Verbal Kint

I'm not sure we can risk going into next season with that approach. Stephens is consistently losing his man and its costing us goals. He has the potential to be very good but I'm concerned at the moment. We look vulnerable

Although today we saw him played correctly. Coming off the bench against tired defenders and when we're in front he's and ideal player to bring on. He offers an outlet for easy balls over the top and he chases and hassles defenders, rushing them into long balls which are easier to defend against. That should be his role from now on. He should never be starting games and he isn't going to get many goals but he does have a useful role to play I think. The problem is Reed has undoubtedly given him a big contract and I'm not sure you can justify having him around playing like that if he's one of the better paid players at the club

The only ones that watch him week in week out then

Who is suggesting we should be competing with the top 6? Most supporters think we should be aiming to be best of the rest so why don't you compare our attacking options to Burnley, Everton, Watford etc?

I must have been watching a different game to most then as I thought we were clearly the better team for most of the game, except the 10 minutes before half time. We created a number of fantastic chances but missed them - Boufal skying over, VVD free header, Austin with 2 headers, Bertrand not squaring it, as well as numerous great openings with a pot final ball. For the first 30 minutes of the second half we looked really dangerous when we went forward. Defensively we looked pretty dodgy throughout and Hoedt was all over the place at times, but we created far more than them and should have won. MP was pretty positive with the HT sub and it all looked much more promising. People have said poor finishing cost us earlier in the season, but I didn't see us creating many good chances then. Today we did and poor finishing really did cost us

When he comes to st Mary's later in the season maybe we can swap players before the match, he can play his open expansive football against 30 million plus players with Redmond in his team and we'll see how he gets on

I'd rest Boufal and Austin for the weekend as I don't see how they're going to help us in this when they'll be chasing after City players for 90 mins. Let Redmond and Long do some running

This. Once he got his big contract that was it for him, he's barely been trying since

What would you describe an attacking midfielder as that doesn't create or score goals and has spent his entire career playing for midtable sides (or in the SPL)? A great lad and fantastic value signing for us at 800k or whatever it was, but there is a reason he's never come close to playing for one of the big 6

No he's significantly overrated by a large portion of the fanbase. He's never even been linked with a move to the big boys throughout his career because he's an average midtable player

Even if he is sacked now does anyone have faith in Reed to get the right man in? He is the man that thought Puel and MP were the right fit before so I don't see why he would suddenly find the right one now. Reed believes in this type of football, if he didn't he would never have hired them in the first place

So don't play them then. Give McQueen a run, change formation to 352, 3412, 442... Just do something different because nothing will change if the same players are picked. Redmond will always be a terrible footballer, Tadic will always be hopeless in front of goal and Forster will continue to be the worst goalkeeper in the league. So try something different

Combined with his comments about Redmond and Tadic being better on the wrong sides and Boufal being better wide and it's all very worrying

MP's own words tonight: "What we have to do is move to the next level and that is winning things. We're pleased, but it will mean nothing if we have not won anything." If he doesn't win trophies he won't be considered a top manager

Everton pay their managers 6 million a year now remember... I'm sure they won't pay Dyche that much but whatever they do pay will be 4 or 5 times more than he's on at Burnley

Because they, like Barcelona, have players all over the pitch capable of injecting pace into their game in a split second and are prepared to take risks. De Bruyne is a great example of a midfielder always willing to play the riskier pass. We have Nathan Redmond

It's the manager that wants us to play like Barcelona not the fans, the fans are smart enough to understand though that playing like Barcelona only works if you've got Iniesta and Messi, not JWP and Redmond

Every single goalkeeper at the club under his watch has gone backwards, yet he was given a promotion

This

They should have started today. I wanted Puel out but not to bring in an almost identical manager, and the problem now is that when MP gets sacked Reed will just appoint another manager like them. This is how Reed wants us to play and we're just going to have to accept it

If you spent all of last season watching us and thinking that that was the style of play he was trying to implement then you were watching a very different team to me. Maybe he will play to Leicester's strengths in which case questions will need to be asked of Les Reed and the "Southampton way"

I can't see CP's slow tempo possession football working particularly well with that Leicester squad

The same that Redmond has been given, so about 40. He is by some distance the most talented player at the club and it's up to the manager to find a system that gets the best out of him

Koeman wants to be sacked. He gets that contract paid up and can spend more time on the golf course.

This. And even if he does start next week it will probably be in a wide role rather than central. The team should be being built around him