last step up. The feeling seems to be that we have got to the glass ceiling and have lowered all expectations. I personally believe Katrina does not have anywhere near the same ambition of her father (her rightful choice) and is clawing back a large chunk of the initial investment, again her prerogative. If this is the case i would rather them be a little more open rather than tell us that we have 35m as well as the funds from player sales, when from where iam it is patently not the case. I hope Iam wrong and the club dumbfound me and buy some real quality (although the WC stars rarely find the same form in club football,after making a reputation there) If we are not looking at those 'stars' then i fail to see why we have yet to purchase more decent professionals who have been taken on by other clubs.

yeah sorry about that. To fit in a post in the middle of being pestered by staff and customers etc can make it hard to put a decent post out. I know I have never put a decent post out

if you believe that McQueen, Reed and Taggert can be mainstays in a PL team that has lost a few of its talismen, and a xcompletely new team then perhaps we should to others who are on crack. Yes there are exceptions but to think year on year we can have LS coming forward is mad IMO. One of those players may become regulars longterm but asking all 3 is tough. We have had 2 untried players arrive to replace 3 regulars, surely it is not unfair to expect us to have a few more players on board in rediness for the new campaign

Yes it is irrelevant about what players cost, but for a club that has massive funds have at 3 players gone and perhaps more, that already needed players in some crucial positions it does seem a little complacent not to have been very active. I know we dont need to rush in 'buy in haste and repent at leisure' and all that but it seems clear to the outsider that we would have known players were leaving and so our team of experts should have lined up new players. You seem content with the situation, i respect that, but excuse me if Iam suspicious/underhelmed by the new boards actions.

I would have thought he wouldn't have time for that as surely he would be drawing up reports or a book about any misdemeanours going on

Yep thanks Sidney, always good to hear stuff

Surely we can't think that Reed and Krueger were lying lol. I tHink it was obvious the club were talking before the WC and probably as the season ended. Bring in 100 m spend 30 and bingo you can draw out a nice little wedge. Their prerogative of course,but don't lie to your customers

Lol

he's otherwise engaged, I assume

I assume the Burnley fans feel the same about us, there again they must still love us for buying Fox

Lol thank heavens it wasnt TCWTB who had ****~~ on the toilet seat, it is amazing how the public abuse facilities that are provided. You have refrained from giving out the golf info, i look forward to the post lol. You will get a few PM's begging no doubt