Matthew Le God

Watford selling an important player shortly before we play them...

I think he is going for binoculars, rather than bollocks

His role is to break up play and give it to the creative players, not score goals or assist them himself. When he does it is a bonus, but not his main job at all.

IIRC he said in those interviews the opposite and that financially, the club is in a good place not needing to sell key players.

Ramsdale, BBD, Archer, Edozie, Downs, Sugawara Plus, what hard evidence is there for an issue in the finances?

He won't pick us over the Premier League

Euros not £s €30m is £25.7m

We play 4231, Azaz and Dobbin are the number 10 options to play behind Larin. What we need instead of a player like Ballard is another striker to play instead of Larin, for rotation/injuries like we had with Stewart.

We played a team that is better than Leicester. We played a top flight German team.

What teams would you class as being "like a team we are going to face in the EFL"? Apart from playing vs another Championship team in a friendly? We played a current top flight German team. They are better than most teams we will play this season.

Saints have a behind closed doors friendly on Sunday 9th August. So makes sense for the first choice XI to play the Colchester game on 8th August and the others to play in the friendly.

He was sold to Göztepe.

Are you suggesting his punishment should only be one that stops him spying? What punishment would stop him spying? An ankle monitor and a curfew?

Why would the club do that? Eckert if fined should pay for it himself!

There is no maybe about it. If you make changes, the game will play out differently.

What don't you believe?

No. I didn't watch any training. It was also in pre season and not near any league game. No contradiction. I saw the plans of a training week, not the training itself.

Not when they are an arranged meeting with the director of football on club grounds.

Sports Interactive talks to a huge number of professionals in the industry to reflect real life, I've worked for them for 19 years. I have also been to Staplewood and seen what Saints do and talked to Saints staff.

In the three games they admitted to, Saints weren't great. Perhaps we'd have been even worse without doing it.

All the tactical work is done in those final 3 days before a game. That is standard practice in the sport and why those 72 hours of training are viewed as more important. In the time before those 72 hours it is recovery sessions for the previous games and general training drills.

Knowing how your opponent intends to play in different match situations like set pieces and the personnel they have availsble and altering your tactical and team selection to counter it affects games.

Did you read the final sentence?