Dr. Kucho

If this is true, though seems unlikely, that’s a good deal for us. With the right service and staying injury free, Ings could get to 40 goals in the championship.

Don’t know if he would be interested, but if we were to sign him I would want him to be our new nr 1 goalkeeper. Or at least challenge Bazunu for the nr 1 spot.

West Ham and Ajax are negotiating the price for Ajax player Alvarez. West Ham have offered 34,5 million euro, Ajax want 39. Player has agreed terms and the clubs are likely to finalize the deal today. Source: Florian Plettenberg and Fabrizio Romano

Ajax have to balance the books and get the wage bill down. After Overmars left/was sacked (after sending ‘dickpics’ to female employees) Gerry Hamstra and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar took over and invested poorly. Besides that they also appointed Alfred Schreuder as a replacement for Erik ten Hag and sacked him mid season. Then appointed Johnny Heitinga as caretaker who didn’t do much better. They now have former Arsenal scout Sven Mislinstat (spelling) as technical director who has to sell players and buy cheaper players as replacements.

The statement by the club regarding Lallana’s move to Liverpool was just one sentence if I remember correctly. Something along the lines of: ‘Adam Lallana has completed his move to Liverpool football club’.

Whilst singing ‘Premier League your having a laugh’ and subsequently upsetting their manager (Holloway?)

Tomorrow this will be on MLT’s Twitter feed.

Has anyone, who knows or has sources close to the players, heard anything of what they think of Martin and the pre season so far?

If Prigozhin is smart he’ll say to the Russians fighting in Ukraine, join us in removing this government and I’ll end the war and you all can go home. War ends and Putin removed. Worry is that Prigozhin is an absolute nutter (based on his videos and comments) and what would be the next action.

However bad some chants are, just remember it couldn’t be worse then the Hull one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tgS1RFk1cU8&pp=ygUbaHVsbCBiZWluZyBtYXVsZWQgYnkgdGlnZXJz

Former Saint loanee Jacob Mellis has sadly fallen on hard times. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12140341/Jacob-Mellis-Chelsea-wonderkid-destined-big-stage-32-hes-homeless.html

Besides the cocaïne smuggling, Promes has also been charged with stabbing a family member at a party in Abcoude (just south of Amsterdam). Ajax quickly sold him after that and since then he hasn’t left Russia. Rumours going round he is trying to get Russian citizenship so he can avoid a prison sentence.

Former Saints loanee goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg is retiring today after the last match of the season. He is backup goalkeeper at Ajax but hasn’t played for ages.

Another vote for Aribo

Over here in the Netherlands there is a problem with football fans and their behavior within the stadium. At Groningen a player was punched in recent weeks and Ajax player Davy Klaassen was hit by a battery thrown from the stands. Recently Feyenoord wanted to appoint a new board member, problem was the fans didn’t like him and want him. So one day loads of fans turned up at house wearing balaclavas. The guy decided it was best not to join the Feyenoord board.

I’m not that impressed with the thought of Gerrard, Parker or Viera coming. Parker was sacked both at Bournemouth and Fulham once promoted, Emery is showing how much potential the Villa side have and Viera didn’t do anything special at Palace or Nice. Although we are now a division lower, other clubs were able to attract ‘bigger’ names, Bielsa, Benitez and Silva to name a few. We have money to spend, a state of the art training ground and Southampton is easily accessible from anywhere in Europe. Possible managers I would like to see, 1. Peter Bosz, coached Dortmund, Lyon and Ajax. Has been out of work since sacked by Lyon. Likes playing attacking football and fast paced. His downside is he doesn’t have a plan B. Would like to see him with his former assistant Alfred Schreuder and possibly someone who knows English football and our club. 2. Oliver Glasner, leaving Frankfurt at the end of this season. Might be a long stretch but with some convincing and prospect of money he might come. Likes playing 3 at the back with the wing backs moving in to midfield, like City. 3. Adi Hutter, out of work since leaving Gladbach in 2022. Comes from the Red Bull trainers school and likes playing attacking football with 3 at the back.

He was in January whilst he could have just let one of the senior scouts take care of the transfers. The guy is full of shit and nothing more than a fraud.

He was obviously scouted by Rasmus with his data and Xg crap. AZ Alkmaar’s trainer Pascal Jansen said in a recent interview: Data shouldn’t main reason for player scouting etc. Data should be assisting and nothing more (couldn’t think of a better way to translate that). If you had the choice between Nathan Jones and all the scientists, data and Xg available or someone like Howe/Ten Hag/Tuchel etc without data and just pure their own football knowledge. Who would you chose?

Sports Republic have been terrible so far. Yes they’ve spent (squandered) lots of money, but look what we bought! Then they tried to change the setup of the club within 1 year, just like Chelsea’s new owners and look how that’s going. I have little faith in these cowboys and don’t think we’ll be promoted next season, or anytime soon with these idiots in charge.

It seems like Sports Republic won’t be leaving anytime soon. All we can hope for is that Rasmus gets bored and cons Dragan in buying him a new toy to wreck. Hopefully that day comes sooner then later.

Another reason why we are bottom of the stack, January signings, Alcarez - Started Sulemana - on the bench Bree - not in the matchday squad Onuachu - not in the matchday squad Orisic - not in the matchday squad We were in a relegation battle back in January, you need players to improve the squad, not to sit on the bench or be left out! Money well squandered.

4. Giving Rasmus the conman to much power. Bloke has made mistake after mistake and must be taking piss now with his day to day running (ruining probably the better word) of our club.

Could well be the plan, but then the next question comes. Do you think Rasmus is capable of identifying and recruiting the right people? So far he has done a terrible job recruiting managers and players. Blokes nothing more then a smooth talking bullshitter.

Fingers crossed it’s not someone picked by Rasmus. And if the board aren’t accepting relegation, they should have done a better job recruiting players and managers. If we go down they have themselves to blame and I hope we will see some drastic changes.

I am going to suggest a name that has been mentioned often on here for us next season in the Championship. I think Peter Bosz CDAJFU next season. He was linked to FC Twente recently but has been out of work since being sacked by Lyon. Bosz likes to play fast attacking football, something that would be suicidal in the Premier League for us, but in the Championship next season when we should have one of the biggest budgets and should be fighting for the top spot I think it would work. The problem with Bosz is that he does what he wants and won’t listen to the likes Ankerson or Semmens. Together with someone like Alfred Schreuder, who has a reputation to rebuild after a torrid time at Ajax, I think we could win promotion and be a joy to watch. It would cost a bit and take some persuading, but I recon with good recruitment and a big budget they would to the punt in joining us.