| Four days off 07:06 - Oct 12 with 5442 views | PatfromPoole |
A work colleague of mine was on a flight on Thursday night to Newcastle from Southampton.
Runs into Adam Armstrong, who is with wife and kids.
He said Armstrong came across as very passionate about Saints, and gutted about our current predicament.
The interesting thing was that he was flying back up north as Martin has given all the players not involved in internationals 4 days off.
I wonder if Steve Cooper has been quite so generous.
To my mind, you give players a period of time off as a reward when they have achieved something. You shouldn’t reward failure.
But then I’m not in carnal relations with Lucy Pinder….. |  |
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| Four days off on 14:22 - Oct 13 with 942 views | Ifonly |
Or look at Brentford. If any of their players were signed for Saints it would probably be seen as a disappointment, yet look at how much better they were than us. Was that due to them having 5 players worth £30m? Of course not, but what they do have is a good manager. |  | | |
| Four days off on 14:53 - Oct 13 with 894 views | Southamptonfan |
| Four days off on 14:22 - Oct 13 by Ifonly |
Or look at Brentford. If any of their players were signed for Saints it would probably be seen as a disappointment, yet look at how much better they were than us. Was that due to them having 5 players worth £30m? Of course not, but what they do have is a good manager. |
Brentford have done an incredible job of staying in the league as have Bournemouth as have Palace. Thomas Frank is doing an exceptional job, agreed. But Brentford spent 33 million on Thiago, 25 million on Van den Berg, 25 million on Carvalho (he's a goal scorer, a match winner who has played for a top PL club in champions league games even. Palace have Zaha, they bought Nketia for 30 million and already some decent players. Bournemouth also spent over 30 million on one player. They have all bought players who can win games, who have PL experience. I'd still argue that they have spent more, have better players and more experienced ones.
A Blackburn forward for 8 million, a Villa reserve player for 15 million are not as good as Zaha, Cavalho, Nketia in my opinion. [Post edited 13 Oct 14:59]
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| Four days off on 15:26 - Oct 13 with 869 views | Ifonly |
| Four days off on 14:53 - Oct 13 by Southamptonfan |
Brentford have done an incredible job of staying in the league as have Bournemouth as have Palace. Thomas Frank is doing an exceptional job, agreed. But Brentford spent 33 million on Thiago, 25 million on Van den Berg, 25 million on Carvalho (he's a goal scorer, a match winner who has played for a top PL club in champions league games even. Palace have Zaha, they bought Nketia for 30 million and already some decent players. Bournemouth also spent over 30 million on one player. They have all bought players who can win games, who have PL experience. I'd still argue that they have spent more, have better players and more experienced ones.
A Blackburn forward for 8 million, a Villa reserve player for 15 million are not as good as Zaha, Cavalho, Nketia in my opinion. [Post edited 13 Oct 14:59]
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You're right, Brentford did sign those players (the figures you quote are in euros not £) but none of them contributed to the game v Saints (Carvalho came on in the final minutes). So, they don't change the fact that Thomas Frank made a set of limited players look so much better than their Saints equivalents.
Also, after selling Ivan Toney, Brentford spent a total E97m in the window versus our E117m. We outspent them by E20m. We can slice and dice the numbers any way we want but the point remains that Brentford create a team that is more than the sum of its parts, whereas RM does the opposite and ends up with a collection of players who will gradually be losing confidence and looking worse players than they really are. [Post edited 13 Oct 15:28]
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| Four days off on 19:23 - Oct 13 with 800 views | StAnt |
So our manager presiding over a team with one point so far decides, in his wisdom, that he can afford to waste 4 days of training which could have been spent on the training ground. Having said that, he clearly doesn't really have the skills to coach at this level, so probably nothing lost. | | | |
| Four days off on 01:25 - Oct 14 with 696 views | kingolaf |
Rumours on SainrsWeb that he is on his way. Apparently, given the friendly and then on his way.
Would explain the strange decision to give everyone a holiday.
Alternatively, it’s bullsh!t. | | | |
| Four days off on 07:21 - Oct 20 with 382 views | PatfromPoole |
Bump.
I feared this thread and its title would come back to haunt me. | |
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