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Reply | 2024 - the year for Saints
at 14:17 31 Dec 2024
"one PL win in 2023 - 1-0 v Leicester - and one PL win in 2024 - 1-0 v Everton"
We are 2/3 of the way towards becoming the PL's emergency numbers team:
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Reply | Who is conducting transfer negotiations in January?
at 10:30 31 Dec 2024
A big clear out in January would make sense They'll be easier to get rid of/ worth a little bit more as Premier League players and it's not as if we're going to lose any more points without them here.
It's time for them to go. They've done enough damage here already:
McCarthy
Stephens
Bednarek
Sulemana
The strikers are more of an enigma. We know a couple of them can score goals at Championship level, but we really should sell at least one of them now.
I don't suppose West Ham would let us cut Cornet's loan short? [Post edited 31 Dec 2024 10:36]
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Reply | Golac on Solak & SR - Ivan tells it as it is!
at 10:09 31 Dec 2024
By then, he'll have made an entire decade worse for Saints and we've paid him milllions to do it.
Until he arrived here in August 2016, we were doing brilliantly and had just finished our best season this century (3 points above Liverpool). It's been downhill ever since. [Post edited 31 Dec 2024 10:54]
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Reply | Golac on Solak & SR - Ivan tells it as it is!
at 08:39 31 Dec 2024
We've spent years accumulating more rubbish and yet the dregs still remain. Every year, we thought we'd finally get rid of McCarthy, but it never happens. If a player is so bad that no other team wants him, we keep paying him and playing him here, costing us more money and points. It would be better if we just released them. A clear out is needed, but what happens is we sell the players that other clubs want (not many nowadays) and keep the ones they don't, resulting in an ever worsening squad. |
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Reply | Tonight's other games
at 22:03 30 Dec 2024
Forest and Newcastle competing for the European places; Man United struggling to stay above the relegation zone. It's like the 1970s again, which also, of course, means Liverpool winning the league. Although, with Paul Mitchell as their new DOF, I wouldn't be surprised to see Newcastle challenging them next year (and the last time they won the league was 1927). [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 22:18]
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Reply | Tonight's other games
at 21:04 30 Dec 2024
2-0 now. Weren't we once linked with Liam Delap? He's worth more than all of our so-called strikers put together. He's from Winchester too. |
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Reply | Nucleus of a fairly strong Championship side next season
at 13:39 30 Dec 2024
Will it be stronger than Leicester and Ipswich's next season (or, God forbid, Man City's, Everton's or Wolves')? We were 9 points behind last time. Have we really strengthened our squad that much more than they have?
Even the first name on your list is enough to give any sane Saints fan the heebie jeebies. [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 13:47]
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Reply | Will Ross Stewart Ever Play For Saints Again?
at 13:30 30 Dec 2024
After his luxury spa treatment here, Agustin Delgado went on to continue his successful goalscoring career in Latin America for both club and country. In fact, even when he was our player, he used to go away and score goals for fun for his country during the international breaks. He was scoring against top teams too, like Brazil and Argentina. [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 13:31]
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Reply | Worst points total & goals scored.
at 13:18 30 Dec 2024
Ulimately, the head of recruitment is as important as the manager (and, of course, he also helps select the managers). The last time we had a good one - Paul Mitchell - we saw the results on the pitch. This will be his first transfer window in charge at Newcastle. Perhaps we should monitor who they are bing linked with. |
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Reply | Without KWP we offer nothing
at 12:16 30 Dec 2024
"Besides we seem to have a number of full-backs coming in imminently."
We're getting a reserve left back from a Brazilian club. The chances of him being anywhere near as good as Charlie Taylor, let alone Walker-Peters, are slim to none.
But, it is odd how many wing-backs we collect and then don't play. |
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Reply | One for our Dirk or anyone else
at 13:26 29 Dec 2024
Nowadays, the top Premier League teams recruit the best managers they can from the whole world, including England, which makes sense, as it gives them a bigger pool of talent to choose from. Interestingly, in spite of English being the international language of communication, English managers are not much in demand in the top leagues elsewhere.
Perhaps Les Reed's FA coaching guide has failed to impress.
There are none currently employed in Spain, Germany or Italy.
Spain
FC Barcelona Hansi Flick
Real Madrid Carlo Ancelotti
Atlético de Madrid Diego Simeone
Villarreal Marcelino
UD Las Palmas Diego Martínez
Athletic Bilbao Ernesto Valverde
CA Osasuna Vicente Moreno
RCD Mallorca Jagoba Arrasate
Girona FC Míchel
Real Betis Manuel Pellegrini
Sevilla FC Xavier García
Real Sociedad Imanol Alguacil
Celta de Vigo Claudio Giráldez
Rayo Vallecano Iñigo Pérez
CD Leganés Borja Jiménez
Getafe CF Pepe Bordalás
Deportivo Alavés Luis García
Valencia CF Rubén Baraja
RCD Espanyol Manolo González
Real Valladolid Paulo Pezzolano
Germany
FC Bayern Munich Vincent Kompany
Borussia Dortmund Nuri Şahin
Bayer Leverkusen Xabi Alonso
RB Leipzig Marco Rose
SC Freiburg Christian Streich
VfB Stuttgart Sebastian Hoeneß
Eintracht Frankfurt Dino Toppmöller
1. FC Union Berlin Urs Fischer
FC Köln Steffen Baumgart
VfL Wolfsburg Florian Kohfeldt
Borussia Mönchengladbach Gerardo Seoane
Hertha BSC Sandro Schwarz
Werder Bremen Ole Werner
FC Augsburg Enrico Maaßen
1. FC Heidenheim Frank Schmidt
TSG Hoffenheim André Breitenreiter
Schalke 04 Frank Kramer
1. FC Nürnberg Robert Klauß
FC St. Pauli Timo Schultz
SV Darmstadt 98 Torsten Lieberknecht
Italy
Juventus Thiago Motta
Inter Milan Simone Inzaghi
AC Milan Paulo Fonseca
Napoli Antonio Conte
Atalanta Gian Piero Gasperini
Lazio Marco Baroni
Roma Claudio Ranieri
Fiorentina Vincenzo Italiano
Bologna Raffaele Palladino
Torino Paolo Vanoli
Hellas Verona Paolo Zanetti
Genoa Patrick Vieira
Cagliari Davide Nicola
Empoli Roberto D'Aversa
Parma Fabio Pecchia
Lecce Marco Giampaolo
Venezia Eusebio Di Francesco
Monza Salvatore Bocchetti
Como Cesc Fàbregas |
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Reply | 12 substitutes today
at 09:42 28 Dec 2024
It may well be the first time it's happened. One team is allowed to use 6 substitutes if they have a concussion-related injury, but I didn't know the other team was then also allowed to use 6 to balance things up. Perhaps we weren't. The announcer said, "West Ham's 6th substitute is....", but for our 6th, he only said the name.
In future, if any of our players get injured after the 5th substitution has been made, the manager needs to tell them to go down clutching their head, even if they've broken their leg.
Incidentally, Fabianski was fine as soon as he left the pitch. He didn't even need to go to hospital for a check-up. I've looked at the replay of the incident several times and he was definitely barged into Wood by his own player. So, there is no way Wood should have received a yellow card for so-called "serious foul play". I wonder if Wood had gone down instead of Fabianski, it might have been reviewed for a penalty by VAR? [Post edited 28 Dec 2024 11:10]
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