Saint Fan CaM

Thing is it’s difficult to determine exactly how a player will work out in this scenario. Putting on the Pompey rose tinted glasses, you could speculate he might have been surrounded by lesser players and so wasn’t able to reach his peak level. And that he might relish a second chance opportunity at a higher level club and perform out of his skin to prove his worth. Or he might just be a dog. Yeah, that’s more like it! 😂

Any further disruption to the start of the season is really not welcome - the FA are sp slow because they’re knee deep in shite themselves, particularly when it comes to dealing with the likes of,Man City. I really hope Solak has the balls to take legal action if they’re too harsh on Eckhert given the punishment already dished out by the EFL.

I thought we’d rejected £25m? Given his age he’s got to be worth at least that. I would think £25m + a decent sell-on fee would seal the deal.

Looks like they’ve sorted that out. Or rather Haaland did.

I understand your thoughts, however I’m not sure you’re comparing eggs with eggs. His role changed at Saints under Eckhert compared to his time with WBA, meaning he naturally had fewer opportunities to score. I don’t think you can judge the lad based just on his goal scoring ability. He was fulfilling almost a pseudo RB role using his dribbling skills to break through an opposition high press to move the ball forward and he did that very well. There are not too many others able to do that as well as him - not even Scienza did as well. I doubt very much that his instructions from Eckhert were “go out there and score me as many goals as you can”.

And yet Fellows had a part to play in our 21 game unbeaten run. How were the same players performing prior to Eckhert influence?

Agreed - think we look pretty average compared to the usual top teams. I’m perplexed as to why Pickford still starts in goal - I think he’s a calamity waiting to happen and can’t believe there’s not a better English keeper. Then there’s the very average Roger’s, Spence and Anderson making up numbers. Without Rice the midfield looks weak. And the defensive line looks very unbalanced.

Liam Delap under Eckhert guidance would be a dream signing for Saints or indeed any Championship side. He has all the attributes for a CF role and is easily as good as Larin if not better. Best we could expect is a loan to buy, but I don’t think he wants to be playing anywhere other than the Prem…certainly not with Saints.

Spain looking good vfm last night against a pretty good Uruguay team.

Great play and game management by Ecuador - pleased they did that.

Scotland were pretty much toothless - Brazil were not even playing at their best and trounced the Scots sadly.

Not bothered about Stewart - more concerned about SR’s ability to get a decent replacement in.

Really nice to see another player commit to the club, particularly given his return coincided with our upturn in form.

Sensible signing.

Has not shown himself to be a particularly prolific, is prone to injury and not that tall. Other than he’s free, not sure what he would contribute in terms of getting us to the auto’s - I think we need a bit better than Larin or Stewart rather than worse to really make that realistic.