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Can't see how this will make a difference outside a courtroom or tribunal of sorts. Not like Swans will be going: "Oh, now we see that Southampton is listed as a Championship club, OK then, lets all agree on the Championship value of the clause". They will still hold out for what they believe is right, and I don't blame them.

I think Martin is a big, big risk - more likely to backfire than succeed - but I do not understand that a lot of posters fixate on this (sorry for using your qoute Gran ). I can't for the life of me see that we played the same way that Swansea did. We just had no plan when in possession, and could not play football. Our sideways passing was just retention with no attacking intent. I am not a fan of possession fotball, I am a fan of creating a lot of chances football - don't really care much for how we go about doing it. Just happy that things are changing, because it brings back hope again. Can't remember the last game I looked forward to - now back to: any given Sunday... err Saturday!

Know nothing of the guy, so have little to add to this, other than it does indicate that the playbook is leaving, which I am very happy about!

Nah, we are way smarter than that. Our statistics and analyses shows that...

Probably thought he was playing for Villa

I understand that most of us has little to no faith in Ankersen making good decisions based on the last year. My issue is that I have just as little faith in the players. Get in new board, leadership and manager with the same players and I still think we will have major problems next season.

Agree. If they had managed to bring in Haaland, then we would probably be upper-mid table with Ralph still here. We need to look at how we are playing the game as well. Not many players will thrive at our club currently. The playbook either needs re-writing or burning.

Who leaves? Hopefully all of them Keep most of this team together, and they will lose their way stragth down to the next division.

City, Arsenal, Brighton and Liverpool are the games to hope we can get points from. They will all attack us, and we might be able to get lucky in one or two of those. The rest of the games we will draw or lose. We can't play football (against teams that do not attack us). Don't know why poeople think we will beat the likes of Forest and Palace.

I think this is a serious problem. Keep Tella at the start of the season, and ship out Armstrong - and we would now be calling Tella useless, and drooling at the prospect of getting Armstrong back next season...

Yeah, but he moves like a striker in our own box, searching out space instead of opponents, in order to hide away from responsibilty. He will cost us more points than he helps us win come the end of the season.

It has sadly come to the point for me that I am so irrational, that I would rather see us start the match with 10 men...

I agree with this. The problem is we do not play football anymore. We have become too clever, trying to break football into numbers, and then back into football. It shows in that we have no creativity and offensive plan/play. I think this is why every player coming in seems to get worse after a couple of positive glimpses initially. I would really hate to play football in this team. No fun. It's like watching a bunch of "track and field" runners being taught gegenpress and pressure-points. Nothing happens when they eventually win the ball. None of them want it...

Playing for the manager, right... this usless bunch of footballers have once again reverted to the norm. Doesn't really matter who the manager is when we are blessed with players like these.

Nathan Jones still in charge? Can't believe this shit...

Hope I never see him playing football again. So happy when he went to Villa. Never cared about what he said when he joined them. Just had a blast annoying my Villa mate, even though I knew he would not play for them. Just so happy we got rid... Well, atleast helped get rid of Jones, the above might be too harsh 😂

Even extending to catering and radio station...

For me, this happens a lot in today's fotball. As John Carew once said in an interview: why do supporters not understand that you can be fit for the bench, but not fit enough to start? Now that is a head scratcher I am disappointed that Salisu didn't start, but I do not think it is because Ralf is clueless. Probably because someone in the medical department asked him. As Klopp said in yesterdays interview, he was asked to not start two or three players, so he didn't. Ralph out btw

He probably meant Pellegrino

Well, if you think Lyanco is a turd, then what does that make Bednarek?

Would love us to get in a natural finisher/prolific goalscorer. Long way to go of this window though, but only 5 weeks til the first game of the season... 😁

Probably magic. Picking players out of hats and all... 😉

And Italy did something similar in the late 80s and early 90s, where defenders got about 2-8 in alphabetical order, midfield next, and forwards the highest numbers. Think Baggio ended this in 94 by wanting 10.

Le Tiss and Ronnie Ekelund. Would not help our defence, but seeing them play together happened just as I fell in love with the club. Pure nostalgia, but could do with some magic again...

I't shouldn't, in a logical world, but life and people are not allways logical. And things we experience personally often makes more of an impression than things we read in a book or watch in a video. People and feelings are involved, it's probably a little relevant 🙂