Matthew Le God

You've taken my post out of context of what it was replying to. I was replying to a claim they can't run a football club. Rheyve messed up so far at Saints. But the fact that Göztepe are doing well disproves that claim regardless of you or any other Saonts fans not caring about them.

He won't be having final say with Spors at the club.

Puzzling how you've leaped to the conclusion I'm 'up their arse'. I've said repeatedly the club have fucked up recruitment this season. All the post of mine did was ask what does a protest achieve? Especially given they have already made changes to try and address the recruitment issue that caused this season to be a disaster.

Yep, most are shit in the Premier League. But in the Championship the vast majority are top level. We are now a club with a squad full of players too good for the Championship, but not good enough for the Premier League. Just look at the strikers we have on our books, all would be prolific in the Championship. I know their futures are up in the air, but would all be stand out strikers at that level.

Which part are you disagreeing with and why? It is all demonstrably true.

Sure, we are an absolute mess in the PL. But it is still an attractive job. Someone who wants a big wage for themselves, a squad full of players who are good at the level we are going to be playing next season, plus a very big wage and transfer budget compared to most of the other clubs in the Championship and a good chance to be a manager in the world's highest profile and richest league for 2026/27.

Recruitment of players and football staff is the issue. The people who were in charge of the recruitment of this squad are clueless, but they aren't in charge any more... we now have a new person in charge of recruitment and zero evidence to use to say he is clueless for us as he has not had a transfer window yet!

They've accepted they've fucked up. Hence the changes. But the fuck up has already happened and the changes can't impact this season.

You'd need to be young for that to be true on both counts! The 2008/09 team was worse, significantly worse. Our ownership also led us to administration and on the brink in 2008/09.

They have essentially admitted they have fucked the season up and have attempted to make changes to sort recruitment out for next season. They are also not 'totally inept' at owning a club, as if they were... Goztepe wouldn't be 6th in the Super League.

We all do now!

VAR checked it

Saints playing death metal football...

What does that achieve? They have fucked the season up, they know they have. They aren't going to leave and have attempted to start to put things in place so we don't fuck up recruitment in the summer.

Not even Fernandes?

Well if it is anything like the official FM Saints data I did, then it won't help. We are shit on that. It would have been a very difficult challenge had the game come out this season.

He tries putting things into places by any means possible even if they don't fit at first

Ivan Jurić as a toddler picking shapes for holes

Play the unofficial update instead.

It isn't something new. Rusk has remained with the first team since he was caretaker. You can see him in training videos and on the bench throughout Juric's reign. Sport Republic haven't been cheap on manager, they have paid out compensation to sign Jones and Martin, plus Juric even though he was unattached will be on a big wage.

It isn't a Saintsy thing to do at all. They have not appointed a permanent manager from within for over 20 years! I'd be stunned if Johannes Spors viewed Rusk as an option in the summer. For a start Juric is contracted beyond the summer and secondly, even if Juric was sacked, we'd be an attractive job for experienced managers. No need to look to someone as inexperienced as Rusk.

How have you jumped to that conclusion?

No, it'll be the usual 3412 or 3421 formation.

What makes you think that? Juric keeps using Aribo at CB and praising his performances on the LCB role. Plus he has not previously changed from his favoured 3421 or 3412.

We already have multiple prolific strikers at Championship level. Brereton Diaz, Armstrong, Archer plus Stewart (was in a small sample), and I think Onuachu would also be prolific at that level. We do not know for certain what the future is with any of them. Even with Armstrong and Brereton Diaz (with an option to buy) currently loaned out, they may still return for us. Plus our manager has the opportunity to have a loan at Juan Santos da Silva when he returns in the summer and see if he might be an option we could use.