Daft Kerplunk

We will always be a selling club just like everyone apart from Real Madrid and Barcelona to a lesser extent as they have players that simply want to play there as they could earn more elsewhere. The key thing for saints is the academy and is probably where we need to put more money to compete with the likes of Chelsea who apparently offer 'fake' jobs to parents to get kids to sign for them and Hoover up talent in the south. Because of clubs like Chelsea and Man City, it is a dirty game but the only way we can sustain a top 8 position long term is have the best possible academy players coming through on a very regular basis. Difficult but with the best young players and coaches, possible in the long term. This would make us more like Monaco and other teams who punch above their weight for periods.

Bless you sir. Your optimism is commendable but the media know more than we do. There is no smoke without fire. Never.

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Which is the corporate line so 'she' is very much on message.

VVD could go to one of the more currently successful clubs in European football right now but Liverpool remain one of the biggest clubs in the world, regardless of their lack of success in recent times. This is a reality that some clearly need to grasp. Liverpool play world tours where thousands turn up, they get big sponsorship deals etc. I know people still think the world begins and ends on the shores of Britain but the world sees things differently. We just need to make sure we get a minimum of £50m for him when we sell him to enable us to get a couple of other players in.

It'll certainly help secure a much larger fee if some persuading is needed first.

The SFC business needs to be decisive here whatever happens. Back him this week and signal to players wanting to leave that they can go and that money will be reinvested. Some fans may not renew season tickets but the business will then need to rebuild a relationship with the lost ticket purchasers and show intent in the transfer market to repay the faith shown by customers who have purchased tickets. Or Get rid of Puel immediately and then get a new head coach in rapidly so the situation doesn't fester and players get unsettled, customers don't purchase season tickets whilst they await an outcome. Decisions decision SFC board members. Over to you for whatever action you deem fit and appropriate to your long term strategy.

Bang on target. I would suggest that the fans who don't think moaning or booing or slow hand clapping is acceptable in a stadium would not have had the mental strength to survive in a football ground anywhere in the country/probably world before 1996 or when the Premier League was invented and football went all fluffy and marketing slogan led.

If you have a good team spirit it means quite a lot. I'm not talking about players leaving, just that it is not a group of players and coaches that is together. That may not mean everything but to say it means nothing is probably naive.

Anyone thinking the dressing room wasn't split only had to see the end of season walk around the pitch. Two different groups totally separate, one with Puel and a couple of players as another with the core of the players from previous years by the looks of it. Then Bertrand on his own with his family so he's off regardless. Ralph probably places a massive amount of importance on team spirit and in that end of season lap of honour would have seen all he needed to know about the feeling in the camp. The board probably have a clear choice. Keep Claude and lose quite a few key players who they then need to replace or be very decisive, let Claude go asap and get a replacement in rapidly who will galvanise the squad and give them belief in the we match on mantra. Oh, and maybe 5,000 people left in the stadium for the lap of honour. This board and other platforms may not indicate the feelings of supporters but that was a telling image of how fans feel about this season.

8th place polishes a turd of a league season. But plenty of things to learn from this season for Ralph and his merry men.

It's more about acting fast to avoid any speculation and get into the planning phase for me. The last two manager appointments haven't been optimal in a football sense. We can kind of forgive the first one as Koeman was a success and here had been semi upheaval with Cortese, then Poch and group of key players leaving. A good bit of swift decision making probably wouldn't be a bad thing if it's going to happen of course.

If he's going to be sacked, next week is absolutely the best time to do t and get a new manager in far quicker than last year's elongated period. If he's lost the players someone needs to go and be replaced before mid June. Definitely no smoke without fire on this one.

Plenty of empty seats for last night's match against Moan Utd but that says as much about them as it does us, both teams less exciting than they have been previously. Reckon season tickets will be down as it's a big financial ask for what's been served up this year and that we lose so many players each season. However good the club think they are at dealing with popular players and managers leaving each season, it is a long way from fun, which is what football is supposed to be.

The only way that this deal will be fully in the interests of the club is if KL makes a minimal amount of profit from the deal (covers the interest of anything that she has given the club) and the majority of the money from the sale goes into the club for further development.

Long will probably go, Puel doesn't play on a way that suits him so he's probably not enjoying playing in it. Rodriguez should probably go as he's not likely to ever recover his form. Tadic might be one to go as well. Seager and Gallagher would probably have been in the running for more than a squad spot if they were going to cut it at the top top level. But they won't be going anywhere although Gallagher might make a decent championship striker. Sims might be okay but he's never going to be that great and hesketh probably won't really impact things that much. That leaves us with Gabbiadini, Austin (who has questionable fitness) and Redmond plus Boufal as our best attacking players. Gabbi needs players in midfield who have the confidence to pass to him far earlier. Whatever happens next season, something needs to change on the goal scoring front. Something surely most people on this forum can easily agree on!

But that year we had to take a gamble to prove something. At the end of last year I'd suggest the board and Les believed their own hype about how great they were at recruiting coaching and playing talent. It was said that Puel had four interviews and was touted as the man who would improve things. As always I don't blame Puel, the board are culpable, probably for being arrogant.

Some good days out but overall boring. The amount of times the stands have been half empty at the end of a match says everything you need to know about the lack of entertainment. At some point the board may remember that football is something that should entertain on some level. It is really not just about winning for fans of clubs like saints but we do expect committed performances and having a go. Many of the good moments this season saw us lose too like the San Siro and Wembley trips. Wouldn't swap them for the world but they weren't successes. C- Significant room for improvement

When we are this **** going forward, hope is all we have so you are right

Takeover imminent then...

Guess if he's not at the player's awards night then it might be more than a rumour perhaps

Football is not genuinely worried about who runs it, it is all about money

With Poch you could see what he was trying to do almost immediately and the players needed to get fit enough to play that way. It was generally a more exciting style. He did have the benefit of not losing so many of the players that had us on the up to that point of course so the core team spirit was there. With Puel, sometimes the football has been good but more often than not, and especially at home it has been dreadful but what are we are trying to be as a team? Poch has a very clear style and this was evident from the beginning when he took us over, I'm not sure what Puel is bringing to us just yet.

Puel being sacked would mean the board admitting they made a mistake. It would be a huge surprise if that happens.

The league is only the guide for how good a team is, and we are distinctly average as a Premier League team this year. How are Watford getting on?