Smirking_Saint

Last thing I want to do is gamble on a guy that had his last best season, with us, 4 years ago or whenever it was The same people asking for him will be the same moaning on gambling on an injury prone has been

Ings is finished

There’s nothing wrong with the multiclub model, its sensible, should long term improve talent acquisition and the ability to send players out for experience We’ve been relegated for a lot of reasons, but chief to them all is that SR’s scouting has been woeful, especially the ‘established’ player signings and managers

No idea around pricing honestly He bought at 100m or so right ? Not sure how the loan works either, or how devalued we are now we’re effectively a championship club My honest thoughts are, if the same price is being bandied around its, in my eyes, more likely to be a regurgitation of the same rumour, so potentially bullshit

No idea mate I know a few people from some of the biv investment banks, a mate knows In a Saints fan, probably due to walking around in a state of broken misery He just said there was a rumour we were up for sale and weirdly the price was 125m I asked those I know close to the club, and was told it was just noise… then it broke yesterday at the same figure… it could obviously be a rumour thats taken legs, or even bullshit thats taken legs but thats honestly all i know Guy at the club I know, who would know, says its unlikely

Perhaps yeah But thats the thing with what ifs… We could of also been sold to someone desperate to asset strip

Because if we were relegated under Gao or someone equally unable to fund a return we’d be fucked Too many fail to understand that As shit as SR have been they’ve been happy throwing money at the club and keeping us afloat

FWIW I don’t actually think the clubs up for sale but thats just me putting together the snippets I know and instinct around where the club is right now I do think cracks are starting to appear though, Rasmus’ influence is being watered down I think (not sure he is as bad as is made out but he is hugely arrogant) We’ll see I guess.. lets hope Spors gets a reasonable amount of autonomy on the sporting side, because SR need technical advice desperately. I do wonder of Martin would have done better if he had a sporting guy above him helping to direct some of his transfer targets and check some of his stubbornness towards his possession based optimism

Thats fair I barely post on here anymore and don’t get a ton of info these days anyway and some of its sketchy For instance before we appointed Juric i was told Carsley was a front runner, so sometimes its just not worth posting everything that comes out from around the club

Like I said it broke midweek last week, but then was pretty quiet until Jordan and Alfie picked it up yesterday Came out of financial circles in the city.. my first thought was, if it was true it will break quickly But again… timing just feels really odd to me

FWIW i don’t think the clubs up for sale, not officially anyway These rumours were doing the rounds from mid week last week, coming out of financial circles in London, its always hard to tell if there are legs to it, especially when official channels denied. That said, seems as though rumours have intensified a tad It does feel odd timing, we’ve had a restructure, recently appointed Spors and the clubs been relegated meaning we’re in a weaker position for negotiating a price… also not sure how the multi club model is unpicked Like all rumours its either bollocks, or an exaggeration of a conversation. Ive wondered how stretched SRs resolve might be, so potentially they’ve said a price they might be willing to depart for ? Who knows Either way, not sure a sale is necessarily a good thing… PSR resticts what we can spend… SR, as flawed as their strategy is clearly have our best interests at heart, sometimes we need to be careful what we wish for

He doesn’t

He played 16 out of a possible 32 and none of the run in.. they had the option to buy and didn’t Enough said

I think he’s more stubborn to clueless tbh Im hoping Stewart is able to find a bit of form and gametime as I feel we’ll benefit from the ball sticking up front

We spent last year with Armstrong playing off of the right… RM obviously prefers inside forwards to traditional wingers and as far as the Champ was concerned that was probably viable as generally we’d control the game and defending teams would sit deep, thats unfortunately not the case this year, we aren’t controlling the play in the opposition box, so realistically a winger would probably have been a better option Im personally not writing off BBD yet, but I am worried…