Charlie Wayman

Business as usual then.

Actually no, there are 13 days until Ralph starts training when he has openly said he needs 4 or 5 new young players in by then.

Maybe a swap deal with Ings to ease our £20m financial pain, £10m + Targett?

Obviously you are having a very bad day as all you seem to want to do is slag off our players and now a coach. Who next I wonder? Let's

Pourquoi veux-tu qu'il parte? Il n'est pas français!

Football insider also says that Austin & Targett are fancied by Villa.

Having some good footballers in the team would be even better.

Nothing has been said about Sofiane Boufal by the club, all of us are assuming (and hoping?) that he will be back on 1st July and fully committed to fighting for a starting place in Ralph's new team... but will he? Perhaps too much water has passed under that particular bridge and the player himself feels so rejected by the idiotic brain-dead Hughes and the club that he has no wish whatsoever to return. Contractually maybe he has no choice, so my guess is that his agent is working his socks off to secure him a transfer abroad before the re-assembly date to get him as far away from this madhouse as possible.

Surprised he is still here. Any firm offer we should grab.

Not sure why you think his life in jail will be a stroll in he park, there are some pretty hard nuts in there who operate their own justice system beyond the reach of the security guards.

A helpful intervention

Why would you suppose that we do a better job than anybody else at developing players, there is scant evidence of that in the last 2/3 seasons. This is a myth that needs calling out

Yes, I know the official line but we don't have £40m to spend on strikers so why are we looking at Adams? Can only be that we have an option to quit on Ings if he didn't meet certain conditions and he has not met some of those conditions. What other reason can you come up with?

Correction, 'He' not 'we'

This gets more interesting by the day. Maybe the thinking is that we need one decent striker; the figure of £20m has been bandied around as the sort of money we have "agreed" to pay the BinDippers for Ings but have we? There sis clearly £20m in the pot for a striker so the reported bidding for a highly mobile Adams may be regarded as a far better alternative to a very fragile Ings for the money by Ralph. Very obviously we do not have £40m to buy both so if we persuade Birmingham to part with Adams for under £20m then any "understanding" on Ings future will go out the window and if we c an get him for £15m that's £5m saved to put towards the

If money is that tight how about stopping expenditure on flame cannons, cardboard clappers, over staffing and the like that suggests a somewhat frivolous waste of our precious resources. There seem to be a huge number of staff strutting about on match days these days doing very little. Suspect the organisation is not very tightly controlled and there are a few unchecked little empire builders at large in the building. We need a tough new boss who will focus on what really matters, review staff jobs at every level and cut waste. No doubt there's a few million quid to be saved. As for Gao's statement, the sooner he tires of his new baby and badgers off the better.

Early days yet but I agree with you about the massively under-rated Nigel Adkins, a man without ego and always a ready smile. Our progress under him was a joy to behold and laid the very firm foundations of what was to come under Pochettino & Koeman. Arguably the best manger we ever had. I loved the passion he had for the game and particularly recall the Davis testimonial when he was out of his seat demanding everything from his ex-Saints side in a friendly! Ralph has some work to do yet before he can truly be compared to Adkins & Koeman

Could we have Ronald Koeman back please, he loved us, we loved him. We used to play like the Dutch last night

Why are you talking about JWP? I'm getting confused.com

Club very silent on transfer business. Anybody seen the retained list yet? We seem to be active despite the fanciful rumours so it looks like Ralph wants our business done by 1st July when players are back so he can euphemistically "hit the ground running" without a penalty.

No room for our annointed son James then ;-)

If he has pace and nothing else then he's one up on all our current lot!

Not sure how people can have a valid opinion of a man they have never met nor spoken to. He can't be a fool if he keeps getting promoted. Give the man a chance. Grant you his hideous dress sense sets him off on the wrong tack.

He is; one gets the impression that he isn't all that bright, which is maybe the reason he never seems to improve.

I imagine it is to do with Brexit and our encouragement of the Catalans to go kit alone.