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Apparently reducing the size of the squad was a critical action that we had to take in January so RH would have a smaller pool of players to focus on. But is there a reason you can't just send players who aren't in contention to train with the reserve/U23 squad? Do players now have it written into their contracts that they can't be demoted like that? It would seem a more judicious course of action when your main striker is highly injury prone and your now first-choice right back is a teenager.

 

(Obviously this doesn't address our (apparent) need to save on a few months of wages, but that's not the line the club took in January anyway).

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it was a cost cutting exercise. Maybe in the hope we could get a couple of targets on the cheap.

but essentially, a cost cutting exercise with some well placed articles from the club, hyping up young players who are just not that good at the moment.

 

as per, many saints fans lapped it up

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it was a cost cutting exercise. Maybe in the hope we could get a couple of targets on the cheap.

but essentially, a cost cutting exercise with some well placed articles from the club, hyping up young players who are just not that good at the moment.

 

as per, many saints fans lapped it up

 

Yep, agree with that.

 

Its surprising how many seem to think that we are going to go on some kind of spending spree in the summer (if we stay up) without selling anymore players. The club have already suggested Hojbjerg will be sold by saying several top clubs have been looking at him.

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it was a cost cutting exercise. Maybe in the hope we could get a couple of targets on the cheap.

but essentially, a cost cutting exercise with some well placed articles from the club, hyping up young players who are just not that good at the moment.

 

as per, many saints fans lapped it up

 

Good practice though if we go down. This will seem like a snip compared to the cost cutting required for the Championship.

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The problem is, if this was cost cutting (which it seemingly is), it's only temporary cost cutting. So therefore it doesn't really make a great deal of sense.

 

The return of Cedric, Hoedt, Bouful, Carillo, Clasie in the NPC is going to kill us financially. We won't be able to do anything until those are gone.

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So the idea that disgruntled senior players causing problems in the camp because they aren’t getting regular games so being shipped out to help restore morale doesn’t wash? Yet only a couple of days ago it was seen as the reason why things had changed and why we were unbeaten this year? One poor result and the world falls in and we are back to where we were. We weren’t the worst club in the world before Christmas, we weren’t last week and we aren’t now. But there is clearly a lot of work to be done in terms of the playing strength and that has only just started. What happens in the summer will obviously depend on which division we are in but we can depend on one thing at least, the whinging will continue here.

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So the idea that disgruntled senior players causing problems in the camp because they aren’t getting regular games so being shipped out to help restore morale doesn’t wash? Yet only a couple of days ago it was seen as the reason why things had changed and why we were unbeaten this year? One poor result and the world falls in and we are back to where we were. We weren’t the worst club in the world before Christmas, we weren’t last week and we aren’t now. But there is clearly a lot of work to be done in terms of the playing strength and that has only just started. What happens in the summer will obviously depend on which division we are in but we can depend on one thing at least, the whinging will continue here.
It's not one poor result, it's three. 2 points from those three games is pathetic.
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Apparently reducing the size of the squad was a critical action that we had to take in January so RH would have a smaller pool of players to focus on. But is there a reason you can't just send players who aren't in contention to train with the reserve/U23 squad? Do players now have it written into their contracts that they can't be demoted like that? It would seem a more judicious course of action when your main striker is highly injury prone and your now first-choice right back is a teenager.

 

(Obviously this doesn't address our (apparent) need to save on a few months of wages, but that's not the line the club took in January anyway).

 

What manager in his right mind would not want less players in his squad? Too many players is only going to interfere with the manager's ability to focus properly on the players he has in his squad and his ability to work which players are **** and which are good. It's obvious and it's why we are always hearing top managers like Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp moaning in post match interviews about how their squads are too big and that they wish that they had less player's to choose from.

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What manager in his right mind would not want less players in his squad? Too many players is only going to interfere with the manager's ability to focus properly on the players he has in his squad and his ability to work which players are **** and which are good. It's obvious and it's why we are always hearing top managers like Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp moaning in post match interviews about how their squads are too big and that they wish that they had less player's to choose from.
Too right. How often do we hear managers saying how they are just two or three sales away from the squad they need, or that if they can definitely sell this player it would be the last piece of jigsaw.
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Too right. How often do we hear managers saying how they are just two or three sales away from the squad they need, or that if they can definitely sell this player it would be the last piece of jigsaw.

 

Like paying agents fees, we are also the only club that must shift deadwood before being able to sign anyone

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Too right. How often do we hear managers saying how they are just two or three sales away from the squad they need, or that if they can definitely sell this player it would be the last piece of jigsaw.

 

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Why this didn't happen in the summer I don't know.

 

I appreciate for players like Davis the move made sense, he gets to go somewhere he wants and play and we no longer needed him.

 

But for some of the players (Cedric/Gabbi etc) they could still do a job, just make them a promise that if they knuckle down until the end of the season we will actively look to sell them.

 

Can't remember many other teams wanting to "cut down" mid-season.

 

Could have been worse, we could have been left without Austin and McCarthy by all accounts.

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The activity of the club in the January transfer window just looked like the actions of a club who have one eye on The Championship. Cut costs, get the kids used to first team football ready for next season. :-(

 

Which would have been utterly ridiculous bearing on mind we were 16th off the back of a few decent results...

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The activity of the club in the January transfer window just looked like the actions of a club who have one eye on The Championship. Cut costs, get the kids used to first team football ready for next season. :-(

 

Just looked like getting some money in by selling anyone who was sollicited elsewhere to me.

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The activity of the club in the January transfer window just looked like the actions of a club who have one eye on The Championship. Cut costs, get the kids used to first team football ready for next season. :-(

 

Playing kids in the Championship will mean League One football the year after

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The activity of the club in the January transfer window just looked like the actions of a club who have one eye on The Championship. Cut costs, get the kids used to first team football ready for next season. :-(

Sacking Hughes shows they are terrified of going down. The January transfer window showed their arrogance/stupidity that we'd survive with Ralph, and could afford to not only not strengthen a poor squad, but actually weaken it further.

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