once_bitterne

Since the Summer transfer window trying to strengthen a very weak squad. Have any of the players actually made a positive impact? Bazunu £12.3m - Statistically the worst keeper in the PL DCC £7m - barely played Alcaraz - £12m - actually scored a goal and looks one of the better ones but what will he contribute to keeping us up? Mara £13.5m - not scored a single PL goal Lavia £11m - Looks good but inconsistent and injury prone (go figure, he's a teenager ffs!) ABK £10m - See above (apart from the teenager bit) Edozie £7m - done dick all of shit Aribo £6m - Who? Larios £6m - more likely to appear in panto than the PL Orsic £5m - We needed a panic buy in Jan to help us now, instead we got a player two managers have deemed he's not even fit enough to be on the bench Bree 750k - Golfing buddy of a manager no longer at the club. Ironically of all our transfers will get the most appearances for the club as we will be lowering ourselves to his level Elongated Paul £16m - yet to score a goal doesn't look like he's going to be banging them in at the rate Ings is for West Ham... Sulemana £22m - 22m?! Might be ok but will he contrbute to keeping us up this season and even be here next? What an absolute shower. If I were the Croatian moneyman I'd be sending out the hit men. Is this what happens when a motivational speaker who likes spreadsheets is given a PL club to play with?

What do The Championship badges that go on the arm look like?

I would suggest to avoid clicking on the 'Saints Babes' link on Saints Forever while at work! #differentimes

About SR? What have they done right? Even if we had appointed a decent manager in November we still were in a bad position with a very bad squad. SR deserved to be moaned about. They've spent around £100m on transfers on a team that will go down (literally) as of the worst in PL history.

They couldn't be further from getting it right. They took a very poor squad from last season (won something like 1 of the last 14 games) which then lost a capable, if not brilliant, Goalkeeper, our best defensive Midfield player and leading striker, and instead of realising what was left would almost certainly take us down and buying players who would improve us on the pitch THIS SEASON instead bought a great load of kids nowhere near ready for a PL relegation fight. This January's window was a just a blind panic signing a 30 something winger who seems no better than what we have a 6ft 7 inch beanpole striker, who now that we aren't playing hoof-ball is presumably surplus to requirements and the golfing buddy of the now sacked manager. They couldn't be further from nearly getting it right!

Are you partially sighted by any chance?

Not true. Whether it was realistic or not players were buying in to 'the project' There were several examples of personal interviews that players such as Wanyama, Lovren and even Boruc gave at the time where they were speaking of CL ambition. For the past 5 or so seasons the club's only ambition is not to be relegated which means we will never attract players better than this level.

or the boys, let's not be homophobic about this. There's enough Bruce love to go round..

Shitest Boyzone tribute band ever.

There seems to be a developing rift between Semmens (who wasn't in favour of Jones) and Ankerson (who was). Blackmore seems very much in the pro Semmens camp (he never lets a word be said against him) but has been very critical of Jones in recent days.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/football/portsmouth-fc/ex-portsmouth-palace-and-nottingham-forest-boss-and-regular-assistant-of-under-fire-southampton-manager-leaves-luton-4015390

Well indeed. That and losing just about every PL game he manages in.

The young players we have signed are clearly ready to come into the first team and have an impact are they? Like Small? and Simeu? And Larios? and Bazunu (well I guess he has had an impact, albeit a negative one) Even the one that have played have actually contributed little, Edozie zero goals, zero assists - Mara Zero PL goals. Ballard is scoring for fun in PL2 and he couldn't have actually scored less than Edozie and Mara could he?

Have you retired from TUI Soggy?

Why is the pathway from Academy to 1st team only open to players brought in from other Academies? - (resulting in our own Academy players - who won the PL Academy Southern League last season - refusing to sign pro deals and leaving for other clubs.

How many more PL games will Jones lose before you sack him?

Do Banana Republic actually know what a 'striker' is? How many goalshy wide players do we actually need?

I'm sure this will be top of the list of things to do for a club in the Championship.

Of course. Does anyone think we're not? We started the Summer with the weakest squad we have ever had since our PL return, signed a load of players who could never contribute anything meaningful in their first season an then appointed a manager hopelessly out of his depth. We seem to be getting around 30% possession even at home in the PL and Blackpool managed more shots on goal than us on Saturday.

6 wins but we got 14 draws that season to leave us with 32 points and I'd be shocked if we got near that this season.

Personally if we lose the next 3 PL matches he has to go. That would be 8 defeats in 9 PL games and I can't remember us looking this bad since our relegation season and maybe not even then as at that time we were still out of the zone when the final game of the season kicked off. Getting 30% possession at home against non-Big 6 PL teams is showing something has gone badly wrong.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64410413

We'll have 3 or 4 new managers in that time so maybe he'll get on with one of them and sign?

Why not give him a try? We've given games to academy players brought in from other teams like Larios and Small with nothing really to show for it. Even Edozie who has looked ok on the ball hasn't contributed a single goal or assist to date.