Charlie Wayman

Only two aspects of sustainability matter to our football club, financial sustainability and its survival in the PL. Greenwashing may make a few people feel all warm and cuddly but at best it is a misguided attempt to amplify the credentials of the incumbent management. No doubt we will be planting a few trees around the touchline at St Mary's soon?

That was always understood to be part of these loan deals. We should stop kidding ourselves that these players would end up staying here.

Moan. moan, moan!

I thought just for once we would do something really bold and exciting and actually sign the guy but nope we're Saints. B*g*e*! Good call from you though Bob? Tom? Harry? Ryan?

Done deal then especially if their better halves are good friends. Hey! now we're told he's best mates with KWP as well. That pretty much confirms it. Wonder if our England team could beat Southgate's? Why not? Who was that guy who rolled up at The Potters Heron back in the day?

Well, he's no spring chicken and if he gets to play only 1 game in 5 for them for a few million quid a year what job could be better? The bullish-t about players wanting to play every game is over hyped, who wouldn't sit on their arse rather than work for loads of dosh if they could.

Strange idea. He hails from the Midlands, born and brought up in Milton Keynes so more likely to prefer Villa than a Merseyside club in the inhospitable North West.

Looks like decisions will be made in the summer by the new owners. Presumably they'll decide if Ralph stays or goes before loosening the purse strings. After some of Ralph's off the cuff remarks recently about transfers leaves me wondering if he is still on the inside track.

I am surprised and appalled by the Forest Green proposal. Have they forgotten already what happened at Bradford? A disaster waiting to happen.

"We only delve into the transfer market if we can find better players than the ones we have already". Ergo, we have the best team in the world now so no new players needed.

You are not being fair or balanced in expressing so much negativity of Alli. One could say just as lazily that Armstrong had a good season last year but has been "absolute sh-te" this year for reasons that are still a bit obscure. What you see is not always the whole story.

It's true he had some excellent seasons with Spurs a while back so there is a more than half decent player there waiting to be re-nurtured. In the very unlikely event that we did secure his services for a few months and he scored 3 goals and provided 5 assists, most on here would consider that a very fine piece of business. Old Nick's obviously long forgotten when he was a young man in his twenties. Most do not stay at home at nights assembling Airfix kits or jigsaw puzzles.

Alli would be a superb acquisition for us the rest of this season especially with Armstrong seemingly nobbled by injury and fitness issues and could be the perfect 10 to work with Broja. Don't under estimate the ability of our coaching team to get him motivated and firing on all cylinders. Besides it might do him some good being demoted to a small club for a while if he is serious about his career longer term.

How do you suck eggs?

I imagine if Chelsea were to agree to "sell" Broja to Saints, the buy back fee would be identical to what we might pay for him. No way would they agree a deal where they had to pay us more to get him back than we paid them in the first place? Makes no sense at all. Any advantage to Chelsea of a short-term "transfer" as opposed to an extended loan would be cash flow, some money in their coffers and his wages off their balance sheet.

Strange indeed as part of the reason given for him leaving Palace was health concerns. Having said that he is a lovely personable gentleman and it will be good to see him back on the touchline. Rather one of him than ten Bielsa's or Guardiola's.

How do you know what we are prepared to pay? The new owners may surprise us. Agree with you on extended loan which would be in everyone's interest except envious clubs. He is certainly not ready for a regular starting slot at Stamford Bridge but could be in a couple of years so Chelsea won't be in a hurry to sell him just yet.

We have a different team this season

This thread becomes more ludicrous by the minute. People, stop wasting your time worrying about what a newspaper hack thinks.

We need 13 points from sixteen games to be safe. How difficult is that? Let's focus on how to improve our squad in the summer than worry about what's left of this season

Not a good watch but a good result. Thumbs up to Salisu. Excellent goal from KWP.

Me too but a two week trip to Barbados wouldn't be one of them. Right now I'd settle for a match day trip to St Mary's with zero risk of catching Covid and ending up on a ventilator. Believe it or not I am really looking forward to next Sunday when the kids play at the stadium and I'll get down there for the first time since this all began. That apart, there seems to me to be very little prospect of Saints getting anything against City today. I have a feeling that it will be 'hide behind the sofa' time at 5.30pm. Just keep the goals against down lads, could be important later in the season.

I must have upset you some time along the way, if not it'll be soon...........

Seems like an exercise in futility and despair. Crystal balls are a myth.

When the news of the takeover broke, Ralph said in one of his press conferences that this would enable us to do our business much more quickly in the transfer window as we would no longer be impeded by the need to sell players to raise cash first. 20th Jan today so where are these new assets? The lack of activity must suggest that we will not be doing any business this month.