Oldandtired

And to add insult to injury having the decisions explained by an American woman to a Premier League manager and two top ex footballers. It's bollocks.... I can see me getting very irate next season.

People rattle on about top keepers blah blah, but all keepers have one thing in common, they have a mistake in them.Witness Allison and Edison, probably about the best there is,but look at the mistakes they make here and there. Actually, top keepers do usually have another thing in common, they have a top defence in front of them. We don't have that so I would hazard a guess that if by some magic we could have either of the aforementioned keepers then our goals against wouldn't be so very different than having AM in goal. For me he is a competent shot stopper and seems okay on crosses, and for a club of our standing at the moment I think that's going to have to do.

Much as I enjoyed watching Downes play last season he is an unknown quantity at PL level. nobody can say for certain that he will be able to effectively make the step up. KWP has Premier League experience, and played well at that level. So if this deal does materialise imo it is a massive gamble by Saints, KWP would be exactly the type of player we need to keep even at the cost of a massive hike in contract. But, as I said, that is just my opinion.

here's another rumour for the mill .. https://x.com/JustSaints_/status/1806625038918980038

Now for yet another elephant in the room...buzz seems to getting stronger regarding Ings in for 5m. Or, of course, could be just those around West Ham playing it up hoping it might come true Hmmmm...

Surely to become an extremely good goalkeeper you have to have some basic skills like being able to stop shots, deal with crosses etc. Didn't see much of that from him last season, you can be Messi like with your dribbling skills in the penalty area but unless you can stop a few shots here and there you are never going to make any sort of gk.

He is a creative player with flair, just the sort that RM doesn't like.

This is Levy we’re dealing with….probably end up paying Spurs £30m to take him off our hands.

That's the good news... bad news is we've probably got to take Ings for 20 mil as well.

Fingers crossed https://www.claretandhugh.info/lopetegui-signs-off-on-west-ham-transfer/

Are all these young players being talked about with one eye on developing in the championship season after next? Because surely they're not gonna be what we need to help us stay up in the PL

.... and not play Bazunu in goal

In my world not so bad... Last season promotion .£140million Next season relegation £60m? parachute payment Season 3 promotion lots more £m and fun And so on....😂😂😂

Shoe in for Saudi?

I still don't get this. Dragon what's his name stated the other day that if we avoid relegation it's worth up to £305,000,000. Still don't understand how we're broke.

Quite. With regard to the level of some of the comments and insults on here, as an old man I'm quite grateful for them as it brings back memories of my time in the primary school playground.

Um, didn't we get relegated with those players or did I dream that?

We all want the best players possible for us, but is there an elephant lurking in the room... how much can we afford to pay in wages? I sort of get the impression that we won't be/can't be among the better payers in the league So does that mean we will only be able to attract young or journeyman players?

exactly. Looking at my crystal ball we won't exactly be lighting up the Premier League next season so possibly our expectations in the calibre of player we will be signing would be commensurate with this. We are definitely not going to get the best signing for us, I suppose it's how far down the quality scale we go to persuade players to actually come here.

BOGOF with Downes....

Yep, this.

Yep.

I'd much prefer him to come back to St. Marys....

We can only dream...

I'm really ignorant about these things but I'm sure the chairman said that if they can avoid relegation then promotion is worth up to £305 million. So how can we not have enough cash, are we up to our ears in debt or something?