danjosaint

F.....g great

As above very good performance marred by imo poor subs, Austin was given a rest for a reason, Claudes got this love for Redmond that I'm sorry I just don't get it, good performance probably more than I expected but please get the front 3 sorted

Bit of a shame we didn't get Gueye he would've been ideal

And redmond through and shot instead of squaring to long for tap in, it happens

Mmm Zaha against Targett

I like that but without a doubt swap Jay for Rickie

Puels really not doing himself any favours ffs

Not the fact she'd probably treble what they payed for club

But by all accounts Puel hasn't bought players in , Sir Les bought in redmond, Boufal has allegedly been brewing for many many months and similar to Hojberg who was well on our radar before CP

Not I don't know for sure but I'll guess a local lad who has chance of Europeon football and still just down the m3 from his 'new' mates would've rather come here and imo would be better rb than cedric than go all the way up to boro

I really can't believe knowing right back situation we didn't go for chambers especially knowing he could cover cb, really poor decision by all, knowing Cuco could have gone and we would've had year to scout new rb or cb

But surely people must ask 'why he didn't want to stay past his last year' yes I'm sure he's ambitious and eventually will take barca job. Was it a case of what most fans fear very little ambition and happy to just stay in EPL or simply an ego clash with Les, let's face it Roko was right about our youth no one is ready at least not yet, Les banged on about the Southampton way and formation, but that's up the swanney, along with youth if it was such a big deal why haven't Reed and Gallagher been given a chance, I think we would personally ended up with De Boar but feel his mate Ronald might well of had a word in his ear

But if we sacked CP Les would have another reason not to spend any money, sorry we've just spent £**million paying off Claude just the same as people banging on about Ramirez, yes we know he was a waste but the money received over 3yrs I'd imagine would of covered this

Didn't Lyon have champions league football every year for 7 odd years till Puel took over then they missed out as he changed system, may be wrong but read it somewhere

And looks like no euro adventure either

There it is again no happy medium, we'll either spend nothing at all or millions and end up like pompey, get a grip

Clueless*** there's a reason Austin and Long looked sh*t and that's CPs stubborn need to persist with a unaffective formation that won't work with our squad

'First team squad set up' so he's pi..ed about us selling best players and mane was last straw especially how quick we were to let him go, perhaps like several fans he sees lack of ambition and happy to finish mid table as that this season will bring it more money with new deals that it would say 3 seasons ago getting into champions league

Very much like Hodgson square pegs round holes both us and England have decent teams if playing to our strengths but look clueless with different formations, that's OK if you've a big squad packed with quality something we haven't got so need a manager to forge a team around our strengths not by having a half decent winger put up front and Tadic as a 10, tell me why you can't have tadic and redmond wide, Austin up top with perhaps long up behind with Pierre and Romeu, ideally the position behind Austin would be taken by a quality goal scoring acm signing then long/Austin good battle it out for out and out front man

Yeah bizarre as he was very good the few games he's played

Got 4 today for napoli, guess West spam will join the race with everton

But we've played no quality, Bilbao/espanyol were on training sessions, zwolle,twente, groningen poor and latter got hammered today, I'm not saying doom and gloom but none of these sides offer what we are about to face

Basic verdict, looked bit toothless, tadic looked lost in the middle, players didn't look overly comfortable in formation, Hojberg looks quality and seems a bargain, Redmond looked good but lost it when coming inside, would rather him and Tadic both played wide supplying Austin with long up behind. Must keep hold of Virgil, if only he'd shot after going on a mazy run. If we pursue this system we really need a top drawer Acm to sit at top of diamond. If no signings arrive i can see us struggling to score and probably nicking games and finishing 10-12th

An owner who doesn't care they will be relegated as they will still get massive parachute payments of probably 90m

Rather a poacher like Hernandez