Greenridge

..edit, think I’m losing it.

I guess we'll find out in due course. Maybe we should at least let him sign first?

His injury record at both Arsenal (11 injuries in 6 years missing 154 games) and Liverpool makes for pretty uncomfortable reading. Obviously he had the big ACL injury but there doesn’t seem a part of his body that he hasn’t pulled / tweaked / strained / torn / knocked or whatever. If that’s still the case then he won’t be much use to us in the treatment room.

And maybe they have been doing exactly that.

I use to get his old boots. Sadly they never seemed to cope with their new defensive midfielder role. Maybe it was just the bloke wearing them. True story dat.

Can't and not wanting to (for various potential reasons) are not one of the same. If indeed that is the case.

Standard copy and paste interview for every player signing everywhere.

The outgoing players had wages too.

It's just a kit launch. Other than a few Saints fans no one gives a t0ss. Chill.

If you don't have the inherent ability it doesn't matter if you have Dino Zoff coaching you. Surprised Puel bought McCarthy to the club. Surprised he didn't move Forster on either.

Michael Bentine would be proud of that line-up.

Not trawled through the thread, so probably already discussed, but I see several papers mentioning our interest in Yangel Herrera.

£75K pw is nearly £4M per year. Just one year. So, yes, he definitely needs to be concerned with securing his retirement fund.

Don't know if this is old news. Couldn't see it posted. From the Daily Mail

Interest story being touted in The Daily Telegraph today.

Or any other manager.

Of course he wasn't. I can't believe some people are so naive. He said time and time again through recent transfer windows that we needed players and he expected them to arrive. When they didn't he had to come up with the line that he didn't actually need them and wanted a smaller squad. People believe that? Seriously.

We seem to have been extremely cautious with easing Salisu into the team. When he's come in he's done well. The occasional faux pas of course but that's the Southampton Way. Be good to see him get some more pitch time in the last few games.

Good question

Where does this ridiculous notion about Stephens come from? Comical and based on zero reference. Not a single one of the many managers that’s he played under have thought him worthy of even a try.

Sorry, I don't buy it. The squad was full of bloated average players which is why he wanted it smaller. Even in the window from the article SKD quoted they are talking of buying players. Better players. Youngsters too because that's 'the SFC Way' which means we don't have any money. I don't believe that he was the decision maker for (all) the players that left and where we have subsequently been exposed. I think those decisions were taken out of his hands due to financial constraints. I'm not defending him. I think he's having an absolute stinker at the moment. But we are all worldly-wise enough to know that all clubs have PR-spin and the fact that he openly talked of needing new players and indicated they were going to happen for then to say 'actually, we don't need them after-all' is just too much to swallow for me.

Ralph never wanted a smaller squad. He would have been the first manager in the history of the game to want to restrict his options. That is patently just a bit of SFC PR bull when it became abundantly obvious there was no money in the coffers to support decent acquisitions that would enhance his squad. He may well have said don't bother giving me a pile of squad fillers who won't help but that's very different. The same way as through several transfer windows he talked about the need for players and positions to strengthen that never happened and then he came out with the 'we decided we didn't need any more players'. Yeah OK then.

Even for you that’s a tad obtuse. We are talking the measure of success not the circumstances that led to it. Keep up and try not to change what was said as per.

As I clarified earlier I was referring to the later part of his second spell at Chelsea. As for Man I winning the Europa League when they should be competing in the Champions League with the likes of Real rather than teams from the League of Wales then whoopee doo. As many ‘experts’ have since said, his style of management is a thing of the past and he won’t get another top job in the Prem. Still, he’s not a patch on Claude that’s for sure.

I ought to have specifically said the end of his second tenure then. His management style was already being questioned back then.