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I expect they will get rid during the break for the World Cup. It may be that they recognise that their failure to bring a striker in means we will struggle regardless of manager?

Clubs have brought in new coaches spent more than us and gone down plenty of times. It happens.

Why?

I still find it mental that 170,000 people can spend two months deliberating and come to the conclusion that Liz Truss would be a better PM than Rishi Sunak. We all know who to thank when our mortgage comes up for renewal and the monthly payment has jumped £500. Bunch of swivel-eyed fuck-wits.

Yet the US government's own website says it's a multi-year investment, and you can read about it all on twitter. https://twitter.com/ukraine_map/status/1575327548359204865?t=Klrfr7i89Py3JRWXZXm49Q&s=19

One theory I read was that the energy industry in Russia are obviously not happy at losing millions every day so are putting pressure on to stop the war (or looking to undermine Putin) so blowing the pipelines is Putin's way of taking them out of the equation. He can blame the Yanks and get to carry on with his invasion. I guess in theory it could be the US but it seems a bit of a risky, pointless escalation on their part, I doubt they will have any problem flogging gas to Europe for a while even with the pipes working.

It looks bright pink to me, fucking hideous. Giving me a headache.

You seem to conveniently ignore the fact that Ukraine elected Jewish leader and far right parties got something like 2% of the vote in 2019. Bravo, that’s definitely a B then.

Which one is it then?

This. An important fact which Minge constantly ignores.

I find economics insanely boring so don’t pretend to have a decent understanding but it looks to me like the government are borrowing billions for tax cuts to make us want to buy more shit, whilst the bank of England is raising interest rates to stop us wanting to buy more shit. So the extra few quid in our pay packet will just go straight to the banks to pay our bigger mortgage, and we are saddled with billions more debt?

If old stats are meaningless you could say his win ratio for the last 6 games is 50%.

To be fair it didn't work out too well for Redders. Maybe it should read "If you want to work and you’re are willing to listen, and you are Thierry Henry you’re going to improve with Claude Puel, or anyone."

I dunno, I would say this is probably stronger than what we have now: KEEPERS: Forster, McCarthy DEF: Van Dijk, Yoshida, Cédric, Bertrand, Stephens, Targett, Martina MID: Højbjerg, Tadić, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Clasie, Davis, Reed, Boufal UP FRONT: Redmond, Long, Austin, Gabbiadini, Rodriguez

Pochettino's win percentage was 38% and he's a managerial god but 35% makes you shit.

Taking Spurs to a CL final - Managing PSG with some of the World’s best players - Trying to keep Southampton up with a bunch of kids and without a proven striker. In what world is that possibly a logical career move?

Yet we’ve never been in a relegation fight the whole time he has been here. It’s great that our players are so good we can hire any old shit manger and still be safe every year.

Is 14th failing when you are blooding a load of youngsters? This strategy of buying potential and developing them into top players is risky and will take time. Maybe we need to accept the fact that there will be some shit games whoever is manager. When we have the youngest team in the league, and nowhere near the biggest budget - what position would you say is acceptable?

Against a country that can't even hold a third of Ukraine? We could cut our military funding by a half and still be safe as houses.

I get it, just don't get why you continually bang on about him like he was Pep Guardiola when you think it was right that he was sacked all along.

Yet at the time you said sacking him was "probably the right decision"

Good question. Putin has already flattened cities and killed thousands of people and countries like India and China have just lapped up all that newly available cheap oil and gas.

Are they? Not sure Parker and Tuchel were the favourites for the sack at the start of the season.

How would NATO respond if he used tactical nukes in Ukraine though?

It's not though is it, option two is no, not undecided. I'm on the fence as well really. One thing none of us here know is who is available and up for taking over from Ralph. If the board have a top candidate ready to go then it makes a big difference to what the best thing to do is. We also don't know what's gone on behind the scenes, if Ralph told the board we need a decent striker or we're fucked it's a bit harsh to blame him for not being higher in the league than we are.