Saint_clark

He'll get 20+ in Italy I said it already, physical strikers always do well over there.

Makes you wonder doesn't it. They've spent more than they've brought in every summer since 2019 and yet still whatever financial fair play is in effect allows them to keep spending.

He's only got a couple of goals and assists for us granted but he's still young and hasn't even played the full equivalent of a season for us yet - he's only got 20 starts since coming here. He's also shown plenty of pace, dribbling ability and can shoot dangerously. Long story short, he is erratic but causes problems. What we're doing at the moment causes no problems at all, and it frustrates the hell out of me to see big money signings being frozen out and not even trying to utilize their strengths in some way because we've committed to a style of play that we all know is going to get us relegated.

I can. I'd say that's part of why we'd go for him over Ramsdale - cheaper and less likely to demand a starting spot.

He was. But the point I made was that he was outstanding at a job that we could get by with someone doing "just enough". We spent a lot of our budget on someone who isn't a match winner, and may not be up to doing the job he does in the Prem anyway. Would have rather we went for Smodzic for example.

If it's gotten that close to running out already something tells me he's letting it run down intentionally. Get him in the starting line up immediately. We need to abandon the safe set up and get some players in the side who can actually create something, Dibling, Alcaraz and Sulemana.

Careful. I said that I wasn't sure spending that much money on Downes, when we needed a goalscorer badly, made sense as he is still unproven in the Prem and got shouted down for it.

Can't use the excuse of learning the style or getting his ideas across, he's been here a full season and two full pre-seasons now. I think Saints will stubbornly stick with him past January then panic and sack him when it's too late. He'll end up floating around championship/scottish jobs for his entire career.

Promotion was the worst thing that could have happened for Martin after the season we had. It inflated his ego and gave him justification to arrogantly proclaim that the style of football was the right one all along. His comments about Stephen's and Smallbone show how naive he is to the level of player required to stay up in the Prem now.

Of course not, but we're not competing for Europa league places like those teams were.

Martin just absolutely underestimating the quality of the Prem. Some of us predicted it when he stated in an interview that he couldn't understand why Saints loaned Stephens out the last season we were up here. Spoiler alert...it's because he wasnt good enough, Russell.

Fucking sick and tired of Martin's obvious bias towards British "lads" with beards and banter galore.

Unless you can spend a billion quid like City, no you can't be playing this way.

Well that's us going down.

Four at the back won't work either as we're too open. Problem isn't the formation - it's the style of play. Get it beyond the 30 yard mark and THEN start playing keep ball.

Got rid of Alcaraz for some reason though

Yeah, you don't really need both Taylor and Bree on the bench.

Great performance from Albion. Still going strong this season.

League one to prem a huge jump. Wouldn't be surprised if we've over estimated how good he is.

I don't think there's ever been a video on the internet I've been less interested in watching on a Friday evening than how to correctly pronounce the names of complete strangers.

Incredibly optimistic figures.

Why? Because he's a better centre forward than anything we have. He scored 11 goals and got 4 assists last season in a team that got relegated. And I believe we'd be able to get him for maximum of £15million.

100%, Carlton Morris for me.

Report is that it's an obligation to buy if we stay up, can't imagine Bazunu will come back in as number one if that's the case.

Best keeper we'll have had since Boruc, possibly even better but not much in it.